Archive | 2019

Eric Moulines – visit to the School of Mathematics

Eric Moulines from Ecole Polytechnique will be visiting the Heilbronn Institute of Mathematical Research as a Data Science Visitor from 27 January- 31 January. He will present a mini-series of lectures which will give an introduction to convex optimization and its applications in statistical learning. Professor Moulines will also be involved in the Heilbronn Institute’s […]

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Pierre Alquier – Visit to School of Mathematics

Pierre Alquier, Research Scientist Riken AIP project, Tokyo, visited the University of Bristol School of Mathematics from November 25 to December 6 2019. As a visitor to the Heilbronn Institute he gave a series of data science lectures to COMPASS students on 27 November 2019 on: Introduction to the variational approach and examples: Mixture models, […]

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Joshua Cape

19 December 2019, 3:30- 4:30, The Fry building G.07 Joshua is a NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow from the University of Michigan. His paper ‘The two-to-infinity norm and singular subspace geometry with applications to high-dimensional statistics, Joshua Cape, Minh Tang, and Carey E. Priebe, Annals of Statistics (2019), vol. 47, no. 5, pp. 2405–2439.” was one […]

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Women and Non-Binary People in Mathematics event

On 5 and 6 November the school hosted its annual Women and Non-Binary People in Mathematics event. This two-day event held in the Fry Building, aimed at encouraging women and non-binary people to consider continuing their studies to PhD level, welcomed participants from around the country, as well as outside of the UK. The event […]

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Bristol Data Science Seminar – Jonathan Huggins

The School of Mathematics was pleased to welcome Jonathan Huggins from Harvard University on 23 October 2019, to kick off the first event of the Bristol Data Science Seminars. He delivered a two-part talk on ‘Using bagged posteriors for robust model-based inference.’ The seminar series is part of the collaboration between the Jean Golding Institute and […]

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Duffin- Schaeffer Conjecture

16th- 18th December Bristol University, The Fry Building Organiser: Demi Allen The workshop will feature a colloquium by James Maynard, a series of lectures on the proof of the Duffin-Schaeffer Conjecture by Dimitris Koukoulopoulos and James Maynard, some open problems sessions, and several other talks by experts (confirmed speakers include: Christoph Aistleitner, Victor Beresnevich, Andy […]

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Modern Challenges in Spectral Analysis of Time Series

The workshop ‘Modern Challenges in Spectral Analysis of Time Series’ brought together a group of leading experts from universities in the UK, the US, Belgium, Cyprus and Germany, and from a variety of career stages, to discuss cutting edge developments in wavelet and Fourier methods in the context of high dimensional time series, functional time […]

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Royal Statistical Society talk

On Thursday 3 October 2019 Patrick Rubin-Delanchy gave a talk at the Royal Statistical Society in London, at their “Statistics in Cyber-Security” event. The topic of his talk was “Statistical analysis of large matrices with cyber-security applications” and presented mathematical research surrounding the development of a statistical toolkit for the analysis of graphs, matrices and […]

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Heilbronn Colloquium – James Maynard

16th December 2019 University of Bristol We are very pleased to welcome James Maynard to the University of Bristol for a Heilbronn colloquium. James is primarily interested in classical number theory, in particular the distribution of prime numbers. His research focuses on using tools from analytic number theory, particularly sieve methods, to study primes. Title: […]

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Welcome new CDT and MSc Students

At the start of the new academic year, we are delighted to welcome new students to the Institute. As well as our undergraduates, we are particularly pleased to welcome the first cohort of PhD students to our new EPSRC-funded CDT in Computational Statistics and Data Science (COMPASS) and the second cohort of students to our Mathematics […]

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