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The research activities of the sector include the study of a wide range of nonlinear problems in the areas of the calculus of variations, and of partial and ordinary differential equations. The applications of interest to members of the sector are mostly in the area of Control Theory and of the Mechanics of Materials.

 

The sector of Functional Analysis and Applications has been active at SISSA since 1978, the year SISSA was founded. Its permanent staff consists of 10 permanent members, and of a number of postdocs and associates.

The research activities of the sector include the study of a wide range of nonlinear problems in the areas of the calculus of variations, and of partial and ordinary differentila equations. The applications of interest to members of the sector are mostly in the area of Control Theory and of the Mechanics of Materials.

The sector offers two Ph.D. degrees Mathematical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, which are legally equivalent to the Italian title of "Dottore di Ricerca in Matematica".

In the first 25 years of activity of the sector, about 90 students have been granted a PhD degree. Half of these graduates are now professors in Italian or foreing universities.

The sectors of Functional Analysis and Application and the sector of Mathematical Physics, together with the School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Trieste are resposible for a joint curriculum within the Laurea Specialistica in Mathematics offered by the University of Trieste. The courses for this joint curriculum will start in the academic year 2004-5.