Research seminars
We maintain a varied and collaborative series of seminars across our research areas.
Seminar series
- Algebra
- Applied maths (informal)
- Dynamical Systems and Analysis
- Education
- Geometry, topology and mathematical physics
- Logic
- Mathematics in the life sciences
- Number theory
- Numerical analysis and scientific computing
- Physical applied mathematics
- Probability and statistics
- Pure postgraduate seminar
- Statistics, inverse problems, uncertainty quantification and data science
SQUIDS Seminar: Sampling as Bandits: Evaluation-Efficient Design for Black-Box Densities
14:00 - 15:00 21 January 2026
Speaker: Takuo Matsubara (University of Edinburgh) Abstract: We introduce Bandit Importance Sampling (BIS), a novel class of importance sampling methods designed for scenarios where the target density is computationally expensive to evaluate. In contrast to adaptive importance sampling, which optimises a proposal distribution, BIS directly op..
Dynamical Systems and Analysis Seminar - Eng-Jon Ong
14:00 - 15:00 09 February 2026
Speaker: Eng-Jon Ong (Queen Mary University of London) Title: TBA Abstract: TBA Room: Frank Adams 1 Further information: https://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/yotam.smilansky/dynamics_analysis
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