Monday 17th June

8:30 Registration in Room B1.37
9:30-10:10 Dean Oliver (Uni Centre for Integrated Petroluem Research, Bergen) Minimization for Generating an Ensemble of Conditional Realizations from an Ensemble of Unconditional Realizations
10:10-10:50 Jonathan Carter (E.On Exploration and Production) Parallel Tempering Applied to Reservoir History Matching
10:50-11:30 Tea break in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
11:30-12:10 Mike Christie (Institute of Petroleum Engineering) Immersed Interface Methods for Structural Uncertainty Quantification in Porous Media Flow
12:10-12:50 Yan Chen (IRIS, Norway) Iterative Ensemble Smoothers and Applications to Reservoir History Matching
12:50-14:10 Lunch in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
14:10-14:50 Chris Farmer (Oxford) A Variational Smoothing Filter for Sequential Inverse Problems
14:50-15:30 Greg Pavliotis (Imperial College) Speeding Up Convergence to Equilibrium for Diffusion Processes
15:30-16:10 Coffee break in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
16:10-16:50 Henning Omre (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Assimilation of Data by a Multi-scale Ensemble Kalman Filter
16:50-17:30 Marco Iglesias (Warwick) Evaluation and Analysis of Gaussian Approximations to Bayesian Inverse Problems in Subsurface Models

Tuesday 18th June

9:30-10:10 Arnold Heemink (TU Delft) Model Reduced Variational Data Assimilation: An Ensemble Approach to Model Calibration
10:10-10:50 Jaime Gomez-Hernandez (Universitat Politecnica de Valencia) It is Normal not to be Gaussian
10:50-11:30 Tea break in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
11:30-12:10 Dennis McLaughlin (MIT) Real-time Ensembles Control with Reduced-order Modeling 
12:10-12:50 Tan Bui-Thanh (Texas) Structure-Exploiting Scalable Methods for Large-scale Bayesian Inverse Problems in High Dimensional Parameter Spaces
12:50-14:10 Lunch in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
14:10-14:50 Robert Scheichl (Bath) Multilevel Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods
14:50-15:30 Bjoern Sprungk (Chemnitz) Bayesian Inversion for the WIPP groundwater flow
problem15:30-16:10 Coffee break in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
16:10-16:50 Idris Eckley (Lancaster) Title TBC
16:50-17:30 Viet Ha Haong (NTU Singapore) Accelerated Markov Chain - Monte Carlo Methods for Bayesian Inversion
17:30-18:10 Andrew Stuart (Warwick) Geometric Bayesian Inversion in Darcy Flow
18:30 Conference Dinner at Radcliffe House

Wednesday 19th June

9:30-10:10 Eldad Haber (UBC) Design in Inverse Problems - Reducing the Risk and Uncertainty
10:10-10:50 Christoph Schwab (ETH) Sparse Quadrature for Bayesian Inverse Problems
10:50-11:30 Tea break in the Mathematics Institute Common Room
11:30-12:10 Tiejun Li (Peking University) The rare event study for the stochastic Cahn-Hilliard dynamics
12:10-12:50 Peter Jan van Leeuwen (Reading) Efficient particle filters for systems with arbitrary dimension
12:50-14:10 Lunch in the Mathematics Institute Common Room