PIHOT Kickoff Event

The kickoff event for the Pacific Interdisciplinary hub on Optimal Transport (PIHOT) collaborative research group will take place Jan 29-30, 2021. Talks will be recorded and posted on mathtube.org, see the individual talks below for the recordings and other links.

Friday: 8am (PST)

• 8:00-9:00 Initial value problems viewed as generalized optimal transport problems with matrix-valued density fields, Yann Brenier, CNRS, DMA-ENS, France
• 9:00-10:00 Scaling Optimal Transport for High dimensional Learning, Gabriel Peyré, CNRS, ENS, France
• 10:00-10:30 Introduction of the team members
• 10:30–11:30 Break
• 11:30-1:00 Introduction of the team members
• 1:00-2:00 Break
• 2:00-3:00 Bandit learning of Nash equilibria in monotone games, Maryam Kamgarpour, UBC ECE
• 3:00-4:00 Introduction of the team members
• 4:00-5:00 Kac goes to work: Stochastic processes as probes of the architecture of plant root systems Dave Schneider, U. Saskatchewan, Global Institute for Food Security

Saturday: 9am (PST):

• 9:00-10:00 Deep kernel-based distances between distributions, Danica Sutherland, UBC CS
• 10:00-11:00 Optimal Coffee shops, Numerical Integration and Kantorovich-Rubinstein duality, Stefan Steinerberger, UW Math
• 11:00-12:00 Vector Copulas and Vector Sklar Theorem, Yanqin Fan, UW Econ

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This event is part of the Pacific Interdisciplinary Hub on Optimal Transport (PIHOT) which is a collaborative research group (CRG) of the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS).