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Semester Workshops

08-01-2013 - 12-31-2013

  1. Workshop Introductory Workshop: Mathematical Relativity

    LEAD Justin Corvino (Lafayette College), Greg Galloway (University of Miami), Hans Ringstrom (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))

    Mathematical relativity is a very widely ranging area of mathematical study, spanning differential geometry, elliptic and hyperbolic PDE, and dynamical systems. We introduce in this workshop some of the leading areas of current interest associated with problems in cosmology, the theory of black holes, and the geometry and physics of the Cauchy problem (initial data constraints and evolution) for the Einstein equations.

    The introductory workshop serves as an overview to the overlying programmatic theme. It aims to familiarize graduate students, postdocs, and non-experts to major and new topics of the current program. Though the audience is expected to have a general mathematical background, knowledge of technical terminology and recent findings is not assumed.

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    Sep 09, 2013
    Monday
    09:15 AM - 09:30 AM
      Welcome
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Spacetime Geometry: A Setting for General Relativity
    Daniel Pollack (University of Washington)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      The Einstein Field Equations: A PDE Perspective
    Daniel Pollack (University of Washington)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      The conformal method of constructing Cauchy data for the Einstein equations
    David Maxwell (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
      MSRI Evans Talk: On the topology of black holes and beyond.
    Greg Galloway (University of Miami)
    Sep 10, 2013
    Tuesday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Introduction to decay of fields outside black holes.
    Pieter Blue (University of Edinburgh)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      The conformal method of constructing Cauchy data for the Einstein equations
    David Maxwell (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      The cosmic censorship conjectures
    Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton University)
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Constructing localized solutions of the Einstein constraint equations
    Richard Schoen (Stanford University)
    04:30 PM - 06:20 PM
      Reception
    Sep 11, 2013
    Wednesday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Further topics in decay of fields outside black holes.
    Pieter Blue (University of Edinburgh)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      The cosmic censorship conjectures
    Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton University)
    Sep 12, 2013
    Thursday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Quasi-local mass in general relativity
    Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia University)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Null hypersurfaces in Lorentzian spacetimes
    Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Density Theorems for the Einstein Constraint Equations
    Lan-Hsuan Huang (University of Connecticut)
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      An introduction to the Penrose inequality conjecture
    Marc Mars (University of Salamanca)
    Sep 13, 2013
    Friday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Quasi-local mass in general relativity
    Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia University)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Gravitational radiation - a geometric-analytic approach
    Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Cosmology
    Hans Ringstrom (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
  2. Workshop Connections for Women: Mathematical General Relativity

    Beverly Berger (None), LEAD Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan), Iva Stavrov (Lewis and Clark College)

    Ever since the epic work of Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat on the well-posedness of Einstein's equations initiated the mathematical study of general relativity, women have played an important role in many areas of mathematical relativity. In this workshop, some of the leading women researchers in mathematical relativity present their work.

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    Sep 03, 2013
    Tuesday
    Sep 04, 2013
    Wednesday
  3. Workshop Introductory Workshop on Optimal Transport: Geometry and Dynamics

    Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore), Lawrence Evans (University of California, Berkeley), LEAD Alessio Figalli (University of Texas)

    The workshop is intended to give an overview of the research landscape surrounding optimal transportation, including its connections to geometry, design applications, and fully nonlinear partial differential equations.

    As such, it will feature some survey lectures or minicourses by distinguished visitors and/or a few of the organizers of the theme semester, amounting to a kind of summer school. These will be complemented by a sampling of research lectures and short presentations from a spectrum of invited guests and other participants, including some who attended the previous week's {\em Connections for Women} workshop.

    The introductory workshop aims to familiarize graduate students, postdocs, and non-experts to major and new topics of the current program. Though the audience is expected to have a general mathematical background, knowledge of technical terminology and recent findings is not assumed.

