Learning Seminar on Optimal Transport

This learning seminar will consist in a sequence of three meetings, aiming to discuss the basics of the Monge transport problem and the duality theorem of Kantorovich concerning optimal transport. The necessary background on convex analysis will also be reviewed as part of these meetings. The main reference we will follow is Chapter 5 of the monograph "Optimal transport: old and new" by Cedric Villani (Springer 2008).

The first meeting of the learning seminar is on Wednesday November 22, at 3:30 pm. The main presenter will be Sina Hoveida, who is a graduate student in the Department of Management Science and Engineering.

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