Recommended Reading:
We recommend that all participants read the following sections from Statistical Optimal Transport before the workshop:
1.1 The optimal transport problem
1.2 Wasserstein distances
1.3 Optimal transport in one dimension
1.6 Duality for p= 1
We also recommend the following sections as supplementary reading:
1.4 Brenier’s theorem (will also be recalled in lecture by Alex Cloninger)
1.5 Kantorovich duality (will also be recalled in lecture by Tudor Manole)