Tullio Levi-Civita lectures

In the framework of the activities of the International Research Center MeMoCS, the Levi Civita Lectures have been established since 2013 in honor of the famous Italian Mathematical Physicist.
The Levi Civita Lectures are held by a single well-established scientist, who is the recipient of the International Levi Civita Prize, and two young promising researchers to illustrate the scientific results obtained.
The Lectures hold alternately in the Department of Mathematics “Castelnuovo” (where Levi-Civita worked and were his successors are now continuing his scientific tradition), and in the locations of the International Research Center MeMoCS.


October 2016
  • Mauro Carfora (Prize Winner 2016)
  • Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
  • Lecture: The many faces of Ricci curvature: Relativity, geometric flows, renormalization group
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  • Simon R. Eugster
  • Institute for Nonlinear Mechanics, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Lecture: Exegesis of the Introduction and Sect. I from “Fundamentals of the Mechanics of Continua” by E. Hellinger
  • Abstract | Lecture

October 2015
  • Alessia Nota
  • University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Lecture: From microscopic dynamics to macroscopic equations: The Lorentz Gas
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  • Luca Placidi
  • Università Telematica Internazionale “UNINETTUNO”, Italy
  • Lecture: Gedanken experiments for the identification of microstructured continua
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October 2014
  • Sergio Simonella
  • Technische Universität München, Germany
  • Lecture: Analysis of the error in the Boltzmann-Grad limit
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  • Robert Martin
  • Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  • Lecture: Geodesics on GL(3) and nonlinear elasticity
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October 2013
  • Nicolas Auffray
  • Université Paris-Est, France
  • Lecture: G-irreducible representations as a fundamental tool in Continuum Mechanics
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  • Davide Gabrielli
  • Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy
  • Lecture: Some exactly solvable variational problems in non equilibrium statistical mechanics
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Scientific Committee

  • Francesco dell’Isola, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

  • Raffaele Esposito, International Research Center MeMoCS

  • Pierangelo Marcati, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila

  • Carlo Marchioro, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

  • Mario Pulvirenti, Accademia dei Lincei – Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

  • Pierre Seppecher, Université du Sud Toulon-Var

  • David Steigmann, University of California at Berkeley

  • Pierre Suquet, Membre de l’Academie des Sciences de Paris – CNRS Marseille