Events
"The world of mathematics is both broad and deep,
and we need birds and frogs working together to explore it."
From "Birds and Frogs" by Freeman Dyson
Upcoming events
Organized events
CRM Thematic Program "Mathematical Foundations of Data Science".
Montréal, QC, Canada. May-June 2025.
Scientific director with Tim Hoheisel (McGill).CRM Workshop "Approximation and Learning in High Dimensions".
Montréal, QC, Canada. June 9-11, 2025.
Co-organizers: Ben Adcock (Simon Fraser University), Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (Cambridge)
Talks, posters and academic visits
The 15th International Congress on Spectral and High Order Methods (ICOSAHOM). Montréal, QC, Canada. July 13-18, 2025.
Session: "High Order Approximation and Operator Learning in SciML"Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA 2025). Vienna, Austria. July 28-August 1, 2025
Session: "Sampling and learning of deep neural networks"
Please send me an e-mail if you would like me to share the slides of any of my talks with you.
Past events
Scientific events
2024
Special Session "Mathematics of Machine Learning". 2024 CMS Summer Meeting. Saskatoon, SK, Canada. May 31-June 3, 2024.
Minisymposium "Learning High-Dimensional Functions: Approximation, Sampling, and Algorithms", SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ24). Trieste, Italy. February 27-March 1st, 2024.
Co-organizers: Nick Dexter (Florida State University), Laura Scarabosio (Radboud University), Wouter van Harten (Radboud University)
2023
CRM Applied Math Seminar 2023-24. Hybrid, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Co-organizers: Jason Bramburger (Concordia), Matthieu Cadiot (McGill) and Tim Hoheisel (McGill)CMS Winter Meeting 2023. Montréal, QC, Canada. December 1-4, 2023.
Scientific director with François Bergeron (UQAM) and Alina Stancu (Concordia)
2022
CRM Applied Math Seminar 2022-23. Hybrid, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Co-organized with Jason Bramburger (Concordia) and Damien Tageddine (McGill) and Matthieu Cadiot (McGill)Session "Mathematics of machine learning", 2022 CMS Winter meeting. Toronto, ON, Canada. December 2-5, 2022
Co-organizers: B. Adcock (SFU), G. Tran (U Waterloo), H. Usefi (Memorial)Session "Scientific Machine Learning", 2022 CMS Summer Meeting. St. John's, NL, Canada. June 3-6, 2022.
Co-organizers: B. Adcock (SFU), A. Bihlo (Memorial), H. Usefi (Memorial)Mini-course "Sublinear-Time Algorithms for Approximating Functions of Many Variables" by Mark Iwen. CRM, Montréal, QC, Canada. May 16-18, 2022.
2021
CRM Applied Math Seminar. Hybrid, 2021-22
Co-organizers: T. Hoheisel (McGill), D. Tageddine (McGill)Session "Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning", CMS Winter Meeting 2021. Online, 2-7 December 2021.
Co-organizer: Ben Adcock (SFU)CRM Applied Math Seminar. Online, Winter 2021
Co-organizers: T. Hoheisel (McGill), J.-P. Lessard (McGill), D. Tageddine (McGill)ICERM Hot Topics Workshop "Safety and Security of Deep Learning". April 10-11, 2021 [Videos and slides]
Co-organizers: B. Adcock (SFU), A. Hansen (Cambridge), C.G. Webster (U. Tennessee)
2020
Minisymposium "The Mathematics of Sparse Recovery and Machine Learning", 2nd Joint SIAM-CAIMS Annual Meeting 2020. July 16, 2020.
Co-organizer: B. Adcock (SFU).
2019
Minisymposium “Sparse Recovery and Machine Learning in Computational Mathematics”, CAIMS Annual Meeting 2019. Whistler, BC, Canada. June 9, 2019.
Co-organizer: Yifan Sun (UBC).SFU Postdoc Research Day 2019. Burnaby, BC, Canada. March 28, 2019.
Co-organizers: Executive Council of the SFU Postdoctoral Association.
2018
Session “Sparse recovery, learning, and neural networks”, CMS Winter meeting 2018. Vancouver, BC, Canada. December 8-9, 2018.
Co-organizers: Ben Adcock (SFU), Ozgur Yilmaz (UBC), and Yaniv Plan (UBC).
