Events in 2022
The birth and death of coherence: semi-material coherent sets
Péter Koltai , Freie Universität Berlin online, please contact Sebastian Reich for the Zoom Link10:15 - 11:15
The decomposition of the state space of a dynamical system into almost invariant sets is important for understanding its essential macroscopic…
more ›Machine Learning in the context of drift
Barbara Hammer, Universität Bielefeld online via Zoom10:15 - 11:30
One of the main assumptions of classical machine learning models is that data are generated by a stationary concept. This is often violated due to…
more ›Trace-class Gaussian priors for Bayesian learning of neural networks with MCMC
Torben Sell, University of Edinburgh, Scotland online, please contact us beforehand if you would like to join10:15 - 11:30
I will discuss a new neural network based prior for real valued functions on ℝ^d. The new prior is a Gaussian neural network prior, where each weight…
more ›Spring School 2022
The annual SFB Spring School 2022 will take place from the 21st (arrival on the 20th) to the 25nd of March 2022 at the Hotel Döllnsee-Schorfheide.
Al…
more ›On the duality for nonlinear filtering
Jin W. Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Campus Golm, Building 9, Room 2.2210:00 - 11:30
In this talk, I will present the dual control system for the hidden Markov model (HMM). This is a direct extension of classical duality between…
more ›1st SFB Data Think Tank
The 1st SFB Data Think Tank Event will take place from 4th to 6th of April 2022 at the Wissenschaftsetage, Potsdam (https://www.wis-potsdam.de/de/wis-…
more ›"Stochastic gradient descent in continuous time: discrete and continuous data" and "Augmenting Bayesian inference with possibility theory"
Jonas Latz (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) & Jeremie Houssineau (University of Warwick, UK) Campus Golm, Building 5, Room 1.1010:00-12:00
Jonas Latz:
Optimisation problems with discrete and continuous data appear in statistical estimation, machine learning, functional data science,…
more ›Zukunftstag 2022
Im Rahmen des Zukunftstages sollen Schüler der 7. bis 10. Klasse eine Chance bekommen Einblicke in geschlechteruntypische Berufe zu erhalten. Dazu…
more ›Time scales in early warnings: a probabilistic approach
Susanne Ditlevsen, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Campus Golm, Building 28, Room 0.10810:15 - 11:15
In recent years there has been an increasing awareness of the risks of collapse or tipping points in a wide variety of complex systems, ranging from…
more ›Stochastic Modelling with few Parameters
Philipp Meyer, UFS Data-centric Sciences, University of Potsdam Campus Golm, Building 9, Room 0.1210:15-11:15
Simple stochastic models can describe the fluctuations of a time series. A good way to get a first impression of the data is to look at the mean…
more ›Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaft 2022
Der Potsdamer Tag der Wissenschaften 2022 findet dieses Jahr am ATB Leibniz-Institut für Agrartechnik und Bioökonomie in Potsdam statt. Wir werden mit…
more ›Toward a unified framework for large scale imaging problems: Theory, applications, and potential issues
Hossein S. Aghamiry, Université Côte d'Azur, Geoazur, Valbonne, France Campus Golm, Building 9, Room 1.1012:15-13:15
Visualizing and quantifying the properties of a medium using sparse indirect measurements is the final goal of all the imaging methods in different…
more ›Learning in High-Dimensional Feature Spaces Using ANOVA-Based Fast Matrix-Vector Multiplication
Theresa Wagner, TU Chemnitz Campus Golm, building 9, room 0.1716:00-17:00
Kernel matrices are crucial in many learning tasks and typically dense and large-scale. Depending on the dimension of the feature space even the…
more ›Women Networking Meeting
Our SFB Women Networking Meeting with Prof. Dr. Marie-Therese Wolfram from University of Warwick provides a chance to talk about career, chances and…
more ›Collective dynamics in the social and data science
Marie-Therese Wolfram , University of Warwick, UK Campus Golm, Building 28, Room 0.10810:15 - 11:30
Collective dynamics can be observed in many situations in our daily lives, for example the motion of bird flocks, the formation of directional lanes…
more ›Additional Colloquium with our Mercator Fellows Sean Meyn and Youssef M. Marzouk
Sean Meyn and Youssef M. Marzouk , University of Florida and MIT Campus Golm, Building 28, Room 0.10810:30 - 11:30
Our Mercator Fellows Sean Meyn and Youssef M. Marzouk will visit us in the week from June 27th to July 1st. We will use this opportunity to have an…
more ›Symmetry-informed model inference for active matter
Jörn Dunkel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Campus Golm, Building 28, Room 0.10810:15 - 11:15
Recent experimental advances enable high-resolution observations of biological and synthetic active matter across a wide range of length and time…
more ›5th Kálmán Lecture with Nicolas Chopin
Nicolas Chopin , ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Campus Golm, Building 25, Room F0.0110:15-11:30
Nested cubing integration: how to get a O(N{-10}) error when you compute your favourite integral
This talk will explain why computing integrals…
more ›Jamboree 2022 - IRTG and associated members
This year Jamboree for all members of the IRTG as well as associated members will take place from 7th to 9th of Sepember at the KiEZ…
more ›SFB Annual Meeting 2022
Campus Golm, building 6, lecture hall H05
The Annual Meeting of the SFB 1294 will take place from 13th to 14th of September at the Campus Griebnitzsee in building 6. In addition to SFB…
more ›Women Networking Meeting
Campus Golm12:00 - 14:00
Our SFB Women Networking Meeting with Elizabeth Qian from the California Institute of Technology (USA) provides a chance to talk about career, chances…
more ›1st Potsdam DA Days
Campus Griebnitzsee, Building 6
This symposium will kick off the new event format of the SFB - the Potsdam DA Days!
