A preprint by a team including Bristol statistician Professor Oliver Johnson shows the importance of ‘lived population density’ as a measure to track the spread of the disease The preprint demonstrates that population density is important in the spread of COVID-19, but that non-standard ways of measuring density do a better job of explaining it […]
Archive | 2020
Pierre Jacob visit to University of Bristol
We were delighted to welcome Pierre Jacob, Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Harvard, to the University of Bristol in March. Pierre delivered lectures for the COMPASS CDT students, which were also open for the staff in the School of Maths to attend. In his lectures, Pierre covered couplings, total variation and optimal transport. He […]
Jethro Browell visit to the University of Bristol
The School of Mathematics was pleased to welcome Dr Jethro Browell, Research Fellow at the University of Strathclyde. His part of the Data Science Seminar Series, giving a talk on the topic of ‘Challenging predictions in energy forecasting.’ The series is a collaboration between with the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research and the Jean Golding Institute. Dr […]
Colloquium- Jonathan Rougier
Monday 17th February, 4-5pm, Fry Building LG.02 (Lower Ground Floor Lecture Theatre) followed by a wine reception in the Staff Common Room. Title: Predicting the next apocalyptic volcanic super-eruption Abstract: Hazards tend to be summarized in terms of their frequency/magnitude curve. For explosive volcanic eruptions, a super-eruption at the top end of the magnitude range […]
Heilbronn Data Science Visitor Alain Durmus
Alain Durmus, Associate Professor at ENS Paris-Saclay, visited the University of Bristol in January as part of the Data Science Seminar series and will again visit later in the year, in March, for Heilbronn Institute’s Hypcoercivity Workshop. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from different communities with an interest in hypocoercivity ideas and techniques […]
Eric Moulines’ mini- series of lectures
Eric Moulines will be visiting the Heilbronn Institute of Mathematical Research as a Data Science Visitor from 27th January- 31st January. During his stay Eric will be delivering a series of lectures on Convex optimization for machine learning. Tuesday 28th January 11:00- 12:00 G.09, The Fry Building Thursday 30th January 13:00- 14:00, G.10, The Fry […]
