Prof. Hailiang Liu, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, USA
Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 15:00
- 16:00
B1, L4, R4102,
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I shall present some mathematical problems encountered in deep learning models. The results include optimal control of selection dynamics for deep neural networks, and gradient methods adaptive with energy. Some of the computational questions that will be addressed have a more general interest in engineering and sciences.
Prof. Yvon Henri, International Telecom Union, Geneva, Switzerland
Tuesday, May 24, 2022, 16:00
- 18:00
KAUST
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Noting that the trend of development and utilization of small satellite technologies is a global phenomenon, and it is expected to bring benefits to the entire world, including both developed and developing economies, this talk goes over different spectrum & orbit access issues related to the development and deployment of these small satellite networks.
Peter Rawlinson, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Lucid
Thursday, May 19, 2022, 14:30
- 15:30
Building 20, Level 2, Room 2011 (The Rehearsal Room)
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In this wide-ranging conversation with Peter Rawlinson, Lucid Motors’ CEO and CTO, he will discuss why he believes the world is on the precipice of a global transition toward electric vehicles, and how Lucid’s revolutionary technology and design will be at the forefront of one of the most significant transformations of our time.
Monday, May 16, 2022, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 9, Room 2322, Hall 1
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Datasets that capture the connection between vision, language, and affection are limited, causing a lack of understanding of the emotional aspect of human intelligence. As a step in this direction, the ArtEmis dataset was recently introduced as a large-scale dataset of emotional reactions to images along with language explanations of these chosen emotions.
Prof. Moncef Gabbouj, Department of Computing Sciences, Tampere University
Sunday, May 15, 2022, 14:00
- 15:00
Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119
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Operational Neural Networks (ONNs) are new generation network models targeting to address two major drawbacks of conventional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs): the homogenous network configuration and the “linear” neuron model that can only perform linear transformations over previous layer outputs. ONNs can perform any linear or non-linear transformation with a proper combination of “nodal” and “pool” operators.
Stochastic Numerics PI Professor Raul Tempone (Chair) and Computational Probability PI Professor Ajay Jasra (Co-Chair)
Sunday, May 15, 2022, 08:00
- 17:00
KAUST Campus
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This scientific meeting will concentrate on stochastic algorithms and their rigorous numerical analysis for various problems, including statistical learning, optimization, and approximation. Stochastic algorithms are valuable tools when addressing challenging computational problems.
Prof. Luca Heltai, Applied Mathematics, International School for Advanced Studies
Thursday, May 12, 2022, 15:00
- 16:00
Building 1, Level 4, Room 4102
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Real life multi-phase and multi-physics problems coupled across different scales present outstanding challenges, whose practical resolution often require unconventional numerical methods.
Prof Daniela Tonon, Department of Mathematics, University of Padova, Italy
Thursday, May 12, 2022, 14:00
- 16:00
KAUST
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In this course, we introduce the Boltzmann equation, i.e. the equation that describes the behavior of rarefied gases at a mesoscopic scale. This scale can be considered as in between the microscopic scale (where the gas is described as a set of a large number of particles) and the macroscopic one (where the gas is described as a continuum fluid). Starting from the classical free transport equation, we will describe the crucial role of the collisional operator that can be deduced from physical assumptions. In particular, we will focus on the formal derivation of the Boltzmann equation and on the techniques used to cope with its particular, highly singular, collisional operator, in the study of the Cauchy problem. We will conclude with the study of the Boltzmann equation in the more physically relevant case of bounded domains, considering several different boundary conditions such as in flow, specular reflection, bounce-back reflection and diffuse boundary conditions.
Prof Daniela Tonon, Department of Mathematics, University of Padova, Italy
Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 15:00
- 17:00
KAUST
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In this course, we introduce the Boltzmann equation, i.e. the equation that describes the behavior of rarefied gases at a mesoscopic scale. This scale can be considered as in between the microscopic scale (where the gas is described as a set of a large number of particles) and the macroscopic one (where the gas is described as a continuum fluid). Starting from the classical free transport equation, we will describe the crucial role of the collisional operator that can be deduced from physical assumptions. In particular, we will focus on the formal derivation of the Boltzmann equation and on the techniques used to cope with its particular, highly singular, collisional operator, in the study of the Cauchy problem. We will conclude with the study of the Boltzmann equation in the more physically relevant case of bounded domains, considering several different boundary conditions such as in flow, specular reflection, bounce-back reflection and diffuse boundary conditions.
Prof. Daniela Tonon, Department of Mathematics, University of Padova, Italy
Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 14:00
- 16:00
KAUST
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In this course, we introduce the Boltzmann equation, i.e. the equation that describes the behavior of rarefied gases at a mesoscopic scale. This scale can be considered as in between the microscopic scale (where the gas is described as a set of a large number of particles) and the macroscopic one (where the gas is described as a continuum fluid). Starting from the classical free transport equation, we will describe the crucial role of the collisional operator that can be deduced from physical assumptions. In particular, we will focus on the formal derivation of the Boltzmann equation and on the techniques used to cope with its particular, highly singular, collisional operator, in the study of the Cauchy problem. We will conclude with the study of the Boltzmann equation in the more physically relevant case of bounded domains, considering several different boundary conditions such as in flow, specular reflection, bounce-back reflection and diffuse boundary conditions.
