Dear friends and colleagues, the Nonlinear Analysis Research Group organises a two-day mini-workshop on nonlinear partial differential equations. The workshop takes place on Wednesday, 16 November 2016 and on Friday, 18 November 2016 at Carslaw Building, Camperdown campus of the University of Sydney. The schedule of the two days workshop is given below. Everybody is invited to attend the talks and to join us for lunch on Wednesday and Friday. Kind regards, Daniel Daners and Daniel Hauer %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % Workshop Schedule % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Day 1: Wednesday, 16 November 2016: 1. Talk: 11am - 12pm in Carslaw Lecture Theatre 375 Speaker: Frederic Robert (University of Lorraine, FR) Title : "A few examples of blowing-up families of solutions to critical nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations" Abstract: http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/PDESeminar/abstracts16/robert.xhtml 12:15pm - 2pm : Lunch break 2. Talk: 2-3pm in Carslaw Lecture Theatre 375 Speaker: Elaine Crooks (University of Swansea, UK) Title : "Compensated convexity, multiscale medial axis maps, and sharp regularity of the squared distance function" Abstract: http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/PDESeminar/abstracts16/crooks.xhtml 3. Talk: 3-4pm in Carslaw Lecture Theatre 375 Speaker: Zhitao Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Title : "Uniqueness, existence and concentration of positive ground states for Kirchhoff type problems" Abstract: http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/PDESeminar/abstracts16/zzhang.xhtml Day 2: Friday, 18 November 2016: 1. Talk: 11am - 12pm in Carslaw Lecture Theatre 157 Speaker: Michel Chipot (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Title : "Minimal Solution to Some Variational Inequalities" Abstract: http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/PDESeminar/abstracts16/chipot.xhtml 12:15pm - 2pm : Lunch break 2. Talk: 2-3pm in Carslaw Lecture Theatre 157 Speaker: Julian Lopez-Gomez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Title : "The theorem of characterization of the strong maximum principle" Abstract: http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/PDESeminar/abstracts16/lopez-gomez.xhtml