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seminar "Evolution equations in probability spaces"

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Presently no sessions scheduled.

topic

Recently, important progress has been made in the study of gradient flows in spaces of probability measures. The theory includes a treatment of evolution equations in metric spaces and the continuity/transport equation in Wasserstein spaces. It is the aim of the seminar to study parts of [1].

[1] Luigi Ambrosio, Nicola Gigli, and Giuseppe Savare, Gradient Flows in Metric Spaces and in the Space of Probability Measures, Lectures in Mathematics, ETH Zurich, Birkhauser, 2005.

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Please feel free to contact me (Onno van Gaans), Phone: 071 5277122, Email: my email address

course notes

The course notes of the first sessions of the seminar held in the Spring 2006 semester are available: (course notes of the sessions through April 5, version of 12 April 2006) ps file or pdf file