This conference is sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Uncertainty Quantification (SIAG/UQ) and is co-sponsored by EPFL and MATHICSE.
This conference is being held in cooperation with the American Statistical Association (ASA) and GAMM Activity Group on Uncertainty Quantification (GAMM AG UQ).
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Announcements
All sessions and on-site registration will take place at the SwissTech Convention Center, EPFL Campus:
SwissTech Convention Center
Quartier Nord de l'EPFL
Rte Louis-Favre 2
CH-1024 Ecublens
Lausanne, Switzerland
Registration and all sessions will be located in the SwissTech Convention building.
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Organizing Committee
Organizing Committee Co-Chairs
Jim Berger, Duke University, USA (ASA Representative)
Fabio Nobile, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland (GAMM AG UQ Representative)
Clayton Webster, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Local Conference Organizers
Antony Davison, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Jan Hesthaven, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Fabio Nobile, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Victor Panaretos, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Organizing Committee
Mihai Anitescu, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Amy Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Albert Cohen, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
James (Mac) Hyman, Tulane University, USA
Frances Kuo, University of New South Wales, Australia
Bani K. Mallick, Texas A&M University, USA
Jeremy Oakley, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Anthony Patera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Clémentine Prieur, Université Joseph Fourier, France
Volker Schulz, University of Trier, Germany
Ralph Smith, North Carolina State University, USA
Andrew Stuart, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
William Welch, University of British Columbia, Canada
Description
Uncertainty quantification is critical to achieving validated predictive computations in a wide range of scientific and engineering applications. The field relies on a broad range of mathematics and statistics foundations, with associated algorithmic and computational development. This conference will bring together mathematicians, statisticians, scientists, and engineers with an interest in development and implementation of uncertainty quantification methods. While applications of UQ in many fields will be represented at the conference, the focal application for UQ16 is Life science. Other major conference themes include the mathematical foundation of UQ and the connections between UQ and big data. The goal of the meeting is to provide a forum for the sharing of ideas, and to enhance communication among this diverse group of technical experts, thereby contributing to future advances in the field.
Funding Agencies
SIAM and the Conference Organizing Committee wish to extend their thanks and appreciation to the U.S. National Science Foundation for its support of this conference.
Themes
Main themes
- Mathematical foundations of UQ
- UQ in Life Science
- UQ in Data Science
Topics
- Big data
- Data assimilation
- Decision support
- Design of experiments
- Functional data analysis
- High-dimensional approximations
- Inverse problems
- Learning theory
- Model bias and calibration
- Multiscale methods
- Optimization and control under uncertainty
- Rare events
- Risk assessment
- Sampling methods
- Sensitivity analysis
- Spatial temporal statistical analysis
- Stochastic / random differential equations
- Surrogate models
- Uncertainty propagation
- Verification and validation
- Visualization of uncertainties
Important Deadlines
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
September 7, 2015: October 5, 2015: Minisymposium proposals DEADLINE EXTENDED!
October 5, 2015: Contributed Lecture, Poster and Minisymposium Presentation Abstracts
TRAVEL FUND APPLICATION DEADLINE
October 19, 2015: SIAM Student Travel Award and Post-doc/Early Career Travel Award Applications
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION DEADLINE
January 31, 2016, midnight PST
HOTEL INFORMATION
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