Pierre Nyquist
@pierrenyquist.bsky.social
Assoc. prof. in mathematics at Chalmers/University of Gothenburg. Mainly probability, analysis and computational methods, but I like to visit most areas of mathematics. Elected member Young Academy of Sweden. Mostly here for the science, some for the jokes
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Pierre Nyquist
@pierrenyquist.bsky.social
· Dec 15
Pierre Nyquist | Chalmers & Gothenburg University
Pierre Nyquist's homepage
pierrenyq.github.io
🚨New PhD position 🚨
I have at least one PhD opening, starting fall 2025 (later might also be possible), to work on topics in probability theory. Official ad is out on Dec 20, in the meantime there is more information on my webpage—interested students are welcome to contact me. Spread the word!
I have at least one PhD opening, starting fall 2025 (later might also be possible), to work on topics in probability theory. Official ad is out on Dec 20, in the meantime there is more information on my webpage—interested students are welcome to contact me. Spread the word!
Donning the gown and beret of @tudelfteemcs.bsky.social for today's PhD defence by Serena Della Corte (here together with her supervisor Richard Kraaij). Really nice thesis and wonderful defence on PDEs, HJB equations and large deviations.
November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Donning the gown and beret of @tudelfteemcs.bsky.social for today's PhD defence by Serena Della Corte (here together with her supervisor Richard Kraaij). Really nice thesis and wonderful defence on PDEs, HJB equations and large deviations.
Roughly 5 months later, can you guess what email I had to write once more?
Currently writing an email to an editor asking when we can expect reports on a paper we submitted in one of my students first year. She is defending her thesis in two months; we have 5 year PhD programs.
September 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Roughly 5 months later, can you guess what email I had to write once more?
Reposted by Pierre Nyquist
Anyone in the math GR / geometric analysis communiy know anyone who's in need of a postdoc around 1 year from now and would be interested in coming to the frozen wastelands of the north? (And has/will have a non-Euro PhD)
August 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Anyone in the math GR / geometric analysis communiy know anyone who's in need of a postdoc around 1 year from now and would be interested in coming to the frozen wastelands of the north? (And has/will have a non-Euro PhD)
New opinion piece on the Swedish AI commission’s report and proposals, from @sverigesungaakademi.se
Försvaga inte det som ger AI dess styrka
DEBATT: Sverige har allt som krävs för att leda AI-utvecklingen: stark forskning, digital infrastruktur och en tradition av teknisk utveckling. AI kan göra mycket nytta, men bara om vi satsar på rätt ...
www.di.se
August 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
New opinion piece on the Swedish AI commission’s report and proposals, from @sverigesungaakademi.se
Re-reading this gem more than a decade after the first time. Great for beginning students as the similarities with,
and lessons for, research are everywhere. Or just life in general really.
and lessons for, research are everywhere. Or just life in general really.
August 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Re-reading this gem more than a decade after the first time. Great for beginning students as the similarities with,
and lessons for, research are everywhere. Or just life in general really.
and lessons for, research are everywhere. Or just life in general really.
100% here for this.
Since it's 5 PM here, let me follow up this post with my top 10 negroni variations.
Revisiting Sutton’s Bitter Lesson in the wake of GPT-5.
August 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
100% here for this.
Making a list of papers to bring on upcoming trips, mostly things that are not in my "main areas"—any suggestions for good papers from the last couple of years? Any suggestions welcomed; so far I have *a lot* on the overlap gap property and computational hardness (Gamarnik, Ben Arous and others...)
July 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Making a list of papers to bring on upcoming trips, mostly things that are not in my "main areas"—any suggestions for good papers from the last couple of years? Any suggestions welcomed; so far I have *a lot* on the overlap gap property and computational hardness (Gamarnik, Ben Arous and others...)
And we’re off! Great start but as usual too many interesting talks/sessions. And, of course, the heat. But, first world problems and all that…
June 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
And we’re off! Great start but as usual too many interesting talks/sessions. And, of course, the heat. But, first world problems and all that…
Spending most of the week in Atlanta, anyone with rec's for where to go for food, drinks etc?
June 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Spending most of the week in Atlanta, anyone with rec's for where to go for food, drinks etc?
Chasing characters to remove in a "paper" for a class on pedagogy and it is a real "kill your darlings"-situation over here
June 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Chasing characters to remove in a "paper" for a class on pedagogy and it is a real "kill your darlings"-situation over here
Reposted by Pierre Nyquist
Waiting for my MCMC to finish.
June 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Waiting for my MCMC to finish.
🚨New work alert🚨
This got a little lost with Federica's defence last week, but together with another student with put out a new preprint on large deviations for certain families of Schrödinger bridges. The work builds on that of Bernton, Ghosal and Nutz for ...
arxiv.org/abs/2506.03999
This got a little lost with Federica's defence last week, but together with another student with put out a new preprint on large deviations for certain families of Schrödinger bridges. The work builds on that of Bernton, Ghosal and Nutz for ...
arxiv.org/abs/2506.03999
Large deviations for scaled families of Schrödinger bridges with reflection
In this paper, we show a large deviation principle for certain sequences of static Schrödinger bridges, typically motivated by a scale-parameter decreasing towards zero, extending existing large devia...
arxiv.org
June 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
🚨New work alert🚨
This got a little lost with Federica's defence last week, but together with another student with put out a new preprint on large deviations for certain families of Schrödinger bridges. The work builds on that of Bernton, Ghosal and Nutz for ...
arxiv.org/abs/2506.03999
This got a little lost with Federica's defence last week, but together with another student with put out a new preprint on large deviations for certain families of Schrödinger bridges. The work builds on that of Bernton, Ghosal and Nutz for ...
arxiv.org/abs/2506.03999
And with that, we welcome Federica to the PhD family! A wonderful defence steered in a fantastic way by Christophe Andrieu as opponent and w. Sigrid Källblad from KTH as chair.
