Understanding Infectious Disease Transmission: Insights and Uncertainty - Christl Donnelly, Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford and Professor of Statistical Epidemiology, Imperial College London.
Wednesday 03 December 2025, 5.30-6.30 pm Andrew Wiles Building, Mathematical Institute, Oxford
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In September 2024 we reported that a team of mathematicians from Oxford Mathematics and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics had uncovered a new class of shapes that tile space without using sharp corners. Remarkably, these ’ideal soft shapes’ are found abundantly in nature – from sea shells to muscle cells.
Ruth Misener will talk about: 'Optimizing over graphs: Challenges, Formulations, and Applications'
Applications involving optimization over graphs include molecular design, graph neural network verification, neural architecture search, etc. This talk discusses formulating graph spaces using mixed-integer optimization and incorporating application-specific constraints. We discuss computational challenges with these mixed-integer optimization formulations and zoom in on the practical implications for these applications. We mention what has been done (by both ourselves and others) and what other research still needs to be done.
Co-authors: Shiqiang Zhang, Yilin Xie, Christopher Hojny, Juan Campos, Jixiang Qing, Christian Feldmann, David Walz, Frederik Sandfort, Miriam Mathea, Calvin Tsay
This talk is hosted by Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus
Where on earth is the best laboratory to demonstrate the beauty of fluid dynamics?
Actually it’s not on earth. Here is the story of the soft cell.
And a longer read about the soft cell, discovered by Gabor Domokos and our own Alain Goriely.
