SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

February 23, 2012

Focus Program on Whitney Problems
August 27-September 30, 2012
Host by the Fields Institute

Organizers:
Alexander Brudnyi University of Calgary
Charles Fefferman,Princeton University
Pierre Milman, University of Toronto

Overview

The program is focused on some the most vibrant developments in function theory related to the celebrated Whitney extension and trace problems for classes of smooth functions. These include new analytic and geometric methods in the study of Lipschitz structures on finite sets, extension and trace problems for functions in Sobolev spaces, simultaneous extensions of Lipschitz functions from subsets of metric spaces, Helly type Lipschitz selection problems, etc.

Objectives

The objective of the program is to bring together an international group of experts in the areas of function theory and functional and geometric analysis to report on and discuss recent progress and open problems in the area of Whitney type problems and thus foster interaction and collaboration between researches in these fields.

Scientific Activity

  • August 27-31, 2012
    Workshop on Whitney type extension and trace problems

  • Distinguished Graduate Courses on Whitney Problems
    September 4-7, 2012
    Instructor: Charles Fefferman, Princeton University.
    Whitney Trace and Extension Problems for Spaces of Smooth Functions on Rn

  • Coxeter Lecture Series - Assaf Naor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University

  • Graduate Course on Absolute Lipschitz Retracts
    September 4-7, 2012
    Instructor: Urs Lang, ETH Zurich

  • A permanent weekly seminar at Fields will be run for the duration of the program, as well as a special weekly young researcher seminar.

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