Thu, 26 Oct 2023

12:00 - 13:00
L1

Adjoint-accelerated Bayesian Inference for joint reconstruction and segmentation of Flow-MRI images

Matthew Juniper
(University of Cambridge)
Abstract

We formulate and solve a generalized inverse Navier–Stokes boundary value problem for velocity field reconstruction and simultaneous boundary segmentation of noisy Flow-MRI velocity images. We use a Bayesian framework that combines CFD, Gaussian processes, adjoint methods, and shape optimization in a unified and rigorous manner.
With this framework, we find the velocity field and flow boundaries (i.e. the digital twin) that are most likely to have produced a given noisy image. We also calculate the posterior covariances of the unknown parameters and thereby deduce the uncertainty in the reconstructed flow. First, we verify this method on synthetic noisy images of flows. Then we apply it to experimental phase contrast magnetic resonance (PC-MRI) images of an axisymmetric flow at low and high SNRs. We show that this method successfully reconstructs and segments the low SNR images, producing noiseless velocity fields that match the high SNR images, using 30 times less data.
This framework also provides additional flow information, such as the pressure field and wall shear stress, accurately and with known error bounds. We demonstrate this further on a 3-D in-vitro flow through a 3D-printed aorta and 3-D in-vivo flow through a carotid artery.

Fri, 05 May 2023

15:00 - 16:00
L4

On the Arthur-Barbasch-Vogan conjecture

Chen-Bo Zhu
(National University of Singapore)
Abstract

In this lecture, I will discuss the resolution of the Arthur-Barbasch-Vogan conjecture on the unitarity of special unipotent representations for any real form of a connected reductive complex Lie group, with contributions by several groups of authors (Barbasch-Ma-Sun-Zhu, Adams-Arancibia-Mezo, and Adams-Miller-van Leeuwen-Vogan). The main part of the lecture will be on the approach of the first group of authors for the case of real classical groups: counting by coherent families (combinatorial aspect), construction by theta lifting (analytic aspect), and distinguishing by invariants (algebraic-geometric aspect), resulting in a full classification, and with unitarity as a direct consequence of the construction.

The AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme is designed to allow exceptional African researchers to build international networks and focus on a project of their choice in collaboration with Oxford-based scholars. The Fellowship is open to researchers across all academic fields. Fellows will be affiliated with the University of Oxford for 12 months,  including ten months of virtual engagement and a two month in-person visit to Oxford during Trinity Term.

Thu, 18 May 2023
17:00
L3

How to find pointwise definable and Leibnizian extensions of models of arithmetic and set theory

Joel David Hamkins
(University of Notre Dame)
Abstract

I shall present a new flexible method showing that every countable model of PA admits a pointwise definable end-extension, one in which every point is definable without parameters. Also, any model of PA of size at most continuum admits an extension that is Leibnizian, meaning that any two distinct points are separated by some expressible property. Similar results hold in set theory, where one can also achieve V=L in the extension, or indeed any suitable theory holding in an inner model of the original model.

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