The hundred and first UQSay seminar on UQ, DACE and related topics will take place online on Thursday afternoon, June 11, 2026. 2–3 PM — Zonghao Chen (FSML, University College London) Stationary MMD points Approximation of a target probability distribution using a finite set of points is a problem of fundamental importance in numerical integration. […]
The one hundredth UQSay seminar on UQ, DACE and related topics will take place online on Thursday afternoon, May 28, 2026. 2–3 PM — Julien Bect & Xujia Zhu ( L2S, CentraleSupélec) (Goal-Oriented) Global Sensitivity Analysis Revisited:The Mystery of the Camembert Slices Sensitivity analysis plays a critical role in uncertainty quantification, aiming to characterize how […]
The ninety-ninth UQSay seminar on UQ, DACE and related topics will take place online on Thursday afternoon, May 7, 2026. 2–3 PM — Donatien Rossat ( EDF R&D) Information Geometry-based Robust Bayesian Analysis Bayesian inference provides a comprehensive framework for quantifying epistemic uncertainties, and updating them from new information. It relies on updating a so-called […]
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 […]
