Garrett Mulcahy

Thursday, March 12 9:30 am: Start 9:30 am - 10:30 am: Nassif Ghoussoub (University of British Columbia) Title: Skew-linear entropies, Kantorovich operators and their ergodic theory Abstract: Kantorovich operators are non-linear extensions of Markov...

This talk will present a novel discretization scheme for Wasserstein gradient flows (i.e. curves of steepest descent for functions of probability measures) based on the successive computation of Schrödinger bridges with equal marginals. In doing so...