Research Group:
Speaker:
M. Gursky
Institution:
University of Notre Dame - Indiana
Schedule:
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 10:30 to 11:30
Location:
SISSA - Main Building - ground floor - room B
Abstract:
In this talk I will describe some developments, occurred in the last 10-15 years, of the theory of optimal mass transportation, that finds its origin in a problem raised by G. Monge in 1781. I will give a skectchy picture of the broad range of applications of this theory, which covers variational formulations of evolution equations, functional and geometric inequalities, (nonsmooth) Riemannian geometry, and other fields.