Ludovic Rifford


Talks in Seminars or Conferences

  • On the minimizing Sard Conjecture in sub-Riemannian geometry
    Fudan International Seminar on Analysis, PDEs, and Fluid Mechanics (online), Fudan University (China), 2024
  • Combien de temps faut-il à un coureur pour être seul ?
    12ème Rencontre d'Analyse Mathématique et Applications (RAMA12), Adrar (Algeria), 2023
  • On the minimal rank Sard Conjecture in sub-Riemannian geometry
    Geometric Theory of Optimal Control Seminar (online), Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), 2023
  • Mass Transportation and Convex Earth Theorem
    GStats Seminar, INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée (France), 2023
  • Sur quelques problèmes ouverts de géométrie sous-riemannienne
    Séminaire AFRIMath de Géométrie et Topologie (Zoom Seminar), 2022
  • Combien de temps faut-il à un coureur pour être seul ?
    Séminaire Français d'Optimisation (Zoom Seminar), 2021
  • Recent progress in sub-Riemannian geometry
    Zoom Seminar, Nanjing University (China), 2021
  • Sur quelques problèmes de géométrie sous-riemannienne
    11ème Rencontre d'Analyse Mathématique et Applications (RAMA11), Sidi Bel Abbès (Algeria), 2019
  • Recent progress in sub-Riemannian geometry
    1st International MIPAnet Conference on Science and Mathematics, Parapat (Indonesia), 2019
  • Singularities in Sub-Riemannian Geometry
    Real and complex singularities in Cargèse, IESC (France), 2019
  • Recent progress in sub-Riemannian geometry
    Second International Conference of Mathematics in Erbil, Salahaddin University (Iraq), 2019
  • Recent progress in sub-Riemannian geometry
    Workshop "Dynamical Aspects in Variational Analysis", École Polytechnique (France), 2018
  • Sard conjecture and regularity of singular minimizing curves for sub-Riemannian structures in dimension three
    Conference "Géométrie Riemannienne et fonctions généralisées", Université Paris Diderot (France), 2018
  • The Sard conjectures and measure contraction properties in sub-Riemannian geometry
    Conference "Sub-Riemannian Geometry and Beyond", University of Jyväskylä (Finland), 2018
  • The Sard Conjecture on Martinet Surfaces
    Conference in honor of Ahmad El Soufi, Université François Rabelais, Tours (France), 2017
  • The Sard Conjecture on Martinet Surfaces
    Conference "New Trends in Control Theory and PDEs (in honor of Piermarco Cannarsa)", INDAM, Rome (Italy), 2017
  • The Sard Conjecture on Martinet Surfaces
    Pan African Congress of Mathematicians 2017, Université Mohammed V, Rabat (Morocco), 2017
  • Singulières minimisantes en géométrie sous-riemannienne [d'après Hakavuori, Le Donne, Leonardi, Monti...]
    Bourbaki Seminar, 2016
  • The cut locus in optimal transportation
    Conference "The cut locus", KMITL, Bangkok (Thailand), 2016
  • The intrinsic dynamics of optimal transport
    CMC Conference "Analysis, Geometry, and Optimal Transport", KIAS, Seoul (South Korea), 2016
  • La conjecture de Sard sous-riemannienne
    Colloquium, Université Paris-Sud XI, Orsay (France), 2016
  • Courbes auto-contractantes dans les variétés riemanniennes
    Colloque International du Groupement Euro-Maghrébin de Mathématiques et de ses Interactions, Hammamet (Tunisia), 2016
  • Courbes auto-contractantes dans les variétés riemanniennes
    École CIMPA "Géométrie et Analyse", Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan (Ivory Coast), 2016
  • Courbes auto-contractantes dans les variétés riemanniennes
    Rencontre d'Analyse Mathématique et ses Applications, Ouargla (Algeria), 2016
  • Regularity of weak KAM solutions
    SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Scottsdale (USA), 2015
  • The intrinsic dynamics of optimal transport
    Workshop "Analysis in Lyon", ENS Lyon, Lyon (France), 2015
  • Regularity of solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equations for Tonelli Hamiltonians
    Conference "Nonlinear Analysis and Optimization", Royal Society, London (UK), 2015
  • Mass Transportation on the Earth
    Colloquium Department of Mathematics, PUC, Santiago (Chile), 2015
  • Franks' Lemma for Mañé perturbations of Riemannian metrics and applications
    Workshop on Hamiltonian dynamical systems, Fudan University, Shanghai (China), 2015
  • Control and Dynamics
    Conference "Analysis and Geometry in Control Theory and Applications", INDAM, Rome (Italy), 2014
  • A few words about the Ma-Trudinger-Wang tensor
    Salah Baouendi Memorial Conference, Mediterranean Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Tunis (Tunisia), 2014
  • Regularity of optimal transport maps on Riemannian manifolds
    Conference "Recent Development of nonlinear PDE", Australian National University, Canberra (Australia), 2013
  • Optimal Transport and Control
    Workshop on Control and Observation of Nonlinear Control Systems with Application to Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu (USA), 2013
  • Mass Transportation on the Earth
    Seminar, University of Sciences and Technology of China, Hefei (China), 2013
  • Generic Aubry sets on surfaces
    Seminar, Nanjing University, Nanjing (China), 2013
  • From the Poincaré "lignes de partage" to the convex earth theorem
    International Conference "Henri Poincaré : du mathématicien au philosophe", Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris (France), 2012
  • Geometric control and dynamical systems
    9th AIMS International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Orlando (USA), 2012
  • MTW condition vs. convexity of injectivity domains
    Conference "Contrôle optimal géométrique", Université de Bourgogne, Dijon (France), 2012
  • Mañé's Conjecture from the control viewpoint
    INDAM Meeting on Geometric Control and sub-Riemannian Geometry, Cortona (Italy), 2012
  • A Kupka-Smale Theorem for Hamiltonian systems from Mañé's viewpoint, a control approach
    PICOF 2012, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau (France), 2012
  • Transport de masse sur la Terre
    Colloque 2012 de la Société Mathématique de Tunisie, Mahdia (Tunisia), 2012
  • Mass Transportation on the Earth
    Seminar, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao (Spain) 2012
  • Transport de masse sur la Terre
    Colloquium de l'Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris (France), 2012
  • Transport de masse sur les surfaces
    Seminar, Université Paris-Sud XI, Orsay (France), 2011
  • Mass Transportation on the Earth
    Conference "Geometry Meets Transport", Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice (France), 2011
  • Stabilization of finite-dimensional control systems: a survey
    OPTDE - Summer School, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao (Spain), 2011
  • Mass transportation on surfaces
    Nonlinear PDEs Workshop, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (Portugal), 2011
  • Transport de masse sur les surfaces
    Colloquium Lorrain de Mathématiques, Université de Nancy, Nancy (France), 2011
  • Perspectives sous-riemanniennes
    Seminar, Université Paris-Sud XI, Orsay (France), 2011
  • Premiers pas vers la conjecture de Mañé en topologie C2
    Seminar, Université Paris VI, Paris (France), 2011
  • Sur les variétés riemanniennes jouissant de bons transports optimaux
    Seminars, Universities of Grenoble, Cergy-Pontoise, Toulouse, France, 2010-2011
  • Nearly round spheres look convex
    Workshop on Optimal Transportation and Applications, SNS Pisa (Italy), 2010
  • Optimal Transport on Surfaces
    Conference "Topics on Optimal Transport", Strasbourg (France), 2010
  • On Riemannian manifolds satisfying the Transport Continuity Property
    Workshop "Optimal Transportation and Applications", Banff (Canada), 2010
  • Generic regularity of weak KAM solutions and Mañé conjecture
    Workshop "Nonlinear Analysis and PDEs", University of Texas at Austin (USA), 2010
  • Sur les variétés riemanniennes jouissant de bons transports optimaux
    Université d'Orléans, Orléans (France), 2010
  • On Riemannian manifolds satisfying the Transport Continuity Property
    Conference "Recent Advances Optimal Transportation and Applications", Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice (France), 2009
  • Optimal Transportation on Sub-Riemannian Manifolds
    Conference "Optimal Transportations and Applications", SNS Pisa (Italy), 2008
  • Optimal Transportation on Sub-Riemannian Manifolds
    Conference "50 Years of Optimal Control", Banach Center, Bedlewo (Poland), 2008
  • On the Mather Quotient
    Atelier sur les aspects de la mécanique céleste, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris (France), 2007

