Professor Georg Dolzmann is visiting the Dynamical Systems and PDEs group in the department on Thursday and Friday this week. His host is Jon Bevan.  Professor Dolzmann’s home institution is the University of Regensburg in Germany, and his research interests are in the calculus of variations, theory and numerics of nonlinear PDEs, and microstructure.  On Friday he is giving the department colloquium on “Variational problems in nonlinear elasticity with constraints on the determinant“. An abstract can be found here.