Jane Street virtual Estimathon, October 24th

Tomorrow, October 24th at 18:00 CET, will take place the virtual “Estimathon” hosted by Jane Street: 13 unique estimation problems in 30 minutes, combining maths and trivia, to be solved as a team.

It’s good fun, a good challenge, and a great opportunity to learn more about Jane Street! Sign up here or follow the poster below to obtain the Zoom link.

SIAM Professional Journey Showcase 2024: Dirk Hartmann

The Professional Journey Showcase took place this Tuesday, October 8th. Thanks to everyone who attended, and special thanks to Dirk Hartmann from Siemens for an engaging presentation and answering our questions!

Thanks as well to the EPFL mathematics department and Agepoly for their financial support.

G-Research Quant Finance Workshop, Wednesday 16th October

Are you an EPFL PhD student and curious about the world of Quantitative Finance?
You are invited to participate in G-Research’s Interactive Quant Finance Workshop on Wednesday, Oct. 16, from 18:00 to 22:00 at EPFL room GC B3 31.

🔍 What to Expect: You will take part G-Research’s brand new cointegration challenge, where you’ll test your strategies on unseen, real world datasets. Play for fun, or bring your competitive spirit for the chance to win prizes! Following the challenge you’ll have the chance to network with G-Research’s researchers over some food and drink!

👥 The workshop is a challenge that can be enjoyed solo, or in teams of up to three, so feel free to share the registration link with your friends and colleagues.

👉 Sign up now: qrco.de/EPFL2024 (or the QR code in the poster below)

SIAM Professional Journey Showcase 2024: Dirk Hartmann

Interested in a career in Applied Mathematics, Computational Science or Data Science, but still have some doubts?

Join us on Tuesday, October 8th, for the Professional Journey Showcase with Dirk Hartmann! The event will take place at EPFL in room MA B1 11, starting from 17h.

The workshop will consist in a short presentation, a career Q&A, and will be followed by a networking apéro. Registration is recommended (this link, or the QR code in the poster below).

Dirk Hartmann is an industrial mathematician, intrapreneur, and thought leader in the field of Simulation and Digital Twin. In his career, he took several leading roles in research, innovation, and development across Siemens including the lead of a multi-million Siemens R&D program and the technical leadership for the Simulation & Digital Twin field at Siemens Technology with more than 120 scientists across the globe. Many of his innovations have led to novel products and are regularly showcased at Siemens innovation events. For these achievements, he has received numerous Siemens awards, including the prestigious Werner-von-Siemens Top Innovator Award in 2019 and the Siemens Inventor of the Year Award in 2021.

Online Seminar: Learning Solution Operators for PDEs with Uncertainty

Join us for an online seminar on Monday, June 10th at 4PM, given by Emilia Magnani, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tübingen. She will present her work on “Learning Solution Operators for PDEs with Uncertainty”.

Abstract: We provide a Bayesian formulation of the problem of learning solution operators of PDEs in the formalism of Gaussian processes. We consider neural operators, recent deep architectures that have shown promising results in tackling the task of learning PDE solution operators. The current state of the art for these models lacks explicit uncertainty quantification. Our approach offers a practical and theoretically sound way to apply the linearized Laplace approximation to neural operators to provide uncertainty estimates. Moreover, we introduce a new framework for Bayesian uncertainty quantification in neural operators using function-valued Gaussian processes.

Bio: Emilia Magnani is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tübingen under the supervision of Philipp Hennig. She is also part of the ELLIS program and spent part of her Ph.D. in Genoa working with Lorenzo Rosasco. Before that, Emilia obtained her Master’s degree in Mathematics from ETH Zurich. Her research interests span various areas of machine learning such as probabilistic numerics, Gaussian processes, and operator learning.

Zoom Link: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63925499984?pwd=GOEI1rAQrMOXaIgFLG5B3IYle4Funr.1

Fête des maths @ EPFL

Very happy to have had so many people come by our booth at the Fête des maths @ EPFL last Saturday (Nov 25th)! Members of the student chapter presented some of their numerical experiments, from fluid models of plasma, to thermal cloaking solutions, to simulation of blood flow in a carotid artery. Visitors of all ages and backgrounds stopped by, including an unexpected celebrity visit, Maryna Viazovska!