2020 Fields Medal Symposium: Alessio Figalli

October 19 - 23, 2020, The Fields Institute

Location: Online

Description

The 2020 Fields Medal Symposium will honour Alessio Figalli (Fields Medal 2018) and explore the current and potential impact of his work.

The Scientific Program is intended for a wide audience, including graduate students, mathematicians in other research areas, and scientists who use mathematics in an important way.

Schedule for the Scientific Program: see below

The Symposium comprises separate events:

Scientific Program (October 19-23): will honour Alessio Figalli (Fields Medal 2018) and explore the current and potential impact of his work and is intended for a wide audience, including graduate students, mathematicians in other research areas, and scientists who use mathematics in an important way.
Public Opening (October 19): features an interview with Alessio Figalli (Fields Medal 2018) and a panel discussion.
Student Night (October 20): includes a talk, networking, and pizza. POSTPONED

Events will be broadcast live online.

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT

GOLD LEVEL SPONSORS

SILVER LEVEL SPONSOR

James Stewart

BRONZE LEVEL SPONSORS

Edward Bierstone, George Elliott, John R. Gardner, Dan Rosen, Phillip Siller

WITH SUPPORT FROM

Schedule

Monday, October 19th, 2020
10:00 to 11:00	Flows of vector fields: existence and (non)uniqueness Maria Colombo, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
11:15 to 12:15	A Gamma-convergence result and an application to the Monge-Ampère gravitational model Luigi Ambrosio, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
12:30 to 14:40	Public Opening Featuring an interview between Hannah Fry and Alessio Figalli (Fields Medal 2018) and a panel of distinguished mathematicians discussing his work

Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
10:00 to 11:00	Stable solutions to semilinear elliptic equations are smooth up to dimension 9 Xavier Cabré, ICREA and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
11:15 to 12:15	Mean-Field limits for Coulomb-type dynamics Sylvia Serfaty, New York University
12:30 to 13:30	The Bernstein problem for equations of minimal surface type Connor Mooney, University of California, Irvine

Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
10:00 to 11:00	Initial value problems by convex minimization and matrix-valued optimal transport Yann Brenier, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and Ecole Normale Supérieure
11:15 to 12:15	Optimal transport in Brownian motion stopping Young-Heon Kim, University of British Columbia
12:30 to 13:30	STATEMENT (Wilfrid Gangbo, University of California at Los Angeles, withdrawn)

Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
10:00 to 11:00	Sharp Extinction Rates for Fast Diffusion Equations on Generic Bounded Domains Matteo Bonforte, ICMAT and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
11:15 to 12:15	Generic regularity of free boundaries for the obstacle problem Joaquim Serra, ETH Zürich
12:30 to 13:30	The singular set in the Stefan problem Xavier Ros-Oton, ICREA and Universitat de Barcelona

Friday, October 23rd, 2020
10:00 to 11:00	The stickiness property of nonlocal minimal surfaces Enrico Valdinoci, The University of Western Australia
11:15 to 12:15	Asymptotics of matrix models Alice Guionnet, ENS Lyon
12:30 to 13:30	Regularity of the free boundary for the two-phase Bernoulli problem Guido De Philippis, New York University

Invited Speakers

Name	Affiliation
Luigi Ambrosio	Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Matteo Bonforte	ICMAT and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Yann Brenier	Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and Ecole Normale Supérieure
Xavier Cabré	ICREA and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Maria Colombo	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Guido De Philippis	New York University
Wilfrid Gangbo	University of California, Los Angeles
Alice Guionnet	ENS Lyon
Young-Heon Kim	University of British Columbia
Connor Mooney	University of California, Irvine
Xavier Ros-Oton	ICREA and Universitat de Barcelona
Sylvia Serfaty	New York University
Joaquim Serra	ETH Zürich
Enrico Valdinoci	The University of Western Australia