Brandeis-Harvard-MIT-Northeastern

JOINT MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM


 
News from the battlefront of synthetic geometry

 

Cedric Villani

Institut Henri Poincare.
 

MIT

April 24


 

Talk at 4 p.m. (note unusual day and time) in E25-111

Tea 3:30-4 p.m in E17-401A


 
 

Abstract: Around the turn of the century, came the realization that the combination of optimization and entropy led to a synthetic theory of Ricci curvature. Let us examine to which extent the program has been successful so far.





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