Nonlinear paths in Joost Hulshof's mathematical journey

Nonlinear paths in Joost Hulshof's mathematical journey
Prof. Joost Hulshof and his well-travelled Deux Chevaux

Our colleague Prof. Joost Hulshof is retiring and we will gather to celebrate his work and career on Friday the 18th of September 2026 at 14:00–18:00, at VU Amsterdam, in room NU 03B19 of the NU VU Building, De Boelelaan 1111, 1081 HV Amsterdam (click here for a map).

Programme

  • 14:00 – 14:30 | Michiel Bertsch (University of Rome "Tor Vergata")
    Quasi-static modeling of transport processes on networks

  • 14:30 – 15:00 | Bob Planqué (VU Amsterdam)
    The Lyapunov Function for a Messy Cell: Finding Stability with Joost

  • 15:00 – 15:30 | Lorenzo Giacomelli (Sapienza University of Rome)
    Thin-film equations with no-slip condition

  • 15:30 – 15:45
    Coffee/Tea break

  • 15:45 – 16:15 | Sigurd Angenent (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
    Nonstandard existence proofs for parabolic PDE

  • 16:15 – 16:45 | John King (University of Nottingham)
    Some things related to the porous-medium equation

  • 16:45 – 17:00
    Concluding remarks

  • 18:00
    Conference dinner (invitation only) at Lucy's on Hildegard Von Bingenstraat 2, 1081 LH Amsterdam (Google Map link)