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.

Invited speakers

  • Beatrice Acciaio (ETH Zürich)
  • Matthias Beiglböck (University of Vienna)
  • Fabian Germ (TU Delft)
  • Anastasiia Hraivoronska (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)
  • Marius Lange (AI Center, ETH Zürich)
  • Chengcheng Ling (University of Augsburg)
  • Benjamin Robinson (University of Klagenfurt)
  • Dario Trevisan (Università di Pisa)
  • Máté Gerencsér (TU Vienna)
  • Lukas Anzeletti (TU Vienna)
  • Jiawei Li (University of Edinburgh)
  • Khoa Lê (University of Leeds)
  • Anna Shalova (University of Amsterdam)

Organizers

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

Registration

Each participant (speaker or conference attendant) is requested to register online. Registration is mandatory. We reserve the right to close the registration as soon as the maximum participant number due to room capacities is reached.