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PhD Project on Adaptive Probabilistic Meshless Methods
There is an opening for a PhD student to work with me and co-PIs Jon Cockayne and James Kermode on the project “Adaptive probabilistic meshless methods for evolutionary systems” as part of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Modelling of Heterogeneous Systems at the University of Warwick.
This project will develop and implement a new class of numerical solvers for evolving systems such as interacting fluid-structure flows. To cope with extreme strain rates and large deformations these new solvers will be adaptive and meshless, and they will also implicitly represent their own solution uncertainty, thus enabling optimal design and uncertainty quantification. This exciting project brings together aspects of continuum mechanics, numerical methods for partial differential equations, and statistical machine learning.
Interested students should contact me and the other PIs with informal queries. Formal applications should use the HetSys application page.
Published on Monday 20 April 2020 at 08:00 UTC #group #job #phd #warwick #hetsys #kermode #cockayne
Birzhan Ayanbayev joins the UQ Group
It is a pleasure to announce that Birzhan Ayanbayev will join the UQ research group as a postdoctoral researcher with effect from 28 February 2020. He will be working on the DFG-funded project “Analysis of maximum a posteriori estimators: Common convergence theories for Bayesian and variational inverse problems”.
Published on Friday 28 February 2020 at 12:00 UTC #group #job #dfg #map-estimators #ayanbayev
Postdoc position: Analysis of MAP estimators
There is still an opening for a full-time two-year postdoctoral research position in the UQ group at the Freie Universität Berlin. This position will be associated to the project “Analysis of maximum a posteriori estimators: Common convergence theories for Bayesian and variational inverse problems” funded by the DFG.
This project aims to advance the state of the art in rigorous mathematical understanding of MAP estimators in infinite-dimensional statistical inverse problems. In particular, the research in this project will connect the “small balls” approach of Dashti et al. (2013) to the calculus of variations and hence properly link the variational and fully Bayesian points of view on inverse problems. This is an exciting opportunity for someone well-versed in the calculus of variations and tools such as Γ-convergence to make an impact on fundamental questions of non-parametric statistics and inverse problems or, vice versa, for someone with a statistical inverse problems background to advance the rigorous state of the art for such methods.
Prospective candidates are encouraged to contact me with informal enquiries. Formal applications are to be sent by post or email, by 23 December 2019, under the heading MAP-Analysis, and should include a cover letter, a scientific CV including list of publications and research statement, and the contact details of two professional references.
Published on Monday 25 November 2019 at 08:00 UTC #group #job #fu-berlin #inverse-problems #dfg #map-estimators
Luc Bonnet visits the UQ Group
It is a pleasure to announce that Luc Bonnet will be joining the UQ research group for a three-month visit funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), with effect from 1 September 2019. He will be working on the application of optimal uncertainty quantification methodology to problems in aerodynamics and aircraft design.
Published on Sunday 1 September 2019 at 09:00 UTC #group #daad #ouq #bonnet
Ilja Klebanov joins the UQ Group
It is a pleasure to announce that Ilja Klebanov will join the UQ research group as a postdoctoral researcher with effect from 1 February 2019. He will be working on project TrU-2 “Demand modelling and control for e-commerce using RKHS transfer operator approaches” within the Berlin Mathematics Excellence Cluster MATH+; the project will be led by Stefan Klus and myself.
Published on Friday 1 February 2019 at 09:00 UTC #group #job #tru2 #mathplus #klus #klebanov