Applications are invited for Chapman Fellow in Mathematics (Statistics Section) at the Department of Mathematics.
Closing date: 11 November 2025
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We are hiring!

We are inviting applications for the Chapman Fellowship in Statistics at Imperial College London.

This is a kind of super-postdoc: 3 years contract, excellent working conditions, and candidates are expected to propose an independent research plan.

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congratulations to Paula Cordero Encinar, Francesca Romana Crucinio and O. Deniz Akyildiz (@odakyildiz.bsky.social‬) for winning the 🏆 Best Student Paper Award 🏆 at #UAI2025 with

"Proximal Interacting Particle Langevin Algorithms"

👉 openreview.net/forum?id=rTq...

Here's how the gradient flow for minimizing KL(pi, target) looks under the Fisher-Rao metric. I thought some probability mass would be disappearing on the left and appearing on the right (i.e. teleportation), like a geodesic under the same metric, but I was very wrong... What's the right intuition?

If anyone missed the RSS Gradient Flow workshop back in March, videos are now available...

Tim Y. J. Wang, Juan Kuntz, O. Deniz Akyildiz
Training Latent Diffusion Models with Interacting Particle Algorithms
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12412

This afternoon I was privileged to examine Alex Glyn-Davies, who produced a great thesis on aspects of physics-informed inference for DE models (arxiv.org/abs/2209.15609, arxiv.org/abs/2409.07101 and arxiv.org/abs/2409.06560) and some anomaly detection for good measure doi.org/10.1016/j.pa....

If anyone is thinking of registering for this, I understand that there are still some spaces available, but the room this event is taking place in has a limited capacity which is likely to be reached... so to avoid disappointment it would be safer to register sooner rather than later ;-).

Very happy to announce the 2nd RSS/Turing Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning to take place on 24th of March, 2025!

Registration is open now: tinyurl.com/rss-turing-g...

Please see the webpage for topics and speakers. Hope to see you all there!

Registration is now open for the 2nd RSS/Turing Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning at rss.org.uk/training-eve....

Date: Monday 24 March 2025, 10.00AM - 5.00PM
Location: The Alan Turing Institute

This review paper by @guillaume-garrigos.com on SGD-related algorithms is a fantastic resource, offering elegant, self-contained, and concise proofs in a single, accessible reference. arxiv.org/pdf/2301.11235

O. Deniz Akyildiz, Pierre Del Moral, Joaqu\'in Miguez
Gaussian entropic optimal transport: Schr\"odinger bridges and the Sinkhorn algorithm
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18432

Splendid stuff; very digestible and usable:

arxiv.org/abs/2412.05239
'Conditions for uniform in time convergence: applications to averaging, numerical discretisations, and mean-field systems'
- Katharina Schuh, Iain Souttar