Activities

Spring 2026 Seminars

UQ4Life meets weekly Friday’s at 3pm in SAS 5270. The seminars for Spring 2026 are below.

DatePresenterNotes
Jan 23Brian Reich We will discuss this paper on reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces.  If you are completely new to RKHSs, you might find this video as a useful introduction.
Jan 30Troy LarsenIntroduction to the Total HSIC Index for Global Sensitivity Analysis [abstract] [slides]
Feb 6Louisa Ebby and Troy LarsenWe will discuss this paper.  Slides 18-41 may be a good primer for the computational approaches in this paper. [discussion]
Feb 13Carter HallProbabilistic B-Spline Modeling for Uncertainty Quantification in Ordinary Differential Equations [abstract] [slides]
Feb 20Carter HallWe will discuss this paper.
Feb 27Louisa EbbyEstimating global sea surface temperatures from sparse in situ observations [abstract][slides]
Mar 6Adira Cohen, Sophie Farr, and Jacob PorterWe will discuss this paper. [discussion]
Mar 13N/ASpring Break
Mar 20N/ASpring Break
Mar 27
Ally IntroneInferring Intercellular Interaction Rules for HER2+ Breast Cancer Cell Motility Using Equation Learning [abstract]
Apr 3Alex JohnsonWe will discuss this paper.
Apr 10Adira Cohen
Apr 17TBD
Apr 24Alex Johnson

2025 Distinguished Seminar Series

UQ4Life is excited to announce the 2025 Distinguished Seminar Series. The theme of the series this year is surrogate modeling, which is a suite of statistical models to approximate a mathematical model and has broad application including engineering, climate and health. This year’s line up is

Robert Gramacy, Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech, January 31,
Yawen Guan, Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, February 7
Daniela Calvetti, Department of Mathematics, Case Western University, February 25th
Dirk Husmeier, Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, March 17th

The seminar will be hosted jointly between the Departments of Statistics and Mathematics.