2108
Applications of Optimal Transportation in the Natural Sciences (online meeting)
Workshop
2108Period
21 Feb - 27 Feb 2021Abstract
Concepts and methods from the mathematical theory of optimal transportation
have reached significant importance in various fields of the natural sciences.
The view on classical problems from a "transport perspective''
has lead to the development of powerful problem-adapted mathematical tools,
and sometimes to a novel geometric understanding of the matter.
The natural sciences, in turn, are
the most important source of ideas for the further development of the optimal transport theory,
and are a driving force for the design of efficient and reliable numerical methods
to approximate Wasserstein distances and the like.
The presentations and discussions in this workshop have been centered around
recent analytical results and numerical methods in the field of optimal transportation
that have been motivated by specific applications in statistical physics, quantum mechanics, and chemistry.