Lectures

Here below will be available some files for my lectures:

Impress is the presentation software included in OpenOffice. For those who don't know, it is just as PowerPoint, except that it is better (at least for my use) and does not cost anything. I encourage you to install OpenOffice if you are not a user yet! With OpenOffice you can read a PowerPoint presentation, but the converse is not really true...

Unfortunately, there are small variations from one implementation of OpenOffice to another, so in particular you may experience some small variations when changing system (I have worked under Linux and MacIntosh, you might have a few surprises depending on your system... but on the whole it should be OK).

11 October 2005 Le billard moléculaire de Ludwig Boltzmann (Cycle de Soirées Scientifiques de Villeurbanne) The lecture was with the MacIntosh file. There are minor differences in certain formulas...

If you cannot open it from this Web page, just Save the file target in some directory, and make sure it is named Boltzmann-pc.sxi or Boltzmann-mac.sxi

26 January 2005 Mouvement brownien (Séance publique de l'Académie des Sciences à Lyon) Linux version
11 October 2006 Boltzmann's entropy in today's mathematics (Boltzmann Memorial in Munich) PDF file

This lecture is for an audience of mathematicians and physicists. A longer version appeared in the Proceedings of the conference.

16 March 2007 Transport (Rencontres du Non Linéaire, Paris) PDF file (Lecture in French, mainly intended for an audience of physicists)
3 April 2007 Transport optimal (Colloquium de l'École Polytechnique, Palaiseau) PDF file (Lecture in French, for broad audience of mathematicians)
16 October 2007 Hypocoercivity: Variations on a theme (Boltzmann Workshop in IHP) PDF file (technical talk for specialists)
24 October 2007 Entropy and H Theorem: Highlights of the mathematical legacy of Ludwig Boltzmann (Colloquium of the Scuola Normale di Pisa) PDF file

With respect to the Munich lecture on Boltzmann, this one is lighter and intended for a broader audience of scientists (not just mathematicians and physicists)

29 November 2007 Transport optimal et courbure (Monge rencontre Riemann) (Lecture in French at IHP, in a thematic day organized by the SMF) PDF file

(same style as the Colloquium at École Polytechnique, but lighter)

14 January 2008 Optimal transport and curvature (Monge meets Riemann) (Seminar at Oxford) PDF file

(English version of the preceding talk, with a few more hints of the proofs)

11 May 2008 Hypocoercivity and hypoellipticity: Variations on a theme (Seminar at Brown for a conference in the honor of Walter Strauss) PDF file

(Intermediate between the talks in ICM and in IHP; for a PDE audience)

9 October 2008 Smoothness of optimal transport in curved geometry (Videoseminar in Paris/Berkeley/Bonn/Zürich) PDF file (for a PDE audience)
1 May 2009 Log Sobolev inequalities, concentration, etc. (Columbia-Princeton Probability Day) PDF file (for a probabilistic audience)
18 March 2010 Peut-on mathématiquement prédire l'avenir du système solaire ? (Broad audience lecture in French) Neo Office file
7 April 2010 Les prodigieux théorèmes de Monsieur Nash (Broad audience lecture in French) Here you can download the Neo Office file of the presentation. The lecture has been recorded and can be seen on the Website of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
13-19 June 2010 Geometric aspects of optimal transport This was a 5.5-hour lecture in a summer school in Ischia, organized by Nicola Fusco. The PDF File of the lecture can be found here.
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