- Series
- School of Mathematics Colloquium
- Time
- Thursday, September 2, 2010 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- 249 Skiles
- Speaker
- Vladimir Oliker – Emory University – oliker@mathcs.emory.edu – http://www.mathcs.emory.edu/~oliker/
- Organizer
- Mohammad Ghomi
The purpose of this talk is to describe a variational approach to the problemof A.D. Aleksandrov concerning existence and uniqueness of a closed convexhypersurface in Euclidean space Rn+1, n≥2 with prescribed integral Gauss curvature. It is shown that this problem in variational formulation is closely connected with theproblem of optimal transport on Sn with a geometrically motivated cost function.