John Ball#

• J.M. BALL, Systems of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Reidel, 1983.
• J.M. BALL, Material instabilities in Continuum Mechanics and Related Mathematical Problems, Oxford Univ. Press,1988.
• J.M. BALL, Convexity conditions and existence theorems in nonlinearelasticity, Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal. (1977) (a landmark)
• J.M. BALL, J.E. MARSDEN, and M. SLEMROD, Controllability for distributed bilinear systems. SIAM J. Control 20 (1982), 575-597.
• J.M. BALL, Differentiability properties of symmetric and isotropic functions,Duke Math.J. 51 (1984), 699-728.
• J.M. BALL, and F. MLIRAT, WM-quasiconvexity and variational problems for multiple integrals,]. Functional Anal. 58 (1984), 225-253.
• J.M. BALL and R.D. JAMES, Fine phase mixtures as minimizers of energy,Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal. 100 (1987), 13-52 (opened an entirely new avenue)
• J.M. BALL, and R.D. JAMES, Proposed experimental tests of a theory of Hne microstructure, and the two-well problem, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London A 338 (1992), 389-450.
• J.M. BALL, The calculus of variations and materials science, Quart. Appl. Math. 56 (1998), 719-740.
• J.M. BALL, and D. Scuavvsizs, The analysis of macrotwins in Ni—A/ martensite,J. Physique IV, 112 (2003), 159-162 (another landmark)
• J.M. BALL, and A. ZARINESCU, Orientable and non—orientab/e director he/dsfor liquid crystals, Mathematical models of martensitic microstructures,(2008), to appear