The paper “Fine-tuning for Extreme Event Prediction: Are Ensemble Methods All You Need?“, co-authored by Imran Nasim (IBM UK and Maths@Surrey) and Joao Lucas de Sousa Almeida (IBM Research, Brazil), was accepted for presentation at KDD 2025, the world’s premier conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. It was held this year in Toronto, Canada, […]
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In July, Anne Skeldon was awarded two pump-priming grants by the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (OHBRC). One was funded by the Better Sleep theme and is for £12k. The project title is “Personalised quantitative guidance for sleep therapies by combining data with mathematical models: translating mathematical models to clinical practice”. The second award was […]
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The 24th Southeast Mathematical Physics Conference took place at Surrey on Monday 8th September, organised by Andrea Prinsloo and Alessandro Torrielli. The conference website is here. The SEMPS network includes mathematical physics groups from City University London, Kings College London (KCL), Kent, Cambridge, Southampton (Soton), Essex, Hertfordshire, and Surrey, and the network website is here. […]
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The paper “How fake news can turn against its spreader“, co-authored by Dorje Brody and Tomooki Yuasa (Tokyo Metropolitan University), was published last week (5 September) in PLOS One. It is open acccess (link here). The paper argues that when there are two information sources, one genuine and one containing disinformation, the effect of disinformation […]
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The paper “asQ: parallel-in-time finite element simulations using ParaDiag for geoscientific models and beyond“, co-authored by Joshua Hope-Collins (Imperial), Abdalaziz Hamdan (Bath, Imperial), Werner Bauer, Lawrence Mitchell (independent researcher, Edinburgh), and Colin Cotter (Imperial), has been published in the 25 July issue of Geoscientific Model Development, a journal published by the European Geosciences Union. The […]
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Stanislaw Biber, Esha Joshi, Aravind Kumar Kamaraj, and Anne Skeldon were in Birmingham this week (4-5 September) to attend and speak at the 1st UK Mathematical Biology Conference. Anne was one of the opening speakers, presenting an invited talk on “Mathematical modelling of sleep for healthy human function in the 21st century”. Stanislaw and Aravind […]
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