Title: Predictive analytics: you can’t have it all
Shannon and group testing: finding needles in haystacksClaude Shannon’s Information Theory bridges mathematics and engineering, and shows how well every communication and data storage system can perform.
In this lecture, Professor Johnson will describe his recent work applying these ideas to prove rigorous results about a search problem called group testing, which has applications to DNA and disease testing.
The talk is open to all University of Bristol staff and students as well as the general public. We ask that all attendees please register in advance of the event via Eventbrite.
For practical information please email maths-conference-administrator@bristol.ac.uk.
University of Bristol
Jennifer Balakrishnan, Boston University and Tim Dokchitser, University of Bristol
A postgraduate mathematics summer school jointly funded by the Clay Mathematics Institute and the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research. Student places are offered with accommodation, refreshments and subsistence allowance.
Please register your interest by completing the application form. N.B, A short supporting letter from your PhD supervisor will be required with your application. Closing date for registration is 1st March 2019. Successful applicants will be notified by 15th March 2019.
8 speakers have been invited to deliver 4 hours of lectures each with discussion workshops scheduled for each topic:
John Cremona
Celine Maistret
Adam Morgan
Steffen Mueller
Rachel Newton
Samir Siksek
Andrew Sutherland
John Voight
Week 1:
Celine Maistret: Computational aspects of the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
Adam Morgan: Local arithmetic of curves and Jacobians
Rachel Newton: The Hasse norm principle
Samir Siksek: Explicit arithmetic of modular curves
Week 2:
John Cremona: Arithmetic statistics
Steffen Mueller: Rational points on curves
Andrew Sutherland: Zeta functions and L-functions of curves and abelian varieties
John Voight: Computing endomorphism rings of Jacobians
Please see here for the full programme.
For queries relating to practical information (application form, accommodation, subsistence, travel etc ), please contact heilbronn-coordinator@bristol.ac.uk
Title: Can Mathematics Solve Mysteries in Literature?There have been no shortages of controversies in literature, from old questions such as whether Cao Xueqin wrote all 120 chapters of “Dreams of Red Chamber”, widely known as the greatest work of Chinese literature, to new questions such as whether Obama actually wrote his autobiography “Dreams From My Father”.
For mathematicians, it is interesting to ask whether mathematics can be used to settle these controversies. In this talk, I will give an overview on how mathematics can be applied to analyze the “style” of an author and the related field of study called “stylometry”. I will show that mathematics can be used to almost definitively settle many such controversies.
The talk will be held in Mott Lecture Theatre (G12), Physics, from 3.30pm – 4.30pm and will be followed by a drinks reception in the Maths common room.
The talk is open to all University of Bristol staff and students as well as the general public. We ask that all attendees please register in advance of the event.
Register to attendSM1, Main Maths Building, University Walk, University of Bristol
The Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research welcomes a distinguished selection of speakers for the 2018 Annual Conference:
Mark Gross, Cambridge
Jacob Fox, Stanford
Martin Hairer, Imperial College London
Francis Brown, Oxford
Shekhar Khare, UCLA
Sarah Zerbes, University College London
Please register using the form .
Funding has been secured to support a limited number of PhD and Early Career Researchers. Please apply using the relevant section of the registration form. We also welcome applications for caring costs.* For further information email heilbronn-coordinator@bristol.ac.uk
*Applies to expenses incurred exceptionally as a result of attending the conference.
Enjoying your degree in mathematics? Interested in discovering where further study in maths can take you?Join us for our annual Women in Mathematics event, 6th – 7th November 2018 – open to female and non-binary students in the UK and Ireland.
A PhD in mathematics can offer you independence, challenging problems and an inspiring job, as well as the chance to travel and the opportunity to make a difference.
This two-day event is aimed at encouraging female mathematics students, including those who self-define as women or whose gender identity includes “woman” or is non-binary, to consider continuing their studies to PhD level.
The event features talks from mathematicians working both in universities and industry, giving insight into their current roles and their careers to date. Even more importantly, there is ample time to talk in small groups to the other participants who are facing the same decisions, and to current PhD students who have recently faced the same questions.
