Statistical Optimal Transport

July 24-25, 2018

 The aim of this workshop is to present recent advances at the cutting edge of the theory of optimal transport and modern nonparametric statistics and to discuss tje cooperation between MIT and Skoltech on this topic.

Venue: The conference will be held at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Moscow, Nobelya Ulitsa 3).

Registration: The number of participants is limited. Any person wishing to participate must register at the following link: Registration

Program: A preliminary version will be available soon.

Mini-courses (each course comprises two one-hour lectures):

Alexander Kolesnikov (National Research University Higher School of Economics), Mass transportation: the classical Monge-Kantorovich problem and recent developments 
Thibaut Le Gouic (Ecole Centrale de Marseille), Curvature and barycentre: application to Wasserstein space

List of participants:

Aden Forrow (MIT) 
Alexander Kolesnikov (HSE) 
Alexey Kroshnin (IITP RAS) 
Thibaut Le Gouic (Ecole Centrale de Marseille) 
Alexey Naumov (HSE) 
Quentin Paris (HSE) 
Philippe Rigollet (MIT) 
Vladimir Spokoiny (WIAS, Skoltech, HSE) 
Alexandra Suvorikova (WIAS) 
Jonathan Weed (MIT) 
to be continued…

Program committee: Philippe Rigollet and Vladimir Spokoiny;

Local organizing committee: Alexander Kolesnikov, Vladimir Spokoiny, Alexandra Suvorikova

The workshop is organized by the 
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

To learn more about this event and the Structural Learning Group, click here. 

Program of events for Tuesday, 24 July: 

Time		Speaker	Title
9:50 -10:00	Opening
10:00 – 11:10	Minicourse 1	Alexander Kolesnikov, National Research University Higher School of Economics	Mass transportation: the classical Monge-Kantorovich problem and recent developments
11:10 – 11:40	Coffee break
11:40 -12:50	Invited talks
11:40 – 12:15		Eugene Stepanov, St. Petersburg Branch of the Steklov Mathematical Institute	Quantization/optimal location for signed measures
12:15 – 12:50		Jonathan Weed, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Minimax Wasserstein estimation of smooth densities.
12:50 – 14:20	Lunch
14:20 – 15:30	Minicourse 2	Thibaut Le Gouic, Ecole Centrale de Marseille	Curvature and barycentre: application to Wasserstein space
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30	Invited talks
16:00-16:30		Sebastian Melf Boeckel, Humboldt University Berlin	Nonparametric multivariate test theory
16:30 – 17:00		Nikita Gladkov, National Research University Higher School of Economics	Multidimensional transport problem
17:00 – 17:30		Alexaey Kroshnin, Institute for Information Transmission Problems	Central limit theorem in 2-Wasserstein space
17:30 – 20:00	Welcome party

Program of events for Wednesday, 25 July: 

Time		Speaker	Title
10:00 – 11:10	Minicourse 1	Alexander Kolesnikov, National Research University Higher School of Economics	Mass transportation: the classical Monge-Kantorovich problem and recent developments
11:10 – 11:40	Coffee break
11:40 -12:50	Invited talks
11:40 – 12:15		Franz Besold, Humboldt University Berlin	Adaptive Nonparametric Clustering
12:15 – 12:50		Evgeny Burnaev, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology	Anonymous walk embeddings
12:50 – 14:20	Lunch
14:20 – 15:30	Minicourse 2	Thibaut Le Gouic, Ecole Centrale de Marseille	Curvature and barycentre: application to Wasserstein space
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00	Invited talks
16:00-16:30		Pavel Dvurechensky, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics	Computational Optimal Transport: Accelerated Gradient Descent vs Sinkhorn’s Algorithm
16:30-17:00		Darina Dvinskikh, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology	Stochastic distributed computation of Wasserstein barycenter