Joint Mathematics Meetings - CRM-PIMS-AARMS Special Session on Optimal Transport - Theory and Applications
Topic
Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport and its numerous applications
Details
This special session is organized by the PIMS kantorovich Initiative (kantorovich.org) which is dedicated towards research in the mathematics of Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport and its numerous applications to multiple areas of mathematics, statistics, data science, economics, engineering and so on. It features talks by several scientific leaders covering multiple areas of the theory of optimal transport and its applications and a large number of junior researchers.
CRM-PIMS-AARMS Special Session on Optimal Transport - Theory and Applications, I
Friday January 10, 2025, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. Optimal Transport and Particle Physics
Katy Craig*, University of California, Santa Barbara
1:30 p.m. Variational Optimal Transport Methods for Nonlinear Filtering
Mohammad Al-Jarrah, University of Washington
Bamdad Hosseini, University of Washington
Niyizhen Jin, University of Washington
Amirhossein Taghvaei*, University of Washington
2:00 p.m. Tight stability bounds for entropic Brenier maps
Vincent Divol, ENSAE/CREST
Jonathan Niles-Weed*, Courant Institute, New York University
Aram-Alexandre Pooladian, New York University
2:30 p.m. Monge-Kantorovich Fitting Under Sobolev Budgets
Jonathan Hayase, University of Washington
Young-Heon Kim, University of British Columbia
Forest Kobayashi*, University of British Columbia
3:00 p.m. Iterated Schrödinger Bridge approximation to Wasserstein Gradient Flows
Medha Agarwal, University of Washington, Seattle
Zaid Harchaoui, University of Washington, Seattle
Garrett Mulcahy*, University of Washington, Seattle
Soumik Pal, University of Washington
3:30 p.m. Stability and statistical inference for semidiscrete optimal transport maps
Ziv Goldfeld, Cornell University
Kengo Kato, Cornell University
Ritwik Sadhu*, University of Washington
4:00 p.m. Conditional Optimal Transport: Amortized Inference for Bayesian Inverse Problems
Bamdad Hosseini, University of Washington
Alexander Hsu*, University of Washington
Amirhossein Taghvaei, University of Washington
4:30 p.m. Estimation of one-dimensional structures from noisy empirical observation
Anton Afanassiev, University of British Columbia
Young-Heon Kim, University of British Columbia
Forest Kobayashi, University of British Columbia
Geoff Schiebinger, University of British Columbia
Andrew Warren*, University of British Columbia
Saturday January 11, 2025, 8:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
CRM-PIMS-AARMS Special Session on Optimal Transport - Theory and Applications, II
8:00 a.m. Map-compatible Decomposition of transport paths
Haotian Sun, Tsinghua University
Qinglan Xia*, University of California at Davis
8:30 a.m. Spurious Stationarity and Hardness Results for Mirror Descent
Jiajin Li*, University of British Columbia
9:00 a.m. Transporting Mass with Low Distortion
Dan Mikulincer*, University of Washington
9:30 a.m. Convergence analysis of classical and quantum dynamics via hypocoercivity
Jianfeng Lu*, Duke University
10:00 a.m. Statistical inference of convex order by martingale optimal transport
Jakwang Kim*, University of British Columbia
10:30 a.m. Pointwise Schauder estimates for optimal transport maps of rough densities
Arghya Rakshit*, University of California Irvine
11:00 a.m. Deterministic sampling with adaptive score based transport modeling
Bamdad Hosseini, University of Washington
Jingwei Hu, University of Washington
Vasily Ilin*, University of Washington
Additional Information
Meeting details and talk abstracts can be accessed via the official website: https://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2025/2314_program_cpass1.html#title
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