Date/Time
Date(s) - 26/08/2016
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location
Indian Statistical Institute
Categories
It is a great pleasure to invite you to the public lecture by Prof. Cedric Villani at 4 PM on 26th August 2016, to be held in the Platinum Jubilee Auditorium of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
About the speaker: Prof. Villani is a renowned mathematician who received the Fields Medal in the year 2010. At present, he is the director of the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris and also a professor at the Université de Lyon. He has made significant contributions to diverse areas of mathematics and mathematical physics including the kinetic theory (Boltzmann and Vlasov equations and their variants), optimal transport and its applications, Riemannian geometry etc. He has interest and expertise in a wide range of fields e.g. partial differential equations, smooth and non-smooth `metric’ Riemannian geometry, fluid mechanics, statistical mechanics, probability theory, functional inequalities with geometric content, just to mention a few.