Mathematics
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| High-performance importance sampling schemes for Bayesian inference |
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| Dr Victor Elvira (University of Edinburgh) |
| Fri 28 Feb 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.10 |
| Doubly Sparse Variational Gaussian Processes |
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| Dr Vincent Adam (Prowler.io) |
| Fri 07 Feb 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Lecture Theatre 5.10 |
| Estimating the Effect of Insurance on Doctor Visits by Copula-Based Regression Additive Models |
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| Dr Giampiero Marra (UCL) |
| Fri 17 Jan 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Latent (Hidden) Markov models and the LMest package in R |
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| Dr Fulvia Pennoni (University of Milano-Bicocca) |
| Fri 06 Dec 2019, 11:10 - 12:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Bayesian regression for group testing data |
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| Prof. Joshua M. Tebbs (University of South Carolina) |
| Thu 28 Nov 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 |
| An introduction to quantum state estimation |
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| Dr Madalin Guta (University of Nottingham) |
| Fri 22 Nov 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Is EM really necessary here? Some examples where EM seems over-elaborate |
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| Dr Iain L. MacDonald (University of Cape Town) |
| Fri 15 Nov 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5328 |
| Strategies for Multilevel Monte Carlo |
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| Prof Kody Law (University of Manchester) |
| Fri 08 Nov 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Crossing dependence in Gaussian processes in time, space, and space-time - some applications of a generalized Rice's formula |
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| Prof. Georg Lindgren (Lund University) |
| Fri 01 Nov 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| Bayes Centre, 5.10 (5th floor) |
| CANCELLED: A semi-Markov approach to modelling age-dependent survival |
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| Dr Hannah Worthington (St. Andrews) |
| Fri 25 Oct 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| A NONCONVEX VARIATIONAL APPROACH FOR ROBUST GRAPHICAL LASSO |
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| Dr Emilie Chouzenoux (INRIA Saclay, Paris) |
| Fri 25 Oct 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Dynamic Programming in Change Point Detection in High-Dimensional Autoregression Problems |
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| Yi Yu (University of Warwick) |
| Fri 18 Oct 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Unbiased Estimation of the Gradient of the log-likelihood for Partially Observed Diffusions |
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| Prof Ajay Jasra (KAUST) |
| Thu 03 Oct 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Extremal dependence in a Hüsler–Reiss Markov tree |
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| Johan Segers (UCLouvain) |
| Fri 27 Sep 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Additive smooth models for big data |
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| Simon Wood (University of Bristol) |
| Mon 23 Sep 2019, 10:30 - 11:30 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.10 |
| A Loss-Based Prior for Variable Selection in Linear Regression Methods |
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| Dr Cristiano Villa (University of Kent) |
| Fri 20 Sep 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Using forest eco-system monitoring data to model tree health and mortality for investigating climate change effects |
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| Nicole Augustin (University of Bath) |
| Tue 17 Sep 2019, 11:00 - 11:55 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Convergence rates for optimised adaptive importance samplers |
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| Ömer Deniz Akyıldız (Alan Turing Institute) |
| Mon 16 Sep 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 |
| A D-Vine Copula-Based Model for Repeated Measurements |
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| Prof Claudia Czado (Technical University of Munich) |
| Fri 06 Sep 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Comparing Bayesian spatial models in the presence of spatial smoothing |
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| Dr Earl Duncan (Queensland University of Technology - ACEMS) |
| Mon 02 Sep 2019, 14:05 - 15:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 |
| On Choosing Mixture Components via Non-Local Priors |
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| Prof Mark Steel -- University of Warwick |
| Tue 28 May 2019, 14:05 - 15:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 |
| Optimisation methods for Bayesian inference: Application to Astro-Imaging |
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| Dr Audrey Repetti (Heriot-Watt University) |
| Fri 10 May 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Large numbers of explanatory variables |
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| Dr Heather Battey (Imperial College London) |
| Fri 03 May 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| High resolution mapping of childhood vaccination coverage in low and middle income countries using point-referenced and areal data |
