Past programs - Bernoulli Center

Young researchers in deterministic and probabilistic dispersive equations

Start:

07/10/2024

End:

11/10/2024

The workshop aims at bringing together early career researcher in order to foster the communication…

Quantum Chaos

Start:

30/09/2024

End:

03/10/2024

While the concept of chaos is well-established for classical interacting systems, a quantum mechanical…

Duality, Geometry, Physics

Start:

24/09/2024

End:

27/09/2024

Organisers:

Eric Y. Chen (EPFL Lausanne)
Sergej Monavari (EPFL Lausanne)

This one-week workshop aims to foster exchange of ideas between mathematicians working on various…

Workshop Combinatorial Geometry and Number Theory

Start:

26/08/2024

End:

30/08/2024

Organisers:

Ilaria Viglino, Nihar Gargava

Combinatorial geometry is the study of extremal problems about finite arrangements of points, lines,…

External Program 3: Synergies of combinatorics and theoretical computer science

Start:

19/08/2024

End:

13/09/2024

August 19 – September 13 Recently, there have been several breakthroughs on long-standing open…

AI: reasoning and mathematics

Start:

03/05/2024

End:

04/05/2024

Organisers:

Emmanuel Abbe (EPFL-Apple)

Major progress is taking place in AI, particularly in text, image, audio processing. What…

External Program 2: New developments and challenges in Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

Start:

10/06/2024

End:

16/08/2024

10 June – 16 August 2024 “New developments and challenges in Stochastic Partial Differential…

Probability in conformal field theory

Start:

15/04/2024

End:

26/04/2024

Organisers:

Juhan Aru (EPFL)
Colin Guillarmou (CNRS and Uni Paris Saclay)
Rémi Rhodes (Uni Aix Marseille)

A 2 week interdisciplinary workshop addressing 2-dimensional conformal field theory using probabilistic methods. We…

Learning and Information Theory

Start:

04/03/2024

End:

05/03/2024

Organisers:

Emmanuel Abbe
Hamed Hassani
Yury Polyanskiy

Information theory and machine learning have long been related in fruitful ways. The LITH…

Many-body electronic structure calculations for solids

Start:

11/03/2024

End:

13/03/2024

Organisers:

Muhammad Hassan (EPFL)

This workshop is a multi-disciplinary gathering of mathematicians, physicists and chemists aiming to discuss…

Enjoying Probability and Fluids in Lausanne

Start:

18/09/2023

End:

22/09/2023

Organisers:

Michele Dolce (EPFL)
Lucio Galeati (EPFL)
Massimo Sorella (EPFL)

The workshop aims at bringing together some of the most talented young researchers working…

Categorified Enumerative Geometry and Representation Theory

Start:

11/09/2023

End:

15/09/2023

Organisers:

Francesca Carocci (EPFL)
Oscar Kivinen (EPFL)
Sergej Monavari (EPFL)

This one-week workshop aims to foster exchange of ideas between mathematicians working on the…

Hodge and K-Theory meet Combinatorics

Start:

04/09/2023

End:

08/09/2023

Organisers:

Marie-Charlote Brandenburg (MPI MiS)
Johannis Hofscheier (Nottingham)
Leonid Monin (EPFL)

This workshop brings together early career mathematicians and experts in algebraic geometry and combinatorics,…

Celebrating the mathematics of Michel Benaïm

Start:

21/08/2023

End:

24/08/2023

Organisers:

Thomas Mountford, EPFL
Aline Kurtzmann, University of Lorraine
Tobias Hurth, FU Berlin
Edouard Strickler, CNRS – University of Lorraine

The workshop aims to give an overview of Michel Benaïm’s research, to formulate and…

Summer School on Stochastic Analysis

Start:

07/08/2023

End:

18/08/2023

Organisers:

Prof. Xue-Mei Li (EPFL)

The aim is to bring young Stochastic Analysts together in a stimulating environment. There…

Discrete Random Structures

Start:

31/07/2023

End:

03/08/2023

Organisers:

Anda Skeja (EPFL)
Laura Battagliola (EPFL)

This workshop brings together experts in combinatorics, probability theory, statistics, information theory, and computational…

WinCompTop: Women in Computational Topology 3

Start:

17/07/2023

End:

21/07/2023

Organisers:

Erin Wolf Chambers (St. Louis University), erin.chambers@gmail.com
Heather Harrington (University of Oxford), harrington@maths.ox.ac.uk
Kathryn Hess (EPFL), kathryn.hess@epfl.ch
Claudia Landi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) clandi@unimore.it

BERNOULLI CENTER Lausanne (Switzerland) JULY 17-21, 2023 Scientific Overview The Bernoulli Center at EPFL (Switzerland)…

Structure preserving numerical methods for partial differential equations

Start:

