Seminars
On this page you can find the details of upcoming seminars and events.
- Chemistry
Date & Time Seminar Title & Abstract Speaker Location - Mathematics and statistics
Date & Time Seminar Title & Abstract Speaker Location 20 April 2026
12 to 1pm
Accelerating expensive simulations with Gaussian process emulators and adaptive design of experiments
Many scientific and engineering problems rely on computationally expensive simulations, making exhaustive exploration of the input space impractical. Gaussian process (GP) emulators provide an efficient and flexible way to approximate such models while quantifying predictive uncertainty. In this talk, I will present an adaptive design of experiments strategy based on GPs, called Variance of Improvement for Global Fit (VIGF), which selects the most informative points to maximise the emulator's overall accuracy. The applicability of our method is assessed on a couple of test functions, and its performance is compared with several sequential sampling strategies. The results suggest that our method has a superior performance in predicting the benchmark functions in most cases.
Hossein Mohammadi Hicks, LT7 27 April 2026
12 to 1pm
A Bayesian approach to financial index tracking: proximal MCMC for sparsity and uncertainty quantification Dimitrios Roxanas Hicks, LT7 20 May 2026
12 to 1pm
Random Networks Various Hicks LTA - Physics and astronomy
Physics and astronomy seminars are organised on an ad-hoc basis. We recommend that you check back here regularly to view upcoming seminars.
Date & Time Seminar Title & Abstract Speaker Location 25 March
2 to 3pm
First Results Searching for the Migdal Effect in Nuclear Scattering
Lex Millins Hicks, LT3