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OGGW05 - Geometric and combinatorial methods in the foundations of computer science and artificial intelligence

User Cornelia Drutu Badea (University of Oxford).

Friday 25 July 2025, 09:30-10:30

Morning Coffee

OGGW05 - Geometric and combinatorial methods in the foundations of computer science and artificial intelligence

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Friday 25 July 2025, 10:30-11:00

Gradient descent and Property T

OGGW05 - Geometric and combinatorial methods in the foundations of computer science and artificial intelligence

User Dawid Kielak (University of Oxford).

Friday 25 July 2025, 11:00-12:00

Lunch at Said Business School

OGGW05 - Geometric and combinatorial methods in the foundations of computer science and artificial intelligence

User .

Friday 25 July 2025, 12:00-13:30

Close of Workshop

OGGW05 - Geometric and combinatorial methods in the foundations of computer science and artificial intelligence

User .

Friday 25 July 2025, 13:30-17:00

Registration

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

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House No Room Required.

Monday 28 July 2025, 09:30-10:00

Director's Briefing

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

Monday 28 July 2025, 10:00-10:05

Organiser's welcome

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User .

Monday 28 July 2025, 10:05-10:15

Profiniteness of higher rank volume

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Holger Kammeyer (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf).

Monday 28 July 2025, 10:15-11:15

Conjugacy separability of unipotent suspensions

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Monika Kudlinska (University of Cambridge).

Monday 28 July 2025, 11:45-12:45

Geometric invariants of TDLC completions

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Ilaria Castellano (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf).

Monday 28 July 2025, 14:00-15:00

Detecting Free Products and Free Factors in Profinite Completions

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Andrei Jaikin-Zapirain (ICMAT).

Monday 28 July 2025, 15:30-16:30

Welcome Reception

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User .

Monday 28 July 2025, 17:00-18:00

Profinite properties of Dyer groups

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Olga Varghese (Universität Münster).

Tuesday 29 July 2025, 10:15-11:15

Profinite Rigidity, Noetherian Domains, and Solvable Groups

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Julian Wykowski (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 29 July 2025, 11:45-12:45

Towards the profinite rigidity of surface groups

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Ismael Morales (University of Oxford).

Tuesday 29 July 2025, 14:00-15:00

Profinite groups and complex geometry

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Matthew Stover (Temple University).

Tuesday 29 July 2025, 15:30-16:30

Hempel pairs and Turaev Viro invariants

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Yi Liu (Peking University).

Wednesday 30 July 2025, 10:15-11:15

Profinite rigidity of crystallographic groups

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Gianluca Paolini (Università degli Studi di Torino).

Wednesday 30 July 2025, 11:45-12:45

Free Afternoon

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User .

House No Room Required.

Wednesday 30 July 2025, 14:00-17:00

Testing Multivariate Normality Using Angular Skewness and Kurtosis (ASK) Processes

RCL - Representing, calibrating & leveraging prediction uncertainty from statistics to machine learning

User Subhashis Ghoshal (North Carolina State University).

Wednesday 30 July 2025, 14:00-15:00

Formal Dinner at Christ's College

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User .

Wednesday 30 July 2025, 19:30-22:00

A Krull Schmidt theorem for small profinite groups

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Nikolay Nikolov (University of Oxford).

Thursday 31 July 2025, 10:15-11:15

Virtual homological torsion and profinite rigidity of words

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Jonathan Fruchter (University of Bonn).

Thursday 31 July 2025, 11:45-12:45

Profinite rigidity and almost rigidity in 3-manifolds

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Xiaoyu Xu (Peking University).

Thursday 31 July 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quantifying uncertainties for multi-model, multi-input ensembles of ice sheet and glacier change

RCL - Representing, calibrating & leveraging prediction uncertainty from statistics to machine learning

User Tamsin Edwards (King's College London).

Thursday 31 July 2025, 14:00-15:00

Profinite completions of groups acting on rooted trees

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Alejandra Garrido (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

Thursday 31 July 2025, 15:30-16:30

Homology growth through finite index subgroups

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Sam Hughes (Universität Bonn).

