Workshop on Optimal Transportation, Transport Equations, and Hydrodynamics
11-15 July 2005, Edinburgh
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The meeting will start in the morning of Monday 11 July. Talks will continue into the afternoon of Friday 15 July. Professors Ambrosio and Cordero-Erausquin will each deliver two overview lectures during the week.For provisional list of participants click here.
Timetable
| Monday 11 July | |
| 08.30 - 10.30 | Registration |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.00 - 11.45 | Camillo De Lellis
Chain rule for weakly differentiable fields and transport equations |
| 11.50 - 12.35 | Giuseppe Savaré
The gradient flow of the Fisher information in the Wasserstein space |
| 12.35 - 15.30 | Sandwich
lunch provided Time for informal mathematical activity |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16.00 - 16.45 | José A Carrillo
Intermediate asymptotics beyond homogeneity and self-similarity for general nonlinear diffusion equations |
| 16.50 - 17.35 | Giuseppe Buttazzo Some optimization problems in mass transportation |
| 17.35 - 18.30 | Wine Reception at ICMS |
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| Tuesday 12 July | |
| 09.30 - 10.30 | Rob Douglas Polar factorisation of vector-valued functions: non-existence and a relaxed formulation |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.00 - 11.45 | Alexander Shnirelman
Generalized flows and weak solutions of incompressible Euler equations |
| 11.50 - 12.35 | Wilfrid Gangbo Diffeomorphisms and nonlinear heat flow (joint work with LC Evans and O Savin) |
| 12.35 - 15.30 | Lunch break and time for informal mathematical activity |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16.00 - 16.45 | Gordon Blower Concentration theorems for the joint distributions of stochastic processes - (joint work with F Bolley) |
| 16.50 - 17.35 | Aldo Pratelli Existence of a continuous optimal transport map for Monge's problem in R2 with continuous data |
| 19.00 | Informal meal at Pizza Express, 1 Deanhaugh Street, Edinburgh |
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| Wednesday 13 July | |
| 09.30 - 10.15 | Steve Schochet Remarks on multiple spatial scales for non-isentropic fluid flow |
| 10.15 - 10.45 | Coffee |
| 10.45 - 11.30 | Helena Nussenzveig
Lopes Minimal geodesic formulation of the incompressible n-D Euler equations with variable density |
| 11.35 - 12.20 | Anna Mazzucato Enstrophy dissipation in 2D incompressible flows |
| Free afternoon | |
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| Thursday 14 July | |
| 09.30 - 10.30 | Dario
Cordero-Erausquin Lecture I - Optimal transportation and geometric inequalities |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.00 - 11.45 | Robert McCann Optimal transportation with costs that change concavity |
| 11.50 - 12.35 | Mikhail Feldman
Lagrangian solutions of semigeostrophic equations |
| 12.35 - 15.00 | Lunch break and time for informal mathematical activity |
| 15.00 - 15.40 |
John Norbury Gradient flow of interfaces and vortices by perturbed Ginzburg-Landau systems |
| 15.40 - 16.00 | Tea/Coffee |
| 16.00 - 16.45 | Ian Roulstone On the geometry of transport in incompressible flow |
| 16.50 - 17.35 | Maxime Hauray Wasserstein distance and approximation by particles system |
| 19.00 | Conference Dinner at Howies Restaurant, 29 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh |
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| Friday 15 July | |
| 09.30 - 10.30 | Dario Cordero-Erausquin
Lecture II - Optimal transportation and geometric inequalities |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.00 - 11.45 | Mike Cullen Solving the semi-geostrophic equations on the sphere |
| 11.50 - 12.35 | Eric Carlen Mass transportation and some variational problems concerning phase segregation |
| 12.35 - 14.00 | Lunch
break |
| 14.00 - 14.45 | Felix Otto The logarithmic Sobolev inequality for many-particle systems |
| 14.50 - 15.35 | Tony Carbery Regularised Brascamp-Lieb inequalities - a mass transport approach? |
List of Participants
16 June
| Name | Institution |
| Blower, Gordon | Lancaster University |
| Bolley, François |
École Normale
Supérieure de Lyon |
| Brenier, Yann | CNRS
Nice/Paris VI |
| Burton, Geoffrey | University of Bath |
| Buttazzo, Giuseppe | University of Pisa |
| Carbery, Tony | University of Edinburgh |
| Carlen, Eric A | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Carrillo, José A | Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Carvalho, Maria
Conceicaõ |
University of Lisbon |
| Cordero-Erausquin, Dario | Université de Marne-la-Vallée |
| Cullen, Mike | Meteorological Office |
| De Lellis, Camillo | University of Zurich |
| Douglas, Robert J | University of Wales |
| Feldman, Mikhail | University of Wisconsin |
| Ferreira, Lucas |
Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Gangbo, Wilfrid | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Hauray, Maxime | Ceremade, Universite de Paris IX Dauphine |
| He, Xinyu |
University of Warwick |
| Mazzucato,
Anna |
Pennsylvania State University |
| McCann, Robert | University of Toronto |
| Norbury, John | University of Oxford |
| Nussenzveig Lopes, Helena | University of Campinas (UNICAMP) |
| Otto, Felix |
Universität Bonn |
| Pratelli, Aldo | University of Pavia |
| Roulstone, Ian | University of Surrey |
| Rousset, Frederic |
Université de Nice |
| Savaré, Giuseppe | University of Pavia |
| Schochet, Steven | Tel Aviv University |
| Shnirelman, Alexander | Concordia University, Montreal |
| Valdimarsson, Stefan Ingi |
University of Edinburgh |
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