Kantorovich Initiative: 2023-2026

2023 — 2026

The Kantorovich Initiative is dedicated towards research and dissemination of modern mathematics of optimal transport towards a wide audience of researchers, students, industry, policy makers and the general public.

The group was convened by Young-Heon Kim (University of British Columbia), Soumik Pal (University of Washington) and Brendan Pass (University of Alberta), with support from the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences. It was initially convened as a the PIHOT Collaborative Research Group, but has since grown to become the first awarded PIMS Research Network.

Ben Adcock
Professor of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
Brendan Pass
Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Alberta
Khanh Dao Duc
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
Young-Heon Kim
Professor of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
Geoffrey Schiebinger
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
Benjamin Bloem-Reddy
Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of British Columbia
Yanqin Fan
Professor of Economics, University of Washington
Zaid Harchaoui
Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Washington
Bamdad Hosseini
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
Jingwei Hu
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
Soumik Pal
Professor of Mathematics, University of Washington
Stefan Steinerberger
University of Washington, Mathematics