Felix Otto's Conference in Paris

29 juin 2026, 09:00 → 3 juil. 2026, 17:00 Europe/Paris

Farabeuf amphitheater (Sorbonne Université, Campus les Cordeliers, Paris)

Pattern Formation, Energy Landscapes, and Scaling Laws - celebrating Felix Otto as a mentor, collaborator, and mathematician

Invited speakers:

• Peter Bella (TU Dortmund)
• Antonio De Simone (SISSA Trieste & Sant'Anna)
• Weinan E (Peking University & Princeton University)
• Benjamin Gess (TU Berlin & MPI MIS Leipzig)
• Martin Huesmann (University of Münster)
• Hans Knüpfer (University of Heidelberg)
• Lukas Koch (University of Sussex)
• Xavier Lamy (University of Toulouse)
• Tim Laux (University of Heidelberg) 
• Stephan Luckhaus (University of Leipzig)
• Peter Morfe (Penn State University)
• Barbara Niethammer (University of Bonn)
• Claudia Raithel (TU Wien)
• Tobias Ried (Georgia Institute of Technology)
• Martin Rumpf (University of Bonn)
• Christian Seis (University of Münster)
• Theresa Simon (University of Münster)
• Dejan Slepcev (Carnegie Mellon University)
• László Székelyhidi (MPI MIS Leipzig)
• Markus Tempelmayr (EPFL & University of Münster)
• Cédric Villani (University of Lyon 1)
• Christian Wagner (IST Austria)

 

Registration is free but mandatory (click "Apply now" below to submit a registration request). Participants must arrange their own travel and accommodations, and financial support is not available. The conference is not able to provide letters of invitation for participants.

Organizers:

• Julian Fischer (IST Austria)
• Lorenzo Giacomelli (Sapienza University of Rome)
• Antoine Gloria (Sorbonne University)
• Michaël Goldman (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique)
• Radu Ignat (University of Toulouse)
• Maria G. Westdickenberg (RWTH Aachen University)

lun. 29 juin

1 Registration

Schedule: Weinan E : Towards a principled understanding of deep learning (online talk)

2 Welcome coffee break and registration

3 Welcome coffee break & registration

Schedule: Cédric Villani: Fisher information in kinetic theory: yet another resurrection

Schedule: Barbara Niethammer: Analysis of an obstacle problem for cell polarization

Schedule: Lukas Koch : Sharp local sparsity estimates for regularised optimal transport via quasiminimality

4 Coffee break

Schedule: Xavier Lamy : Hyperbolic regularization effects for degenerate elliptic equations

mar. 30 juin

Schedule: Martin Rumpf : geometric calculus on the space of curves and the locomotion of snakes

5 Coffee break

Schedule: Benjamin Gess: Gradient flow structures for porous media equations, large deviations, and multiscale analysis

Schedule: Martin Huesmann: Optimal transport for point processes

Schedule: Peter Morfe : Asymptotics of recursive distributional equations via reaction-diffusion equations

6 Coffee break

Schedule: Claudia Raithel: Boundary Layers in Stochastic Homogenization

mer. 1 juillet

Schedule: Laszlo Szekelyhidi : Homogenization and convex integration: anomalous dissipation and regularity

7 Coffee break

Schedule: Theresa Simon

8 Coffee break

Schedule: Christian Wagner: On minimizing curves in a Brownian potential

Schedule: Antonio De Simone : Biological and bio-inspired motility

Schedule: Dejan Slepcev : Radon--Wasserstein gradient flows for sampling in high dimensions

9 Coffee break

Schedule: Peter Bella : Regularity of degenerate elliptic equations

jeu. 2 juillet

Schedule: Hans Knüpfer: Geometry and Pattern Formation in Micromagnetics

10 Coffee break + Picnic

Schedule: Tobias Ried: Regularity of Optimal Transport with Coulomb cost

11 Social event : picnic + visit of the Versailles gardens

Use the local RER C train towards Versailles Château - Rive gauche

ven. 3 juillet

Schedule: Markus Templemayr: weak universality for reaction diffusion models

12 Coffee break

Schedule: Tim Laux: The quantitative isoperimetric inequality: A calibration argument

Schedule: Christian Seis: Stirred, not shaken. A mathematical cocktail of mixing, de-mixing, and other ingredients.

Schedule: Stephan Luckhaus: Suspension of Currents and Rectifiability

13 Concluding remarks