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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.
Show All Collapse Sep 09, 2013
Monday09:15 AM - 09:30 AMWelcome
09:30 AM - 10:30 AMSpacetime Geometry: A Setting for General Relativity
Daniel Pollack (University of Washington)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMThe Einstein Field Equations: A PDE Perspective
Daniel Pollack (University of Washington)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMThe conformal method of constructing Cauchy data for the Einstein equations
David Maxwell (University of Alaska Fairbanks)03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
04:00 PM - 05:00 PMMSRI Evans Talk: On the topology of black holes and beyond.
Greg Galloway (University of Miami)Sep 10, 2013
Tuesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMIntroduction to decay of fields outside black holes.
Pieter Blue (University of Edinburgh)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMThe conformal method of constructing Cauchy data for the Einstein equations
David Maxwell (University of Alaska Fairbanks)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMThe cosmic censorship conjectures
Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton University)03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMConstructing localized solutions of the Einstein constraint equations
Richard Schoen (Stanford University)04:30 PM - 06:20 PMReception
Sep 11, 2013
Wednesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMFurther topics in decay of fields outside black holes.
Pieter Blue (University of Edinburgh)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMThe cosmic censorship conjectures
Mihalis Dafermos (Princeton University)Sep 12, 2013
Thursday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMQuasi-local mass in general relativity
Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia University)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMNull hypersurfaces in Lorentzian spacetimes
Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMDensity Theorems for the Einstein Constraint Equations
Lan-Hsuan Huang (University of Connecticut)03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMAn introduction to the Penrose inequality conjecture
Marc Mars (University of Salamanca)Sep 13, 2013
Friday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMQuasi-local mass in general relativity
Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia University)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMGravitational radiation - a geometric-analytic approach
Lydia Bieri (University of Michigan)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMCosmology
Hans Ringstrom (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
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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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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.
Show All Collapse Aug 26, 2013
Monday09:15 AM - 09:30 AMWelcome
09:30 AM - 10:30 AMSome non local versions of the Monge Ampere equation
Luis Caffarelli (University of Texas)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMOptimal transport: old and new
Robert McCann (University of Toronto)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMDetermining the regularity of a measure via the Wasserstein distance
Tatiana Toro (University of Washington)03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
04:00 PM - 05:00 PMMSRI/Evans Talk: Swarming by Nature and by Design
Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles)05:00 PM - 06:30 PMPizza Dinner
Aug 27, 2013
Tuesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMOptimal transport and lower Ricci curvature bounds
Nicola Gigli (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMPrescribed-divergence problems in optimal transportation
Filippo Santambrogio (Université Paris-Sud (Orsay))12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMOptimal transport: old and new
Robert McCann (University of Toronto)03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMRegularity in optimal transportation
Xu-Jia Wang (Australian National University)04:30 PM - 06:30 PMReception
Aug 28, 2013
Wednesday09:00 AM - 10:00 AMPrescribed-divergence problems in optimal transportation
Filippo Santambrogio (Université Paris-Sud (Orsay))10:00 AM - 10:30 AMTea
10:30 AM - 11:30 AMOptimal transport in non-commutative probability
Jan Maas (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)11:35 AM - 12:00 PMGradient 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 PMNumerical Computation of Soft Harmonic Maps
Adrian Butscher (Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik)Aug 29, 2013
Thursday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMOptimal transport and lower Ricci curvature bounds
Nicola Gigli (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMPartial regularity of optimal transport maps
Guido De Philippis (Hausdorff Center of Mathematics)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMOptimal transport: old and new
Robert McCann (University of Toronto)03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMOptimal transport and dynamics of expanding circle maps
Benoît Kloeckner (Université de Grenoble I (Joseph Fourier))Aug 30, 2013
Friday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMPrescribed-divergence problems in optimal transportation
Filippo Santambrogio (Université Paris-Sud (Orsay))10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMOptimal transport and lower Ricci curvature bounds
Nicola Gigli (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMMonotonicity Formulas for Bakry-Emery Ricci Curvature
Guofang Wei (University of California, Santa Barbara)03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMThe Schrödinger problem: a probabilistic analogue of optimal transport. Application to discrete metric graphs
Christian Leonard (Université de Paris X (Paris-Nanterre)) -
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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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.
Show All Collapse Jul 29, 2013
Monday09:15 AM - 09:30 AMWelcome
09:30 AM - 10:30 AMLecture
Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMLecture
Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMProblem Session
03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMComputer Lab
Jul 30, 2013
Tuesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMLecture
Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMLecture
Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMProblem Session
03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMComputer Lab
Jul 31, 2013
Wednesday09:00 AM - 10:00 AMLecture
Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)10:00 AM - 10:30 AMTea
10:30 AM - 11:30 AMLecture
Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)11:30 AM - 02:00 PMBBQ Lunch at Nearby Park
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMProblem Session
03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMComputer Lab
Aug 01, 2013
Thursday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMLecture
Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMLecture
Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMProblem Session
03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMComputer Lab
Aug 02, 2013
Friday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMLecture
Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMLecture
Laurent Demanet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMProblem Session
03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMComputer Lab
Aug 05, 2013
Monday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMLecture
William Symes (Rice University)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMLecture
William Symes (Rice University)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMProblem Session
03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMComputer Lab
Aug 06, 2013
Tuesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMLecture
William Symes (Rice University)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMLecture
William Symes (Rice University)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMProblem Session
03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMComputer Lab
Aug 07, 2013
Wednesday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMLecture
William Symes (Rice University)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMLecture
William Symes (Rice University)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMProblem Session
03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMComputer Lab
Aug 08, 2013
Thursday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMLecture
William Symes (Rice University)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMLecture
William Symes (Rice University)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMProblem Session
03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMComputer Lab
Aug 09, 2013
Friday09:30 AM - 10:30 AMLecture
William Symes (Rice University)10:30 AM - 11:00 AMTea
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMLecture
William Symes (Rice University)12:00 PM - 02:00 PMLunch
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMProblem Session
03:00 PM - 03:30 PMTea
03:30 PM - 04:30 PMComputer Lab
