Courses

• A variational approach to rate-independent problems (5 lectures)
  Minicourses of Mathematical Analysis
  Padova, June 13-17, 2011
  References


• Gradient flows, optimal transport, and evolution PDEs (6 lectures)
  XXXV Scuola estiva di Fisica Matematica
  Ravello, September 13-18, 2010
  Slides of the lectures


• Applications of optimal transport to evolutionary PDEs (5 lectures)
  CNA Summer School on "New Vistas in Image Processing and PDEs"
  Center for Nonlinear Analysis, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, June 7-12, 2010


• Gradient flows and optimal transport (5 lectures)
  School and Workshop on "Optimal transport: Theory and applications"
  Institut Fourier, Grenoble, June 15-30, 2008


• A variational approach to gradient flows and rate-independent problems (4 lectures)
  EVEQ2008
  Prague, June 16-20, 2008


• Gradient flows in Wasserstein spaces and applications to the Quantum Drift-Diffusion equation (6 lectures)
  The quantum drift diffusion equation and similiar PDE's: gradient flow structure and entropy methods
  Wolfgang Pauli Institute (WPI), Vienna, June 11-22, 2007


• Gradient flows: a variational approach (4 lectures)
  School in Nonlinear Analysis and Calculus of Variations
  Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, November 17-22, 2006