A seminar series in the School of Mathematics.

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Optimization with expensive and uncertain data - challenges and improvements
Coralia Cartis (University of Oxford)
Wed 20 Mar 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 6201

Dynamically Consistent Parameterization of Mesoscale Eddies
Pavel Berloff (Imperial College)
Wed 20 Mar 2019, 15:00 - 16:00
JCMB 6201

From molecular mechanics to Brownian dynamics and multi-resolution methods
Radek Erban (University of Oxford)
Wed 13 Mar 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB5323

Tangent-space splittings for data assimilation
Jason Frank (Utrecht)
Wed 06 Mar 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5323

Automated Shape Optimization in FEniCS
Simon Wolfgang Funke (Simula research laboratory)
Wed 06 Feb 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB5323

Strategies for Multilevel Monte Carlo
Kody Law (Manchester)
Wed 30 Jan 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5323


Analysis of Langevin Monte-Carlo via convex optimization
Alain Durmus (ENS Paris-Saclay)
Wed 16 Jan 2019, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5323

A Nonlinear Spectral Method for Network Core-Periphery Detection
Des Higham (University of Strathclyde)
Wed 05 Dec 2018, 16:20 - 17:20
Bayes Centre, G.03

Gluing methods for Vortex dynamics in Euler flows
Manuel del Pino (University of Bath)
Wed 05 Dec 2018, 15:00 - 16:00
Bayes Centre, G.03

Multimodal biomedical image analysis: sparse, shallow and deep
Sotirios Tsaftaris (University of Edinburgh)
Wed 28 Nov 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB5323

Parameter estimation for pedestrian dynamics models
Susana Gomes (University of Warwick)
Wed 21 Nov 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB5323

New techniques for calculating cubature rules on the triangle
Stefanos Papanicolopulos (University of Edinburgh)
Wed 31 Oct 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5323


A low-rank projector-splitting integrator for the Vlasov-Poisson equation
Christian Lubich (Tübingen University )
Wed 10 Oct 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
ICMS Lecture Theatre (Room 5.10)

Hanging by a thread: how to fly at very low Reynolds numbers
Cathal Cummins (University of Edinburgh)
Wed 03 Oct 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5323

Krylov Subspace Methods for Regularisation and Sparse Reconstruction
Dr Silvia Gazzola (University of Bath)
Wed 31 Jan 2018, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5323

Scalable bifurcation analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations
Patrick Farrell (University of Oxford)
Wed 15 Nov 2017, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5323

Controlling gene-expression noise with feedback in burst size
Pavol Bokes (Comenious University)
Wed 08 Nov 2017, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5323

Preconditioned iterative methods for nonsymmetric Toeplitz and block Toeplitz matrices
Jennifer Pestana (Strathclyde)
Wed 01 Nov 2017, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5323



Analysis of p-Laplacian Regularization in Semi-Supervised Learning
Matthew Thorpe (Cambridge)
Wed 04 Oct 2017, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5323

Gaussian process regression in Bayesian inverse problems
Aretha Teckentrup (University of Edinburgh)
Wed 07 Dec 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5327

Scaling theory for vortices in the two-dimensional inverse energy cascade
Helen Burgess (University of St Andrew's)
Wed 16 Nov 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5327

Attractors of Piecewise Smooth Maps
Paul Glendinning (University of Manchester)
Wed 09 Nov 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5327

Real world constraints in machine learning.
Amos Storkey (University of Edinburgh)
Wed 02 Nov 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5327

SNIPE for memory-limited PCA with incomplete data: From failure to success
Armin Eftekhari (Alan Turing Institute)
Wed 26 Oct 2016, 16:30 - 17:00
JCMB 5327

Learning Sparse Additive Models with Interactions in High Dimensions
Hemant Tyagi (Alan Turing Institute)
Wed 26 Oct 2016, 16:00 - 16:30
JCMB 5327

From atoms to data science: numerical algorithms for sampling and thermodynamic control
Ben Leimkuhler (University of Edinburgh)
Wed 19 Oct 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5327

Parallel Adaptive Importance Sampling
Dr Simon Cotter (University of Manchester)
Wed 12 Oct 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5327

Geometric Singular Perturbation Analysis of a Model for Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems
Annalisa Luorio (Technische Universität, Wien)
Wed 28 Sep 2016, 16:00 - 17:00
JCMB 5327