Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Research Visitors

Visits of International Scientists

Jun Kitagawa (University of Toronto) visited Q. Mérigot and B. Thibert from June 1st to 10th, 2015. They worked on theoretical properties of Newton's algorithm for semi-discrete optimal transport problems arising in geometric optics.

Marco Cuturi (Kyoto Univ.) visited MOKAPLAN as invited professor at Paris-Dauphine during the summer 2015 (2 months), to work on applications of optimal transport to machine learning.

Internships

Kévin Degraux, a PhD candidate from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) has visited Mokaplan from November 2015 to January 2016. His work focusses on sparse signal reconstruction.

Visits to International Teams

Research stays abroad

• Q. Mérigot visited Jose-Antonio Carrillo at Imperial College, to start a collaboration on the discretization of Wasserstein gradient flows using Voronoi diagrams.

• F.-X. Vialard was invited for one month at the semester on geometric mechanics and stochastic analysis at EPFL Bernoulli institute in april to work with Darryl D. Holm and other researchers.

• F.-X. Vialard was invited for the semester on Riemannian geometry in infinite dimension in Vienna in january and february.

• G. Carlier has spent six month at U. Victoria visiting Prof. Martial Agueh.

• Gabriel Peyré visited the laboratory of Marco Cuturi (Kyoto Univ.) as invited professor during April 2015, to work on applications of optimal transport to machine learning.