Title: Optiomal transport and isoperimetric inequalities
Speaker: Alessio Figalli
Speaker Info: University of Texas, Austin
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Abstract:
It is by now well-known that several important functional and geometric inequalities (such as isoperimetric or Brunn-Minkowski inequalities) can be proved/improved using optimal transportation techniques. In this talk I'll review some of these results.Date: Thursday, October 13, 2011