Friday 01 August 2025, 10:15-11:15

Cyclic splittings of profinite groups

OGGW01 - Discrete and profinite groups

User Pavel Zalesski (Universidade de Brasilia).

Friday 01 August 2025, 11:45-12:45

Kernels Simplify Differential Equations

RCL - Representing, calibrating & leveraging prediction uncertainty from statistics to machine learning

User Jonghyeon Lee (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

Tuesday 05 August 2025, 10:30-11:30

Rothschild Public Lecture: Immersion posterior: Meeting Frequentist Goals under Structural Restrictions

RCL - Representing, calibrating & leveraging prediction uncertainty from statistics to machine learning

User Subhashis Ghoshal (North Carolina State University).

Tuesday 05 August 2025, 16:00-17:00

Kernels Simplify Differential Equations

RCL - Representing, calibrating & leveraging prediction uncertainty from statistics to machine learning

User Jonghyeon Lee (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

Wednesday 06 August 2025, 14:00-15:00

Kirk Public Lecture: Higher Rank Teichmüller Theories

OGG - Operators, Graphs, Groups

User Maria Beatrice Pozzetti (Università di Bologna).

Tuesday 12 August 2025, 16:00-17:00

Welcome and Introduction

OFBW74 - Uncertainty in Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities

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Wednesday 13 August 2025, 10:00-10:10

TBC

OFBW74 - Uncertainty in Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities

User Victor Picheny (None / Other).

Wednesday 13 August 2025, 10:10-10:45

TBC

OFBW74 - Uncertainty in Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities

User Sinead Williamson (Apple).

Wednesday 13 August 2025, 10:45-11:20

Model Evaluations under Uncertain Ground Truth

OFBW74 - Uncertainty in Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities

User Taylan Cemgil (Google DeepMind Technologies Limited).

Wednesday 13 August 2025, 11:50-12:25

Bayesian Optimisation for Extreme Responses in Engineering: Measuring and Reducing Uncertainty

OFBW74 - Uncertainty in Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities

User Sebastian Winter (DNV).

Wednesday 13 August 2025, 12:25-13:00

TBC

OFBW74 - Uncertainty in Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities

User Matthew Chantry (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)).

Wednesday 13 August 2025, 14:00-14:35

TBC

OFBW74 - Uncertainty in Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities

User Tamsin Edwards (King's College London).

Wednesday 13 August 2025, 14:35-15:10

Learning the Physics: AI for Electric Motor Design and Evaluation

OFBW74 - Uncertainty in Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities

User Nicolas Durrande (ShiftLab).

Wednesday 13 August 2025, 15:40-16:15

Panel Discussion

OFBW74 - Uncertainty in Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities

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Wednesday 13 August 2025, 16:15-17:15

Final Remarks

OFBW74 - Uncertainty in Machine Learning: Challenges and Opportunities

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Wednesday 13 August 2025, 17:15-17:20

Director's Welcome

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

Monday 18 August 2025, 09:50-09:55

Organiser's Welcome

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

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Monday 18 August 2025, 09:55-10:00

Polarization patterns of ferroelectric nematics

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State University).

Monday 18 August 2025, 10:00-10:45

Fracture in soft matter: membrane debonding

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Carme Calderer (University of Minnesota).

Monday 18 August 2025, 11:15-12:00

A variational model for the evolution of magnetoelastic materials

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Anja Schlömerkemper (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg).

Monday 18 August 2025, 14:00-14:45

Continuum Theories for Liquid Crystals and their Applications

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Apala Majumdar (University of Strathclyde).

Monday 18 August 2025, 14:45-15:30

Minimizing the Ginzburg-Landau energy in a strip: (non-escaping) solitons and (escaping) solitonic vortices.

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Luc Nguyen (University of Oxford).

Monday 18 August 2025, 16:00-16:45

Continuum mechanics of dislocation induced meso/macroscale engineering plasticity

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Amit Acharya (Carnegie Mellon University).

Tuesday 19 August 2025, 09:30-10:15

Micro-to-macro homogenization for elasto-plasticity driven by dislocation motion

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Filip Rindler (University of Warwick).

