These proceedings contain recent developments on the following important topics: variational problems, fully nonlinear elliptic equations, PDE from differential geometry, hamiltonian systems, nonlinear evolution equations and nonlinear microlocal analysis. Included are many interesting survey papers with the latest research materials.
Variational problems in celestial mechanics, A. Abrosetti; variational problems of Yamabe type, A. Bahri; some applications of Morse theory to dynamic systems, V. Benci; nonlinear microlocal analysis and 2d fluid mechanics, J.Y. Chemin; fully multidimensional Cauchy problem for semilinear hyperbolic equations of 2nd order with discontinuous data, S-X. Chen; the wave equation outside a corner in 2-space dimension on Darboux systems, G. Lebeau and F.H. Lin; on the stability and instability of steady states of a nonlinear heat equation, W.M. Ni; Morse-Conley theory for minimal surfaces of varying topological type, M. Struwe; on the Co estimates for the complex Monge Ampere equation, G. Tian.