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| Dr Chigozie Utazi - University of Southampton |
| Fri 26 Apr 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Combining citizen science and survey data in a log-Gaussian Cox process framework to estimate the monthly space-use of Southern Resident Killer Whales using R-INLA and inlabru |
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| Joe Watson -- University of British Columbia |
| Fri 26 Apr 2019, 14:00 - 14:45 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Emulation and Calibration of Complex Environmental System Simulators |
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| Michael Goldstein (University of Durham), Daniel Williamson (University of Exeter), Peter Young (University of Lancaster) |
| Thu 11 Apr 2019, 09:00 - 12:30 |
| JCMB 5328 |
| Evaluating Performance of Mean Estimators of Sensitive Variables under Measurement Errors with Respect to Efficiency and Respondent Privacy |
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| Prof. Sat Gupta - University of North Carolina |
| Fri 05 Apr 2019, 12:05 - 13:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Probabilistic symmetry and invariant neural networks |
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| Dr Benjamin Bloem-Reddy (University of Oxford) |
| Fri 29 Mar 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| Bayes Centre, 5.10 (5th floor) |
| Real Time Decision Making for Infectious Disease Outbreaks |
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| Dr Mike Tildesley - University of Warwick |
| Fri 22 Mar 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Optimization with expensive and uncertain data - challenges and improvements |
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| Coralia Cartis (University of Oxford) |
| Wed 20 Mar 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 6201 |
| Dynamically Consistent Parameterization of Mesoscale Eddies |
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| Pavel Berloff (Imperial College) |
| Wed 20 Mar 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 6201 |
| Classification with unknown class conditional label noise on non-compact feature spaces |
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| Dr Henry Reeve (University of Birmingham) |
| Fri 15 Mar 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| From molecular mechanics to Brownian dynamics and multi-resolution methods |
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| Radek Erban (University of Oxford) |
| Wed 13 Mar 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB5323 |
| Tangent-space splittings for data assimilation |
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| Jason Frank (Utrecht) |
| Wed 06 Mar 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Group invariance for objective prior elicitation in testing problems |
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| Anabel Forte - Universitat de València |
| Fri 01 Mar 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Modelling covariance matrices by the trigonometric separation strategy with applications to time series analysis |
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| Dr. Luigi Spezia - BioMathematics and Statistics Scotland |
| Fri 08 Feb 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Automated Shape Optimization in FEniCS |
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| Simon Wolfgang Funke (Simula research laboratory) |
| Wed 06 Feb 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB5323 |
| Bayesian Cluster Analysis: Point Estimation and Credible Balls |
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| Dr Sara Wade - University of Edinburgh |
| Fri 01 Feb 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Efficient multivariate entropy estimation and independence testing |
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| Dr Thomas Berrett (University of Cambridge) |
| Fri 25 Jan 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Reliable communication over noisy channels by Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) |
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| Ken Duffy (Trinity College Dublin) |
| Wed 23 Jan 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| Lecture theathre 3, Appleton Tower |
| Analysis of Langevin Monte-Carlo via convex optimization |
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| Alain Durmus (ENS Paris-Saclay) |
| Wed 16 Jan 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| A Hierarchical Framework for Correcting Under-Reporting in Count Data |
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| Dr Theo Economou - University of Exeter |
| Fri 11 Jan 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Lecture Theatre 5.10 |
| CANCELLED 14/12/18 |
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| Prof. Gareth Peters - Heriot-Watt University |
| Fri 14 Dec 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED |
| Maximising the potential of removal data |
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| Dr Rachel McCrea - University of Kent |
| Fri 07 Dec 2018, 14:05 - 15:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.46 |
| A Nonlinear Spectral Method for Network Core-Periphery Detection |
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| 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 |
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| Manuel del Pino (University of Bath) |
| Wed 05 Dec 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 |
| Bayes Centre, G.03 |
| Scaled von Mises-Fisher distributions |