Please note that the Wednesday afternoon session is open to all students.
The full programme and details on how to apply can be found below.
Please note that registration for this year’s event has now closed.
From 4pm on Tuesday 6th November – 12pm on Wednesday 7th November: To support female (including those who self-define as women or whose gender identity includes “woman”) undergraduates and masters students across the UK into further study in mathematics.
From 12pm – 5pm on Wednesday 7th November: To support all undergraduate and masters students.
4:00pm Welcome and registration
from 4pm Networking in groups/meeting graduate students
5:00pm Small groups: what is PhD-level maths like?
7:00pm Dinner at Zero Degrees
10:00am Question and answer session
10.30am Short talk by current graduate student
10:45am Tea and Coffee
11:00am Keynote speaker: Professor Tiina Roose, University of Southampton
12:00pm Lunch
12.45pm Panel with graduate students talking about their experiences and
how they came to do a PhD.
1:45pm Short talk by current graduate student
2:00pm Information from the Post Graduate team
2:45pm Tea and Coffee
Three practitioners of mathematics to speak about what they do and how they got there:
3:00pm Industry speaker: Dr Lynsey McColl, Managing Director of Select Statistical Services
3:30pm Academic Speaker: Dr Viveka Erlandsson, University of Bristol
4:00pm Industry speaker: Amy
4.30pm Informal discussions
5:00pm Finish
*Programme may be subject to change
Organising commitee: Olly Johnson, Emma Bailey, Louisa Bartoszewicz, Jasmine Trueman, Charley Cummings, Haeran Cho, Jonathan Rougier, Viveka Erlandsson and Fatemeh Mohammadi.
For practical information, please contact maths-conference-administrator@bristol.ac.uk
Many networks are spatial in that nodes have a location and links are more common between closely spaced nodes. As in the previous events held in Oxford in 2016 and 2017, we are running a short course for PhD students and researchers new to the field, and a two-day symposium on spatial networks and applications to diverse complex networks and wireless communications.
This year the short course will focus on stochastic geometry, including point and line processes, and on spatial complex networks. Contributions for research talks in the symposium in all areas relevant to spatial, complex and/or wireless networks and stochastic geometry are very welcome.
Professor Mathew Penrose, University of Bath
Marco DiRenzo, CNRS
Professor Harpreet Dhillon, Virginia Tech
Marc Barthelemy, Saclay
Dr Thilo Gross, University of Bristol
The course will take place in Lecture Theatre 2, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, BS8 1TW.
Registration has now closed. Any queries should be directed to maths-conference-administrator@bristol.ac.uk.
08:30 – Registration
09:00 – Mathew Penrose: Stationary point processes
11:00 – BREAK
11:30 – Thilo Gross: Food webs in space
12:30 – LUNCH
14:00 – Free afternoon: Discussions/excursions?
17:30 – WELCOME RECEPTION: Maths
09:00 – Harpreet Dhillon: Poisson Line Process: Historical Perspective and Applications to Vehicular Networks I
10:30 – BREAK
11:00 – Harpreet Dhillon: Poisson Line Process: Historical Perspective and Applications to Vehicular Networks II
12:30 – LUNCH
14:00 – Marco Di Renzo: A New Definition of Coverage Probability and its Applications to Cellular Networks Optimization
15:00 – BREAK
15:30 – Marc Barthelemy: Characterizing the structure and evolution of spatial networks
The symposium will take place in Lecture Theatre 2, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, BS8 1TW.
Contributions for research talks in the symposium in all areas relevant to spatial, complex and/or wireless networks and stochastic geometry are very welcome. Please provide further details when registering. Please note that the deadline for submitting a contributed talk is Friday 31st August.
Registration has now closed. Any queries should be directed to maths-conference-administrator@bristol.ac.uk.
