Organisers: Masoumeh Dashti, Kody Law, Gareth Roberts, Andrew Stuart and David White

The seminars are held on Fridays at 12:00 in Room B3.02 - Mathematics Institute

Supported by the Roberts' Fund for Researchers

Term 3 2011/12

• 14 June 2012
  Gideon Simpson (Univeristy of Minnesota)
  Numerical analysis of parallel replica dynamics
  Mauricio Santillana (Harvard)
  Can we use global atmospheric chemistry models to identify who emits what? - poster and details 
• 21 June 2012
  John Bardsley (University of Montana)
  Using Iterative methods for efficient MCMC in high-dimensional inverse problems
  

Term 2 2011/12

• 13 Jan 2012
  Youssef Marzouk (MIT)
  

  Spectral approximations and optimal maps for Bayesian inverse problems
  [Part of a special one-day workshop: Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems]

  20 Jan 2012
  Georg Schoechtel (TU Darmstadt)
  Motion of Inertial Particles in Gaussian Fields driven by an infinite-dimensional Fractional Brownian Motion
• 27 Jan 2012
  Heikki Haario (LUT)
  Parameter tuning of weather models
• 3 Feb 2012
  Mariya Krivko (Leicester)
  Numerical integration of Heath-Jarrow-Morton model of interest rates
• 10 Feb 2012
  Andreas Langer (ÖAW)
  Subspace Correction and Domain Decomposition Methods for Total Variation Minimization
• 17 Feb 2012
  Mason Porter (Oxford)
  Community Structure in Networks
• 24 Feb 2012
  Mauro Mariani (Aix-Marseilles)
  Deviations for processes with averaging phenomena
• 2 Mar 2012
  Alexey Bespalov (Manchester)
  

  Numerical analysis of saddle point problems with random data

  9 Mar 2012
  Omar Lakkis (Sussex)
  Domain indentification problems for the Poisson equation
• 16 Mar 2012
  Shuai Lu (Fudan)
  Growth rate identification in the crystallization of polymers
  

Term 1 2011/12

Programme pdf

• 7 Oct 2011
  Daniel Rudolf (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
  Error bounds for the integration with respect to log-concave densities
• 14 Oct 2011
  Natesh Pillai (Harvard)
  On Approximate Bayes Computation and model choice
• 21 Oct 2011
  TBA 
  TBA
• 28 Oct 2011
  Andrew Stuart (Warwick)
  Filtering for the Navier-Stokes equation
• 4 Nov 2011
  Juan Restrepo (Arizona)
  Climate, Assimilation of Data and Models; When Data Fail Us
• 11 Nov 2011
  Julia Charrier (Bretagne)
  Weak and strong error estimates for elliptic PDE with random coefficients
• 18 Nov 2011
  Adam Johansen (Warwick)
  Local Sequential Monte Carlo Methods
• 25 Nov 2011
  Thorsten Hohage (Goettingen University)
  Regularization of Statistical Inverse Problems
• 2 Dec 2011
  Marco Iglesias (MIT)
  Data inversion for the characterization of subsurface properties in a coupled flow and geomechanics model
  (TiC speaker) Natalia Rozhenko (Odessa, Ukraine)
  Passive impedance systems and stochastic realizations of stationary processes
• 9 Dec 2011
  Sam Kou (Harvard)
  Stochastic modeling in single-molecule biophysics