Pauli Lectures 2021
The Wolfgang Pauli Lectures 2021 were dedicated to Mathematics.
Professor Cédric Villani
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Cédric Villani is a French mathematician, trained in École normale supérieure in Paris, currently Professor in University of Lyon. He was a visiting professor in Berkeley, Atlanta and Princeton. A specialist of mathematical analysis applied to the statistical physics of gas and plasmas, as well as non-Euclidean differential geometry, he has received numerous awards including the Fields medal, awarded every four years to at most four mathematicians under 40, often described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics.
Respected for his acclaimed synthesis books, he has received the Doob Prize of the American Mathematical Society, a prize awarded every three years to recognize a book of great novelty and clarity. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences, as well as the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. In 2017 he was elected member of French Parliament, where he champions a number of subjects rooted in science and especially ecology. His report on Artificial Intelligence was the basis of the French Strategy of AI. He presides over the Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques, or French Scientific Parliamentary Office, which studies all kinds of subjects in which a thorough scientific study is compulsory for political action. His broad-audience books have been translated in 15 languages.
Boltzmann's theory, or relaxation by confined entropy increase
Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 17.30 h
Auditorium Maximum, HG F 30, ETH Zentrum, Rämistrasse 101, Zurich
Landau's damping, or relaxation by smoothness and confined mixing
Wednesday, December 15, 2021, 17.15 h
Lecture Hall HG E 7, ETH Zentrum, Rämistrasse 101, Zurich
Quantitative estimates for slightly dissipative fluids
Thursday, December 16, 2021, 9.00 h
Lecture Hall HG D 3.2, ETH Zentrum, Rämistrasse 101, Zurich