Seminar series
Date
Mon, 16 Nov 2009
Time
17:00 -
18:00
Location
Gibson 1st Floor SR
Speaker
Mark Peletier
Organisation
Technical University Eindhoven
The talk starts with the observation that many well-known systems of diffusive type
can be written as Wasserstein gradient flows. The aim of the talk is
to understand _why_ this is the case. We give an answer that uses a
connection between diffusive PDE systems and systems of Brownian
particles, and we show how the Wasserstein metric arises in this
context. This is joint work with Johannes Zimmer, Nicolas Dirr, and Stefan Adams.