# Topics
1. Interacting Particle Systems & PDE
1. Granular Flow Models and McKean-Vlasov Equations.
2. Nonlinear Diffusion and Aggregation-Diffusion Equations.
2. Optimal Transportation: The metric side
1. Functional Analysis tools: weak convergence of measures. Prokhorov’s Theorem. Direct Method of Calculus of Variations.
2. Monge Problem. Kantorovich Duality.
3. Transport distances between measures: properties. The real line. Probabilistic Interpretation: couplings.
3. Mean Field Limit & Couplings
1. Continuity Equation: measures sliding down a convex valley.
2. Dobrushin approach: derivation of the Aggregation Equation.
3. Boltzmann Equation for Maxwellian molecules: Tanaka Theorem.
4. An Introduction to Gradient Flows
1. Dynamic Interpretation of optimal tranport.
2. McCann’s Displacement Convexity: Internal, Interaction and Confinement Energies.
3. Gradient Flows: Differential and metric viewpoints.