NEW CHALLENGES IN RECIPROCAL PROCESSES, SCHRODINGER BRIDGES AND OPTIMAL TRANSPORT WITH APPLICATION TO CONTROL ENGINEERING PROBLEMS FOR CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM SYSTEMS

Organizers: Paolo Dai Pra, Michele Pavon and Francesco Ticozzi

The workshop will take place at the Department of Mathematics, University of Padova, via Trieste 63, 35131 Padova, on Friday May 29th, 2015 in rooms 1BC45 (morning) and 1BC50 (afternoon).

TALKS:

Yongxin Chen (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota): Schrodinger bridges and the steering of stochastic and deterministic systems

Giovanni Conforti (Institut fur Mathematik, Universitat Potsdam): Reciprocal characteristics, lattices, and concentration of measure

Markus Fischer (Department of Mathematics University of Padova): On large deviations for the empirical measures of weakly interacting systems

Tryphon T. Georgiou (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Minnesota): The Hilbert metric and Schro ̈dinger bridges

Christian Leonard (Departement de Mathematiques et Informatique Universite ́ Paris Ouest): Looking at the Schrodinger problem with calculus of variations in mind

Sylvie Roelly (Institut fur Mathematik, Universitat Potsdam): A stochastic analysis approach for the characterization of reciprocal classes: the case of Brow- nian diffusions and of compound Poisson processes.

Francesco Ticozzi (Department of Information Engineering University of Padova): A walk to symmetrization via a Schroedingers bridge

Lorenza Viola (Department of Physics and Astronomy Dartmouth College): TBC

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Please do not hesitate to contact me for further details: daipra@math.unipd.it

Paolo Dai Pra

Paolo Dai Pra Dipartimento di Matematica Via Trieste, 63 35121 Padova Tel. +39 0498271361 Fax +39 0498271428 daipra@math.unipd.it