MATS423 Optimal Mass Transportation (4-9 cr)

Grading scale
0-5
Teaching languages
Finnish , English
Responsible person(s)
Tero Kilpeläinen

Content

Monge and Kantorovitch formulations of optimal mass transportation, existence and uniqueness of optimal transport maps, Wasserstein distance, brief introduction to functionals and gradient flows in Wasserstein spaces. Ricci curvature lower bounds in metric spaces using optimal mass transportation.