Conference on Calculus of Variations: Geometry, Inequalities, and Design

November 10 - 14, 2014, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute

Schedule

Monday, November 10th, 2014
10:10 to 11:10	On the Hardy-Schrödinger operator with a singularity on the boundary Nassif Ghoussoub, University of British Columbia Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:10	Curvature-free estimates for solutions of variational problems in Riemannian geometry Alexander Nabutovsky, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
14:10	Mean curvature flow with surgery Gerhard Huisken, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
15:30 to 16:30	Sobolev trace inequality on manifolds Sun-Yung Alice Chang Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
16:30	Rotational symmetry of Ricci solitons Simon Brendle, Stanford University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
09:10 to 10:10	Min-max Theory and Applications I Andre Neves, University of Chicago Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:10	A general compactness theorem for Plateau's problem Francesco Maggi Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
14:10	Higher regularity for certain thin free boundaries Ovidiu Savin Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
15:30 to 16:30	Einstein Manifolds and the Codimension Four Conjecture Aaron Naber, Northwestern University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
16:30 to 17:00	Lagrangian solutions for the Semi-Geostrophic Shallow Water system in physical space Adrian Tudorascu Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
17:00	A characterization for solutions of the Monge-Kantorovich mass transport problem Abbas Momeni Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Wednesday, November 12th, 2014
10:10	Min-max Theory and Applications II Fernando Codá Marques Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
15:30	An introduction to information geometry Jun Zhang, University of Michigan Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Thursday, November 13th, 2014
10:30 to 11:30	The contrast problem by saturation in medical NMR imaging Bernard Bonnard Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
11:30	Ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow Natasa Sesum, Rutgers University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
14:10	The Penrose Inequality for perturbations of the Schwarzschild exterior Spyros Alexakis, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
15:30	Variational problems related to sharp eigenvalue estimates on surfaces Richard Schoen, Stanford University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

Friday, November 14th, 2014
09:10 to 10:10	New mean curvature estimates for immersed hypersurfaces Pengfei Guan, McGill University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230
10:10	A transportation approach to random matrices Alessio Figalli, ETH Zürich Location:Fields Institute, Room 230

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