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Introductory Workshop on Optimal Transport: Geometry and Dynamics August 26, 2013 - August 30, 2013
Registration Deadline: August 26, 2013 3 months from now
To apply for Funding you must register by: May 15, 2013 8 days ago
Parent Program: Optimal Transport: Geometry and Dynamics
Location: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley CA
Organizers Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore), Craig Evans (University of California, Berkeley), LEAD Alessio Figalli (University of Texas)
Speaker(s) Luis Caffarelli (University of Texas), Guido De Philippis (Hausdorff Center of Mathematics), Nicola Gigli (Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis), Maria Gualdani (George Washington University), Vadim Kaloshin (University of Maryland), Benoît Kloeckner (Université de Grenoble I (Joseph Fourier)), Christian Leonard (Université de Paris X (Paris-Nanterre)), Jan Maas (Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, University of Bonn), Filippo Santambrogio (Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie)-Université de Paris XI (Paris-Sud)), Tatiana Toro (University of Washington), Xu-Jia Wang (Australian National University), Guofang Wei (University of California)
Description

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.

Accommodation:

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-238-7268. When making reservations, guests must request the MSRI preferred rate.  If you are making your reservations on line, please go to this link and enter the promo/corporate code MSRI123.  Our preferred rate is $129 per night for a Deluxe Queen/King, based on availability.

MSRI has a preferred rate of $149 - $189 plus tax at the Hotel Shattuck Plaza, depending on room availability. There is no cut-off date for reservations. Guests can either call the hotel's main line at 510-845-7300 and ask for the MSRI- Mathematical Science Research Inst. discount; or go to www.hotelshattuckplaza.com and enter dates of stay at top of screen and click Book Now.  Once on the reservation page, click "Preferred/Corporate Rate Accounts" and input the code: msri.


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Students, recent Ph.D.'s, women, and members of underrepresented minorities are particularly encouraged to apply. Funding awards are typically made 6 weeks before the workshop begins. Requests received after the funding deadline are considered only if additional funds become available.

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A block of rooms has been reserved at the Rose Garden Inn. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-992-9005 OR directly on their website. Click on Corporate at the bottom of the screen and when prompted enter code MATH (this code is not case sensitive). By using this code a new calendar will appear and will show MSRI rate on all room types available.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Hotel Durant. Reservations may be made by calling 1-800-238-7268. When making reservations, guests must request the MSRI preferred rate. If you are making your reservations on line, please go to this link and enter the promo/corporate code MSRI123. Our preferred rate is $129 per night for a Deluxe Queen/King, based on availability.

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