Variational Problems Postdoctoral Seminar
September 9 - December 3, 2014, The Fields Institute
      Description
Fall Semester Postdoctoral Seminar 
 Tuesdays 1:10 p.m. Fields Room 210
Organizing Committee
 Jun Kitagawa (University of Toronto / The Fields Institute)
 Ihsan Topaloglu (McMaster University)
Schedule
Past Talks
| 14:10 to 15:00 | 
           Integrability of pentagram maps and Lax representations 
          Fedor Soloviev           Location:Fields Institute, Room 210          | 
      
| 13:10 to 14:00 | 
           Local minimizers in Ginzburg-Landau theory 
          Andres Contreras, New Mexico State University           Location:Fields Institute, Room 210          | 
      
| 13:10 to 14:00 | 
           The Aleksandrov estimate and its variants in Monge-Ampère equations 
          Jun Kitagawa           Location:Fields Institute, Room 210          | 
      
| 13:10 to 14:00 | 
           A symmetric mountain pass theorem for strongly indefinite functionals 
          Cyril Joel Batkam           Location:Fields Institute, Room 210          | 
      
| 13:10 to 14:00 | 
           A stochastic homogenization approach to first-passage percolation 
          Arjun Krishnan, The Fields Institute           Location:Fields Institute, Room 210          | 
      
| 13:10 to 14:00 | 
           The quest for global duality for geometric mass-minimization problems 
          Mircea Petrache, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie           Location:Fields Institute, Stewart Library          | 
      
| 13:10 to 14:00 | 
           Sobolev spaces with respect to a measure and applications to optimal transport problems with Sobolev penalization 
          Jean Louet, Université Paris-Sud           Location:Fields Institute, Room 230          | 
      