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| Prof Andrew Wood - University of Nottingham |
| Fri 30 Nov 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Multimodal biomedical image analysis: sparse, shallow and deep |
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| Sotirios Tsaftaris (University of Edinburgh) |
| Wed 28 Nov 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB5323 |
| Location-adjusted Wald statistics |
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| Dr Ioannis Kosmidis - University of Warwick |
| Fri 23 Nov 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Parameter estimation for pedestrian dynamics models |
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| Susana Gomes (University of Warwick) |
| Wed 21 Nov 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB5323 |
| Bayesian prediction for physical models with application to the optimization of the synthesis of pharmaceutical products using chemical kinetics |
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| Dr Antony Overstall - University of Southampton |
| Fri 16 Nov 2018, 11:05 - 12:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Lecture Theatre 5.10 |
| Efficient, high-dimensional sampling using stochastic differential equations |
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| Prof Benedict Leimkuhler - University of Edinburgh |
| Fri 09 Nov 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.10 |
| The Rothamsted School meets Lord’s Paradox |
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| Prof. Stephen Senn |
| Fri 02 Nov 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| New techniques for calculating cubature rules on the triangle |
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| Stefanos Papanicolopulos (University of Edinburgh) |
| Wed 31 Oct 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Probabilistic and statistical analysis of the linear fractional stable motion |
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| Prof. Mark Podolskij - Aarhus University |
| Fri 26 Oct 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| Room 5.10, Bayes Centre |
| Point processes – abstraction and practical relevance |
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| Janine Illian - University of St Andrews |
| Fri 19 Oct 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| From fluctuations in particle systems to their scaling limits and applications |
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| Johannes Zimmer (Bath) |
| Wed 17 Oct 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| ICMS Lecture Theatre (Room 5.10) |
| A low-rank projector-splitting integrator for the Vlasov-Poisson equation |
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| 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 |
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| Cathal Cummins (University of Edinburgh) |
| Wed 03 Oct 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Classification with imperfect training labels |
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| Dr Tim Cannings - University of Edinburgh |
| Fri 28 Sep 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| Bayes Centre, 5.10 (5th floor) |
| A re-appraisal of fixed-effect(s) meta-analysis |
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| Prof. Ken Rice - University of Washington, Dept of Biostatistics |
| Fri 14 Sep 2018, 14:35 - 15:30 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Implicit Copulas from Bayesian Regularized Regression Smoothers |
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| Dr. Nadja Klein - University of Cologne |
| Wed 29 Aug 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 6201 |
| Krylov Subspace Methods for Regularisation and Sparse Reconstruction |
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| Dr Silvia Gazzola (University of Bath) |
| Wed 31 Jan 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Scalable bifurcation analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations |
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| Patrick Farrell (University of Oxford) |
| Wed 15 Nov 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Controlling gene-expression noise with feedback in burst size |
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| Pavol Bokes (Comenious University) |
| Wed 08 Nov 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Preconditioned iterative methods for nonsymmetric Toeplitz and block Toeplitz matrices |
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| Jennifer Pestana (Strathclyde) |
| Wed 01 Nov 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Adaptive stochastic Galerkin finite element approximation: accurate error estimation and memory-smart solvers. |
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| Catherine Powell (Manchester) |
| Wed 18 Oct 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Heat kernels in graphs: A journey from random walks to geometry, and back |
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| He Sun (Edinburgh) |
| Wed 11 Oct 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Analysis of p-Laplacian Regularization in Semi-Supervised Learning |
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| Matthew Thorpe (Cambridge) |
| Wed 04 Oct 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Gaussian process regression in Bayesian inverse problems |
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| Aretha Teckentrup (University of Edinburgh) |
| Wed 07 Dec 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5327 |
| Fitting real-valued conditional distributions |
