Rachel Bernasconi was in Chicago last week (12-14 October) for the NITMB Scientific Focus Workshop: Theory and Mathematics in Neuroscience – Dynamics in Neuroscience (workshop website here). It was held at the National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology, It has a standalone venue but is closely associated with Northwestern University and the University […]
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Episode 1 of the PGR Seminar Series, where PGRs speak to PGRs in the School about their research, was held last Wednesday, 14 October. Esha Joshi is the principal organiser. The first speakers were: Esha Joshi (Maths): Model-informed Design of Rational Dosing Strategies Using Mechanistic Tumour Growth Modelling (first photo below)Marc Russo (Physics): Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations […]
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Next week, on 15-16 October, a Commemorative Symposium Honoring Professor Erik Bollt’s Contributions to Complex Systems Science (web link here), will be held at Clarkson University in New York State. Naratip Santitissadeekorn is one of the invited speakers. His talk will be virtual and it will be on “Influence network reconstruction from discrete time-series of […]
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The nationals of the Vitae Three-Minute Thesis competition took place last week on the 1st of October, and the winners were announced today (Monday 5 October). Rachel Bernasconi was awarded the Editor’s Choice Award (selected by the Editors of The Conversation). A video announcing the winners is here. A video of Rachel’s talk is here. […]
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Rachel Bernasconi and Naratip Santitissadeekorn are in Chicago this week (28 September to 2 October) to participate in a major workshop on “Data-driven modeling, simulation and inference for neurobiological problems” (workshop webpage here). Key themes of the workshop include: (a) Inverse problem methodologies in neuroscience, (b) Integrating mathematical models with experimental data, (c) Advanced numerical […]
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Dorje Brody is visiting Imperial College London tomorrow (Tuesday 28th September). He will be giving an invited seminar in the “Finance and Stochastic Seminar Series“. The title of his talk is “From mathematical finance to mathematical politics“. Generative models for market filtration offer a highly effective way of obtaining realistic asset price dynamics to enhance […]
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