What is Weak KAM Theory?

Series
Job Candidate Talk
Time
Tuesday, March 3, 2015 - 11:05am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Albert Fathi – ENS Lyon – albert.fathi@ens-lyon.fr
Organizer
Andrzej Swiech
The goal of this lecture is to explain and motivate the connection between Aubry-Mather theory (Dynamical Systems), and viscosity solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equations (PDE). The connection is the content of weak KAM Theory. The talk should be accessible to the ''generic" mathematician. No a priori knowledge of any of the two subjects is assumed.