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| Iain Murray (imurray2) |
| Tue 29 Nov 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 |
| JCMB 6207 |
| An Analytical Framework for Consensus-based Global Optimization Method |
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| Lukasz Szpruch |
| Tue 22 Nov 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 |
| JCMB 6207 |
| Scaling theory for vortices in the two-dimensional inverse energy cascade |
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| Helen Burgess (University of St Andrew's) |
| Wed 16 Nov 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5327 |
| Stochastic Optimization with Variance Reduction for Infinite Datasets with Finite-Sum Structure |
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| Dominik Csiba (s1459570) |
| Tue 15 Nov 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 |
| JCMB 6207 |
| Attractors of Piecewise Smooth Maps |
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| Paul Glendinning (University of Manchester) |
| Wed 09 Nov 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5327 |
| Large-Scale Gaussian Process Regression via Doubly Stochastic Gradient Descent |
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| Aretha Teckentrup |
| Tue 08 Nov 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 |
| JCMB 6207 |
| Real world constraints in machine learning. |
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| Amos Storkey (University of Edinburgh) |
| Wed 02 Nov 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5327 |
| Variance Reduction for Faster Non-Convex Optimization |
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| Filip Hanzely |
| Tue 01 Nov 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 |
| JCMB 6207 |
| SNIPE for memory-limited PCA with incomplete data: From failure to success |
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| Armin Eftekhari (Alan Turing Institute) |
| Wed 26 Oct 2016, 16:30 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5327 |
| Learning Sparse Additive Models with Interactions in High Dimensions |
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| Hemant Tyagi (Alan Turing Institute) |
| Wed 26 Oct 2016, 16:00 - 16:30 |
| JCMB 5327 |
| Linear Coupling: An Ultimate Unification of Gradient and Mirror Descent |
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| Dominik Csiba (s1459570) |
| Tue 25 Oct 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 |
| JCMB 6207 |
| From atoms to data science: numerical algorithms for sampling and thermodynamic control |
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| Ben Leimkuhler (University of Edinburgh) |
| Wed 19 Oct 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5327 |
| Parallel Adaptive Importance Sampling |
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| Dr Simon Cotter (University of Manchester) |
| Wed 12 Oct 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5327 |
| Quantum Seiberg-Witten curve and q-deformed W(infinity) algebra |
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| Yutaka Matsuo |
| Wed 12 Oct 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| ICMS, New Seminar Room |
| Finite BMS transformations |
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| Glenn Barnich |
| Wed 12 Oct 2016, 14:30 - 15:30 |
| ICMS, New Seminar Room |
| Convergence Rates for Greedy Kaczmarz Algorithms, and Faster Randomized Kaczmarz Rules Using the Orthogonality Graph |
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| Nicolas Loizou |
| Tue 11 Oct 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 |
| JCMB 6207 |
| Differentially Private Empirical Risk Minimization |
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| Jakub Konecny (s1355001) |
| Tue 04 Oct 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 |
| JCMB 6207 |
| Scrambling time in eternal BTZ black hole |
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| Andrius Stikonas |
| Wed 28 Sep 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| ICMS, New Seminar Room |
| Geometric Singular Perturbation Analysis of a Model for Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems |
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| Annalisa Luorio (Technische Universität, Wien) |
| Wed 28 Sep 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| JCMB 5327 |
| Soft Heisenberg hair |
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| Daniel Grumiller |
| Wed 28 Sep 2016, 14:30 - 15:30 |
| ICMS, New Seminar Room |
| Online ad allocation |
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| Dominik Csiba (s1459570) |
| Tue 27 Sep 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 |
| JCMB 6207 |
| Convergence rates of sub-sampled Newton methods (Erdogdu & Montanari - 8/2015) |
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| Robert Gower |
| Tue 13 Oct 2015, 12:15 - 13:15 |
| JCMB 6311 |
| Newton sketch (Pilanci & Wainwright - 5/2015) |
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| Robert Gower |
| Tue 06 Oct 2015, 12:15 - 13:15 |
| JCMB 6311 |
| Beyond Convexity: Stochastic Quasi-Convex Optimization (Hazan, Levy, Shalev-Shwartz) |
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| Dominik Csiba |
| Tue 29 Sep 2015, 12:15 - 13:15 |
| JCMB 6311 |
| FreeAgent Informatics |
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| Dave Evans, FreeAgent |
| Tue 30 Jun 2015, 16:30 - 17:30 |
| Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) |
| Aridhia Informatics |
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| Rodrigo Barnes |
| Tue 26 May 2015, 16:30 - 17:30 |
| Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |