Mon, 23 Nov 2026

15:30 - 16:30
L3

TBA

Fredrik Viklund
(KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
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TBA

Thu, 19 Nov 2026

16:00 - 17:00
L5

TBA

Verena Schwarz
((Mathematical Institute University of Oxford))
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TBA

Novel Approaches for the Reliable and Efficient Numerical Evaluation of Landau-Type Operators
Carrillo, J Thalhammer, M Communications in Computational Physics volume 41 issue 1 25-61 (25 Jun 2026)
From Bits to Qubits: The Theory and Practice of Quantum Data Encoding
Zhang, X Rattew, A Wu, B Styliaris, G Sun, X Koczor, B Yuan, X (07 Sep 2026)
On U(1)n-2-invariant special Lagrangian n-folds
Beard, M Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry volume 70 issue 3 12 (18 Oct 2026)
Thu, 12 Nov 2026

16:00 - 17:00
L5

TBA

Wen Su
((Mathematical Institute University of Oxford))
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TBA

Thu, 03 Dec 2026

16:00 - 17:00
L5

TBA

Gonçalo dos Reis
(University of Edinburgh)
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TBA

Thu, 26 Nov 2026

16:00 - 17:00
L5

TBA

Horace Yiu
((Mathematical Institute University of Oxford))
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TBA

Fri, 23 Oct 2026

16:00 - 17:00
L1

Generative modeling with flows and diffusions.

Eric Vanden-Eijnden
(New York University)
Abstract
Modern generative models are behind today's systems for generating text, images, and video, and are increasingly used in scientific applications. Mathematically, they can be understood as solutions to a problem of transport of measure: transform a simple reference distribution into a complex target known only through samples. Many of the most successful approaches perform this transport dynamically, by learning the velocity of an ODE or the drift of an SDE whose solution carries one distribution onto the other. I will describe how flow matching with stochastic interpolants makes this construction explicit, treats deterministic flows and diffusions within a single framework, and reduces learning the dynamics to simple quadratic regression problems. I will explain how the design of the interpolation shapes the transport, and what this implies for accuracy and computational cost. I will conclude by discussing how the flow map of the ODE can be learned directly, enabling sampling in one or a few steps, and point to some open mathematical questions.
 


 

Chemotaxis of cell aggregates: morphology and dynamics of migrating active droplets
Celora, G Walker, B Dalwadi, M Pearce, P Journal of Fluid Mechanics
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