Invited plenary lectures
AARMS CRG Scientific Machine Learning Workshop "Mathematical Foundations of Scientific Machine Learning". St. John's, NL, Canada. June 1, 2022
2022 ISM Graduate Student Conference. Quebec City, May 28, 2022
Invited research talks and seminars
(MS = Minisymposium)
2024
McGill Statistics seminar. Montréal, QC, Canada. November 15, 2024.
2024 CAIMS-SCMAI Annual Meeting. Kingston, ON, Canada. June 24-27, 2024.
Session: "Advancing Scientific computing through recent High-Performance Computing paradigms"CNRS-CRM-ILLS (International Lab of Learning Systems) Seminar. May 24, 2024.
STATQAM Seminar. Université du Québec à Montréal. Montréal, QC, Canada. March 21, 2024.
SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ24). Trieste, Italy. February 27-March 1st, 2024.
Session: "Learning High-Dimensional Functions: Approximation, Sampling, and Algorithms"BIRS Workshop "Structured Machine Learning and Time–Stepping for Dynamical Systems". Banff, AB, Canada. February 18-23, 2024. [Video]
2023
CMS Winter Meeting 2023. Montréal, QC, Canada. December 1-4, 2023
Session: "Mathematics of Machine Learning"10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023), MS: “Black box methods for efficient learning in high-dimensional scientific computing”. Tokyo, Japan. August 21, 2023 (Online)
INdAM Workshop “Learning for Inverse Problems”. Rome, Italy. June 5-9, 2023
Mathematics Colloquium of the Gran Sasso Science Institute. L'Aquila, Italy. June 1st, 2023.
CNRS-CRM-ILLS (International Lab of Learning Systems) Seminar. Montréal, Canada. May 18, 2023.
Seminar of the Biomedical Imaging for Healthy Aging Laboratory. Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada. March 30, 2023.
φ-MAC Seminar, McMaster University. Online. March 10, 2023
Colloque des sciences mathématiques du Québec, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM). Montréal, QC, Canada. February 10, 2023. [Video]
2022
Mathematics of Information, Learning and Data (MILD) Seminar. The University of British Columbia. Vancouver, BC, Canada. December 12, 2022
Pacific Rim Mathematical Association (PRIMA) 2022 Congress. Vancouver, BC, Canada. December 4-9, 2022
Special Session: "Mathematics of Information"One World Seminar Series on the Mathematics of Machine Learning. Online. November 16, 2022 [Video]
Colloquium of the Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University. Tallahassee, Florida, U.S., November 9, 2022
CRM Harmonic Analysis Seminar. Montréal, QC, Canada. October 18, 2022
SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science (MDS22). San Diego, California, U.S., September 26-30, 2022. MS: "Deep learning and sparse approximation for high-dimensional problems in data science"
Curves and Surfaces 2022. Arcachon, France. June 20, 2022. MS: "Random matrices and approximation using function values"
Departmental Research Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Concordia University. Montréal, QC, Canada. April 22, 2022.
Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Ottawa. March 30, 2022.
AARMS Scientific Machine Learning Seminar. Online, March 8, 2022.
2021
6th ECCOMAS Young Investigators Conference (YIC2021). MS: "Isogeometric and Non-standard Discretization Schemes for Computational Structural and Solid Mechanics". Online, July 7-9, 2021.
One World Mathematics of INformation, Data, and Signals (1W-MINDS) Seminar. Online, May 13, 2021. [Video]
2020
2nd Joint SIAM-CAIMS Annual Meeting 2020. Workshop Celebrating Diversity. July 6-10, 2020.
[Cancelled due to Covid-19] Foundations of Computational Mathematics. MS: “Multiresolution and Adaptivity in Numerical PDEs”. Vancouver, BC, Canada. June 15-17, 2020.
[Cancelled due to Covid-19] SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification. MS: “Deep learning and sparse approximation for high-dimensional problems in uncertainty quantification”. Munich, Germany. March 24-27, 2020.
2019
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics Seminar, Concordia University. Montréal, QC, Canada. October 11, 2019.
CRM Applied Mathematics Seminar, Fall 2019. Montréal, QC, Canada. September 9, 2019.
Applied Inverse Problems Conference 2019. MS: “Compressed sensing meets inverse problems”. Grenoble, France. July 8-12, 2019.
