Calculus of Variations in Probability and Geometry

February 7 - 11, 2022

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, February 7, 2022

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Alina Stancu (Concordia University)
8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks: Dean Miguel García-Garibay (Dean of Physical Sciences, UCLA) and Dima Shlyakhtenko (Director, IPAM)
9:15 - 9:40
9:50 - 10:15
Karoly Boroczky (Renyi Institute of Mathematics)

Virtual Talk: Equality in the Reverse Brascamp Lieb Inequality

 
10:25 - 10:40 Break
10:40 - 11:05
Guofang Wei (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))

Virtual Talk: Fundamental Gap Estimate for Convex Domains

 
11:15 - 11:40
Grigorios Paouris (Texas A&M University - College Station)

Virtual Talk: Empirical Isoperimetric Inequalities outside convexity

 
11:50 - 12:05 Break
12:05 - 12:30
12:40 - 12:55 Lightning Poster Presentations
12:55 - 1:15 In-Person Poster Session
1:00 - 3:00 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session
3:00 - 4:30 In-Person Collaborative Discussions

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Elisabeth Werner (Case Western Reserve University)
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:25
Liran Rotem (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

Virtual Talk: Spectral inequalities for rotation invariant measures

 
9:35 - 10:00
10:10 - 10:25 Break
10:25 - 10:50
11:00 - 11:25
 
11:35 - 11:50 Break
11:50 - 12:15
Dima Ryabogin (Kent State University)

On Ulam's Problem 19 and related problems

 
12:25 - 12:50
Tobias Colding (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Virtual Talk: ``Singularities and diffeomorphism''

 
1:15 - 3:00 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session
3:00 - 4:30 In-Person Collaborative Discussions

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Orli Herscovici (Georgia Institute of Technology)
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:25
Emanuel Milman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

Virtual Talk: The log-Minkowski Problem

 
9:35 - 10:00
10:10 - 10:25 Break
10:25 - 10:50
11:00 - 11:25
11:35 - 11:50 Break
11:50 - 12:15
Yair Shenfeld (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Virtual Talk: The Brownian transport map
PDF Presentation

 
12:25 - 12:50
Jacob Bernstein (Johns Hopkins University)

Virtual Talk: Entropy and C^0 stability of hypersurfaces
PDF Presentation

 
1:00 - 3:00 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session
3:00 - 4:30 In-Person Open Problems Session

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Umut Caglar (Florida International University)
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:25
Eugenia Saorín Gómez (Universität Bremen)

Virtual Talk: Inner parallel bodies & the Isoperimetric Quotient

 
9:35 - 10:00
Matthieu Fradelizi (Université Gustave Eiffel)

Virtual Talk: Volume of p-zonoids and inequalities for determinants

 
10:10 - 10:25 Break
10:25 - 10:50
11:00 - 11:25
 
11:35 - 11:50 Break
11:50 - 12:15
Joe Neeman (University of Texas at Austin)

Virtual Talk: "Large deviations for triangle densities"

 
12:25 - 12:50
Jonathan J. Zhu (Princeton University)

Waists, widths and symplectic embeddings

 
1:00 - 3:00 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session
3:00 - 4:30 In-Person Collaborative Discussions

Friday, February 11, 2022

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Dima Ryabogin (Kent State University)
8:00 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:25
Francesco Chiacchio (Università di Napoli “Federico II”)

Virtual Talk: A class of isoperimetric problems with double density and applications

 
9:35 - 10:00
10:10 - 10:25 Break
10:25 - 10:50
Assaf Naor (Princeton University)

Virtual Talk: Extension, separation and isomorphic reverse isoperimetry

 
11:00 - 11:25
Steven Heilman (University of Southern California (USC))

Variational Proofs of Isoperimetric Inequalities

 
11:35 - 12:45 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)