SIAM UKIE Annual Meeting 2018 Seminar

Speaker information

Frederic Dias, University of College Dublin. Over the last 20 years, Professor Frédéric Dias (UCD School of Mathematical Sciences, UCD CASL and UCD Earth Institute) has been at the forefront of research on water waves. Professor Dias is an applied mathematician with a PhD in Civil Engineering who has made numerous pioneering contributions that have significantly advanced the field of fluid dynamics. His research contributions have spanned the fields of mathematics, mechanics, physics and civil engineering, and he is widely recognised as an expert in nonlinear wave motion. A key element of his success is his ability to work at the interface of mathematics and engineering, a rare combination in this research field.

Jacek Gondzio, University of Edinburgh. Research interests include: large scale optimization, interior point methods for LP, QP and NLP, cutting plane methods for convex optimization, simplex-type methods for LP, Sparse matrix methods in optimization, linear algebra techniques of optimization, structure exploiting techniques in dynamic, stochastic or network optimization, Parallel computing techniques in optimization, parallel methods of linear algebra, parallel decomposition methods.

Gunnar Martinsson, University of Oxford. My research interests involve numerical analysis, scientific computing, and applied mathematics. Recent work includes: Randomized methods in linear algebra; Fast solvers for elliptic PDEs. O(N) direct solvers. Structured matrix computations; Numerical methods for scattering problems, computational fluid dynamics, acoustics, etc.; Applied harmonic analysis; fast multipole methods; boundary integral equation methods; Modelling of heterogeneous materials; bandgap phenomena; lattice equations.

Ruth Misener, University College London (IMA sponsored speaker). Dr Ruth Misener is a Senior Lecturer (USA equivalent Assist/Assoc Professor) in the Computational Optimisation Group. Foundations of her research are in numerical optimisation algorithms and computational software frameworks. Applications include bioprocess optimisation under uncertainty and petrochemical process network design and operations. Ruth holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship (2012–2017) and will soon begin an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship (2017-2022). Ruth has co-authored several publicly-available software tools for global optimisation including: APOGEE (pooling); GloMIQO (MIQCQP); ANTIGONE (MINLP). Ruth received the 2017 Sir George Macfarlane Medal.

Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh. Research interests include problems at the interface of applied mathematics and statistics: uncertainty quantification, data science, Bayesian inverse problems, multilevel sampling methods, Gaussian process regression, deep Gaussian processes.