BGSMath Presentation – Spring 2013

Dates

17 June 2013

Speaker

Cedric Villani

Location

IEC Sala Prat de la Riba

The first BGSMath Colloquium was a joint event with the Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques.
We had the pleasure of listening to a talk by CedricVillani, form the IHP, Paris:

Of triangles, gases, prices and men

Dates

june 17, 2013

Speaker

Cedric Villani

Location

IEC Sala Prat de la Riba

The first BGSmath colloquium was a joint event with the Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques. We had the pleasure of listening to a talk by CedricVillani, form the IHP, Paris.

Schedule

11:15h
Opening

11:30h
Federic Udina, Director de l’IDESCAT
L’idescat i els camins de l’estadística pública

12:30h
Núria Fagella (UB) i Enric Ventura (UPC)
Presentació de la nova revista reports@scm

12:45h
Carles Simó (UB, Premi Nacional de Recerca 2012)
De l’ordre al caos: el paper de les varietats invariants

14:00h
Dinar al pati de l’IEC

15:00h
Ferran Urtado (UPC)
Una generació de la convexitat basada en rectes secants

16:00h
Lluís Alsedà (UAB), Joaquim Ortega (UB) i Oriol Serra (UPC)
Presentació de la BGSMath

17:00h
Cédric Villani (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 / Institut Henri Poincaré / Fields Medal 2010)
Of triangles, gases, prices and men

18:00h
Comiat als Jardins M. Rodoreda de l’IEC

Cédric Villani – Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 i Institut Henri Poincaré, Medalla fields 2010

Villani has worked on the theory of partial differential equations involved in statistical mechanics, specifically the Boltzmann equation, where, with Laurent Desvillettes, he was the first to prove how quickly convergence occurs for initial values not near equilibrium.[4] He has written with Giuseppe Toscani on this subject. With Clément Mouhot, he has worked on nonlinear Landau damping.[6] He has worked on the theory of optimal transport and its applications to differential geometry, and with John Lott has defined a notion of bounded Ricci curvature for general measured length spaces.[7]

Villani received the Fields Medal for his work on Landau damping and the Boltzmann equation.[4] He described the development of his theorem in his autobiographical book Théorème vivant (2012), published in English translation as Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure (2015). He gave a TED talk at the 2016 conference in Vancouver.[8]