This volume consists of eight original survey papers written by invited lecturers in connection with a conference “Variational Methods for Evolving Objects”. The topics of papers vary widely from problems in image processing to dynamics of topological defects, and all involve some nonlinear phenomena of current major research interests.
Luigi Ambrosio, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.Yoshikazu Giga, University of Tokyo, Japan.Piotr Rybka, University of Warsaw, Poland.Yoshihiro Tonegawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.