June 5, 2025 at 2:40 PM
And with that, we welcome Federica to the PhD family! A wonderful defence steered in a fantastic way by Christophe Andrieu as opponent and w. Sigrid Källblad from KTH as chair.
T-24h until Federica's PhD defence. I have somehow fallen into the role of event planner leading up to this; zero nerves about the actual defence, but stressed out of my mind about travel itineraries, directions and Google Maps links, restaurant reservations etc.
www.kth.se/math/kalende...
www.kth.se/math/kalende...
Large Deviation Analysis of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods and Algorithmic Advances for Uncertainty Quantification in Neuroscience | KTH
www.kth.se
June 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
T-24h until Federica's PhD defence. I have somehow fallen into the role of event planner leading up to this; zero nerves about the actual defence, but stressed out of my mind about travel itineraries, directions and Google Maps links, restaurant reservations etc.
www.kth.se/math/kalende...
www.kth.se/math/kalende...
Quintessential academic experience: finished a referee report I had been putting off for way too long earlier today. 20 min later a new referee request comes in, aaaaaaand now we’re back where we started.
June 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Quintessential academic experience: finished a referee report I had been putting off for way too long earlier today. 20 min later a new referee request comes in, aaaaaaand now we’re back where we started.
It happens every time and yet I seem to forget between visits: coming to Brown and talking to the people here gives me such a boost of ideas and new problems to work on. Cannot overstate the influence this place has had for me.
May 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
It happens every time and yet I seem to forget between visits: coming to Brown and talking to the people here gives me such a boost of ideas and new problems to work on. Cannot overstate the influence this place has had for me.
Analysis is all fun and games until you have to go through someone else's proofs and make sure that yes, you can in fact take your deltas and epsilons that way...
May 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Analysis is all fun and games until you have to go through someone else's proofs and make sure that yes, you can in fact take your deltas and epsilons that way...
Currently writing an email to an editor asking when we can expect reports on a paper we submitted in one of my students first year. She is defending her thesis in two months; we have 5 year PhD programs.
April 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Currently writing an email to an editor asking when we can expect reports on a paper we submitted in one of my students first year. She is defending her thesis in two months; we have 5 year PhD programs.
TIL of the existence of the "finfluencer", as in finance influencer, and there are few things I want to unlearn as much as this.
April 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
TIL of the existence of the "finfluencer", as in finance influencer, and there are few things I want to unlearn as much as this.
Happy for, and proud of, my not-for-much-longer grad student Federica Milinanni that got one of the prestigious Wallenberg postdoc grants to go and work with Chang-Han Rhee at Northwestern.
Sixteen mathematicians share SEK 35 million in research funding from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.They represent a wide range of different disciplines #research #mathematics #science
Se the list and read more
tinyurl.com/2s42ar4p
Se the list and read more
tinyurl.com/2s42ar4p
Sixteen mathematicians share SEK 35 million in research funding | Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
tinyurl.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Happy for, and proud of, my not-for-much-longer grad student Federica Milinanni that got one of the prestigious Wallenberg postdoc grants to go and work with Chang-Han Rhee at Northwestern.
Speaking to secondary school students today and my planned approach, subsequently completely shut down by my wife:
a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder
ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder
media.tenor.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Speaking to secondary school students today and my planned approach, subsequently completely shut down by my wife:
In addition to the insanity of how it is being done, there is something very Hunger Games-esque in asking people to explain why their jobs should exist, i.e. why they should be able to pay rent etc.. Just unimaginable levels of callousness.
February 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In addition to the insanity of how it is being done, there is something very Hunger Games-esque in asking people to explain why their jobs should exist, i.e. why they should be able to pay rent etc.. Just unimaginable levels of callousness.
One week left people! Please share with anyone you think might be interested; official ad in the thread etc.
🚨New PhD position 🚨
I have at least one PhD opening, starting fall 2025 (later might also be possible), to work on topics in probability theory. Official ad is out on Dec 20, in the meantime there is more information on my webpage—interested students are welcome to contact me. Spread the word!
I have at least one PhD opening, starting fall 2025 (later might also be possible), to work on topics in probability theory. Official ad is out on Dec 20, in the meantime there is more information on my webpage—interested students are welcome to contact me. Spread the word!
Pierre Nyquist | Chalmers & Gothenburg University
Pierre Nyquist's homepage
pierrenyq.github.io
February 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
One week left people! Please share with anyone you think might be interested; official ad in the thread etc.
Kind of pleased that I have somehow managed to turn the pedagogical course I am currently in to me having to re-read Thurston's "On proof and progress..." and parts of Rota's philosophical work.
February 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Kind of pleased that I have somehow managed to turn the pedagogical course I am currently in to me having to re-read Thurston's "On proof and progress..." and parts of Rota's philosophical work.