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Mathematics and Machine Learning: Recent Progress in Understanding Rare Events in Complex Systems

Friday, May 7
10:00 AM -
3:30 PM EDT


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10:00 - 11:00
"Rare Events in Fluid Turbulence: Coherent Structures and Turbulence Induced Transitions"
Tobias Grafke, University of Warwick
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11:00 - 12:00
"Prefactor estimates for probability density functions in stochastic dynamical systems via the Gel'fand-Yaglom method"
Timo Schorlepp, Ruhr-University Bochum
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12:00 - 1:00
Break

1:00 - 2:00
"Assisting Sampling with Learning: Adaptive Monte Carlo with Normalizing Flows"
Marylou Gabrié, New York University and Flatiron Institute
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2:00 - 3:00
"Estimation of extreme event probabilities in complex systems"
Georg Stadler, New York University
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3:00-3:30
Informal Discussion

This symposium is accompanied by a tutorial aimed at advanced undergraduate and early graduate students (click on link to watch).


Organizers:
Tobias Schaefer, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Tobias Grafke, University of Warwick
Eric Vanden-Eijnden, New York University