03/07/2023

End:

07/07/2023

Organisers:

Bernard Kapidani (EPFL)
Martin Licht (EPFL)
Espen Sande (EPFL)

The workshop will bring together leading experts and junior researchers on structure-preserving numerical methods…

Young Researchers in Mathematics Program

Start:

01/07/2023

End:

07/07/2023

Organisers:

Prof. Florian Richter

The Bernoulli Center for Fundamental Studies is a world-renowned research institute located in Lausanne,…

Arithmetic Statistics in Automorphic Forms and Analytic Number Theory

Start:

05/06/2023

End:

09/06/2023

Organisers:

Filippo Berta (EPFL)
Petru Constantinescu (EPFL)
Vignesh Nadarajan (EPFL)
Svenja zur Verth (EPFL)

This workshop is meant as an opportunity for community building and fostering collaborations between…

Dynamical low-rank approximation: New horizons

Start:

22/05/2023

End:

24/05/2023

Organisers:

Gianluca Ceruti (EPFL)
Jonas Kusch (University of Innsbruck).

We are glad to announce a workshop dedicated to the research field of dynamical…

External Program 1: Generation, evolution, and observations of cosmological magnetic fields

Start:

29/04/2024

End:

07/06/2024

29 April – 07 June 2024 Generation, evolution, and observations of cosmological magnetic fields…

Workshop on Stochastic Dynamics and Stochastic Equations

Start:

25/03/2024

End:

27/03/2024

Organisers:

Prof. Xue-Mei Li (EPFL)

The workshop is part of the Bernoulli Center program at EPFL, to be held March…

Lattices Meet Hashes: Recent Advances in Post-Quantum Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Start:

01/05/2023

End:

03/05/2023

Organisers:

Ngoc Khanh Nguyen, EPFL
Gal Arnon, Weizmann Institute

Zero-knowledge proofs are a powerful cryptographic tool which has found numerous real-world applications in…

Biological Evolution Across Scales: Mathematical modelling and statistical inference

Start:

17/04/2023

End:

21/04/2023

Organisers:

Alia Abbara
Celia García Pareja
Umberto Lupo
Anne-Florence Bitbol
Manuela da Silva

A 5-day interdisciplinary workshop addressing mathematical modelling, statistical inference and computational approaches in biological…

Causality to get Population Health Sciences Right

Start:

21/12/2024

End:

21/12/2024

Organisers:

Mats Stensrud (EPFL) & Arnaud Chiolero (UniFR)

The goals of the symposium are to create a space to network and meet…

Sublinear Algorithms

Start:

14/12/2022

End:

16/12/2022

Organisers:

Michael Kapralov

The goal of the workshop is to bring together top experts in sublinear algorithms…

Weak turbulence in general relativity

Start:

24/11/2022

End:

24/11/2022

Organisers:

Joao Penedones

In the presence of confinement, the Einstein field equations are expected to exhibit turbulent…

Workshop on “Entanglement Scaling and Criticality with Tensor Networks”

Start:

28/11/2022

End:

02/12/2022

Organisers:

Andreas Läuchli (PSI/EPFL)
Laurens Vanderstraeten (UGent)
Frank Verstraete (UGent)

The description of critical phenomena in terms of the renormalization group forms the cornerstone…

Entanglement Scaling and Criticality with Tensor Networks

Start:

21/12/2024

End:

21/12/2024

Organisers:

Andreas Läuchli (PSI/EPFL)
Laurens Vanderstraeten (UGent)
Frank Verstraete (UGent)

The description of critical phenomena in terms of the renormalization group forms the cornerstone…

Optimal checkpoint strategies

Start:

21/12/2024

End:

21/12/2024

Organisers:

João Penedones

Surveillance systems are critical for biological systems. Cellular self-replication is monitored by checkpoints, which…

Adaptive Sampling for Constrained Optimization under Uncertainty

Start:

21/12/2024

End:

21/12/2024

Organisers:

Fabio Nobile

Stochastic optimization problems with deterministic constraints commonly appear in machine learning, finance, and engineering…

Postdoctoral workshop on “Foliations in Algebraic and Birational Geometry”

Start:

05/09/2022

End:

09/09/2022

Organisers:

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on holomorphic foliations…

Postdoctoral workshop on “Variational Learning of Quantum Matter”

Start:

04/07/2022

End:

08/07/2022

Organisers:

Filippo Vicentini (EPFL)
Jannes Nys (EPFL)

Mini-conference at the intersection between classical and quantum variational algorithms to study quantum many-body…

Workshop on « Algorithms with predictions” also known as « Learning-augmented algorithms”

Start:

02/05/2022

End:

06/05/2022

Organisers:

Organisers:

