dear colleagues, next thursday, october 6, 2005, the joint seminar of peter markowich and walter schachermayer starts with a first meeting at 16.30 in seminarraum 107, 6th floor, green tower. during this first meeting we shall fix the future talks, the dates and the places. the topic of the seminar is cedric villani's book on optimal transportation (where copies will be provided after the first meeting): this is field between pde-theory and probability theory with highly challenging and interesting questions. best regards. josef & walter Josef Teichmann Institute of mathematical methods in Economics Department of Financial and Actuarial Mathematics University of Technology Vienna Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10 A-1040 Vienna Austria http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/~jteichma