Category: List of Bases 2007 Throughout the year RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS

Title:

ICTP/SISSA Joint Colloquium in Mathematics "Recent developments in the theory of optimal mass transportation"

Start Time:

14:30

Location:

SISSA, Main Building, ground floor, Room B

Contact:

Bergamo

Speaker(s):

Professor Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy)

Description:

In this talk I will describe some developments, occured 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 sketchy 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.