The ninety-seventh UQSay seminar on UQ, DACE and related topics will take place online on Thursday afternoon, March 26, 2026. 2–3 PM — Anthony Quintin (CEA DIF) Optimal experimental designs based on the cross-entropy method for planning fracture toughness tests Nuclear reactor pressure vessels undergo progressive embrittlement under neutron irradiation, monitored through the Master Curve […]
The ninety-sixth UQSay seminar on UQ, DACE and related topics will take place online on Thursday afternoon, March 12, 2026. 2–3 PM — Richard Everitt (Department of Statistics, University of Warwick) Improved MCMC with active subspaces Constantine et al. (2016) introduced a Metropolis-Hastings (MH) approach that target the active subspace of a posterior distribution: a […]
The ninety-fifth UQSay seminar on UQ, DACE and related topics will take place online on Thursday afternoon, February 12, 2026. 2–3 PM — Yuansi Chen (ETH Zürich) — [slides] When does Metropolized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo provably outperform Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithm? We analyze the mixing time of Metropolized Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) with the leapfrog integrator […]
The ninety-fourth UQSay seminar on UQ, DACE and related topics will take place online on Thursday afternoon, February 05, 2026. 2–3 PM — Eleni Chatzi (ETH Zürich, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering) Dynamics, Inference, and Uncertainty: Foundations of AI-Enhanced Digital Twins This talk examines the role of structural dynamics as a foundation for […]
The ninety-second UQSay seminar on UQ, DACE and related topics will take place online on Thursday afternoon, December 18, 2025. 2–3 PM — Lea Friedli (Engineering Risk Analysis Group, Technical University of Munich) CRPS-Based Targeted Sequential Design with Application in Chemical Space Gaussian processes (GPs) have become a widely used tool for modeling unknown functions […]
