Day by day programme

Monday, July 1st
 
 

08:30-09:30     Reception of participants
 

09:30-11:00     Opening session
 

11:00-11:30    Coffee break
 

11:30-12:20    John Ball (Mathematical Institute, Oxford)
                             The Euler-Lagrange equation and minimizers in elastostatics
 

14:30-15:20    Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
                              Existence of optimal maps in the Monge-Kantorovich transport problem
 

15:30-16:20  Mathias Fink (ESPCI, Paris)
                           Time-reversed acoustics
 

16:30-17:00  Coffee break
 

17:00-17:50  Mark Vishik (Institute for Information Transmission  Problems, Moscow)
                            Trajectory and global attractors for evolutionary equations
 
 
 
 
 
 

Tuesday, July 2nd
 
 

09:00-09:50    Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (Collège de France, Paris)
                             Homoclinic bifurcations of surface diffeomorphisms
 

10:00-10:50  Marie-Paule Cani (INPG, Grenoble)
                            Efficient animation of natural scenes for computer graphics
 

11:00-11:30  Coffee break
 

11:30-12:20  Thomas Hou (Caltech, Pasadena)
                            Multiscale modeling and computation of incompressible flows
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

14:30-15:20  Jean-Michel Coron (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay)
                           Return method and flow control
 

15:30-16:20  Olivier Faugeras (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis)
                            On the well-posedness of several problems in computer vision
 

16:30-17:00  Coffee break
 

17:00-17:50  George Papanicolaou (Stanford University)
                           Time-reversal, imaging and communications in random media
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Wednesday, July 3rd
 
 

09:00-09:50    Luis Caffarelli (University of Texas, Austin)
                             Nonlinear equations in random media
 

10:00-10:50  Michael Ghil (UCLA, Los Angeles)
                            Bifurcations and pattern formation in the atmosphere and oceans
 

11:00-11:30  Coffee break
 

11:30-12:20  Rolf Rannacher (Universität Heidelberg)
                            Duality techniques in error control and optimization for PDEs
 
 
 

14:30-15:20  François Baccelli (INRIA, Rocquencourt  &  Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
                            A probabilistic model of congestion control in the Internet
 

15:30-16:20  Eitan Tadmor (UCLA, Los Angeles & University of  Maryland, College Park)
                            Critical thresholds in restricted Euler dynamics
 

16:30-17:00  Coffee break
 

17:00-17:50  Alexandre Chorin (University of California, Berkeley)
                            Conditional expectations and the renormalization group
 

18:00-18:50  Srinivasa Varadhan (New York University)
                            Large deviations, variational formulas and nonlinear equations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Thursday, July 4th
 
 

09:00-09:50  Panagiotis Souganidis (University of Texas, Austin)
                            Fully nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations:
                            theory and applications
 

10:00-10:50  Cédric Villani (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon)
                           H theorem and convergence to equilibrium
                           for solutions of the Boltzmann equation
 

11:00-11:30  Coffee break
 

11:30-12:20  Enrique Zuazua (Universidad Complutense, Madrid)
                            Controllability of some partial differential equations
 
 
 

14:30-15:20  Benoît Perthame (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)
                            Mathematical questions along the flow of a river
 

15:30-16:20  Anthony Patera (MIT, Cambridge Ma)
                           Reduced-basis output bounds: reliable real-time solution
                           of parametrized partial differential equations
 

16:30-17:00  Coffee break
 

17:00-17:50  Lawrence Evans (University of California, Berkeley)
                            PDE methods for weak KAM theory
 
 
 
 
 
 

Friday, July 5th
 
 

09:00-09:50  Andrew Majda (New York University)
                            From the ocean to Jupiter to the truncated Burgers-Hopf equation:
                            novel applications and mathematical issues for statistical mechanics
 

10:00-10:50  Franco Brezzi (Istituto di Analisi Numerica del CNR, Pavia)
                           Mathematical aspects of the chimera methods
 

11:00-11:30  Coffee break
 
 

11:30-12:20  Louis Nirenberg (New York University)
                            On the distance function to the boundary, cut locus
                            and some Hamilton-Jacobi equations