Optimal Transport Workshop

October 19 - 23, 2026, The Fields Institute

Location: Fields Institute, Room 230

Description

List of Speakers

Afiny Akdemir, University of Toronto
Zachary Brannan, University of Ottawa
Sinho Chewi, Yale University
Murat Erdogdu, University of Toronto
Sara Farinelli, Università degli Studi di Genova
Osama Farooqui, University of Toronto
Wilfrid Gangbo, University of California, Los Angeles
David Jekel, University of Ottawa
Anna Korba, ENSAE
Zhiyi Lin, University of Ottawa
Andrea Macrina, University of Ottawa
Robert McCann, University of Toronto
Igor Vinicius Pereira Pinheiro, University of Florence
Alessandro Pinzi, Bocconi University
Ting-Kam Leonard Wong, University of Toronto

Schedule

Monday, October 19th, 2026
09:00 to 09:45	Registration
09:45 to 10:15	Coffee Break
10:15 to 10:30	Opening Remarks
10:30 to 11:30	Title TBA Anna Korba, ENSAE
11:30 to 12:30	Title TBA Anna Korba, ENSAE
12:30 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:00	Lorentzian Optimal Transport and Almost-Splitting Robert McCann, University of Toronto
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:30	Lecture 01: An Introduction to Quantum Marginal Problems \| Coxeter Distinguished Lecture Series: Wilfrid Gangbo Wilfrid Gangbo, University of California, Los Angeles
16:30 to 17:30	Reception \| Coxeter Distinguished Lecture Series: Wilfrid Gangbo

Tuesday, October 20th, 2026
09:00 to 10:00	Title TBA Afiny Akdemir, University of Toronto
10:00 to 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 to 11:30	Convergence of Sinkhorn's Algorithm under Integrability Assumptions Zachary Brannan, University of Ottawa
11:30 to 12:30	Working Groups
12:30 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:00	On the stability of the proximity operator in Wasserstein spaces Sara Farinelli, Università degli Studi di Genova
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:30	Lecture 02: From Classical Relaxation to Noncommutative Obstructions: An Introductory Overview \| Coxeter Distinguished Lecture Series: Wilfrid Gangbo Wilfrid Gangbo, University of California, Los Angeles

Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
09:00 to 10:00	Title TBA Sinho Chewi, Yale University
10:00 to 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 to 11:30	Title TBA Sinho Chewi, Yale University
11:30 to 12:30	Working Groups
12:30 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:00	Optimal transport between laws of random measures: total convexity and the Monge problem Alessandro Pinzi, Bocconi University
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:30	Lecture 03: Optimal transport and Mean Field Games on graphs \| Coxeter Distinguished Lecture Series: Wilfrid Gangbo Wilfrid Gangbo, University of California, Los Angeles

Thursday, October 22nd, 2026
09:00 to 10:00	Quantum Optimal Transport Barycenters: Existence, Duality, and Gaussian Rigidity Zhiyi Lin, University of Ottawa
10:00 to 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 to 11:30	Title TBA Sinho Chewi, Yale University
11:30 to 12:30	Working Groups
12:30 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:00	Geometric inequalities on manifolds via optimal transport Osama Farooqui, University of Toronto
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 to 16:30	Information-Based Martingale Optimal Transport Andrea Macrina, University of Ottawa

Friday, October 23rd, 2026
09:00 to 10:00	Pseudo-Riemannian geometry encodes information geometry in optimal transport Ting-Kam Leonard Wong, University of Toronto
10:00 to 10:30	Coffee Break
10:30 to 11:30	Title TBA Murat Erdogdu, University of Toronto
11:30 to 12:30	Sharp convergence rate for stationary states of the porous medium equation with drift Igor Vinicius Pereira Pinheiro, University of Florence
12:30 to 14:00	Lunch
14:00 to 15:00	A survey of optimal transport in free probability David Jekel, University of Ottawa
15:00 to 15:30	Coffee Break

