Preface ....................................................... vii
Variational Problems Arising in Biology
Elena Alvarez-Buylla, Mariana Benítez, Álvaro Chaos,
Yuriria Cortés, Gerardo Escalera-Santos, Carlos Espinosa,
and Pablo Padilla ............................................ 1
On the Cauchy Problem for Phase and Vortices in the
Parabolic Ginzburg - Landau Equation
Fabrice Béthuel, Giandomenico Orlandi, and Didier Smets ..... 11
Nonlocal Cahn - Hilliard and Isoperimetric Problems: Periodic
Phase Separation Induced by Competing Long- and Short-Range
Interactions
Rustum Choksi ............................................... 33
On a Generalized Ginzburg - Landau Energy for
Superconducting/Normal Composite Materials
Tiziana Giorgi and Hala Jadallah ............................ 47
Global Questions for Map Evolution Equations
Meijiao Guan, Stephen Gustafson, Kyungkeun Kang, and
Tai-Peng Tsai ............................................... 61
Pohozaev-Type Identities for an Elliptic Equation
Radu Ignat .................................................. 75
Some Remarks on Monge-Ampere Functions
Robert L. Jerrard ........................................... 89
Variational Versus PDE-Based Approaches in Mathematical Image
Processing
B. Kawohl .................................................. 113
On the Energy of a Chern - Simons - Higgs Vortex Lattice
Matthias Kurzke and Daniel Spirn ........................... 127
Some Recent Results about a Class of Singularly Perturbed
Elliptic Equations Andrea Malchiodi ........................ 153
The Dipole Problem for H1/2(S2;S1)-Maps and Application
Vincent Millot ............................................. 165
Hodge Decompositions, Г-Convergence and the Gross -
Pitaevskii Energy
Alberto Montero ............................................ 179
Bifurcation of Vortex Solutions to a Ginzburg - Landau
Equation in an Annulus
Yoshihisa Morita ........................................... 187
An Allen - Cahn Type Problem with Curvature Modification
Xiaofeng Ren ............................................... 201
Rare Events, Action Minimization, and Sharp Interface Limits
Maria G. Westdickenberg .................................... 217
The Gauss - Green Theorem for Weakly Differentiable Vector
Fields
William P. Ziemer .......................................... 233
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