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    Aug 26, 2013
    Monday
    09:15 AM - 09:30 AM
      Welcome
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Some non local versions of the Monge Ampere equation
    Luis Caffarelli (University of Texas)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Optimal transport: old and new
    Robert McCann (University of Toronto)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Determining the regularity of a measure via the Wasserstein distance
    Tatiana Toro (University of Washington)
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    04:00 PM - 05:00 PM
      MSRI/Evans Talk: Swarming by Nature and by Design
    Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles)
    05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
      Pizza Dinner
    Aug 27, 2013
    Tuesday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Optimal transport and lower Ricci curvature bounds
    Nicola Gigli (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Prescribed-divergence problems in optimal transportation
    Filippo Santambrogio (Université Paris-Sud (Orsay))
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Optimal transport: old and new
    Robert McCann (University of Toronto)
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Regularity in optimal transportation
    Xu-Jia Wang (Australian National University)
    04:30 PM - 06:30 PM
      Reception
    Aug 28, 2013
    Wednesday
    09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
      Prescribed-divergence problems in optimal transportation
    Filippo Santambrogio (Université Paris-Sud (Orsay))
    10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
      Tea
    10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
      Optimal transport in non-commutative probability
    Jan Maas (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
    11:35 AM - 12:00 PM
      Gradient Flow in the 2-Wasserstein Metric: a Crandall and Liggett type proof of the exponential formula
    Katy Craig (Rutgers University)
    12:05 PM - 12:30 PM
      Numerical Computation of Soft Harmonic Maps
    Adrian Butscher (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)
    Aug 29, 2013
    Thursday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Optimal transport and lower Ricci curvature bounds
    Nicola Gigli (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Partial regularity of optimal transport maps
    Guido De Philippis (Hausdorff Center of Mathematics)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Optimal transport: old and new
    Robert McCann (University of Toronto)
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Optimal transport and dynamics of expanding circle maps
    Benoît Kloeckner (Université de Grenoble I (Joseph Fourier))
    Aug 30, 2013
    Friday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Prescribed-divergence problems in optimal transportation
    Filippo Santambrogio (Université Paris-Sud (Orsay))
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Optimal transport and lower Ricci curvature bounds
    Nicola Gigli (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Monotonicity Formulas for Bakry-Emery Ricci Curvature
    Guofang Wei (University of California, Santa Barbara)
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      The Schrödinger problem: a probabilistic analogue of optimal transport. Application to discrete metric graphs
    Christian Leonard (Université de Paris X (Paris-Nanterre))
  4. Workshop Connections for Women on Optimal Transport: Geometry and Dynamics

    Sun-Yung Alice Chang (Princeton University), Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia University), Robert McCann (University of Toronto), Maria Westdickenberg (RWTH Aachen)

    This two-day event aims to connect women graduate students and beginning researchers with more established female researchers who use optimal transportation in their work and can serve as professional contacts and potential role-models. As such, it will showcase a selection of lectures featuring female scientists, both established leaders and emerging researchers.

    These lectures will be interspersed with networking and social events such as lunch or tea-time discussions led by successful researchers about (a) the particular opportunities and challenges facing women in science---including practical topics such as work-life balance and choosing a mentor, and (b) promising new directions in optimal transportation and related topics. Junior participants will be paired with more senior researchers in mentoring groups, and all participants will be encouraged to stay for the Introductory Workshop the following week, where they will have the opportunity to propose a short research communication.

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    Aug 22, 2013
    Thursday
    Aug 23, 2013
    Friday
  5. Summer Graduate School Introduction to the Mathematics of Seismic Imaging

    LEAD Gunther Uhlmann (University of Washington)

    In this two week program we will develop some of the mathematical foundations of seismic imaging that is a basic tool used in ``Imaging the Earth Interior". This is one of the components of the Mathematics of Planet Earth year in 2013.

    The goal in seismic imaging is to determine the inner structure of the Earth from the crust to the inner core by using information provided by earthquakes in the case of the deep interior or by measuring the reflection of waves produced by acoustic or elastic sources on the surface of the Earth. The mathematics of seismic imaging involves solving inverse problems for the wave equation. No previous experience on inverse problems will be assumed.

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    Jul 29, 2013
    Monday
    09:15 AM - 09:30 AM
      Welcome
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Lecture
    Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Lecture
    Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Problem Session
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Computer Lab
    Jul 30, 2013
    Tuesday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Lecture
    Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Lecture
    Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Problem Session
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Computer Lab
    Jul 31, 2013
    Wednesday
    09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
      Lecture
    Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
      Tea
    10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
      Lecture
    Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    11:30 AM - 02:00 PM
      BBQ Lunch at Nearby Park
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Problem Session
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Computer Lab
    Aug 01, 2013
    Thursday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Lecture
    Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Lecture
    Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Problem Session
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Computer Lab
    Aug 02, 2013
    Friday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Lecture
    Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Lecture
    Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Problem Session
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Computer Lab
    Aug 05, 2013
    Monday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Lecture
    William Symes (Rice University)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Lecture
    William Symes (Rice University)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Problem Session
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Computer Lab
    Aug 06, 2013
    Tuesday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Lecture
    William Symes (Rice University)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Lecture
    William Symes (Rice University)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Problem Session
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Computer Lab
    Aug 07, 2013
    Wednesday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Lecture
    William Symes (Rice University)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Lecture
    William Symes (Rice University)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Problem Session
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Computer Lab
    Aug 08, 2013
    Thursday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Lecture
    William Symes (Rice University)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Lecture
    William Symes (Rice University)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Problem Session
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Computer Lab
    Aug 09, 2013
    Friday
    09:30 AM - 10:30 AM
      Lecture
    William Symes (Rice University)
    10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
      Tea
    11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      Lecture
    William Symes (Rice University)
    12:00 PM - 02:00 PM
      Lunch
    02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
      Problem Session
    03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
      Tea
    03:30 PM - 04:30 PM
      Computer Lab