Brendan Pass

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...

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...

I will discuss various joint works with Luca Nenna and PhD student Joshua Hiew. We show that entropically regularized optimal transport with discrete marginals and general cost functions can be characterized by a well-posed ordinary differential...

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...

Abstract: Multi-marginal optimal transport in the general mathematical problem of aligning several probability distributions with maximal efficiency, relative to a given cost function. While many applications for this problem have emerged over the...

Abstract Optimal transport is the problem of transporting one distribution of mass to another as efficiently as possible, where efficiency is measured relative to a prescribed cost function. Originally posed by Gaspard Monge in 1781, this natural...

I will discuss uniqueness and Monge solution results for multi-marginal optimal transportation problems with a certain class of cost functions; this class arises naturally in multi-agent matching problems in economics. This result generalizes a...

Optimal transport is a problem first considered by Monge in 1781. Given a distribution of mines over a landscape, producing (say) iron, a distribution of factories over that same landscape, consuming iron, and a transport cost (x,y) to move one unit...

I will discuss joint work with Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Robert McCann on the Monge-Kantorovich problem of transporting a probability measure on \mathbb{R}^n to another on the real line. We introduce a nestededness criterion relating the cost to the...

This talk is devoted to variational problems on the set of probability measures which involve optimal transport between unequal dimensional spaces. In particular, we study the minimization of a functional consisting of the sum of a term reflecting...