Title: Perelman's W-entropy and Wasserstein distance for the Witten-Laplacian and the Fokker-Planck diffusions on Riemannian manifolds

Speaker: Xiangdong Li (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Venue: Room 09 at Quan-Zhai (全斋), New location for BICMR, Peking University

Time: April 11, 2012, Wednesday, 10:10-12:00am

Abstract: The purpose of this talk is to present some recent results in the study on Perelman’s W-entropy and the Wasserstein distance for the heat equation of the Witten-Laplacian and the Fokker-Planck diffusions on Riemannian manifolds. For details, see the attachment below.