Universität Bonn

Workshop: "Gradient flows and entropy methods"


February 17-20, 2015

HIM Lecture Hall,  Poppelsdorfer Allee 45

Organizers: 

Matthias Erbar, André Schlichting

Topics: Gradient flows and entropy methods, their relation to functional inequalities and curvature

Lecture series by Giuseppe Savaré (Università di Pavia)

Speakers: 

  • Virginie Ehrlacher (CERMICS Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées)
  • Julian Fischer (MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences)
  • Stefano Lisini (Università di Pavia)
  • Daniel Matthes (TU München)
  • Christian Seis (Universität Bonn)
  • Yan Shu (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)
  • Dejan Slepčev (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Martin Slowik (TU Berlin)
  • Julian Tugaut (CNRS)

Schedule

Tuesday, February 17

10:30 - 11:00 Welcome coffee
11:00 - 12:30 Giuseppe Savaré: The Weighted Energy-Dissipation (WED) principle for gradient flows (part 1)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Stefano Lisini: A gradient flow approach to fractional porous medium equations
15:00 - 16:00 Christian Seis: The porous medium equation close to self-similarity
16:00 - 16:30 Tea and cake

Wednesday, February 18

9:30 - 10:30 Dejan Slepčev: Nonlocal interaction equations: phenomena and structures
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Giuseppe Savaré: The Weighted Energy-Dissipation (WED) principle for gradient flows (part 2)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Julian Tugaut: Convergence of a McKean-Vlasov diffusion
15:00 - 16:00 Yan Shu: Hamilton Jacobi equations on graphs and applications
16:00 - 16:30 Tea and cake

Thursday, February 19

9:30 - 10:30 Daniel Matthes: Convex Lyapunov functionals for non-convex gradient flows: two examples
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Giuseppe Savaré: The Weighted Energy-Dissipation (WED) principle for gradient flows (part 3)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 - 15:00 Julian Fischer: Optimal estimates on free boundary propagation for the thin-film equation
15:00 - 16:00 Martin Slowik: Metastability in stochastic dynamics: Poincaré and logarithmic Sobolev inequality via two-scale decomposition
16:00 - 16:30 Tea and cake
18:30 Dinner at Bönnsch

Friday, February 20

9:30 - 10:30 Giuseppe Savaré: The Weighted Energy-Dissipation (WED) principle for gradient flows (part 4)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Virginie Ehrlacher: tba
around 12:00 End of workshop

Participants

Person
Affiliation
Period of stay
Athmane Bakhta CERMICS - ENPC
Lashi Bandara Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg
Mathias Beiglböck University of Vienna
Fabio Cavalletti University of Pavia
Qintao Deng Central China Normal University
Virginie Ehrlacher CERMICS Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées
Matthias Erbar Universität Bonn
Max Fathi Université Paris 6
Julian Fischer Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Asma Hassannezhad Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics
Shouhei Honda Kyushu University
Martin Huesmann Universität Bonn
Emanuel Indrei Carnegie Mellon University
Heikki Jylhä University of Jyväskylä
Christian Ketterer Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Yu Kitabeppu Kyoto University
Eva Kopfer Universität Bonn
Sajjad Lakzian Universität Bonn
Vaios Laschos Brown University
Zhen Liu Fudan University
Daniel Matthes TU München
Marco Morandotti SISSA
Michael Munn University of Missouri
Xuhui Peng Hunan Normal University
Angelo Profeta Universität Bonn
Rodolfo Rios-Zertuche MPIM Bonn
Giuseppe Savaré University of Pavia
André Schlichting Universität Bonn
Christian Seis Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Yan Shu Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
Dejan Slepcev Carnegie Mellon University
Martin Slowik Technische Universität Berlin
Luca Tamanini Université Paris Ouest
Julian Tugaut Université Jean Monnet
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