Workshop IV: Uncertainty Quantification for Stochastic Systems and Applications - IPAM

Workshop IV: Uncertainty Quantification for Stochastic Systems and Applications

Part of the Long Program Complex High-Dimensional Energy Landscapes
November 13 - 17, 2017

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, November 13, 2017

Morning Session

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-09:40
Michele Ceriotti (MLPRC2)
Learning and Correcting Static and Dynamic Properties of Materials in Atomistic Simulations
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Youssef Marzouk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Couplings for sequential Bayesian inference
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Josselin Garnier (Ecole Polytechnique)
Uncertainty in wave propagation and imaging in random media

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Stefan Engblom (Uppsala University)
Bridging the scales between the single cell and the cell population - computational considerations
15:30-15:45
Break
15:45-16:25
Sebastian Reich (Universität Potsdam)
Data assimilation as an optimal control problem and applications to uncertainty quantification
16:45-17:15
Lightning Poster Presentations
17:15-18:30
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:40
Kurt Lejaeghere (Ghent University)
Six Inconvenient Truths about Dft Uncertainty Quantification
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Francesca Tavazza (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
UQ associated to controlled approximation choices in DFT
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Luc Rey-Bellet (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Stochastic Systems

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Tim Sullivan (Free University of Berlin and Zuse Institute Berlin)
Bayesian Probabilistic Numerical Methods
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:40
Matthew Dunlop (California Institute of Technology)
Robust MCMC for high dimensional Bayesian inversion with non-Gaussian and hierarchical priors

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:40
Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Stochastic Asymptotic-Preserving Schemes and Hypocoercivity Based Sensitivity Analysis for Multiscale Kinetic Equations with Random Inputs
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Udo von Toussaint (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)
Uncertainty Quantification for computer simulations of the interaction of energetic particles with amorphous solids
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Roger Ghanem (University of Southern California (USC))
Multiscale probabilistic models for manufacturing, performance and failure of composites

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Virginie Ehrlacher (École des Ponts ParisTech)
Tensorized Adaptive Biasing Force method for molecular dynamics (joint work with Pierre Monmarché and Tony Lelièvre)
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:40
Frederic Legoll (Ecole Nationale Des Ponts et Chaussees (LAMI))
Model reduction in stochastic dynamics and applications to MD

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:40
Paul Dupuis (Brown University)
Competing sources of variance in parallel replica Monte Carlo, and optimization in the low temperature limit
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Petr Plechac (University of Delaware)
Accelerated sampling and sensitivity analysis for stochastic reaction networks
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Marisol Koslowski (Purdue University)
Sensitivity of mechanical properties to microstructural variability

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Markos Katsoulakis (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
UQ Indices, Information Inequalities and applications in chemical kinetics
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:40
Michal Branicki (University of Edinburgh)
Path-based measures of transport and expansion rates in stochastic flows

Friday, November 17, 2017

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:40
Mark Transtrum (Brigham Young University)
Parameter uncertainty, model reduction, and effective theories in physics, biology, and beyond
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Louis Ellam (Imperial College)
Stochastic Modelling of Urban Structure
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:10
Fabien Cailliez (Université d'Orsay)
Statistical approaches to forcefield calibration and prediction uncertainty in molecular simulation

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Panos Angelikopoulos (D. E. Shaw Research)
Developing statistically rigorous force fields for molecular dynamics simulations on specialized hardware
15:30-16:00
Break
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