Optimal Transport Summer School

July 6 - 10, 2026, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Schedule

Monday, July 6th, 2026
09:00 to 09:15	Opening Remarks Deirdre Haskell, The Fields Institute and McMaster University
09:15 to 10:15	Quantitative Stability in Optimal Transport: From Classical Potentials to Stable Transport Maps \| Lecture 01 Dario Trevisan, Università di Pisa
10:15 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Quantitative Stability in Optimal Transport: From Classical Potentials to Stable Transport Maps \| Lecture 02 Dario Trevisan, Università di Pisa
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:30	Matrix Scaling and entropic-regularized optimal transport Rafael Oliveira, University of Waterloo
15:30 to 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 to 17:00	Discussion

Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
09:00 to 10:30	Quantitative Stability in Optimal Transport: From Classical Potentials to Stable Transport Maps \| Lecture 03 Dario Trevisan, Università di Pisa
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Title TBA Paul Ayers, McMaster University
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:30	Title TBA Aaron Goldberg, National Research Council of Canada
15:30 to 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 to 17:00	Discussion

Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
09:00 to 10:30	Quantitative Stability in Optimal Transport: From Classical Potentials to Stable Transport Maps \| Lecture 04 Dario Trevisan, Università di Pisa
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Title TBA Milica Banic, National Research Council Canada
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:30	Title TBA Mohammad Ali Ahmadpoor Jadehkenary, The Fields Institute
15:30 to 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 to 17:00	Discussion

Thursday, July 9th, 2026
09:00 to 10:30	Title TBA Mohammad Ali Ahmadpoor Jadehkenary, The Fields Institute
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Title TBA Mohammad Ali Ahmadpoor Jadehkenary, The Fields Institute
12:00 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:30	Title TBA Paul Ayers, McMaster University
15:30 to 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 to 17:00	Discussion

Friday, July 10th, 2026
09:00 to 10:30	Operator scaling and doubly-stochastic quantum operators Rafael Oliveira, University of Waterloo
10:30 to 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 to 12:00	Title TBA Paul Ayers, McMaster University

Registered Participants

Name	Affiliation
Esther Achieng'	JARAMOGI OGINGA ODINGA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Lleyton Ariton	University of Toronto
Evan Arsenault	Queen's University
Anahita Babaie	Brandeis University
Kutand Alkım Bayer	IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Andrii Bobrov	Kyiv Academic University
Arshnoor Boparai	University of Toronto
Zachary Alexander Brannan	University of Ottawa
Artorix de la Cruz	Dalhousie University
Dauda Dikko	University of Ibadan
Berjer Ding	University of Toronto
Pavel Dubovski	Stevens Institute of Technology
Oleksandr Dzhenzherov	University of Ottawa
Mohammed Ferdaus	Wilfrid Laurier University
Itamar Halevy
Mairi Hallman	University of Ottawa
Youssef Handi	NA
Kam Hazaveh	LAAB Fund
Alexander He	University of Toronto
Yousef Ibrahim	University of Toronto
Leandre Iskin	HEC Montreal
Omar Khater	McGill University
Dohyoung Ko	University of Ottawa
Vimal Kumarasamy Balasubramanian	Delft University of Technology
Quoc Le	University of Rhode Island
S J Lewis
Zhiyi Lin	University of Ottawa
Lanqing (Sara) Liu	University of Toronto
Ziran Liu
Muhammad Muzammil	University of New Brunswick
Rafael Oliveira	University of Waterloo
Pavlo Pelikh	University of Ottawa
Igor Vinicius Pereira Pinheiro	University of Florence
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Marjan Rajabi	Toronto Metropolitan University
Arghya Rakshit	University of Toronto
Akshay Ramachandran	University of British Columbia
Mert Rassa	University of Toronto
Eric Regis	Yale University
Denis Ruban	University of Ottawa
Mehrad Sahebi	Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Keiya Sakabe	LMU Munich
Juspreet Singh Sandhu	Colorado State University
Maria Gabriela Scapin	University of Ottawa
Cartik Sharma
Roman Shepel	Yorkdale S.S.
Thiago Silva Miranda	IMPA (Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)
Joaquin Andres Silva Vazquez	IMPA (Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)
Vahid Soleimany	Apple
Suhana Sood	Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University)
Yudai Suzuki	Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Maryam Tamadoni Jahromi	University of Brescia
Wai Shing Tang
Seth Taylor	University of Saskatchewan
Slimane Thabet	Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Octavio Vega	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bohan Wang	University of Toronto
Zirui Wang	University of Waterloo
Alfred Wärnsäter	KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Haotian Xiao	University of Sussex
Ruochuan Xu	Stanford University
Jayant Yadav	University of Toronto
Tomoo Yokoyama
Lei Yu	Tongji University
Jimmy Zhang	Carleton University
Tim Zheng	University of Toronto
Bohan Zhou	UC Santa Barbara
Ivan Zhytkevych	University of Ottawa