Programme

Venue: Room JA317 in the John Anderson building, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

9:30-9:50 Registration and coffee/tea

Chair for the morning session: Andy Wathen

9:50-10:00 Opening remarks

10:00-10:40

Aretha Teckentrup (University of Edinburgh).
Posterior consistency for Gaussian process approximations of Bayesian posterior distributions

10:45-11:25

Nicole Spillane (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau).
An adaptive multipreconditioned conjugate gradient algorithm

11:30-12:10

Robert Gower (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris).
Randomized iterative methods for linear systems

Chair for the afternoon session: Ben Leimkuhler

13:30-14:10

Mario Berljafa (KU Leuven).
Generalized rational Krylov decompositions with an application to rational approximation

14:15-14:55

Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard (New York University).
Interpolation properties of generalized plane waves

15:00-15:40

Evan Gawlik (University of California, San Diego).
Interpolation of manifold-valued functions via the polar decomposition

16:30 Prize ceremony

Prizes to be presented by Dr David Griffiths (University of Dundee).