Home page of MAT 477Y Seminar in Mathematics: Variational Problems in Physics, Economics, and Geometry

Professor Robert McCann

FUTURE MEETINGS:
16h10 - 18h00 Friday December 14 Room BA 6183
16h10 - 18h00 Thursdays Room BA 6183 starting Jan 7, 2007
OFFICE HOURS:
15h10 - 16h00 Thursdays BA 6124

Course information
Spring syllabus

PRIMARY SOURCES
Dec 14: Intro to stat mech
Jan 10: GUEST LECTURER
Jan 17: Griffiths (by Jiayong Li)
Jan 24: GUEST LECTURER and continuation of Griffiths' paper
Jan 31: Kramers and Wannier (by Dimitrios Vlitas)
Feb 7: Peierls (and Griffiths) (by David Reiss)
Feb 14: Potts (by Nick Miladinovic)
Feb 21: SPRING BREAK
Feb 28: Lieb (by Nem Kosovalic)
* Feb 29 * 14h10-16h00 in * BA 3000 * Dyson (by Zhiqiang Li)
Mar 6: Continuation of Lieb and Dyson's papers
Mar 13: Kac and Ward (by Oliver Cheng)
Mar 20: Kasteleyn (by Yegor Verkhorobin)
Mar 27: Hurst and Green (by Mu Cai)
Apr 3: CLASS RESCHEDULED
Apr 10: in * BA 2185 * Etherington (by Alexander Kuznetsov)
Fall syllabus

PRIMARY SOURCES
Sept 27: Kantorovich and Koopmans (by Yegor Verkhorobin)
Oct 4: Rockafellar (by Dimitrios Vlitas)
Oct 11: Caffarelli (by Nemanja Kosovalic)
Oct 18: Aleksandrov (by Alexander Kuznetsov)
Oct 25: Brenier (by Young-Heon Kim)
Nov 1: McCann (by David Reiss)
Nov 8: Tanaka (by Nick Miladinovic)
Nov 15: Cordero-Erausquin Nazaret Villani (by Oliver Cheng)
Nov 22: Aleksandrov (by Jiayong Li)
Nov 29: Alesker Dar Milman (by Zhiqiang Li)
Dec 6: Otto (by Mu Cai)

SUPPLEMENTARY SOURCES
Villani "Topics in Optimal Transportation" AMS (2003) on reserve in math library
Villani "Optimal transport: old and new"
Evans
Week 2: Gangbo McCann (introduction and summary of results only) | McCann (introduction and Appendix A only) | Hotelling | Lorentz
Week 4: Adams "Sobolev Spaces"
Oct 11: Gangbo & McCann | McCann
Oct 25: Brenier
Week 10: McCann
Week 12: Villani's 2003 book 6.4 (pages 200-203)