Workshop I: Aspects of Optimal Transport in Geometry and Calculus of Variations

Part of the Long Program Optimal Transport
March 31 - April 4, 2008

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, March 31, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:45 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50
David Kinderlehrer (Carnegie-Mellon University)

Modeling transport at small scales and related issues

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Karl Sturm (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

 

5:00 - 6:30 Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
Michael Westdickenberg (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Optimal Transport for the System of Isentropic Euler equations

3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:05
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:20
Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia University)

On the Harmonic Mean Curvature FLow
PDF Presentation

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Juan Vazquez (Autonomous University of Madrid)

Asymptotics of Fast Diffusion Equations by Entropy Meethods
PDF Presentation
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Dejan Slepcev (Carnegie-Mellon University)

On a nonlocal model of biological aggregation
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Nassif Ghoussoub (University of British Columbia)

A new polar decomposition for vector fields

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Luis Caffarelli (University of Texas at Austin)

Non local minimal surfaces
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Peter Markowich (University of Cambridge)

Reaction-Diffusion (-Convection) Equations, Entropies and Sobolev Inequalities
PDF Presentation
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Gerard Misiolek (University of Notre Dame)

Singularities of the exponential map on the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Klemens Fellner (University of Cambridge)

 
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Shizan Fang (Université de Bourgogne (Dijon))

Wasserstein space over the Wiener sapce
PDF Presentation

Friday, April 4, 2008

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Eric Carlen (Rutgers University New Brunswick/Piscataway)

 
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Stefano Bianchini (International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS))

On the c-monotonicity condition for optimal transportation

12:30 - 1:45 Lunch (on your own)