Tuesday 19 August 2025, 10:45-11:30

Highly irregular microstructures and $T_N$ configurations

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User John Ball (Heriot-Watt University).

Tuesday 19 August 2025, 11:30-12:15

Linear instabilities of the Prandtl equations via the harmonic oscillator

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Francesco De Anna (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg).

Tuesday 19 August 2025, 14:00-14:45

Korn and Poincaré-Korn inequalities: A different perspective

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Giovanni Di Fratta (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II).

Tuesday 19 August 2025, 14:45-15:30

Quantitative estimates for the Dirichlet energy

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Melanie Rupflin (University of Oxford).

Tuesday 19 August 2025, 16:00-16:45

Topological defects in cells: collective motion and morphogenesis

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Francesca Serra (University of Southern Denmark).

Wednesday 20 August 2025, 09:00-09:45

Topological order in Chiral Liquid Crystals

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Ivan Smalyukh (University of Colorado).

Wednesday 20 August 2025, 09:45-10:30

Minimality of the vortex solution for Ginzburg-Landau systems

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Radu Ignat (Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III).

Wednesday 20 August 2025, 11:00-11:45

A variational model for two-dimensional ferronematics - Part I

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Giacomo Canevari (Università degli Studi di Verona).

Wednesday 20 August 2025, 11:45-12:30

Dynamics of chiral magnetic skyrmions

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Bernd Schroers (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 21 August 2025, 09:00-09:45

Skyrmions in ultrathin magnetic films: an overview

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Cyrill Muratov (Università di Pisa).

Thursday 21 August 2025, 09:45-10:30

Stripe pattern in magnetic thin films: observations, modeling and simulations

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Anne Bernard-Mantel (CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)).

Thursday 21 August 2025, 11:00-11:45

Skyrmions and hopfions in chiral magnetic crystals

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Filipp Rybakov (Uppsala Universitet).

Thursday 21 August 2025, 11:45-12:30

Shape Optimisation for nonlocal anisotropic energies

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Lucia Scardia (Heriot-Watt University).

Thursday 21 August 2025, 14:00-14:45

Title TBC

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Jorn Dunkel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Thursday 21 August 2025, 14:45-15:30

A variational model for two-dimensional ferronematics - Part II

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Bianca Stroffolini (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II).

Thursday 21 August 2025, 16:00-16:45

Snell’s Law in Liquid Crystal Optics

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Eric Stachura (Kennesaw State University).

Friday 22 August 2025, 09:00-09:45

Propulsion of active colloids in anisotropic fluids

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Ziga Kos (University of Ljubljana).

Friday 22 August 2025, 09:45-10:30

Axial symmetry of DMI-stabilised Skyrmions on the disk

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Leon Happ (Technische Universität Wien).

Friday 22 August 2025, 11:00-11:45

(Non)-existence of stray field stabilized magnetic skyrmions

DNMW06 - Recent challenges in the mathematical design of new materials

User Theresa Simon (Universität Münster).

Friday 22 August 2025, 11:45-12:30

Keynote: Gaël Varoquaux "Judging uncertainty from black-box classifiers"

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

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Wednesday 27 August 2025, 09:30-10:30

Title TBC

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

User Iain Henderson (None / Other).

Wednesday 27 August 2025, 11:00-11:30

Title TBC

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

User Matthieu Darcy (CALTECH (California Institute of Technology)).

Wednesday 27 August 2025, 11:30-12:00

Title TBC

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

User Stefan Franssen (None / Other).

Wednesday 27 August 2025, 14:00-14:30

Title TBC

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

User Xujia Zhu (CentraleSupélec).

Wednesday 27 August 2025, 14:30-15:00

Title TBC

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

User Sam Allen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)).

Wednesday 27 August 2025, 15:30-16:00

Title TBC

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

User Lea Friedli (Technical University of Munich).

Wednesday 27 August 2025, 16:00-16:30

Keynote Speaker - Statistical Breakthroughs and Novel Perspectives in Deep Learning Theory

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

User Sophie Langer (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

Thursday 28 August 2025, 09:30-10:30

Title TBC

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

User Kartik Waghmare (ETH Zürich).

