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Title: The geometry of the space of measures and its applications
Speaker: John Lott
Speaker Info: University of California, Berkeley
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In 1781, Monge asked about the optimal way to transport a dirtpile from one place to another. Performing such an optimal transport gives a geodesic path in the space of probability measures. The optimal transport problem has had recent applications to Riemannian geometry (collapse with Ricci curvature bounded below). I will describe these developments.