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Jonas Latz
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Intrigued by inverse problems & uncertainties. Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester (views are my own; he/him) | web: www.latzplacian.org
Andrea Bertozzi, Nadia Drenska, Matt Thorpe, and I have guest edited a theme issue on “Partial differential equations in data science” in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

Take a look: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsta/202...

@royalsociety.org @royalsocietypublishing.org
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences: Vol 383, No 2298
royalsocietypublishing.org
June 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
#Oberwolfach: every mathematician’s happy place
April 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Exciting news! 😊

Best of luck for the election, Master!
I just wanted to let you know that, having been encouraged by many and received over four times the number of nominations required, I announced today that I am throwing my hat into the ring for the election of the next Chancellor of the University of Cambridge...
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April 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM
A few years ago, Björn Sprungk and I had written a contribution towards the “Snapshots of Modern Mathematics from #Oberwolfach” (publications.mfo.de/handle/mfo/3...).

Once in a while a collection of snapshots is published in a volume. I have received my copy today. 😊
April 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Why do people call it _adaptive MCMC_ instead of
- CMC
- “M”CMC
- \hat{M}CMC
- M😉CMC
March 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
February 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Please find below the announcement for the

2nd RSS/Turing Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning

(I am a speaker ☺️)
2nd RSS/Turing Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning
rss.org.uk
February 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Earlier today I gave my first talk for 2025 — in the Applied Mathematics Seminar at the University of Glasgow! Great audience and nice discussions afterwards. 😊
January 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Did you know that Schengen is a small village in Luxembourg? It is right at the French-German-Luxembourgish trijunction. I grew up nearby and I can assure you that it is my favourite border to cross.

See you in 2025! ☺️
December 19, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Stationary Gaussian processes are often inappropriate as priors in Bayesian image reconstruction. When using non-stationary priors, the non-stationarity needs to be carefully estimated.

New preprint (with Aretha L. Teckentrup and Simon Urbainczyk)

arxiv.org/abs/2412.10248
Deep Gaussian Process Priors for Bayesian Image Reconstruction
In image reconstruction, an accurate quantification of uncertainty is of great importance for informed decision making. Here, the Bayesian approach to inverse problems can be used: the image is repres...
arxiv.org
December 16, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Overleaf is down. What was the last thing you were writing about on there?

I‘ll start: the K-Means method
December 3, 2024 at 1:09 PM
At last year‘s Edinburgh Science Festival, we organised a ‚Mathematics Showdown‘: five PhD students give engaging research talks for a general audience, the audience votes for a winner.

Here are the talks:
Mathematics Showdown 2023 - YouTube
Contributions to the Mathematics Showdown 2023 at the Edinburgh Science Festival.
youtube.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Markovian #Meme.
November 29, 2024 at 7:05 AM
Open PhD position

Anna Scaife and I are looking for a PhD student interested in analysing astronomical images using modern physics-on-graphs-based machine learning methods. The position is within the UKRI-CDT AI in Decision Making for Complex Systems.

Please share with potential candidates! 😊
Image segmentation in radioastronomy with physical models on graphs at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Image segmentation in radioastronomy with physical models on graphs at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 24, 2024 at 11:51 AM
Me talking to my algorithm… #meme
November 23, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Discretisation memes! 😊
November 22, 2024 at 7:04 AM
I need to slowly move all my #mathematics #memes to the #mathsky. Let’s start with _Tolkien and convergence to stationarity_.
November 21, 2024 at 6:48 AM
A few weeks ago, my student Alix Leroy and I were visiting Siemens Energy in Berlin for #knowledgeexchange and a guided tour around their production facilities. 😊
November 20, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Say, you discretise an ODE with forward Euler choosing iid exponentially distributed stepsizes and linearly interpolate between discretisation points. Then, your interpolated path can be written as a continuous-time Markov process.

An analysis of this Markov process: arxiv.org/abs/2408.01409
The random timestep Euler method and its continuous dynamics
ODE solvers with randomly sampled timestep sizes appear in the context of chaotic dynamical systems, differential equations with low regularity, and, implicitly, in stochastic optimisation. In this wo...
arxiv.org
November 19, 2024 at 7:24 AM
Finding the Lyapunov function you are looking for = finding happiness. 😊
November 3, 2023 at 3:38 PM
Ever felt insecure about your own work? You are not alone.

Gauss in a letter to Bessel:
“When I am new to a subject, I distrust my own notions - especially if they contradict Laplace.”

(from W. Ahrens: “Scherz und Ernst in der Mathematik”, Teubner, Leipzig 1904.)
October 30, 2023 at 2:09 PM
Hi #mathsky and everyone!

My name is Jonas, I do applied maths for living — usually solving problems that concern data, uncertainties, or both. I am based at the University of Manchester, UK.
October 28, 2023 at 8:41 PM