Thursday 28 August 2025, 11:00-11:30

Title TBC

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

User Paul Rosa (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 28 August 2025, 11:30-12:00

Title TBC

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

User Desi Ivanova (University of Oxford).

Thursday 28 August 2025, 14:00-14:30

Title TBC

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

User Karina Koval (Universität Heidelberg).

Thursday 28 August 2025, 14:30-15:00

Title TBC

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

User Henry Moss (Lancaster University).

Thursday 28 August 2025, 15:30-16:00

Title TBC

RCLW04 - Early Career Pioneers in Uncertainty Quantification and AI for Science

User Déborah Sulem (Università della Svizzera italiana).

Thursday 28 August 2025, 16:00-16:30

Director's Briefing

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Milla Kibble (Isaac Newton Institute).

Monday 01 September 2025, 10:00-10:05

Organisers welcome

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

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Monday 01 September 2025, 10:05-10:15

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Martin Bridson (University of Oxford).

Monday 01 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Elia Fioravanti (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)).

Monday 01 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Uniform exponential growth of discrete subgroups on Hadamard manifolds

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Koji Fujiwara (Kyoto University).

Monday 01 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Ursula Hamenstaedt (University of Bonn).

Monday 01 September 2025, 15:30-16:30

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Pierre Py (Université Grenoble Alpes).

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 09:15-10:15

Welcome

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

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Tuesday 02 September 2025, 10:00-10:10

Introductions

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 10:10-10:20

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Alessandro Sisto (Heriot-Watt University).

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

Who are you talking to? & What do you want to say?

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 10:20-11:15

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Shinpei Baba (Osaka University).

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Get started! & Writing about anything for anyone

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 11:45-12:30

Get writing & Go to press!

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 13:30-14:45

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Alla Detinko (University of Huddersfield).

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Share your front page

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

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Tuesday 02 September 2025, 15:15-15:50

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Damian Osajda (Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)).

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 15:30-16:30

Introduction to Day 2

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

Tuesday 02 September 2025, 15:55-16:00

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Subhadip Dey (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research).

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 09:15-10:15

Welcome

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

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Wednesday 03 September 2025, 10:00-10:05

Basic Principles: Audiences & Speaking and Presenting

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 10:05-11:15

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Denis Osin (Vanderbilt University).

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Macarena Arenas (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Pitch Development - facilitated groups

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 11:45-12:30

Advanced Techniques - Stories, Jokes and Magic

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 13:30-14:25

Presentation Practice

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

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Wednesday 03 September 2025, 14:25-14:40

Delivery of 2-minute pitches - one per group

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

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Wednesday 03 September 2025, 15:10-15:55

Next Steps

TGM153 - Mathematics Communication Training

User .

Wednesday 03 September 2025, 15:55-16:00

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Bruce Kleiner (New York University).

Thursday 04 September 2025, 09:15-10:15

Geometry of hyperconvex surface subgroups

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Maria Beatrice Pozzetti (Università di Bologna).

Thursday 04 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

A new alternative for amenable groups in terms of actions on finite-dimensional CAT(0)-spaces

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Anders Karlsson (Université de Genève).

Thursday 04 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Ashot Minasyan (University of Southampton).

Thursday 04 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Nir Lazarovich (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology).

Thursday 04 September 2025, 15:30-16:30

Local-to-global principle for Morse actions

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Joan Porti (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Friday 05 September 2025, 09:15-10:15

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Jingyin Huang (Ohio State University).

Friday 05 September 2025, 10:15-11:15

Title TBC

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Rémi Coulon (CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)).

Friday 05 September 2025, 11:45-12:45

Topological median structures on R^n

OGGW02 - Actions on graphs and metric spaces

User Mladen Bestvina (University of Utah).

Friday 05 September 2025, 14:00-15:00

Directors Briefing

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Ulrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute).

Monday 08 September 2025, 09:25-09:30

Lecture 1

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Zohar Komargodski (Stony Brook University).

Monday 08 September 2025, 09:30-11:00

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User .

Monday 08 September 2025, 11:00-11:30

Lecture 1

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Laurens Lootens (University of Cambridge).