Etienne Bamas (PhD student, IC),
Andreas Maggiori (PhD student, IC),
Adam Polak (postdoc, MATH)

Algorithms with predictions, also known as learning-augmented algorithms, is an emerging field of research at…

Dynamics, Transfer Operators, and Spectra

Start:

01/01/2021

End:

30/06/2021

Organisers:

Wael Bahsoun, Loughborough University
Viviane Baladi, CNRS and Sorbonne University
Mark Demers, Fairfield University
Carlangelo Liverani, University of Roma Tor Vergata

The transfer operator is one of the basic tools of ergodic theory of smooth…

Dynamics with Structures

Start:

01/07/2019

End:

31/12/2019

Organisers:

Magnus Aspenberg, Lund University
Michael Benedicks, Uppsala University
Anders Karlsson, Université de Genève, Uppsala University
Jörg Schmeling, Lund University

The theory of dynamical systems, which in barest terms is the study of maps…

Multi-scale Mathematical Modelling and Coarse-grain Computational Chemistry

Start:

01/01/2019

End:

30/06/2019

Organisers:

Carsten Hartmann, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
John Maddocks, EPFL
Christof Schütte, Freie Universität Berlin

The M^3 + C^3 semester programme concerns molecular and materials modelling from atomistic to…

Computational aspects of partition functions

Start:

01/07/2018

End:

31/12/2018

Organisers:

Rüdiger Urbanke, EPFL
Nisheeth Vishnoi, EPFL

Partition functions arise as fundamental quantities in physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science and many…

Descriptive set theory and Polish groups

Start:

01/01/2018

End:

30/06/2018

Organisers:

Justin Moore, Cornell University
Christian Rosendal, University of Illinois at Chicago
Todor Tsankov, Université Paris Diderot

Descriptive set theory is classically defined as the study of definable (e.g. Borel, analytic)…

Euler Systems and Special Values of L-functions

Start:

01/07/2017

End:

31/12/2017

Organisers:

Henri Darmon, McGill University
Dimitar Jetchev, EPFL
Philippe Michel, EPFL
Christopher Skinner, Princeton University

The goal of this semester-long program is to gather the leading experts in the…

Stochastic Dynamical Models in Mathematical Finance, Econometrics, and Actuarial Sciences

Start:

01/01/2017

End:

30/06/2017

Organisers:

Luc Bauwens, Université catholique de Louvain
Yuri Kabanov, Université de Franche-Comté
Juan-Pablo Ortega, Universität St. Gallen, CNRS

This program focuses on three important areas where stochastic dynamical models play a major…

Local representation theory and simple groups

Start:

01/07/2016

End:

31/12/2016

Organisers:

Radha Kessar, City University London
Gunter Malle, TU Kaiserslautern
Donna Testerman, EPFL

Local representation theory, pioneered by Richard Brauer in the 1930s had its first big…

Analytic and Geometric Aspects of Probability on Graphs

Start:

01/07/2015

End:

31/12/2015

Organisers:

Itai Benjamini, The Weizmann Institute of Science
Hugo Duminil-Copin, Université de Genève
Tatiana Nagnibeda, Université de Genève

Interplay between the probability theory and geometric group theory yielded many spectacular results enriching…

Geometric Mechanics, Variational and Stochastic Methods

Start:

01/01/2015

End:

30/06/2015

Organisers:

Sergio Albeverio, Universität Bonn
Ana Bela Cruzeiro, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa
Darryl Holm, Imperial College, London

The basic goal of this program is to advance research in geometric as well…

The role of mathematics and computer science in ecological theory

Start:

01/07/2014

End:

31/12/2014

Organisers:

Roger Arditi, Université de Fribourg
Donald Deangelis, University of Miami
Lev Ginzburg, Stony Brook University
Claude Lobry, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis

The issues of climate change and biodiversity loss are definitely the major concerns for…

Talk by Jakob Zech (TBA)

Start:

21/12/2024

End:

21/12/2024

Organisers:

Fabio Nobile

TBA…

Universal optimality in distributed computing and its connections to diverse areas of theoretical computer science

Organisers:

Theory Coffee

The modern computation and information processing systems shaping our world have become massively distributed,…

Modern Trends in Combinatorial Optimization

Start:

10/07/2022

End:

05/08/2022

Organisers:

Friedrich Eisenbrand
Alexandra Lassota
Ola Svensson

Combinatorial Optimization deals with discrete optimization problems that are defined on combinatorial structures such as…

Enumerative geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves in low dimension

Start:

01/01/2016

End:

30/06/2016

Organisers:

Tamas Hausel, EPFL
Rahul Pandharipande, ETHZ
Fernando Rodriguez Villegas, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste
Andras Szenes, Université de Genève

This semester-long program will be focused on the enumerative invariants of moduli spaces of…

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