Speaker:
Stefan Hollands

Coordinator:
Jörg Lehnert

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04103 Leipzig
Germany

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+49(0)341-9959-641
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 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
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