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June 2015

Prof. Raul Tempone will give a seminar talk entitled "Multi-Index Monte Carlo" at Uppsala University, Sweden

1 min read · Mon, Jun 15 2015

Prof. Raul Tempone and Dr. Alvaro Moraes will teach the course "Simulation and Inference of Stochastic Reaction Networks" at the department of Mathematics and Statistics of KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) in Stockholm

1 min read · Wed, Jun 10 2015

Prof. Raul Tempone is co-organizer of the KAUST Research Conference: Recent Trends in Predicting and Monitoring the Integrity of Composites (COMINT)

1 min read · Mon, Jun 1 2015

May 2015

On May 24th, 2015, PhD Candidate Abdul Lateef Haji Ali presented his Proposal Thesis Defense entitled "Optimizing Multilevel Stochastic Samplers: Monte Carlo and Sparse Grids"

1 min read · Sun, May 24 2015

Chaouki Ben Issaid successfully defended his MS Thesis

1 min read · Mon, May 4 2015

Pedro Vilanova successfully defended his PhD Thesis

1 min read · Mon, May 4 2015

Chiheb Ben Hammouda successfully defended his MS Thesis

1 min read · Mon, May 4 2015

AMCS - PhD Thesis Defense: Multilevel Approximations of Markovian Jump Processes with Applications in Communication Networks By Pedro Vilanova (PhD Student of Prof. Raul Tempone, KAUST)

1 min read · Sun, May 3 2015

April 2015

MS-Thesis Defense: Drift-Implicit Multi-Level Monte Carlo Tau-Leap Methods for Stochastic Reaction Networks By Chiheb Ben Hammouda (Master Student of Prof. Raul Tempone, KAUST)

1 min read · Thu, Apr 30 2015

MS-Thesis Defense: Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design Using Multilevel Monte Carlo By Chaouki ben Issaid (Master Student of Prof. Raul Tempone, KAUST)

1 min read · Thu, Apr 30 2015

Seminar: An Integrated Approach for Model-Based Systems and Software Engineering By Prof. Jacques Duysens (ANSYS Inc.)

1 min read · Wed, Apr 29 2015

Jacques Duysens will be visiting the SRI Uncertainty Quantification Center during the period April 28 - 30, 2015

1 min read · Tue, Apr 28 2015

Alexander Litvinenko is giving talk "Sampling and low-rank tensor approximation of the response surface" on workshop "Uncertainty Management for Robust Industrial Design in Aeronautics - UMRIDA", April 15-16, TU Delft, Netherlands

1 min read · Wed, Apr 15 2015

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Marco Iglesias will be visiting the SRI Uncertainty Quantification Center during the period April 14 - 23, 2015

1 min read · Tue, Apr 14 2015

March 2015

Dr. Matteo Icardi has become Warwick Zeeman Lecturer at the University of Warwick

1 min read · Sun, Mar 15 2015

Alexander Litvinenko is organizing a mini-symposia "Efficient Methods for Uncertainty Quantification by Means of Tensor Format Representations" on SIAM CSE conference in Salt Lake City, March 2015

1 min read · Sat, Mar 14 2015

February 2015

Prof. Tempone joined the Advisory and Impact Board of the UK EPSRC Programme Grant EQUIP (solution of statistical inverse problems)

1 min read · Wed, Feb 18 2015

Georgios Zouraris will be visiting the Stochastic Numerics Research Group

1 min read · Sun, Feb 15 2015

Dr. Bilal Saad accepted researcher position at Baker Hughes Dhahran Research and Technology Center

1 min read · Sun, Feb 8 2015

January 2015

Alvaro Moraes successfully defended his PhD thesis

1 min read · Tue, Jan 27 2015

AMCS - PhD Thesis Defense: Simulation and Statistical Inference of Stochastic Reaction Networks with Applications to Epidemic Models By Alvaro Moraes (PhD Student of Prof. Raul Tempone, KAUST)

1 min read · Mon, Jan 26 2015

Boualem Djehiche will be visiting the Stochastic Numerics Research Group during the period Jan. 23 - 29, 2015

1 min read · Fri, Jan 23 2015

Seminar: Bayesian OED for core-flooding experiment application based on Laplace Approximation By Longting Mo (Visiting Master student, Nanjing University, China)

1 min read · Thu, Jan 22 2015

Seminar: A Bayesian level-set approach for geometric inverse problems By Prof. Marco Iglesias (University of Nottingham, U.K.)

1 min read · Sun, Jan 18 2015

Marco Iglesias will be visiting the SRI Uncertainty Quantification Center during the period Jan. 14 - 20, 2015

1 min read · Wed, Jan 14 2015

Dr. Matteo Icardi is organizing a workshop "Open-source software for computational engineering" for the WEP 2015

1 min read · Sun, Jan 11 2015

Former SIAM President Prof. Mac Hyman came to review the UQ Strategic Initiative Center

1 min read · Sat, Jan 10 2015

Marco Iglesias will be visiting the Stochastic Numerics Research Group during the period 1-11 Sep. 2015

1 min read · Fri, Jan 9 2015

SRI UQ Annual Workshop 2015

1 min read · Tue, Jan 6 2015

Steven Dufour will be visiting the Stochastic Numerics Research Group

1 min read · Mon, Jan 5 2015

December 2014

Prof. Raul Tempone was plenary speaker at the Foundations of Computational Mathematics conference, FOCM 2014 - Montevideo, Uruguay

1 min read · Tue, Dec 16 2014

November 2014

Georgios Zouraris will be visiting the Stochastic Numerics Research Group during the period Nov. 14 - 22, 2014

1 min read · Fri, Nov 14 2014

Seminar: On Adaptive Multilevel Monte Carlo and Multi-Index Monte Carlo By Prof. Raul Tempone (KAUST)

1 min read · Thu, Nov 6 2014

October 2014

Seminar: Bayesian experimental designs By Prof. Marco Scavino (visiting Faculty at KAUST)

1 min read · Thu, Oct 23 2014

Jesper Oppelstrup will be visiting the Stochastic Numerics Research Group during the period Oct. 17 - 30, 2014

1 min read · Fri, Oct 17 2014

Seminar: Sequential Monte Carlo Methods By Prof. Ajay Jasra (National University of Singapore)

1 min read · Tue, Oct 14 2014

Ajay Jasra will be visiting the SRI Uncertainty Quantification Center during the period Oct. 11 -16, 2014

1 min read · Sat, Oct 11 2014

Prof. R. Tempone was an invited speaker at the Chemnitz Finite Element Symposium in Germany

1 min read · Wed, Oct 1 2014

Dr. Hakon Hoel accepted researcher position at the University of Oslo

1 min read · Wed, Oct 1 2014

September 2014

Prof. Raul Tempone is an invited speaker at the 27th Chemnitz FEM Symposium 2014, Germany

1 min read · Thu, Sep 18 2014

Prof. Raul Tempone is an invited speaker at the NASPDE workshop 2014, "Numerical Analysis of Stochastic PDEs", Switzerland

1 min read · Tue, Sep 9 2014

Prof. Raul Tempone gave a short course on Fast Simulation Techniques for Stochastic Reaction Networks at the Felix Klein Center for Mathematics in TU Kaiserslautern

1 min read · Wed, Sep 3 2014

Prof. Raul Tempone is an invited SPP Fellow of the German Research Foundation, DFG Priority Program 1324, "Mathematical methods for extracting quantifiable information from complex systems"

1 min read · Tue, Sep 2 2014

August 2014

Alexander Litvinenko participated in the sixth meeting of the working group "Low-rank Tensor Methods for Uncertainty Quantification"

1 min read · Sun, Aug 31 2014

AMCS Graduate Seminar: Multi-Index Monte Carlo: when sparsity meets sampling By Prof. Raul Tempone

1 min read · Thu, Aug 28 2014

Alexander Litvinenko gave the talk "Computation of the response surface in the tensor train data format" in the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany

1 min read · Tue, Aug 26 2014

Dr. Hamidou Tembine, the KAUST SRI UQ Center Research Scientist, has accepted an Assistant Professor position with NYU Abu Dhabi

1 min read · Fri, Aug 8 2014

SIAM NEWS: International Agenda for KAUST’s UQ Center

1 min read · Fri, Aug 1 2014

July 2014

Summer Short Course Announcement: Mathematical and Algorithmic Aspects of Uncertainty Quantification

1 min read · Mon, Jul 28 2014

PhD student Alvaro Moraes has given an invited talk at CALTECH at Pasadena-USA

1 min read · Tue, Jul 1 2014