Departmental Colloquia

Neil Ferguson (Imperial College)

Reflections on the role of epidemiological modelling in informing the response to COVID-19.

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Professor Trevor Hastie

Ridge Regularization: An Essential Concept in Data Science

11 February 2021

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Prof Günter Ziegler

The Realization Space of the 24-Cell.

13 October 2021

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Professor Maria J. Esteban

Flows, functional inequalities and spectral estimates

30 January 2020

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Professor Benoît Perthame

PDEs for neural assemblies; models, analysis and behavior

5 March 2020

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Professor Alessio Figalli

Stable solutions to semilinear elliptic equations

9 October 2019

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Professor Hugo Duminil-Copin

Counting Self-Avoiding Walks on a Lattice, from Combinatorics to Physics

16 May 2019

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Professor Russ Caflisch

Accelerated Simulation for Plasma Kinetics

14 May 2019

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Dr Edriss Titi

On Recent Advances of the 3D Euler Equations by Means of Examples

15 January 2019

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Dr Julia Wolf

The Structure of stale sets

08 February 2019

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Professor Nancy Reid

In Praise of Small Data: Statistical and Data Science

20 March 2019

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• Edmund Harriss
  Title: Experiencing Mathematics
  Tuesday 11 December 2018
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  Professor Xiao-Li Meng
  Title: How Small Are Our Big Data: Turning the 2016 Surprise into a 2020 Vision
  Monday 26 November 2018
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• Professor Scott Sheffield
  Title: Random walks in "scale-free" random environments
  Thursday 27 September  2018,  4:00-5:00pm
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• Professor Tilmann Gneiting (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS gGmbH) and Professor of Computational Statistics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany)
  'Interpretation of point forecasts with unknown directive'  (Nelder Lecture) 
   Monday 11 June
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• Professor Tandy Warnow (University of Illinois)
  'Mathematical and Computational Grand Challenges in Estimating the Tree of Life'
  Friday 20 April
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• Prof Mihalis Dafermos (Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry, DPMMS, University of Cambridge)
  'On falling into black holes'
  Wednesday 31 January
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• Prof Ian Stewart (University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Royal Society)
  Networks, Singularities, and Homeostasis
  Thursday 2nd November
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• Professor Susan Holmes, Stanford University
  Longitudinal analysis of the human microbiome at the strain level
  Tuesday 16th May
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• Prof Anthony Davison École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

      Statistical Models for Complex Extreme Events (Nelder Lecture)
     Thursday 9th March
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• Professor Cédric Villani (University of Lyon/Director of Henri Poincare Institute)
  Of triangles, prices, gases and men
  Monday 20th February
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• Professor Tadashi Tokieda (University of Cambridge/Stanford University)
  A world from a sheet of paper
  Tuesday 21st February
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• Professor Daniela Kühn (Birmingham University)
  "Randomness to the rescue"
  Tuesday 7th February 2017
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• Prof Andrew Stuart (California Institute of Technology)
  "Blending Mathematical Models With Data"
  Tuesday 10th January 2017
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• Prof Martin Bridson (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford)
  "Infinite groups: A story of geometry, complexity and shadows"
  Thursday 10th November 2016
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• Prof Stéphane Mallat (École Normale Supérieure)
  "High-Dimensional Learning and Deep Neural Networks"
  Thursday 27th October 2016
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• Prof Graeme W. Milton (University of Utah)
  "Extending the Theory of Composites to Other Areas of Science"
  Thursday 16th June 2016
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• Prof Andrew Granville (University of Montreal & UCL)
  "The pretentious Riemann Hypothesis and beyond"
  Thursday 5th May 2016
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• Prof Paul Rosenbaum (University of Pennsylvania)
  "A Recent Observational Study used to Illustrate Recent Methdology for Such Studies"
  Thursday 25th February 2016
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  This colloquium was part of a Nelder Lecture Series. Please see Professor Rosenbaum's Nelder Fellow webpage for more information.

• Prof Richard Schoen (Stanford University and University of California, Irvine)
  "Eigenvalue problems for surfaces"
  Wednesday 8 July 2015
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• Prof Nalini Joshi (University of Sydney)
  "When applied mathematics collided with algebra"
  (2015 Hardy Fellow - Part of the LMS 150th Anniversary Hardy Tour)
  Wednesday 17th June 2015
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• Prof Alan C. Newell (University of Arizona)
  "Phyllotaxis - A review of progress but a story far from over"
  Thursday 14 May 2015
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• Prof Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
  "Almost Exchangeability"
  Thursday 19 March 2015
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• Prof Martin Hairer (Univerisity of Warwick)
  "Taming Infinities"
  Thursday, 23 October 2014
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• Prof Luis A Caffarelli (University of Texas at Austin)
  "Some segregation and equipartition models"
  Monday, 9 June 2014
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• Prof Ben Green (University of Oxford)
  "Points and Lines"
  Thursday, 8 May 2014
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• Prof Steve Davis (Northwestern University)
  "Dynamics of Foams"
  Thursday, 3 April 2014
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• Prof Andrew Gelman (Columbia University)
  "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"
  Thursday, 13 February 2014
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• Prof Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA)
  "Mathematics of Crime"
  Monday, 9 December 2013
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• Prof Josh Tenenbaum (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  "Modeling human decision making with probabilistic programs"
  Thursday, 2 May 2013
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• Prof Stephen Senn (CCMS Luxembourg)
  "Margin of error or critical condition?"
  Thursday, 21 March 2013
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• Professor Sylvia Serfaty (Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6)
  "Questions of crystallisation in two-dimensional Coulomb systems"
  Thursday, 31st January 2013
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• Professor Peter McCullagh FRS (University of Chicago)
  "Some issues connected with likelihood and REML"
  8 March 2012
  Poster - Professor McCullagh 2012
  
  
• Professor Athanassios S. Fokas (University of Cambridge)
  "Integrability, Medical Imaging, and Boundary Value Problems"
  23 February 2012
  Poster - Professor Fokas 2012
  
  
• Professor Wendelin Werner (Université Paris-Sud 11)
  "Random surfaces, random geometries"
  26 January 2012
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  Poster - Professor Werner 2012
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• Professor Paul Embrechts (ETH Zurich)
  

  “The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Financial Mathematics?”
  1 December 2011
  Poster - Professor Embrechts 2011

• Professor Felix Otto (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany)
  "Pattern Formation and Partial Differential Equations
  15 June 2011
  Poster - Professor Otto 2011
  
  
• Professor Sir David Cox (Nuffield College, Oxford)
  "A number of examples will be given showing how probabilistic models are used to interpret empirical phenomena."
  4 March 2011
  Poster - Professor Cox 2011

• Professor Yakov Sinai (Princeton University)
  "The Decay of Fourier modes in solutions of the Navier Navier-Stokes System"
  18 June 2010
  Poster - Professor Sinai 2010
  
  
• Professor Elliott Lieb (Princeton University)
  "Mathematics of the Bose Gas: A truly quantum quantum-mechanical many many-body problem"
  2 June 2010
  Poster - Professor Lieb 2010
  
  
• Professor Timothy Gowers (University of Cambridge)
  "Open Mathematics ... and a new proof of the density Hales-Jewett theorem
  12 March 2010
  Poster - Professor Gowers 2010