Registered Participants

Name	Affiliation
Esther Achieng'	JARAMOGI OGINGA ODINGA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
A Afham	National University of Singapore
Afiny Akdemir	University of Toronto
Beatrice Aresi	University of Genoa
Lleyton Ariton	University of Toronto
Anahita Babaie	Brandeis University
Oluwatosin Babasola	University of Georgia
Polina Baron	University of Toronto
Kutand Alkım Bayer	IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Andrii Bobrov	Kyiv Academic University
Zachary Brannan	University of Ottawa
Camilla Brizzi	Technische Universität München
Jiawei Chen	University of Toronto
Daria Chetverikova	Technical University of Berlin
Sinho Chewi	Yale University
Lisa C
Artorix de la Cruz	Dalhousie University
Dauda Dikko	University of Ibadan
Berjer Ding	University of Toronto
Pavel Dubovski	Stevens Institute of Technology
Sashadhar Dutta	National Research University Higher School of Economics
Oleksandr Dzhenzherov	University of Ottawa
Sara Farinelli	Università degli Studi di Genova
Mohammed Ferdaus	Wilfrid Laurier University
Kushagra Garg	University of Toronto
Daniel Gonzalez
Itamar Halevy
Mairi Hallman	University of Ottawa
Mahdi Hamidi	University of Alberta
Youssef Handi
Kam Hazaveh	LAAB Fund
Alexander He	University of Toronto
Yousef Ibrahim	University of Toronto
Leandre Iskin	HEC Montreal
Hajar Jamal	secondary school amedi
David Jekel	University of Ottawa
Seonghyeon Jeong	Osaka University
Kukkeprasanna J	Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru
Justin Johnson Kakeu Kengne
Arash Karoobi	University of Manitoba
Dohyoung Ko	University of Ottawa
Wonbong Koh	Koh Capital Management
Vimal Kumarasamy Balasubramanian	Delft University of Technology
Quoc Le	University of Rhode Island
Subhas Lewis
Bintao Li
Zhiyi Lin	University of Ottawa
Tsz Shing Li	University of Toronto
Lanqing (Sara) Liu	University of Toronto
Ziran Liu
Xingjie Helen Li	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Yifan Li	Western University
Andrea Macrina	University of Ottawa
Farzaneh Mahdisoltani
Dai Matsuzaka	University of Toronto
Anderson Melchor Hernandez	University of Bologna
Jose Morales	University of Texas at San Antonio
Muhammad Muzammil	University of New Brunswick
Siddharth Nand	Teranet
Rafael Oliveira	University of Waterloo
Hagar Omar	King Fahd University of Petroelum & Minerals
Kayode Oshinubi	Northern Arizona University
Katerina Papagiannouli
Pavlo Pelikh	University of Ottawa
Igor Vinicius Pereira Pinheiro	University of Florence
Alessandro Pinzi	Bocconi University
Kunlun Qi	Michigan State University
George Radner	University of Toronto
Marjan Rajabi	Toronto Metropolitan University
Arghya Rakshit	University of Toronto
Mert Rassa	University of Toronto
Eric Regis	Yale University
Adeeb Rouhani	York University
Denis Ruban	University of Ottawa
Mehrad Sahebi	Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Keiya Sakabe	LMU Munich
Adil Salim	Microsoft Research
Juspreet Singh Sandhu	Colorado State University
Maria Gabriela Scapin	University of Ottawa
Cartik Sharma
Roman Shepel
Thiago Silva Miranda	IMPA (Instituto Nacional de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil)
Vahid Soleimany	Apple
Hae Jin Song	The Fields Institute
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
Brett Teeple
Yupeng Tian	University of Toronto
Yi-Lin Tsai	McMaster University
Octavio Vega	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
lissette velec	United States Naval Academy
Jinxin Wang	HEC Montréal
Zirui Wang	University of Waterloo
Alfred Wärnsäter	KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Ting-Kam Leonard Wong	University of Toronto
Haotian Xiao	University of Sussex
Ruochuan Xu	Stanford University
Jayant Yadav	University of Toronto
Felix Ye	SUNY at Albany
Tomoo Yokoyama	Saitama University
Lei Yu	Tongji University
Jimmy Zhang	Carleton University
Tim Zheng	University of Toronto
Bohan Zhou	UC Santa Barbara
Ivan Zhytkevych	University of Ottawa