Kantorovich Initiative: 2023 - 2026
The Kantorovich Initiative is dedicated towards research and dissemination of modern mathematics of optimal transport towards a wide audience of researchers, students, industry, policy makers and the general public.
PRN Organizers
- Ben Adcock, Simon Fraser University
- Brendan Pass, University of Alberta
- Khanh Dao Duc, University of British Columbia
- Young-Heon Kim, University of British Columbia
- Geoffrey Schiebinger, University of British Columbia
- Benjamin Bloem-Reddy, University of British Columbia
- Yanqin Fan, University of Washington
- Zaid Harchaoui, University of Washington
- Bamdad Hosseini, University of Washington
- Jingwei Hu, University of Washington
- Soumik Pal, University of Washington
- Stefan Steinerberger, University of Washington
The Kantorovich Initiative is a dedicated website to help foster a community around the topic of Optimal Transportation.

Events
- 8-Aug-23
Kantorovich Initiative Seminar: Jiakun Liu
Free boundary problems in optimal transportation  more››
Scientific Event
- 13-Apr-23
Multivariate Symmetry: Distribution-Free Testing via Optimal Transport  more››
Scientific Event
- 9-Mar-23
Kantorovich operators and their ergodic properties  more››
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- 23-Feb-23
KI Seminar: Nicolas Garcia Trillos
Adversarial training through the lens of optimal transport  more››
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- 10-Nov-22
Applications of optimal transportation in causal inference  more››
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- 27-Oct-22
KI Seminar: Caroline Moosmueller
Learning Tasks in the Wasserstein Space  more››
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- 29-Sep-22
Effect of Dependence on the Convergence of Empirical Wasserstein Distance  more››
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- 26-Jun-22
Bregman divergence regularization of optimal transport problems on a finite set  more››
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- 19-Jun-22
- 1-Jul-22
PIMS- IFDS- NSF Summer School on Optimal Transport
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- 28-Apr-22
OT techniques in data driven methodology: theory and practice from mathematical finance and statistics  more››
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- 17-Mar-22
- 24-Feb-22
Optimal transport theory in incomplete econometric models  more››
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- 27-Jan-22
- 21-Oct-21
PIHOT CRG Seminar: Bamdad Hosseini
Conditional Sampling with Block-Triangular Transport Maps [video]  more››
Scientific Event
- 30-Sep-21
PIHOT CRG Seminar: Jan-Christian Hutter
Finite sample rates for optimal transport estimation problems [video]  more››
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- 20-Jun-21
- 25-Jun-21
Entropic Regularization of Optimal Transport and Applications
The Banff International Research Station will host the "Entropic Regularization of Optimal Transport and Applications" workshop in Banff from June 20 to June 25, 2021.  more››
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- 6-May-21
PIHOT CRG Seminar: Guillaume Carlier
Remarks on multi-marginals entropic optimal transport and Sinkhorn algorithm [video]  more››
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- 25-Mar-21
PHIOT CRG Seminar: Giovanni Conforti
Searching for the most likely evolution  more››
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- 25-Feb-21
PHIOT CRG Seminar: Aaron Palmer
Stochastic Optimal Transport, Control Theory, and PDEs  more››
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