ETICS summer school (october 2017)

The next summer school ETICS (École thématique sur les Incertitudes en calcul scientifique, Research school on Uncertainty in scientific computing) will be held this year in Porquerolles (France) during the first week of october (1-6 October 2017).

The goal of this school is to develop the skills of researchers and engineers in the domain of uncertainty  management  of  computer  codes.  Some  of  the  lectures  will  be  followed  by practical computer works. Collaborative works, round tables and poster sessions will promote exchanges between  participants.  The  prerequisites to  possess  are  the  mathematical  bases  of the uncertainty quantification science.

Lecturers:

• Max Gunzburger (Florida State University, USA)
• Luc Pronzato (CNRS - Sophia Antipolis, Nice)
• Sébastien Destercke (Université de Technologie de Compiègne)
• Pierre-Henri Wuillemin (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
• Nicolas Bousquet (EDF R&D, Chatou).

The full program can be found here:

www.gdr-mascotnum.fr/media/etic2017_en_program_vf.pdf

Registration fees: 900€ - Link for registration:

https://www.azur-colloque.fr/DR01/inscription/inscription/85/fr

The number of participants is limited. Registration will be closed once the limit has been reached.

Royal Statistical Society 2017 Conference

The RSS annual conference will be held in Glasgow from the 4th to the 7th of September 2017 (detailed information here).

The pre-conference training courses could also be of interest to the mascot-num community:

• Interactive visualisation (presented by Martin John Hadley)
• Introduction to Kriging and the associated tools in R (presented by Nicolas Durrande)
• Big Data: tools and statistical methods (presented by Mark Briers)
• One day introduction to core Python (presented by Rob Mastrodomenico)

We hope we'll see you there !

MASCOT meeting 2017: best student presentation award

The best student presentation award has been given to

• Clément Bouttier (Univ. Toulouse) for his talk on "Aircraft trajectory optimization in uncertain environments : a test case for stochastic optimization algorithms", and
• Rémi Stroh (LNE/CentraleSupélec) for his talk on "Sequential design of experiment on a stochastic multi-fidelity simulator to estimate a probability of exceeding a threshold",

ex-aequo.  They have won a prize of 1000 €.

http://www.gdr-mascotnum.fr/mascot17.html

MASCOT meeting 2017: PhD students' day

The full program for the PHD students' day at MASCOT 2017 is now available: http://www.gdr-mascotnum.fr/mascot17.html.

GdR seminar on "Visualization of uncertainty" (May 22)

GdR MASCOT-NUM organizes his annual seminar at IHP on May 22, 2017, on the topic of the "Visualization of uncertainty". This is a joint seminar with the Visualization work group of GdR IGRV.

The preliminary program is on the webpage: http://www.gdr-mascotnum.fr/mai17.html.

Registration is free but appreciated.

AMCTM 2017 : Special session on multi fidelity / multi level methods for uncertainty quantification

The 11th edition of the International Conference on Advanced Mathematical and Computational Tools in Metrology and Testing (AMTCM 2017) will be held in Glasgow (Scotland), August 29 -31, 2017.  The 11th AMCTM Conference is an IMEKO TC21 event.
Following the first workshop held in Torino (1993, and in 2003 for the 10th anniversary), the previous AMCTM conferences took place in Oxford (1995, 1999), Berlin (1996), Lisbon (2000, 2005), Paris (2008), Göteborg (2011), and St. Petersburg (2014). Ten volumes on “Advanced Mathematical and Computational Tools in Metrology (and Testing)” were so far published by World Scientific based on the conference papers.

The conference invites contributions relating to the general themes of
- mathematical and statistical modelling
- data analysis and uncertainty quantification
- algorithms and computational methods relevant to metrology and testing.

LNE (Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais) wishes to organize a special session on multi fidelity / multi level methods for uncertainty quantification with applications relating to metrology.

Please contact Séverine Demeyer severine.demeyer@lne.fr if you wish to contribute to this special session.

An abstract up to 2 pages is due to March 6th 2017 and a full paper of 6 pages is due to the conference date (for selected abstracts). The first conference announcement is available for download at http://www.imeko.org/index.php/tc21-homepage/events-tc21

Hoping to see you soon,
Séverine Demeyer
Statistician at LNE

MASCOT meeting 2017

Message from the GdR MASCOT-NUM organizing committee:

Dear colleagues,

The 12th venue of the Mascot-Num annual conference will be hosted in Paris from March 22 to 24, 2017.

The program and agenda are now available, see the website http://www.gdr-mascotnum.fr/mascot17.html

Please, note that the conference will be located at Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP) on March 22nd and March 24th, and at AgroParisTech (site de la rue Claude Bernard) on March 23rd.

Registration is also opened. As the number of places is limited, participation to the three days of the conference is required.

Hoping to see you soon.

The GdR MASCOT-NUM organizing committee