Room 3-309, Faculty of Science Building #3, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
Organizers:
L. Ambrosio (Pisa), Y. Giga(Tokyo), P. Rybka (Warsaw), Y. Tonegawa (Sapporo)
Course Lecturers:
L. Ambrosio (Pisa)
Y. Brenier (Nice)
R. Jerrard (Toronto)
Invited Speakers:
A. Chambolle (Palaiseau)
W. Gangbo (Atlanta)
P. Guidotti (Irvine)
P. Mucha (Warsaw)
M. Novaga (Padova)
D. Pallara (Lecce)
N. Wickramasekera (Cambridge)
Program:
Course Lecturers & Main Themes:
Luigi Ambrosio: Gradient flows in metric spaces and in the space of probability measures » Abstract Yann Brenier: Optimal Transport » Abstract Robert Jerrard: Dynamics of vortices and other topological defects in nonlinear field theories » Abstract
July 30 (Monday)
09:00-09:50 Registration
09:50-10:00 Opening
10:00-10:50 Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore)
(Lecture I) Metric formulations of gradient flows: Energy Dissipation Inequalities and Evolution Variational Inequalities
11:10-12:00 Yann Brenier (Université de Nice)
(Lecture I) Optimal transport of densities
14:00-14:50 Robert Jerrard (University of Toronto)
(Lecture I) Overview, and parabolic equations
15:10-16:10 Diego Pallara (Università del Salento)
Bounded variation functions in Hilbert spaces and related semigroups » Abstract
16:30- Poster Session
July 31 (Tuesday)
10:00-10:50 Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore)
(Lecture II) Convergence of the Euler scheme and existence results
11:10-12:00 Yann Brenier (Université de Nice)
(Lecture II) Optimal incompressible transport
14:00-14:50 Robert Jerrard (University of Toronto)
(Lecture II) Wave equations and timelike minimal surfaces
15:10-16:10 Wilfrid Gangbo (Georgia Institute of Technology)
A variational problem involving a polyconvex integrand » Abstract
16:30-17:30 Matteo Novaga (University of Padova)
Variational problems in infinite dimensional spaces » Abstract