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The year 2008 is the 35th anniversary of the seminal paper of Ambrosetti & Rabinowitz which introduced the Mountain Pass Theorem (MPT), and it is the 15th anniversary of numerical implementation of MPT by Choi & McKenna - the Mountain Pass Algorithm (MPA). The MPT is now a major tool in nonlinear analysis and the theory of nonlinear ODEs and PDEs, and MPA is a robust algorithm for finding critical points of indefinite functionals. The recent textbook by Jabri on MPT lists over 1000 references on the subject, and scholar.google.com lists over 800 citations of the original 1973 paper. In contrast there has been relatively little activity in this area in the UK. This one-day workshop is both a celebration and an introduction to the MPT. Both fundamentals and applications will be presented. PhD students are particularly encouraged to attend.
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The registration fee is £20 (participants from LDSG institutions - Imperial, Queen Mary, Surrey, UCL - are exempt from the registration fee). To register, send name, affiliation, contact information, and registration fee to Mrs Gwen Potter.
For participants who need overnight accomodation, we recommend the
Guildford YMCA. It is reasonably priced and within walking distance of the university. A booking with the Guildford YMCA can be made directly via their website.
Participants travelling by car should contact us in advance to obtain a car park permit. If you have any questions or comments please don't hesitate to contact the organisers:
Tom Bridges and David Lloyd .
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