Assyr Abdulle Lecture

The Assyr Abdulle Lecture is a public lecture given periodically by a visitor of the Bernoulli Center for Fundamental Studies.

Prof. Assyr Abdulle was a faculty member at the Mathematics Institute at EPFL from 2009 until 2021. He was a world-renowned expert in the field of numerical methods for stochastic differential equations and multiscale problems. He was a passionate researcher engaged in promoting mathematics at EPFL. He was in particular engaged in the development of the Youth at Bernoulli program. This public lecture celebrates his memory.

For the 2025 Assyr Abdulle Lecture, we will be happy to welcome Prof Alessio Figalli from the ETH Zürich.

It will take place on Monday 10th November 2025.

2025 Edition: Monday 10 November 2025

For the 2025 Assyr Abdulle Lecture, we were happy to welcome Prof Alessio Figalli from the ETH Zürich.

The lecture will take place from 16:30 to 17:30 at the SwissTech Center.

Title:
Optimal Transport: From A to B… and Beyond

Abstract:

What is the most efficient way to move something from A to B? That’s precisely the question Gaspard Monge took on back in the 18th century. Fast forward to today, and the theory of Optimal Transport (OT) has evolved into a versatile framework used in areas as diverse as economics, data science, and the natural sciences. In this talk, we’ll take a tour through the fundamentals of OT and dive into a few applications, offering a glimpse of why OT has become such a central tool in modern mathematics and beyond.

2024 Edition: Wednesday 16 October 2024

For the 2024 Assyr Abdulle lecture, we were happy to welcome Prof. Stanislav Smirnov from the University of Geneva.

2023 Edition: Wednesday 29 November 2023

For the 2023 Assyr Abdulle lecture, we were happy to welcome Prof. Kevin Buzzard from Imperial college London.