1.Applications of Stochastic Methods to Riemannian Manifolds.

* Estimates of the first eigenvalue for three typical problems (closed, Neumann, Dirichlet).


* Gradient estimates of harmonic functions and heat semigroups.


* Heat kernel estimates.


* Dimension-free Harnack inequality and applications.



2.Functional Inequalities, Semigroup Properties and Spectrum Estimates

* Poincare inequality and log-Sobolev inequality.

* Weak Poincare inequality and convergence rates of Markov semigroups.

* Super Poincare inequality, the essential spectrum and high order eigenvalues.

 

3.Infinite Dimensional Systems.

* Path and loop spaces order Riemannian.

* Continuous spin systems.

* Configuration spaces.

* Generalized Mehler semigroups on Hilbert spaces.