Monday August 20
8:45-9:20	Registration and Coffee
9:20-9:30	Opening Remarks
9:30-10:20	Felix Otto, Universitäet Bonn Lecture 1
10:25-10:50	Coffee Break
10:50-11:40	Cedric Villani, ENS Lyon Trend to equilibrium for dissipative PDE's, mass transportation and functional inequalities
11:45-12:35	Neil Trudinger, Australian National University Variational problems for second order functionals
12:40-2:00	Lunch Break
2:00-6:00	SHORT Click here for slides of talkS Martial Agueh, Georgia Institute of Technology Existence of solutions to degenerate parabolic equations via the Monge-Kantorvich theory Click here for slides of talk Franck Barthe, Université de Marne-la-Vallee Fisher information for marginals Luigi DePascale, University of Pisa Existence of absolute minimizers in the L infinity calculus of variations Kevin Guittet, INRIA Rocquencourt An Hilbertian framework for the time-continuous Monge-Kantorovich problem Thomas Kaijser, Swedish Defence Research Agency An improvement of the primal-dual algorithm when applied to the discrete Monge-Kantorovich mass transfer problem Click here for slides of talk Bernd Kirchheim, Max-Planck Institute Nikodym sets and optimal transport maps Click here for slides of talk Marcus Leven, Universitäet Bonn Simulation of the spreading of drops Click here for slides of talk Hamed Maroofi, Georgia Institute of Technology Weak solution to the semigeostrophic equations in dual variables Click here for slides of talk Jean Taylor, Rutgers University Crystals that rotate as they shrink Click here for slides of talk Monica Torres, University of Texas at Austin Plane-like minimizers in periodic media Xiangjin Xu, Johns Hopkins University New estimates on the solutions of first order Hamiltonian systems possessing super-quadratic potentials and some applications Ovidiu Savin, University of Texas at Austin A free boundary problem in optimal transportation
6:00	Reception at the Fields Institute
Tuesday August 21
9:00-9:50	Yann Brenier, CNRS Nice Lecture 1
9:55-10:25	Coffee Break
10:25-11:15	Giuseppe Buttazzo, University of Pisa Some results and questions in mass optimization problems Click here for slides of talk
11:20-12:10	Guy Bouchitte, Université de Toulon Optimization of light elastic structures Click here for slides of talk
12:15-2:00	Lunch Break
MINISYMPOSIUM: Transport Problems Hiding in Economic Theory
2:00-2:45	Ivar Ekeland, Université Paris-Dauphine Mathematical problems arising from economics Click here for slides of talk
2:50-3:35	Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, University of Chicago On the internal structures of cities
3:40-4:10	Afternoon Tea
4:10-4:55	Guillaume Carlier, Université Paris-Dauphine Thomas Lachand-Robert, Université de Savoie Regularity of solutions for some variational problems subject to a convexity constraint
5:00-5:45	Vladimir Levin, Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences Duality theorems for the Monge-Kantorovich problem with applications in the mathematical utility theory
6:00-6:50	Optional: Graduate student tutorial on Otto's lectures led by Mikhail Feldman & Robert McCann
Wednesday August 22
9:00-9:50	Felix Otto, Universitäet Bonn Lecture 2
9:55-10:15	Coffee Break
10:15-11:05	John Urbas, Australian National University Problems involving prescribed gradient Click here for slides of talk
11:10-12:00	Pengfei Guan, McMaster University Convexity of solutions of fully nonlinear PDEs
12:05-1:00	Lunch at the Fields Institute
1:05-11:15	Excursion to Niagara Falls
Thursday August 23
9:00-9:50	Felix Otto, Universitäet Bonn Lecture 3
9:55-10:20	Coffee Break
10:20-11:10	Gui-Qiang Chen, Northwestern University Extended divergence-measure fields, generalized Gauss-Green formula, and nonlinear transport equations
11:15-12:05	Allen Tannenbaum, Georgia Institute of Technology Geometric PDE methods in computer vision
12:10-2:00 1:00-1:50	Lunch Break Optional - Graduate student brown-bag lunch on Brenier's lectures led by Wilfrid Gangbo
MINISYMPOSIUM: Mathematical Methods in Computer Vision
2:00-2:30	Kaleem Siddiqi, McGill University Flux maximizing geometric flows
2:35-3:05	Stefano Soatto, University of California 3D shape estimation in a variational setting
3:10-3:40	Tryphon Georgiou, University of Minnesota High resolution spectral analysis via analytic interpolation
3:40-4:05	Afternoon Tea
4:05-4:35	Steve Haker, Harvard University Optimal mass transport and image registration
4:40-5:10	Nikolaos Paragyios, Siemens Corporate Research A variational approach for the segmentation of the left ventricle
5:15-5:45	Anthony Yezzi, Georgia Institute of Technology Stereoscopic segmentation: a unified framework for segmentation and surface reconstruction
7:30	Banquet at Le Select Bistro
Friday August 24
9:00-9:50	Yann Brenier, CNRS Nice Lecture 2
9:55-10:20	Gordon Blower, Lanchester University Almost sure convergence for the generalized orthogonal ensemble Click here for slides of talk
10:25-10:50	Coffee Break
10:50-11:40	Eric Carlen, Georgia Institute of Technology Mass transport problems and kinetic theory
11:45-12:35	Michael Cullen, European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts The Monge-Kantorovich problem in meteorology and oceanography Click here for slides of talk
12:40-2:00	Lunch Break
MINISYMPOSIUM : Geometrical Aspects of Fluid Dynamics
2:00-2:30	Geoffrey Burton, University of Bath Rearrangements and vortex rings Click here for slides of talk
2:35-3:05	Wayne Schubert, Colorado State University Enstrophy minimization, entropy maximization, and mixing processes in hurricanes
3:10-3:40	Scott Fulton, Clarkson University Potential vorticity mixing in shallow-water vortices Click here for slides of talk
3:40-4:05	Afternoon Tea
4:05-4:35	Robert Douglas, University of Wales, Aberystwyth Polar factorisation of vector valued functions with applications Click here for slides of talk
4:40-5:10	Boris Khesin, University of Toronto Virasoro symmetry and integrability of shallow water aproximations Click here for slides of talk
5:15-5:45	Vladimir Roubtsov, Université d'Angers Geometric structuresof (near) SG models and Monge-Ampere equations Click here for slides of talk
Saturday August 25
9:00-9:50	Yann Brenier, CNRS Nice Lecture 3
9:55-10:45	Luigi Ambrosio, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa On the representation and regularity properties of the transport density
10:50-11:15	Coffee Break
11:15-11:45	David Jerison, MIT Regularity of 3D energy minimizing free boundaries
11:50-12:40	Lawrence C. Evans, University of California at Berkeley Click here for slides of talk - Quasiconvexity in the calculus of variations
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