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OT Programmatic Seminar: Geometry of Wasserstein space December 10, 2013 (03:45 PM PST - 04:45 PM PST)
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Location: SLMath: Baker Board Room
Speaker(s) John Lott (University of California, Berkeley)
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I'll discuss some aspects of the geometry of the Wasserstein space of probability measures, both at a formal level and a rigorous level : tangent cones, curvature and parallel transport.

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