Soumik Pal
University of Washington
Scientific, Conference
Kantorovich Initiative: KI-Retreat in Spring
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...
Scientific, Conference
Optimal transport: stochastics, projections, and applications
Event Agenda Wednesday, November 5th, 2025 09:25 – 09:30 Opening Remarks 09:30 – 10:30  Title TBA Benjamin Jourdain, CERMICS, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 – 11:35  Title TBA Yao Xie, Georgia Institute of...
Scientific, Conference
Joint Mathematics Meetings - CRM-PIMS-AARMS Invited Address - Wilfrid Gangbo
Motivated by parallels between mean eld games and random matrix theory, we develop stochastic optimal control problems and viscosity solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi equa- tions in the setting of non-commutative variables. Rather than real vectors, the...
Scientific, Conference
Joint Mathematics Meetings - CRM-PIMS-AARMS Special Session on Optimal Transport - Theory and Applications
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...
Scientific, Seminar
Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Laetitia Chapel
Optimal transport operates on empirical distributions which may contain acquisition artifacts, such as outliers or noise, thereby hindering a robust calculation of the OT map. Additionally, it necessitates equal mass between the two distributions...
Scientific, Seminar
Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Yair Shenfeld
Density functional theory (DFT) is one of the workhorses of quantum chemistry and material science. In principle, the joint probability of finding a specific electron configuration in a material is governed by a Schrödinger wave equation. But...
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Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Ziv Goldfeld
The Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance quantifies dissimilarity between metric measure (mm) spaces and provides a natural alignment between them. As such, it serves as a figure of merit for applications involving alignment of heterogeneous datasets...
Scientific, Seminar
UBC PDE + Probability seminar: Soumik Pal
It is well-known that hydrodynamical limits of large particle systems with mean-field interactions are given by McKean-Vlasov equations where a particle evolves by an SDE whose parameters are functions of its law that itself satisfies a PDE such as...
Educational, Conference
CAMS-PIMS mini-school and Symposium on Optimal Transport and Applications
Optimal Transport theory emerged more than two centuries ago as an engineering problem posed by Gaspard Monge just before the French revolution. Its rich mathematical structure was first revealed by the Russian Nobel-prize winner Kantorovich during...
Scientific, Seminar
Probability Seminar: Soumik Pal
Consider the Monge-Kantorovich problem of transporting densities $\rho_0$ to $\rho_1$ on $\rr^d$ with a strictly convex cost function. A popular relaxation of the problem is the one-parameter family called the entropic cost problem. The entropic cost...