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18 April 2012

Serge Guillas advertises two papers led by PhD students Marta Gallucci (University of Florence) and Andria Sarri (University College London) which are devoted to the emulation of two natural hazards with an emphasis on sensitivity analysis and hazard assessment.

1. M. Gallucci, S. Guillas and F. Vallianatos, Emulation of simulated earthquake catalogues, already published on-line in Acta Geophysica:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/kn805n8254w611g1/
with the paper freely available here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/50362383/GallucciGuillasVallianatos2012.pdf

2. A. Sarri, S. Guillas, F. Dias, Statistical emulation of a tsunami model for sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification, accepted in Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci. (will appear in open access at http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net), and is now in arXiv:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.6297
or directly available here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/50362383/SarriGuillasDias2012.pdf

Andria Sarri will present a poster at UCM2012 on this topic.

If you are interested in this topic, why not join us at UCM2012 to meet and discuss with Andria?

Further details about this in our UCM archives:

https://lists.shef.ac.uk/sympa/arc/ucm/2012-04/msg00004.html

18 April 2012

Art Owen has posted a new paper on Sobol' indices which makes some comparisons to statistical experimental design, and it derives a few new estimators.

The paper can be found at http://stat.stanford.edu/~owen/reports/sobolmatrix.pdf

Have you any relevant papers to post to the UCM community? Why not share them?

Further details about this in our UCM archives:

https://lists.shef.ac.uk/sympa/arc/ucm/2012-04/msg00003.html

13 April 2012

We are reminded of the Earlybird Registration Deadline of 30th April 2012 for UCM2012, taking place in Sheffield from 2-4 July 2012 (late registration deadline is 10th June 2012).

Registration and Poster abstract submission is now open at: http://www.mucm.ac.uk/UCM2012.html

A summary programme is available at http://mucm.ac.uk/UCM2012/Programme.html

Talk abstracts are available at:

http://mucm.ac.uk/UCM2012/Talks&Posters.html

UCM2012 is open to everyone interested in all aspects of computer model uncertainty, both theoretical and practical. The conference focuses on statistical methods to quantify and analyse the uncertainties in the predictions of computer models.

Did you attend UCM 2010?

Why not let us know what you thought of it?

Will you be attending UCM2012?

Further details about this in our UCM archives:

https://lists.shef.ac.uk/sympa/arc/ucm/2012-04/msg00002.html

4 April 2012

We are provided with the links below (in English and French) for a call for a post-doc in Bayesian statistics applied to chronological modelling at the ANR (French National Research Agency).

French: http://www.chronomodel.fr/index.php/fr/documents/finish/4/17

English: http://www.chronomodel.fr/index.php/fr/documents/finish/4/19

Details are in the call and also on web site (the English version is still under constrcution):: http://www.chronomodel.fr/index.php/fr/

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Are you interested?

Further details about this in our UCM archives:

https://lists.shef.ac.uk/sympa/arc/ucm/2012-04/msg00001.html

2 April 2012

Richard Wilkinson informs us of a new fully funded PhD studentship which has become available at the School of Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Mechanical, Material and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Nottingham as part of a joint piece of research work within a large European project, PANACEA. The project is about uncertainty quantification when using complex simulators (i.e. how confident can we be in model predictions), with application to models of CO2 sequestration in deep saline aquifers.

If you are a talented student with an interest in statistics and numerical methods for a 3 year PhD project at the University of Nottingham and would like more details please contact either Richard (r.d.wilkinson@nottingham.ac.uk), Professor Andrew Cliffe (andrew.cliffe@nottingham.ac.uk) or Professor Henry Power (Henry.Power@nottingham.ac.uk) for further information.

Further details about this in our UCM archives:

https://lists.shef.ac.uk/sympa/arc/ucm/2012-04/msg00000.html

27 February 2012

We are informed of a number of postdoc positions either available immediately or throughout the year, involving
(1) uncertainty quantification and stochastic algorithms,
(2) numerical optimization (constrained, integer programming),
(3) numerical analysis (FEM, Newton's method, preconditioners),
(4) software engineering (C++, FORTRAN, object oriented design, version control, Linux),
(5) high performance computing (MPI), and
(6) multiphysics modeling (various physical models, e.g. for fluids, chemical reactions, turbulence),
at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), at The University of Texas at Austin. ICES (www.ices.utexas.edu).

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Are you interested in applying? 

If so, you need to email your application, including a CV, to either
Dr. Ernesto Esteves Prudencio ( prudenci@ices.utexas.edu ), or
Professor Omar Ghattas ( omar@ices.utexas.edu ), or
Professor Robert Moser ( rmoser@ices.utexas.edu ),
with the e-mail subject title "UQ opportunities at ICES"

Further details about this in our UCM archives:

https://lists.shef.ac.uk/sympa/arc/ucm/2012-02/msg00004.html

7 February 2012

Bruno Sudret from L'Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech announces that the PhD thesis of Dr. Vincent Dubourg entitled "Adaptive surrogate models for reliability analysis and reliability-based design optimization" which could be of interest for the UCM community, is now available for download: http://bruno.sudret.free.fr/dubourg.html.

Have you read this thesis? Have you any comments?

Further details about this in our UCM archives:

https://lists.shef.ac.uk/sympa/arc/ucm/2012-02/msg00002.html