The conference will be opened (November 2) by

<cite>Claudio Baiocchi, Franco Brezzi, Piero Colli Franzone,
Mario Ferrari, Giuseppe Geymonat, Claudio Verdi,</cite>

who will present Enrico Magenes' contribution to Mathematics from a personal and historical perspective.

The social commitment of Enrico Magenes is the motivation for a panel discussion (November 2, evening) on

<strong>L'impegno civile e sociale dell'uomo di cultura,</strong>

the list of panelists includes
<em>Dario Antiseri, Lamberto Maffei, Virginio Rognoni.</em>

<strong>A two-day colloquium</strong>

will follow (November 3-4) with talks by

<cite>Luigi Ambrosio</cite> (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
<cite>Douglas N. Arnold</cite> (University of Minnesota)
<cite>Luis A. Caffarelli</cite> (University of Texas, Austin)
<cite>Claudio Canuto</cite> (Politecnico di Torino)
<cite>Philippe G. Ciarlet</cite> (City University of Hong Kong)
<cite>David Kinderlehrer</cite> (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh)
<cite>Pierre-Louis Lions</cite> (Collège de France)
<cite>Yvon Maday</cite> (Université Pierre ed Marie Curie, Paris)
<cite>Umberto Mosco</cite> (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
<cite>Ricardo H. Nochetto</cite> (University of Maryland)
<cite>Alfio Quarteroni</cite> (EPFL, Lausanne - Politecnico di Milano)
<cite>Cédric Villani</cite> (Institut Henri Poincaré - Université de Lyon)
<cite>Augusto Visintin</cite> (Università di Trento)

Participation is welcome: for organizational purposes, all participants are kindly requested to register online.