Lecture Series

  • Quelques propriétés des champs de vecteurs génériques
    One 2 hours lecture, École Jeunes Chercheuses et Chercheurs en Informatique Mathématique, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice (France), 2022
  • Geometric control and dynamics
    One lecture, Conference "Dynamics of evolution equations", CIRM, Marseille (France), 2016
  • Introduction to Sub-Riemannian Geometry
    Two lectures, Center for Mathematical Modelling, Santiago (Chile), 2015
  • Geometric control and applications
    Two lectures, Minischool on Variational problems in Geometry, Fields Institute, Toronto (Canada), 2014
  • Geometric control and sub-Riemannian geodesics
    Four lectures, Summer School CIRM "Sub-Riemannian manifolds: from geodesics to hypoelliptic diffusion", Marseille (France), 2014
  • Geometric control theory, closing lemma, and weak KAM theory
    Four lectures, Conference "Weak KAM Theory in Italy", Cortona (Italy), 2011

Outreach

  • Maths vs Aliens : Le défi
    Awards Ceremony VidéoDiMath, Institution François d'Assise - Nicolas Barré (Monaco), 2023
  • Maths vs Aliens : Le défi
    Congress MATh.en.JEANS 2023, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice (France), 2023
  • Une histoire de pavages
    Regards de géomètres, Collège Ségurane, Nice (France), 2022

Contact details:

Ludovic Rifford, Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, Université Côte d'Azur, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice Cedex 2, France
+33 4 89 15 06 34
ludovic.rifford@math.cnrs.fr