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Math Distinguished Speaker: Introduction to the Monge-Kantorovich Optimal Mass Transport Problem
Start Date: 5/21/2019Start Time: 3:30 PM
End Date: 5/21/2019End Time: 4:30 PM

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Wilfrid Gangbo, UCLA

Abstract: This is an introductory talk on optimal transport theory, which in the past two decades, has emerged as a fertile field of inquiry and a powerful tool for applications to problems within and beyond mathematics. The physical interpretation of the basic issue is this. We ask how we can optimally rearrange a given pile of soil or rubble (the "deblais") with mass distribution u0, into an excavation or fill (the "remblais"), with mass distribution u1? Here, optimality is measured against the cost function c(x, y) = ||x-y||p: A geometric characterization of the solutions allows to describe geodesics of minimal lengths on the set of probability measures and to derive sharp functional inequalities.

Contact Information:
Name: Eric Schmutz
Email: schmutze@drexel.edu
Math Distinguished Speaker
Location:
Disque Hall, Room 103, 32 South 32nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Audience:
  • Everyone

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