{"id":1896,"date":"2026-03-16T14:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umi.dm.unibo.it\/jm-ita-bra-2026\/?page_id=1896"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:13:15","slug":"special-session-18","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/umi.dm.unibo.it\/jm-ita-bra-2026\/special-sessions\/special-session-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Session 18 &#8211; Optimal Control, Optimal Transport and Related Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mms7qkau-d2bee843739779d296e80822fec19f0d '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Special Session 18<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Optimal Control, Optimal Transport and Related Fields<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Organizers: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michele Palladino (University of L&#8217;Aquila, Italy),<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maria Soledad Aronna (Foundation Getulio Vargas, Brazil)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>MSC codes:<\/strong> 49-XX, 93-XX<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Description:<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Optimal control provides a fundamental framework for decision-making in dynamical systems, while optimal transport offers powerful tools for comparing, interpolating, and evolving probability measures. In recent years, deep connections between these fields have emerged, driven by shared variational principles, PDE formulations, and motivated by various applications. The goal of this session is to highlight emerging challenges at the interface of these constantly evolving fields.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Valeriano Antunes, S\u00e3o Paulo State University (Brazil)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Maria Soledad Aronna, Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Marco Caponigro, University of Rome &#8220;Tor Vergata&#8221; (Italy)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Adriano Festa, Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jo\u00e3o Miguel Machado, Paris-Saclay University (France)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lucas Machado Moschen, Imperial College London (United Kingdom)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michele Palladino, University of L&#8217;Aquila (Italy)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Daniela Tonon, University of Padua (Italy)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":210,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1896","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umi.dm.unibo.it\/jm-ita-bra-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umi.dm.unibo.it\/jm-ita-bra-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umi.dm.unibo.it\/jm-ita-bra-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umi.dm.unibo.it\/jm-ita-bra-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umi.dm.unibo.it\/jm-ita-bra-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/umi.dm.unibo.it\/jm-ita-bra-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/umi.dm.unibo.it\/jm-ita-bra-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1896\/revisions\/2257"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umi.dm.unibo.it\/jm-ita-bra-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umi.dm.unibo.it\/jm-ita-bra-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}