Workshop Optimal Transport and Noise: OT meets (S)PDEs

16-18 March 2026, Weierstrass Institute

Venue

The conference will take place in the ESH Lecture Room on the ground floor of the main building of the Weierstrass Institute.

Overview

The workshop explores connections between optimal transport, rough analysis, and (S)PDEs. Optimal transport provides a powerful geometric and variational framework to quantify distances between probability measures, offering novel perspectives on the evolution of random fields. SPDEs, on the other hand, model dynamics driven by noise and uncertainty, capturing phenomena ranging from fluid dynamics to population models. By bridging these two areas, we aim to illuminate how transport-based metrics, gradient flows, and Wasserstein geometry can be employed to analyze well-posedness, stability, and long-time behavior of SPDEs.

Organizers

  • Oleg Butkovsky (HU and WIAS Berlin)
  • Peter Friz (TU and WIAS Berlin)
  • Helena Kremp (TU and WIAS Berlin)
  • Matthias Liero (WIAS Berlin)

Registration