This workshop aims to bring together leading experts and promising junior scientists in the fields of optimal transport and metric geometry. It is specifically designed to foster the contact between researchers who study Ricci curvature from two per se different angles, namely Riemannian and Lorentzian geometry — two disciplines currently enjoying a high research activity. Under the common roof offered by this workshop, the talks outline new developments, results, and challenges in nonlinear PDEs, mathematical general relativity, discrete geometry, random geometry, statistical mechanics, and quantum optimal transport.
Mathias Braun (EPFL)
Nicola Gigli (SISSA Trieste)
Robert McCann (U Toronto)
Please contact mathias [dot] braun [at] epfl [dot] ch for any questions!
Eitan Bachmat (Ben-Gurion U)
Annegret Burtscher* (Radboud U)
Esther Cabezas-Rivas (U Valencia)
Fabio Cavalletti* (U Milano Statale)
Melanie Graf (U Hamburg)
Shouhei Honda (U Tokyo)
Michael Kunzinger (U Vienna)
Jan Maas (IST Austria)
Lorenzo Mazzieri (U Trento)
Ettore Minguzzi (U Pisa)
Andrea Mondino (U Oxford)
Shin-ichi Ohta (Osaka U)
Clemens Sämann (U Vienna)
Giuseppe Savaré (Bocconi U)
Daniele Semola (U Vienna)
Christina Sormani* (CUNY)
Karl-Theodor Sturm (U Bonn)
Stefan Suhr (U Bochum)
*remote participation
We have reserved some slots for contributed talks. If you would like to contribute such a talk, please indicate this in the registration form below together with a tentative title of your presentation.
The deadline for registration and submission of proposals for contributed talks was June 15, 2025. Please email mathias [dot] braun [at] epfl [dot] ch if you are interested in participating in person!
Upon receiving their confirmation of participation by the organizers, participants are kindly asked to arrange their own accommodation.
Funding of this workshop by the Bernoulli Center for Fundamental Studies, the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati Trieste, The Mathematics of Physics National Centre of Competence in Research SwissMAP, and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) is gratefully acknowledged.