The joint ‘Symposium on Inverse Problems: From experimental data…
more ›Using 'Data-Intelligence' to Understand the Physics of the Inner Magnetosphere
Geoff D. Reeves, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Campus Golm, Building 28, Room 0.10810:15 - 11:15
The Earth’s magnetosphere is a complex system composed of about a dozen major subsystems that are not only complex in-and-of themselves but…
more ›IRTG Workshop - Good Scientific Practice
Dr. Peter Schröder Campus Golm, building 29, room 0.25/0.2610:00-17:00
This workshop is part of the SFB IRTG Certificate Program and will be held by Dr. Peter Schröder. The onsite workshop wil deal with Good Scientif…
more ›"Two prior models for edge-preserving Bayesian inversion" & "Geometry Parameter Estimation for Sparse X-ray Log Imaging"
Felipe Uribe & Angelina Senchukova, LUT University, Finland Campus Golm, building 9, room 1.2210:15 - 11:15
Abstract by Felipe Uribe:
In inverse problems arising in imaging science characterization of sharp edges in the solution is desired. Within the…
more ›Z03 Workshop on 'How to complete a Data Management Plan'
Campus Golm, building 70, room 0.0909:45 - 11:45
In this workshop, participants will strengthen their knowledge about using data management plans to organize the research data created in the…
more ›Computationally Efficient Pollutant Dispersion Calculation
Iris Rammelmüller Campus Golm, building 9, room 1.2210:45 - 11:15
Since it is a crucial component of most environmental impact assessments, air dispersion modelling has emerged as one of the most important methods in…
more ›Challenges of data driven modelling in cardiac dynamics
Ulrich Parlitz, Universität Göttingen Campus Golm, Building 28, Room 0.10810:15 - 11:15
The myocardium is an electrically excitable medium that supports various types of excitation waves, including stable or chaotic spiral waves that…
more ›Women Networking Lunch
Campus Golm, building 29, 2.5812:00 - 13:00
Our SFB Women Networking Lunch with Femke Vossepoel (Delft University of Technology) and Svetlana Dubinkina (Vrije University Amsterdam) provides a…
more ›'Projected Particle Filtering' and 'On ensemble size in a particle method for subsidence estimation'
Svetlana Dubinkina (VU Amsterdam) and Femke C. Vossepoel (TU Delft) Campus Golm, building 9, room 1.2210:00 - 11:00
Abstract by Svetlana Dubinkina:
Data assimilation of high-dimensional nonlinear models is subject to curse of dimensionality. It is when an ensemble…
more ›IRTG Workshop: Communication Skills for Women in the Sciences
Dr. Imke Lode , ProSciencia Beratungs-GmbH Campus Golm, TIP (building 10)09:00 - 17:00
This IRTG workshop is only for female scientists of the SFB. The workshop will be held by Dr. Imke Lode from ProSciencia and provides practical skills…
more ›IRTG Workshop: Communication Skills for Women in the Sciences
Dr. Imke Lode , ProSciencia Beratungs-GmbH Campus Golm, building 29, room 0.25/0.2609:00 - 17:00
This IRTG workshop is only for female scientists of the SFB. The workshop will be held by Dr. Imke Lode from ProSciencia and provides practical skills…
more ›One-shot Learning of Surrogates in PDE-constrained Optimization Under Uncertainty
Claudia Schillings, Freie Universität Berlin Campus Golm, Building 28, Room 0.10810:15 - 11:15
Approaches to decision making and learning mainly rely on optimization techniques to achieve “best” values for parameters and decision variables. In…
more ›Bayesian and Deterministic Spatio-Temporal Methods with Edge-Preserving Priors for Inverse Problems
Mirjeta Pasha, Tufts University, US Campus Golm, building 9, room 1.1012:13 - 13:15
Inverse problems are ubiquitous in many fields of science such as engineering, biology, medical imaging, atmospheric science, and geophysics. Three…
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