Previous Conferences & Workshops

Feb
13
2009

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Classical Inequalities for the Boltzmann Collision Operator with Applications to the Inhomogeneous Cauchy Boltzmann Problem
4:00pm|S-101

We study the integrability properties of the gain part of the Boltzmann collision operator using radial symmetrization techniques from harmonic analysis to show Young's inequality for the case of hard potentials and the Hardy-Littlewood-Sobolev...

Feb
13
2009

Mathematical Physics Seminar

New Rigorous Results About the Classical Microcanonical Ensemble
Michael Kiessling
2:00pm|S-101

Rigorous results about the classical microcanonical ensemble have so far been based on the regularization of the microcanonical measure, with the exception of the ideal gas. In this talk I explain that the regularization is not needed for...

Feb
12
2009

Mini-Course in Geometric PDE

Curvature and Regularity of Optimal Transport
2:00pm|S-101

In 2005 Ma, Trudinger and Wang introduced a fourth-order differential condition which comes close to be necessary and sufficient for the smoothness of solutions to optimal transport problems with a given cost function. If the cost function is the...

Feb
10
2009

Special Analysis/Probability Seminar

Random Walk on a Surface Group
Steve Lalley
4:30pm|S-101

The large-time behavior of the return probabilities of a random walk is controlled by the behavior of the Green's function $G_r (x,y)$ at the radius $r=R$ of convergence. For nearest neighbor random walks on virtually free groups it is known that...

Feb
10
2009

Geometric PDE Seminar

$C^0$ Estimates for Conformally Invariant Equations on Locally Conformally Flat Manifolds with Umbilic Boundary
3:30pm|S-101

In recent years, fully nonlinear versions of the Yamabe problem have received much attention. In particular, for manifolds with boundary, $C^1$ and $C^2$a priori estimates have been proved for a large class of data. To get an existence result, it is...

Feb
10
2009

Geometric PDE Seminar

Asymptotic Curvature Decay of Bach-Flat Metrics
Jeff Streets
2:00pm|S-101

In pioneering work Tian/Viaclovsky initiated the study of the moduli space of Bach-flat metrics. They showed C^0-orbifold regularity and, equivalently, ALE order zero of noncompact finite-energy solutions. By use of Kato inequalities, the full...

Feb
09
2009

Members’ Seminar

Isoperimetric and Concentration Inequalities, and Their Applications
2:00pm|S-101

The classical isoperimetric inequality in Euclidean space asserts that among all sets of given Lebesgue measure; the Euclidean ball minimizes surface area. Using a suitable generalization of surface area, isoperimetric inequalities may be...