Speaker:
Stefan Hollands
Coordinator:
Jörg Lehnert
Address:
Inselstraße 22
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Contact:
+49(0)341-9959-641
+49(0)341-9959-658
IMPRS
Lectures in the Summer Semester 2011
IMPRS Ringvorlesung "Calculus of Variations and Geometric Analysis"
Date and location: Tuesdays 13:30-15:00 in room G10 (MPI MIS), no lecture on 26 April (because of the IMPRS Spring School)
- Introduction to the Calculus of Variations
- Lecturer: Prof. F. Otto
- Date: 5 April
- The classical approach
- Lecturer: Prof. J. Jost
- Date: 12 April
- Variational problems for minimal surfaces and other problems involving the mean curvature, like capillary interfaces
- Lecturer: Prof. E. Miersemann
- Date: 19 April, 3 May
- Wasserstein metrics
- Lecturer: Prof. F. Otto
- Date: 10 May
- Convexity conditions in the calculus of variations, geometric variational problems like harmonic maps
- Lecturer: Prof. J. Jost
- Date: 17, 24 May
- Geometric variational problems, closed geodesics, Morse theory
- Lecturer: Prof. B. Rademacher
- Date: 31 May, 7 June
- Gradient flows
- Lecturer: Prof. F. Otto
- Date: 14 June
- Floer theory
- Lecturer: Prof. M. Schwarz
- Date: 21 June
- Geometric measure theory, minimal submanifolds
- Lecturer: Prof. S. Luckhaus
- Date: 28 June, 5 , 12 July