08:00 – Registration (for those attending the symposium only)
08:30 – Marco Di Renzo: 3D Poisson Cellular Networks – Modeling and Optimization
09:30 – BREAK
10:00 – Sunghwan Cho: Simultaneous Beamforming and Jamming in the presence of randomly located eavesdroppers
10:30 – Jinchuan Tang: Meta Distribution of the Secrecy Rate in the Presence of Randomly Located Eavesdroppers
11:00 – Amogh Rajanna: Do Physical Layer Rateless Codes Supersede Power Control in Wireless Communications?
11:30 – Marc Barthelemy: Towards a typology of planar maps
12:30 – LUNCH
14:00 – Harpreet Dhillon: Poisson Cluster Process and its Applications to Cellular Networks
15:00 – BREAK
15:30 – Orestis Georgiou: The Wireless Localisation Matching Problem
16:00 – Michael Wilsher: 1-Dimensional Soft Random Geometric Graphs
16:30 – Pete Pratt: Connectivity in Temporal Networks
17:00 – Kostas Koufos: Performance of a link in a field of interferers with headway distance
19:30 – DRINKS RECEPTION AND DINNER: Goldney Hall
09:00 – Mathew Penrose: Leaves on the line and in the plane
10:00 – BREAK
10:30 – Ayalvadi Ganesh: Limit theorems for Cox point processes
11:00 – Mihai Badiu: On the Distribution of Random Geometric Graphs
11:30 – Arta Cika: Entropy Rate of Time-Varying Wireless Networks
12:00 – Alessio Cardillo: Comparing spatial networks: A ‘one size fits all’ efficiency-driven approach
12:30 – LUNCH
14:00 – Thilo Gross: The hidden manifolds of Bristol
15:00 – BREAK
15:30 – Jurgen Hackl: Estimation of traffic flow changes using higher-order networks
16:00 – Gabriele Gradoni: Quantum Graph Approach for Energy and Information Transfer through Networks of Cables
16:30 – Alex Kartun-Giles: Neighbourhood Homology in Complex Networks
17:00 – Event close
For planning purposes the venue is located within the main University precinct, postcode BS8 1TW. Information on local hotels and average prices can be found here. Alternatively you can find further information on other accommodation options by visiting the Visit Bristol website.
Title: Quantum chaos, ideas and methodsProfessor Eugene Bogomolny, of CNRS, Paris-Sud offers a mini-review of ideas and methods of quantum chaos and their applications for different models ranging from nuclear physics to number theory.
The talk will be held from 5pm in SM1, School of Mathematics, and will be followed by a drinks reception in the Maths common room.
Title: How to frack into and out of troubleAfter a short introduction to the mechanism and politics of fracking, the talk will concentrate on the fluid mechanics and elastodynamics of driving fluid into cracks in rocks. We will present the equations governing this response and also that when the pressure is released, and the system relaxes back partially towards equilibrium. The two main techniques for evaluating the consequences of the governing equations are numerical solutions and asymptotic analysis in certain useful limits, both of which we will describe. Videos of laboratory experiments will also be shown and the results compared with the theoretical predictions. While fracking is one motivating example of our analysis, the mathematics and physical responses described undoubtedly has applications to other areas of geophysics.
15 May 2018
16.00, SM1 Main Maths Building, University of Bristol
We are delighted to welcome Michaela van der Schaar, Oxford, to the University of Bristol for a Heilbronn Colloquium, followed by a wine reception in the common room/veranda.
Causal Inference for Treatment Effects: A Theory and Associated Learning Algorithms
Abstract: We investigate the problem of estimating the causal effect of a treatment on individual subjects from observational data; this is a central problem in various application domains, including healthcare, social sciences, and online advertising. We first develop a theoretical foundation of causal inference for individualized treatment effects based on information theory. Next, we use this theory, to construct an information-optimal Bayesian causal inference algorithm. This algorithm embeds the potential outcomes in a vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert space and uses a multi-task Gaussian process prior over that space to infer the individualized causal effects. We show that our algorithm significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art causal inference algorithms. The talk will conclude with a discussion of the impact of this work on precision medicine and clinical trials.
If you haven’t already registered and are intending to come, please use the short registration form to let us know of your attendence.
