Scientific Organisers:
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David Bourne, Heriot-Watt University
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Alpár Mészáros , Durham University
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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 |
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| 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 |