Luca Nenna

Maître de conférences HDR

Université Paris-Saclay

Welcome

Hello! Welcome to my website! I am a maître de conférences in applied mathematics (:= associate professor) in the department of Mathematics at Paris-Saclay University. I am the P.I. of the ANR GOTA and a member of the Inria-Saclay team ParMa.

News

$\bullet$ I have been appointed as a junior member of the I.U.F. (Institut Universitaire de France)!

$\bullet$ I will be a plenary speaker at the International Conference of Basic Science 2025 in Beijing.

$\bullet$ With M. Laborde and P. Pegon we organise a workshop at the bucolic Fondation des Treilles .

I defended my HdR (French habilitation) on the 6th March 2024. You can find here the manuscript.

Before being a MCF at U. PSaclay, I was a post-doc under the supervision of Mathieu Lewin.

In December 2016 I completed my Ph.D. under the supervision of Jean-David Benamou and Guillaume Carlier.

$\bullet$ My research interests lie at the intersection of Optimal Transport, Mathematical Physics, Mathematical Economics and Numerical Optimization.

$\bullet$ I co-organise a monthly seminar on Optimal Transport, PDE and Machine Learning at LMO.

Interests

Optimal Transport
Mathematical Physics
Mathematical Economics
Numerical Optimization

Education

HdR in Mathematics, 2024

Université Paris-Saclay
PhD in Applied Mathematics, 2016

PSL-Université Paris-Dauphine
Master degree in Mathematical Engineering, 2013

Politecnico di Milano

Agenda

I will give a plenary lecture at ICBS 2025

BIMSA Jul 2025 – Jul 2025

I will visit (again) Brendan Pass in Edmonton

University of Alberta Jun 2025 – Jun 2025

I will visit Brendan Pass in Edmonton

University of Alberta Apr 2025 – Mar 2025

I will give a seminar at LMB in Besançon

LMB Mar 2025 – Mar 2025

Experience

Maître de conférences

Université Paris-Saclay

Sep 2018 – Present Orsay, France

Post-Doc

CNRS, PSL-Université Paris-Dauphine

Sep 2017 – Aug 2018 Paris, France

Under the supervision of Mathieu Lewin.

A.T.E.R.

PSL-Université Paris-Dauphine

Sep 2016 – Aug 2017 Paris, France

Temporary assistant professor.

Recent & Upcoming Talks

ICBS 2025

Jul 13, 2025 9:30 AM — Jul 25, 2025 5:30 PM BIMSA

Séminaire EDP

Mar 6, 2025 9:30 AM — 5:30 PM LMB

Séminaire MMCS

Feb 4, 2025 9:30 AM — 5:30 PM ICJ Lyon

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Recent Publications

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Luca Nenna, Daniyar Omarov, Brendan Pass (2025). Characterizing and computing solutions to regularized semi-discrete optimal transport via an ordinary differential equation. preprint.

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Jean-Baptiste Casteras, Leonard Monsaingeon, Luca Nenna (2025). Large deviations for sticky-reflecting Brownian motion with boundary diffusion. preprint.

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Simone Di Marino, Mathieu Lewin, Luca Nenna (2025). Grand-Canonical Optimal Transport. Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal..

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