Seminar series
Date
Mon, 14 Jan 2008
13:15
13:15
Location
Oxford-Man Institute
Speaker
Prof. Cedric Villani
Organisation
ENS Lyon
Born in France around 1780, the optimal transport problem has known a scientific explosion in the past two decades, in relation with dynamical systems and partial differential equations. Recently it has found unexpected applications in Riemannian geometry, in particular the encoding of Ricci curvature bounds