Seminar series
Date
Mon, 18 Oct 2004
15:45
15:45
Location
DH 3rd floor SR
Speaker
Dr Franck Barthe
Organisation
Institut de Mathematiques Laboratoire de Statistique et Probabilites, Toulouse, France
We shall review recent progress in the understanding of
isoperimetric inequalities for product probability measures (a very tight
description of the concentration of measure phenomeonon). Several extensions
of the classical result for the Gaussian measure were recently derived by
functional analytic methods.