- Series
- Stelson Lecture Series
- Time
- Monday, April 22, 2013 - 4:00pm for 1.5 hours (actually 80 minutes)
- Location
- Klaus 1116
- Speaker
- Cedric Villani – Institut Henri Poincare, CNRS/UPMC
- Organizer
- Michael Loss
Please Note: General Audience Lecture. Reception to follow in Klaus Atrium.
This talk is the story of an encounter of three distinct fields:
non-Euclidean geometry, gas dynamics and economics. Some of the most
fundamental mathematical tools behind these theories appear to have a close
connection, which was revealed around the turn of the 21st century, and has
developed strikingly since then.