Dear All, You are kindly invited to attend the next Stochastics and Finance seminar. On Wednesday February 24 at 10am (Sydney time) Marcel Nutz will give a talk via Zoom. Zoom link: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/87491585109 Speaker: Prof Marcel Nutz (Columbia University) Title: Entropic Optimal Transport Abstract: Applied optimal transport is flourishing after computational advances have enabled its use in real-world problems with large data sets. Entropic regularization is a key method to approximate optimal transport in high dimensions while retaining feasible computational complexity. In this talk we discuss the convergence of entropic optimal transport to the unregularized counterpart as the regularization parameter vanishes, with a focus on the local behavior. Based on joint works with Espen Bernton (Columbia), Promit Ghosal (MIT), Johannes Wiesel (Columbia). http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/SemConf/Stochastics_Finance/seminar.html Please feel free to forward this message to anyone who might be interested in this talk. Kind regards, Anna