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Mo, 14.05.2012, 17:00, seminar room D 1.07 1040 Wien, Nordbergstraße 15, University of Vienna, UZA 4, 1st floor
Jiří Černý (University of Vienna) http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~cerny/ "Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities" (Seminar on Probability Theory)
For further details see http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~finance_hp/seminarSS12_prob.html
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We, 16.05.2012, 16:15-17:00, Olga Taussky-Todd Raum (C 2.09) 1040 Wien, Nordbergstraße 15, University of Vienna, UZA 4, 2nd floor
Ivar Ekeland (Université Paris-Dauphine) http://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~ekeland/ "A hard inverse function theorem" (Mathematisches Kolloquium)
Abstract: Classically, inverse function theorems are in finite-dimensional spaces, or in Banach spaces. It is well known that this framework is insufficient in many important cases, for instance when one deals with PDEs instead of ODEs. In such cases, one needs an inverse function theorem in C^/infty, which is a Fréchet space. Such theorems are called "hard" inverse function theorems; the first one is due to John Nash, and the method was clarified and extended by Jurgen Moser. There have been many variants since then, but all rely on the Newton approximation scheme, where the quadratic convergence overcomes the loss of derivatives. In this talk, I will review the general framework and describe a new result due to Éric Séré, Jacques Fejoz and myself, which does not use the Newton method.
15:45 coffee & cake, Common Room (C 2.06)
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On September 17-19-th, WPI Vienna will host the second International conference on Energy and Commodities,
The registration is free but mandatory, up to 2 weeks prior to the event.
Confirmed speakers, so far, include: Rene' Aid, Electricite' de France Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Aarhus University Matt Davidson, Kyloe Energy Emanuel Gobet, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris Ruediger Kiesel, Lehrstuhl, Duisburg Delphine Lautier, Paris-Dauphine Brenda-Lopez Cabrera, Humboldt University, Berlin Peter Tankov, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris Xavier Warin, Electricite de France, Paris
The organizers are: Rene Aid, Fred Benth, Valery Kholodnyi, Peter Laurence, Almut Veraart
The conference is co-funded by WPI, Electricite de France and Verbund
Registration, via email to: laurenceWPI@gmail.com
Updates will be posted at http://www.math.nyu.edu/~laurence/Wpi/vienna-Energy-bis.htm (--> Conference II)
The organizers invite the submission of CONTRIBUTED TALKS.
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