This Is What We Do is a series of student organised talks which provide a forum for academics to showcase their current projects. All talks take place at 12.00 ~ 13.00 pm every other Friday, and are online.
Talks in Autumn 2020 | |
Friday 2nd October | |
Kostas Zygalakis (UoE) | Problems on the Interface of Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis and Applied Probability |
Dr Cathal Cummins (HW) | Going with the flow: Floating drops, sinking bubbles and flying seeds |
Dr Aretha Teckentrup (UoE) | Efficient Algorithms for Uncertainty Quantification and Data Science |
Friday 16th October | |
Dr Audrey Repetti (HW) | Optimisation Methods for Bayesian Inference Application to High Dimensional Inverse Problems |
Dr Abdul-Lateef Haji-Ali (HW) | Uncertainty Quantification and Hierarchical Methods |
Dr Jacob Page (UoE) | Turbulence, dynamical systems and machine learning |
Dr Ben Goddard (UoE) | Complex, Multiscale Modelling |
Friday 2nd November | |
Ben Leimkuhler (UoE) | Thermodynamic approaches in Supervised and Unsupervised Learning |
Damian Clancy (HW) | Deterministic and probabilistic aspects of nonlinear dispersive PDEs |
Oana Pocovnicu (HW) | Stochastic Models for the Spread of Infection |
Friday 20th November | |
Fraser Daly (HW) | Some approximation results for subcritical Erdos-Renyi random graphs |
John Ball (HW) | Solid and liquid crystals |
Martin Evans (UoE) | Stochastic Dynamics of Nonequilibrium Systems |
Friday 27th November | |
Ruth King (UoE) | State-space models: As easy as 1, 2, 3…? |
Des Higham (UoE) | Numerics, Networks, Stochastics and Data Science |
Anke Wiese (HW) | Monte Carlo Methods in Financial Applications – the Cox-Ingersoll-Ross Process |
Tibor Antal (UoE) | Probability in Biology: bacteria, cancer, viruses… |
Scott Heald (Public Health Scotland) | “This Is What We Do”: Public Health Scotland |
Friday 4th December | |
Finn Lindgren (UoE) | Computational statistics and spatial modelling |
Rosalind Allen (UoE) | Modelling spatial structure in growing bacterial biofilms |
John Pearson (UoE) | Optimal Control of PDEs: Mathematical Models and Numerical Methods |
Mariya Ptashnyk (HW) | Multiscale modelling, analysis & simulations of intercellular processes and root-soil interactions |