Towards free-energy-dissipating schemes for Wasserstein gradient flows

Orateur: 
Tse, Oliver
Affiliation: 
Eindhoven University of Technology
Dates: 
Jeudi, 28 Juin, 2018 - 11:00 - 12:00
Résumé: 

The natural state space for Wasserstein gradient flows is the space of probability measures. The talk describes (1) ideas and challenges in developing a class of numerical schemes that converge in this space, and (2) insights on how to deal with some of the challenges.