Calculus of Variations in Probability and Geometry - IPAM

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)
08:00-08:55
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome & Opening Remarks: Dean Miguel García-Garibay (Dean of Physical Sciences, UCLA) and Dima Shlyakhtenko (Director, IPAM)
09:15-09:40
Bo'az Klartag (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Virtual Talk: Size of line intersections in high dimensional L_p-balls and product measures
09:50-10:15
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

Afternoon Session

12:05-12:30
Orli Herscovici (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Adaptation of Kohler-Jobin rearrangement technique with fixed torsional rigidity to the Gaussian space
12:40-12:55
Lightning Poster Presentations
12:55-13:15
In-Person Poster Session
13:00-15:00
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
15:00-16:30
In-Person Collaborative Discussions

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Elisabeth Werner (Case Western Reserve University)
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:25
Liran Rotem (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Virtual Talk: Spectral inequalities for rotation invariant measures
09:35-10:00
Shay Sadovsky (Tel Aviv University)
Virtual Talk: Involutions and costs: A zoo of dualities
10:10-10:25
Break
10:25-10:50
Alessio Figalli (ETH Zurich)
Virtual Talk: Quantitative Stability in Geometric and Functional Inequalities
11:00-11:25
Galyna Livshyts (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Virtual Talk: On a conjectural symmetric version of the Ehrhard inequality
11:35-11:50
Break
11:50-12:15
Dima Ryabogin (Kent State University)
On Ulam's Problem 19 and related problems

Afternoon Session

12:25-12:50
Tobias Colding (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Virtual Talk: ``Singularities and diffeomorphism''
13:15-15:00
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
15:00-16:30
In-Person Collaborative Discussions

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Orli Herscovici (Georgia Institute of Technology)
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:25
Emanuel Milman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Virtual Talk: The log-Minkowski Problem
09:35-10:00
Barbara Brandolini (Università degli Studi di Palermo)
Virtual Talk: Eigenvalue estimates for p-Laplace problems on domains expressed in Fermi Coordinates
10:10-10:25
Break
10:25-10:50
Han Huang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Virtual Talk: When can we recover an Erdos-Renyi graph from its local structure?
11:00-11:25
Lu Wang (Yale University)
Virtual Talk: Topological properties of hypersurfaces with low entropy
11:35-11:50
Break
11:50-12:15
Yair Shenfeld (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Virtual Talk: The Brownian transport map

Afternoon Session

12:25-12:50
Jacob Bernstein (Johns Hopkins University)
Virtual Talk: Entropy and C^0 stability of hypersurfaces
13:00-15:00
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
15:00-16:30
In-Person Open Problems Session

Thursday, February 10, 2022

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Umut Caglar (Florida International University)
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:25
Eugenia Saorín Gómez (Universität Bremen)
Virtual Talk: Inner parallel bodies & the Isoperimetric Quotient
09:35-10:00
Matthieu Fradelizi (Université Gustave Eiffel)
Virtual Talk: Volume of p-zonoids and inequalities for determinants
10:10-10:25
Break
10:25-10:50
Santosh Vempala (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Virtual Talk: Gibbs Sampling for Convex Bodies and an L_0 Isoperimetric Inequality
11:00-11:25
Paata Ivanisvili (University of California, Irvine (UCI))
Virtual Talk: Learning low degree functions in logarithmic number of random queries.
11:35-11:50
Break
11:50-12:15
Joe Neeman (University of Texas at Austin)
Virtual Talk: Large deviations for triangle densities

Afternoon Session

12:25-12:50
Jonathan J. Zhu (Princeton University)
Waists, widths and symplectic embeddings
13:00-15:00
Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
15:00-16:30
In-Person Collaborative Discussions

Friday, February 11, 2022

Morning Session

SESSION CHAIR: Dima Ryabogin (Kent State University)
08:00-09:00
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:25
Francesco Chiacchio (Università di Napoli “Federico II”)
Virtual Talk: A class of isoperimetric problems with double density and applications
09:35-10:00
Maria Gordina (University of Connecticut)
Virtual Talk: Large deviations principle for sub-Riemannian random walks on Carnot groups
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)
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