Invited talks at workshops

• Axisymmetric nematic surfaces: a variational analysis, Workshop Climbing the boundaries of Continuum Mechanics, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Brescia, Italy), December 2025.

• Variational analysis of nematic surfaces, Workshop Three days in Calculus of Variations, Technische Universität Wien (Austria), June 2025.

• Variational analysis of nematic axisymmetric films, International Multigrid Conference 2025, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), February 2025.

• Nematic soap films, 2nd International AMS-UMI Joint Meeting, Palermo (Italy), July 2024.

• Nematic films, 9th European Congress of Mathematicians, Sevilla (Spain), July 2024.

• Nematic soap films, 3rd International Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Università di Cagliari (Italy), June 2024.

• Variational analysis of the Canham-Helfrich energy functional, Workshop Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear  Analysis in the Applied Sciences, Roma (Italy), June 2024.

• Some uniqueness results for minimizers of classical integral functionals, XVI International Workshop on Well-Posedness of Optimization Problems and Related Topics, Borovets (Bulgaria), July 2023.

• Soap films spanning elastic boundaries, 2nd International Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Università di Sassari (Alghero, Italy), June 2022.

• Soap films spanning elastic boundaries, Workshop Beyond Elasticity: Advances and Research Challenges, Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, campus of Luminy (Marseille, France), May 2022.

• Membrane shapes that minimize the multiphase Canham-Helfrich energy, Workshop Variational problems in domains with complex geometrical structure, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), December 2021.

• Soap films spanning elastic rods, INdAM Meeting Active Materials: from Mechanobiology to Smart Devices, Cortona (Italy), September 2021.

• Membrane shapes that minimize the multiphase Canham-Helfrich energy (online), XV International Conference on Free Boundary Problems, hosted online by Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (Berlin, Germany), September 2021.

• Soap films spanning elastic rods, Congresso della Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale 2021, Università di Parma (Italy), August-September 2021.

• Soap films spanning elastic boundaries, XV International Workshop on Well-Posedness of Optimization Problems and Related Topics, Borovets (Bulgaria), June-July 2021.

• Minimizers of the multiphase Canham-Helfrich functional (online), XVIII International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, Rhodes (Greece), September 2020.

• Minimizers of the multiphase Canham-Helfrich functional, Workshop Mathematical Models for Continuum Mechanics, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), January 2020.

• Varifold minimizers of the multiphase Canham-Helfrich functional, Workshop Geometric Measure Theory in Padova, Padova (Italy), January 2020.

• On the Kirchhoff-Plateau problem, Two days on CalcVar & PDEs, Università di Bologna (Italy), November 2019.

• The Helfrich model for the elasticity of biomembranes as a limit of mesoscopic energies, IX International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Valencia (Spain), July 2019.

• The Helfrich model for the elasticity of biomembranes as a limit of mesoscopic energies, XXI Conference on Geometry, Integrability and Quantization, Varna (Bulgaria), June 2019.

• Stochastic homogenization via scale integration and applications, XIV International Workshop on Well-Posedness of Optimization Problems and Related Topics, Borovets (Bulgaria), August 2018.

• Uniqueness results for non-strictly convex variational problems, Workshop Nonlinear Days in Turin, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), September 2017.

• The Kirchhoff-Plateau problem, Workshop Viscoelasticity and Dissipative Dynamics of Rods and Membranes, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technolgy (Japan), March 2017.

• A uniqueness result for a class of non-strictly convex variational problems, Workshop on Calculus of Variations and Nonlinear PDEs, Università del Sannio (Benevento, Italy), November 2016.

• On a variational model for the elasticity of biomembranes, SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Philadelphia (USA), May 2016.

• A variational model for elasticity of biomembranes, Mechanics and Biology Workshop, Gran Sasso Science Institute (L’Aquila, Italy), May 2014.

• Discrete perimeters and optimization methods for image processing, Workshop on Optimization, Control Theory and Applications, Università di Verona (Italy), January 2013.

• A multiple scales model for biomembranes and variational limits, Congresso della Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale 2012, Politecnico di Torino (Italy), June 2012.

• Discrete total variations and convergence results, Workshop Problems in Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations, Università di Trento (Italy), June 2009.

• Free discontinuity functionals with linear growth and their approximation, Workshop Trends in Mathematical Imaging and Surface Processing, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (Germany), January 2007.

 Contributed talks at workshops

• Variational analysis of the Cahnam-Helfrich energy functional, SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Material Sciences (Pittsburgh, USA), May 2024.

• The Helfrich model for the elasticity of biomembranes, IX International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Valencia (Spain), July 2019.

• Il problema di Kirchhoff-Plateau, XXVII Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni, Levico Terme (Trento, Italy), February 2017.

• Sul contenuto di Minkowski anisotropo, XXIV Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni, Levico Terme (Trento, Italy), January 2014.

• Su un modello variazionale per la meccanica delle membrane cellulari, XXII Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni, Levico Terme (Trento, Italy), February 2012.

• Sui limiti di perimetri non locali, XIX Congresso UMI, Università di Bologna (Italy), September 2011.

• Formula di coarea generalizzata e applicazioni, XVIII Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni, Levico Terme (Trento, Italy), February 2008.

• Soluzione di un problema di profilo ottimale, XVIII Congresso UMI, Politecnico di Bari (Italy), September 2007.

• Convergenze di energie non locali agli elementi finiti per la meccanica delle fratture, XVII Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni, Levico Terme (Trento, Italy), February 2007.

• Approssimazione non locale di problemi a discontinuità libera a crescita lineare, XIV Convegno Nazionale di Calcolo delle Variazioni, Levico Terme (Trento, Italy), February 2004.