Past programs

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…

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…

Causality to get Population Health Sciences Right

Start:

29.03.2023 | 09:30

End:

29.03.2023 | 15:45

Organisers:

Mats Stensrud (EPFL) & Arnaud Chiolero (UniFR)

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

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…

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…

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…

Talk by Jakob Zech (TBA)

Start:

06.12.2022. | 16:15

End:

17:15

Organisers:

Fabio Nobile

TBA…

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…

Optimal checkpoint strategies

Start:

24.11.2022. | 12:30

End:

14:00

Organisers:

João Penedones

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Weak turbulence in general relativity

Start:

24.11.2022 13:00

End:

24.11.2022 14:30

Organisers:

Joao Penedones

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

Adaptive Sampling for Constrained Optimization under Uncertainty

Start:

14.11.2022. | 16:15

End:

17:15

Organisers:

Fabio Nobile

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

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,…

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…

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…

Past semester programs at CIB

Dynamical low-rank approximation: New horizons

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

Causality to get Population Health Sciences Right

Biological Evolution Across Scales: Mathematical modelling and statistical inference

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

Sublinear Algorithms

Talk by Jakob Zech (TBA)

Workshop on “Entanglement Scaling and Criticality with Tensor Networks”

Optimal checkpoint strategies

Modern Trends in Combinatorial Optimization

Postdoctoral workshop on “Foliations in Algebraic and Birational Geometry”

Postdoctoral workshop on “Variational Learning of Quantum Matter”

Descriptive set theory and Polish groups

Euler Systems and Special Values of L-functions

Local representation theory and simple groups

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

Enumerative geometry of moduli spaces of sheaves in low dimension

Weak turbulence in general relativity

Adaptive Sampling for Constrained Optimization under Uncertainty

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

Dynamics, Transfer Operators, and Spectra

Dynamics with Structures

Multi-scale Mathematical Modelling and Coarse-grain Computational Chemistry

Computational aspects of partition functions

Analytic and Geometric Aspects of Probability on Graphs

Geometric Mechanics, Variational and Stochastic Methods

The role of mathematics and computer science in ecological theory

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