In these lectures we will describe the relationship between
optimal transportation and nonlinear elliptic PDE of Monge-Ampere
type, focusing on recent advances in characterizing costs and
domains for which the Monge...
Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, will address the
present and future of international human rights as part of the
Institute’s Lectures on Public Policy. On the eve of the...
The "P vs. NP" problem is a central outstanding problem of
computer science and mathematics. In this talk, Professor Wigderson
attempts to describe its technical, scientific, and philosophical
content, its status, and the implications of its two...
After recalling the definition of Q-curvature and some
applications, we will address the question of prescribing it
through a conformal deformation of the metric. We will address some
compactness issues, treated via...
Scott
Tremaine, Richard Black Professor, School of Natural
Sciences
One of the remarkable successes of twentieth century astronomy was
the demonstration that the laws of physics derived in the
laboratory can successfully describe a wide range of...
