From Optimal Transport to Fully Nonlinear PDE to Regularity to Nonsmooth Geometry

Series
Stelson Lecture Series
Time
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Cedric Villani – Institut Henri Poincare (CNRS/UPMC)
Organizer
Michael Loss

Please Note: Mathematics Audience Lecture

This talk explains how the solution to a regularity/geometry problem arising from a question of optimization has led to unexpected new results in the well-established field of the analysis of cut loci.