Michal A. Mankowski, Assistant Professor, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Tuesday, May 10, 2022, 10:00
- 11:30
Building 1, Level 4, Room 4102
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This course aims to familiarize students with the Computer Simulation tools for complex problems. The course will introduce the basic concepts of computation through modeling and simulation that are increasingly being used in industry and academia. The basic concepts of Discrete Event Simulation will be introduced along with the reliable methods of random variate generation. Later in the course, the concept of simulation-based optimization will be discussed, introducing an overview of various optimization approaches. The example of simulation (and optimization) applied to design an optimal organ allocation policy in the US will be discussed. The last lecture will be devoted to the contemporary topics in simulation.
Monday, May 09, 2022, 12:00
- 13:00
KAUST
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Hydrogen is a carbon-free energy carrier that can be used to decarbonize various high-emitting sectors, such as transportation, power generation, and industry. Today, global hydrogen production is largely derived from fossil fuels such as natural gas and coal.
Michal A. Mankowski, Assistant Professor, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Monday, May 09, 2022, 10:00
- 11:30
Building 1, Level 4, Room 4102
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This course aims to familiarize students with the Computer Simulation tools for complex problems. The course will introduce the basic concepts of computation through modeling and simulation that are increasingly being used in industry and academia. The basic concepts of Discrete Event Simulation will be introduced along with the reliable methods of random variate generation. Later in the course, the concept of simulation-based optimization will be discussed, introducing an overview of various optimization approaches. The example of simulation (and optimization) applied to design an optimal organ allocation policy in the US will be discussed. The last lecture will be devoted to the contemporary topics in simulation.
Sunday, May 08, 2022, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Lecture Hall 1
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Since Moore's law is facing several bottlenecks, electron devices are currently developing toward the trend of “More than Moore” which is based on functional diversification in terms of sensing, storage, and processing of information.
Michal A. Mankowski, Assistant Professor, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Sunday, May 08, 2022, 10:00
- 11:30
Building 1, Level 4, Room 4102
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This course aims to familiarize students with the Computer Simulation tools for complex problems. The course will introduce the basic concepts of computation through modeling and simulation that are increasingly being used in industry and academia. The basic concepts of Discrete Event Simulation will be introduced along with the reliable methods of random variate generation. Later in the course, the concept of simulation-based optimization will be discussed, introducing an overview of various optimization approaches. The example of simulation (and optimization) applied to design an optimal organ allocation policy in the US will be discussed. The last lecture will be devoted to the contemporary topics in simulation.
Prof. Raquel Prado, Department of Statistics, University of California
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 16:30
- 17:30
Auditorium 0215 (BW Building 2 and 3)
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During the first part of the talk we present an approach that allows for flexible analysis of multivariate non-stationary time series via dynamic models on the partial autocorrelation domain. We discuss various aspects of these models, including the use of shrinkage priors to deal with overfitting issues, as well as hierarchical extensions.
Thursday, April 28, 2022, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325
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Geometry plays an important role in the design and fabrication of so-called freeform shapes. This talk will illustrate the fruitful interplay between theory and applications in this area. The focus will be on discrete differential geometry and on applications in architecture and fabrication-aware design.
Prof. Raquel Prado, Department of Statistics, University of California
Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 16:00
- 17:30
Building 1, Level 4, Room 4102
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In the first part of this lecture we present a review dynamic linear models for multivariate time series and hierarchical dynamic linear models for multiple time series. Topics related to model building as well as closed form, approximate and simulation-based methods for Bayesian filtering, smoothing and forecasting within these classes of models will be discussed.
Prof. David Nott, Department of Statistics and Data Science, National University of Singapore
Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 10:00
- 11:00
KAUST
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Bayesian analyses combine information represented by different terms in a joint Bayesian model. When one or more of the terms is misspecified, it can be helpful to restrict the use of information from suspect model components to modify posterior inference.
Prof. Bruno Sanso, Department of Statistics, University of California
Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 16:30
- 17:30
Auditorium 0215 (BW Building 2 and 3)
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We present a framework for non-Gaussian spatial processes that encompasses large distribution families. Spatial dependence for a set of irregularly scattered locations is described with a mixture of pairwise kernels. Focusing on the nearest neighbors of a given location, within a reference set, we obtain a valid spatial process:
Prof. Raquel Prado, Department of Statistics, University of California
Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 14:00
- 15:30
Building 1, Level 4, Room 3119
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We discuss conditionally Gaussian dynamic linear models for analysis and forecasting of univariate time series and present simulation-based methods for Bayesian filtering and smoothing within this class of models, including Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods.
Prof. Bruno Sanso, Department of Statistics, University of California
Monday, April 25, 2022, 17:45
- 19:00
Building 1, Level 4, Room 4102
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We will start by presenting the general framework of Bayesian hierarchical dynamic models (BHDM) for space-time data. Within this framework, we will consider in some detail the special case of linear dynamics. We will review MCMC estimation for conditionally linear dynamic models. We will introduce integro-differential models and give a SPDE justification that provides insights into the connections between the dynamics of the process and the properties of the kernel defining the IDE.