Optimal Transport and the Calculus of Variations

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Optimal Transport and the Calculus of Variations

 11 - 15 Dec 2023

ICMS, Bayes Centre, Edinburgh

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Scientific Organisers:

  • David Bourne, Heriot-Watt University
  • Alpár Mészáros , Durham University
  • Lucia Scardia, Heriot-Watt University

About:

The aim of this meeting is to bring together experts in the theory of optimal transport and the calculus of variations, with a focus on nonlinear PDEs, gradient flows, and problems with low regularity and singularities. We will discuss a range of applications including fluid mechanics, materials science, pattern formation and optimal control.

This workshop is funded by EPSRC Network on Generalised and Low-Regularity Solutions of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Participation:

The deadline to apply for this workshop has now passed. All applicants were notified of outcomes on Friday 3 November. No late applications will be accepted.

Please note, invited speakers will receive an email invitation directly from ICMS and should not apply on this webpage.

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Programme:

MONDAY 11 DECEMBER 2023
09:00 – 09:50 Registration
09:50 – 10:00 Welcome and Housekeeping
10:00 – 11:00 Guillaume Carlier, Université Paris Dauphine Displacement smoothness of entropic optimal transport and applications
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Thomas Gallouët, Inria Paris TBC
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch and discussions
14:30 – 15:30 Bernhard Schmitzer, Göttingen University Barycenters for the Hellinger-Kantorovich distance
15:30 – 16:30 Megan Griffin-Pickering, University College London
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:00 Roger Moser, University of Bath Analysis of Néel walls in thin ferromagnetic films
TUESDAY 12 DECEMBER 2023
09:30 – 10:30 Quentin Mérigot, Université Paris-Saclay
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Michael Goldman, Université Paris Diderot From local energy bounds to dimensional estimates in a reduced model for type-I superconductors
12:00 – 13:00 Eva Kopfer, University of Bonn Homogenisation of discrete dynamical optimal transport
13:00 – 15:30 Lunch and discussions
15:30 – 16:30 Riccardo Tione, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig On the Lawson-Osserman conjecture
16:30 – 17:30 Xavier Lamy, Université Paul Sabatier On the stability of Möbius transforms of the n-sphere
WEDNESDAY 13 DECEMBER 2023
09:30 – 10:30 Lia Bronsard, McMaster University Patterns in tri-block copolymers: double-bubbles, core-shells and a new partitioning problem
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Filippo Santambrogio, Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1 Strong H^2 convergence of the JKO scheme for the Fokker-Planck equation
12:00 – 13:00 Alessio Porretta, Università di Roma Tor Vergata Transport, diffusion and mean field games
13:00 Lunch
THURSDAY 14 DECEMBER 2023
09:30 – 10:30 Manuel del Pino, University of Bath Dynamics of concentrated vorticities in 2d and 3d Euler flows
10:30 – 11:30 Chloé Jimenez, Université de Bretagne Occidentale Looking through Wasserstein's glasses and Hilbertian glasses to a muti-agent optimal control problem and the associated Hamilton-Jacobi equation
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 – 13:00 Jean-Marie Mirebeau, ENS Paris-Saclay Discretizations of anisotropic PDEs using Voronoi's reduction of quadratic forms
13:00 – 15:00 Lunch and discussions
15:00 – 16:00 Mateusz Majka, Heriot-Watt University
16:00 – 17:00 Giuseppe Savaré, Bocconi University Geodesic convexity of entropy functionals in Hellinger-Kantorovich metric
FRIDAY 15 DECEMBER 2023
09:30 – 10:30 Yann Brenier, Université Paris-Saclay Gravitational models related to fluid mechanics and optimal transport
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00 Matthew Thorpe, University of Warwick Manifold Learning in Wasserstein Space
12:00 – 13:00 John Ball, Heriot-Watt University Image comparison and scaling via nonlinear elasticity
13:00 Lunch