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Short courses: Introduction to optimal transport theory / Filippo Santambrogio -- Models and applications of optimal transport in economics, traffic, and urban planning / Filippo Santambrogio --Logarithmic Sobolev inequality for diffusion semigroups / Ivan Gentil -- Lecture notes on variational models for incompressible Euler equations / Luigi Ambrosio and Alessio Figalli -- Ricci flow : the foundations via optimal transportation / Peter Topping -- Lecture notes on gradient flows and optimal transport / Sara Daneri and Giuseppe Savaré -- Ricci curvature, entropy, and optimal transport / Shin-ichi Ohta -- Surveys and research papers: Computing a mass transport problem with a least-squares method / Olivier Besson, Martine Picq, and Jérome Poussin -- On the duality theory for the Monge-Kantorovich transport problem / Mathias Beiglböck, Christian Léonard, and Walter Schachermayer -- Optimal coupling for mean field limits / François Bolley -- Functional inequalities via Lyapunov conditions /PatrockCattiaux and Arnaud Guillin -- Size of the medial axis and stability of Federer's curvature measures / Quentin Mérigot.

The theory of optimal transportation has its origins in the eighteenth century when the problem of transporting resources at a minimal cost was first formalised. Through subsequent developments, particularly in recent decades, it has become a powerful modern theory. This book contains the proceedings of the summer school 'Optimal Transportation: Theory and Applications' held at the Fourier Institute in Grenoble. The event brought together mathematicians from pure and applied mathematics, astrophysics, economics and computer science. Part I of this book is devoted to introductory lecture notes accessible to graduate students, while Part II contains research papers. Together, they represent a valuable resource on both fundamental and advanced aspects of optimal transportation, its applications, and its interactions with analysis, geometry, PDE and probability, urban planning and economics. Topics covered include Ricci flow, the Euler equations, functional inequalities, curvature-dimension conditions, and traffic congestion.