SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

June 18, 2013

THE FIELDS INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES


July-December 2014
Thematic Program on
Variational Problems in Physics, Economics and Geometry

Organizing Committee

Wilfrid Gangbo (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Young-Heon Kim (University of British Columbia)
Robert J McCann (University of Toronto)

Scientific Committee

Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
Yann Brenier (CNRS, Nice)
Pierre-Andre Chiappori (Columbia)

Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia)
Lawrence C Evans (UCBerkeley)
Felix Otto (MPI, Leipzig)
Neil S Trudinger (Australian National)


Preliminary Program activities

Conferences and Preconference Minischools:
The workshops include one afternoon of short contributed talks, including some by junior participants.

Optimization, Transportation and Equilibrium in Economics (15-19 September 2014, preceded by September 11-12 minischool)
Organized by Pierre-Andre Chiappori (Columbia), Alfred Galichon (Ecole Polytechnique), Robert McCann (Toronto), Xianwen Shi (Toronto).

Nonlinearity, Transport, Physics, and Patterns (6-10 October 2014, preceded by October 2-3 minischool)
Organized by Luigi Ambrosio (Pisa), Bob Jerrard (Toronto), Felix Otto (Leipzig), Mary Pugh (Toronto), Robert Seiringer (Montreal).

Calculus of Variations: Geometry, Inequalities, and Design (10-14 November 2014, preceded by Nov 6-7 minischool)
Organized by Almut Burchard (Toronto), Panagiota Daskalopoulos (New York), Young-Heon Kim (Vancouver), Ludovic Rifford (Nice), and Neil Trudinger (Canberra).

Weekly seminars

Graduate courses TBA

Coxeter and Distinguished Lecture Series

In addition the Fields Medal Symposium (17-20 November 2014) will be taking place during the semester.

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