IMA 19th Leslie Fox Prize Symposium. Glasgow, Scotland. June 24, 2019. (Awarded a Leslie Fox prize, 2nd place) [Report]
DASIV Spring School “Models and Data”, University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC, U.S., March 20, 2019. [Video]
2018
PIMS Workshop on the Mathematical Foundations of Data Science. Vancouver, BC, Canada. August 1, 2018.
International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods (ICOSAHOM) 2018. London, United Kingdom. July 9–13, 2018. MS: “Sparsity-based methods for high-dimensional approximation in uncertainty quantification”.
BIRS workshop “Numerical Analysis and Approximation Theory meets Data Science”. Banff, AB, Canada. April 22–27, 2018. (Invited) [Video]
2017
1st Biennial Meeting of SIAM Pacific Northwest Section. Corvallis, OR, U.S. October 28, 2017. Thematic session: “Inverse Problems, Optimization, and Compressed Sensing”.
BIRS workshop “Retreat for Young Researchers in Stochastics”. Banff, AB, Canada. October 22, 2017.
ENUMATH 2017. Voss, Norway. September 27, 2017. MS: “Generalized Sampling, Reduced Order Modeling, and Sparse Recovery”.
Symposium on Mathematics and Computation. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. Au- gust 17, 2017.
QUIET 2017. SISSA International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy. July 20, 2017. Workshop “Quantification of Uncertainty: Improving Efficiency and Technology”.
2016
SCAIM (Scientific Computing, Applied and Industrial Mathematics) Seminar, University of British. Columbia. Vancouver, BC, Canada. November 29, 2016.
PIMS-CSC Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University. Burnaby, BC, Canada. September 30, 2016.
BIRS workshop “Retreat for Young Researchers in Stochastics”. Banff, AB, Canada. September 24, 2016.
SIMAI (Società Italiana per la Matematica Applicata e Industriale) congress. Milano, Italy. September 15, 2016. MS: “Advanced Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations and Applications”.
SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification. EPFL, Switzerland. April 6, 2016. MS “Sparse Techniques for High-dimensional UQ Problems and Applications”.
Workshop “Low Complexity Models in Signal Processing”. Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Germany. February 18, 2016.
MATHICSE Seminar. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. January 27, 2016.
2015
Seminar at the Dept. of Informatics, University of Pisa, Italy. December 15, 2015.
Seminar at the Dept. of Mathematics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany. September 15, 2015.
13th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics. San Diego, CA, U.S. July 29, 2015. MS: Model and Solution Reduction Methods for Direct and Inverse Problems in Computational Mechanics
Contributed talks
SPARS 2017. Lisbon, Portugal. July 8, 2017. (Selected for oral session)
Postdoc Research Day. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada. March 30, 2017. (Awarded runner-up spotlight talk)
20th UMI (Unione Matematica Italiana) congress. Siena, Italy. September 8, 2015. MS “Metodi numerici per le equazioni alle derivate parziali”.
SIMAI (Società Italiana per la Matematica Applicata e Industriale) congress, contributed session. Taormina, Italy. July 8, 2014
Posters
BIRS Workshop "Uncertainty Quantification in Neural Network Models". Banff, AB, Canada. February 16 - 21, 2025 (Invited)
Interdisciplinary AI Forum. Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada. April 18, 2024. (Invited)
CogSci 2020 Virtual Meeting. July 31, 2020.
Workshop “Low Complexity Models in Signal Processing”. Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Germany. February 18, 2016.
Academic visits
Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy, October 9-13, 2023
Hosts: Nicola Guglielmi and Francesco TudiscoMichigan State University, US, July 31-August 4, 2023
Host: Mark IwenGran Sasso Science Institute, Italy, May 30-June 1st, 2023
Hosts: Nicola Guglielmi and Francesco TudiscoPacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), University of British Columbia, December 12-14, 2022
Hosts: Yaniv Plan and Ozgur YilmazHausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics, Universität Bonn, Germany, February 15-27, 2016
Trimester program “Mathematics of Signal Processing”Department of Mathematics, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, September 14-18, 2015
Hosts: Wolfgang Dahmen and Holger RauhutVisiting Ph.D. student at CSQI - MATHICSE, EPFL, Switzerland, Fall 2014
Supervisor: Fabio Nobile
Other events
Panel discussion “Finding your way in the Canadian academic job market”, PIMS Calgary Postdoctoral Social Network event, April 26, 2021.
Panel discussion "Navigating Postdocs", SFU 7th Postdoc Research Day, March 30, 2021.