Monday 08 September 2025, 11:30-13:00

Lecture 1

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Nils Carqueville (University of Vienna).

Monday 08 September 2025, 14:30-16:00

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User .

Monday 08 September 2025, 16:00-16:30

Gong Show

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User .

Monday 08 September 2025, 16:30-17:30

Welcome Reception

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Monday 08 September 2025, 17:30-18:30

Lecture 2

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Nils Carqueville (University of Vienna).

Tuesday 09 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Tuesday 09 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Lecture 2

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Zohar Komargodski (Stony Brook University).

Tuesday 09 September 2025, 11:00-12:30

Lecture 2

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Laurens Lootens (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 09 September 2025, 14:00-15:30

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User .

Tuesday 09 September 2025, 15:30-16:00

Tutorial for Komargodski's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Siwei Zhong (Stony Brook University).

Tuesday 09 September 2025, 16:00-16:45

Tutorial for Carqueville's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Lorenz Weber (Universität Wien).

Tuesday 09 September 2025, 16:45-17:30

Gong Show

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Tuesday 09 September 2025, 18:00-19:00

Lecture 1

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Carolyn Zhang (Harvard University).

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User .

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Tutorial for Looten's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Bram Vancraeynest-De Cuiper (Universiteit Gent).

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 11:00-11:45

Tutorial for Zhang's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Sal Pace (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 11:45-12:30

Welcome & Introduction

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Mike Cates (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 13:00-13:10

Data-driven and Physics-aware Microstructural Modeling of Flowing Complex Fluids

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Michael Graham (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 13:10-13:50

Rheoinformatics: A Data-driven Platform for Unifying Experimental, Theoretical, and Computational Rheology

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Safa Jamali (Northeastern University).

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 13:50-14:30

Using Data-driven Methods to Understand and Control Active Materials

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Michael Hagan (Brandeis University).

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 14:30-15:10

Talk Title TBC

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Francesca Mignacco (Princeton University).

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 15:30-16:10

Talk Title TBC

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Eric Vanden-Eijnden (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences).

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 16:10-16:50

Generative AI and Diffusion Models: a Statistical Physics Analysis

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Giulio Biroli (CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure Paris).

Wednesday 10 September 2025, 16:50-17:30

Formal Dinner at Christ's College

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Wednesday 10 September 2025, 19:30-21:30

Lecture 3

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Zohar Komargodski (Stony Brook University).

Thursday 11 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Combinatorial Metamaterials: From Spin Ice to Novel Mechanical Functionalities

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Yair Shokef (Tel Aviv University).

Thursday 11 September 2025, 09:15-09:55

Active Solids

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Anton Souslov (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 11 September 2025, 09:55-10:35

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Thursday 11 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Talk Title TBC

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Emanuela Del Gado (Georgetown University).

Thursday 11 September 2025, 10:35-11:15

Lecture 3

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Nils Carqueville (University of Vienna).

Thursday 11 September 2025, 11:30-13:00

Thermodynamics of Disperse Polymer Blends and Solutions OR Theoretical/Computational Prediction of Polymer Mechanics

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Phillip Rauscher (Syensqo).

Thursday 11 September 2025, 11:35-12:35

Theory of Phase Behaviour and Fluctuations in Polydisperse Systems: From Carbon-fiber Composites to High-performance Membranes

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Jean Baudry (ESPCI ParisTech).

Thursday 11 September 2025, 13:35-14:35

Lecture 2

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Carolyn Zhang (Harvard University).

Thursday 11 September 2025, 14:00-15:30

Elevator Pitch Talk 1

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:00-15:10

Elevator Pitch Talk 2

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:10-15:20

Elevator Pitch Talk 3

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:20-15:30

Elevator Pitch Talk 4

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:30-15:40

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:30-16:00

Elevator Pitch Talk 5

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:40-15:50

Elevator Pitch Talk 6

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Thursday 11 September 2025, 15:50-16:00

Elevator Pitch Talk 7

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:00-16:10

Tutorial for Komargodski's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Siwei Zhong (Stony Brook University).

Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:00-16:45

Elevator Pitch Talk 8

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:10-16:20

Elevator Pitch Talk 9

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:20-16:30

Elevator Pitch Talk 11

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:30-16:40

Elevator Pitch Talk 11

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:40-16:50

Tutorial for Carquevillei's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Lorenz Weber (Universität Wien).

Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:45-17:30

Elevator Pitch Talk 12

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Thursday 11 September 2025, 16:50-17:00

Poster Exhibition and Networking

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User .

Thursday 11 September 2025, 17:00-18:00

Workshop Dinner (Churchill College)

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User .

Thursday 11 September 2025, 19:30-20:30

Lecture 3

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Laurens Lootens (University of Cambridge).

Friday 12 September 2025, 09:00-10:30

Talk Title TBC

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Maartje Bastings (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Friday 12 September 2025, 09:15-09:55

Talk Title TBC

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Mehran Kardar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Friday 12 September 2025, 09:55-10:35

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Friday 12 September 2025, 10:30-11:00

Active Gel Theory in Practice: Decoding Dynamics of Actomyosin Systems

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

User Yuting Li (Institute of Science and Technology (IST Austria)).

Friday 12 September 2025, 10:35-11:15

Tutorial for Lootens' Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Bram Vancraeynest-De Cuiper (Universiteit Gent).

Friday 12 September 2025, 11:00-11:45

Round Table Discussion

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Friday 12 September 2025, 11:35-12:20

Tutorial for Zhang's Lecture

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Sal Pace (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

Friday 12 September 2025, 11:45-12:30

Wrap-Up

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Friday 12 September 2025, 12:20-12:30

Lunch and Finish

TGM150 - 9th Edwards Symposium – Frontiers in Statistical Physics and Soft Matter

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Friday 12 September 2025, 12:30-12:30

Lecture 3

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

User Carolyn Zhang (Harvard University).

Friday 12 September 2025, 14:00-15:30

Break

BIDW01 - The Physics and Mathematics of Boundaries, Impurities, and Defects

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Friday 12 September 2025, 15:30-16:00

Rothschild Public Lecture: Title TBC

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

User Nathan Seiberg (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton).

Monday 22 September 2025, 16:00-17:00

Kirk Public Lecture: Title TBC

BID - Quantum field theory with boundaries, impurities, and defects

User Ilka Brunner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Wednesday 01 October 2025, 16:00-17:00

MIP

MIP2 - Follow on meeting: Modelling and inference for pandemic preparedness

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Monday 08 December 2025, 09:00-17:00

MIP

MIP2 - Follow on meeting: Modelling and inference for pandemic preparedness

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Tuesday 09 December 2025, 09:00-17:00

MIP

MIP2 - Follow on meeting: Modelling and inference for pandemic preparedness

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Wednesday 10 December 2025, 09:00-17:00

MIP

MIP2 - Follow on meeting: Modelling and inference for pandemic preparedness

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Thursday 11 December 2025, 09:00-17:00

MIP

MIP2 - Follow on meeting: Modelling and inference for pandemic preparedness

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Friday 12 December 2025, 09:00-17:00

Welcome

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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Tuesday 13 January 2026, 10:00-10:10

Introductions

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 10:10-10:20

Who are you talking to? & What do you want to say?

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 10:20-11:15

Get started! & Writing about anything for anyone

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 11:45-12:30

Get writing & Go to press!

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Rachel Thomas (University of Cambridge), Marianne Freiberger (University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 13:30-14:45

Share your front page

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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Tuesday 13 January 2026, 15:15-15:50

Introduction to Day 2

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 15:55-16:00

Welcome

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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Wednesday 14 January 2026, 10:00-10:05

Basic Principles: Audiences & Speaking and Presenting

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 10:05-11:15

Pitch Development - facilitated groups

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 11:45-12:30

Advanced Techniques - Stories, Jokes and Magic

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 13:30-14:25

Presentation Practice

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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Wednesday 14 January 2026, 14:25-14:40

Delivery of 2-minute pitches - one per group

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

User Ben Sparks (University of Bath), Katie Steckles.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 15:10-15:55

Next Steps

TGM152 - Mathematics Communication Training

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Wednesday 14 January 2026, 15:55-16:00

Kirk Public Lecture: Title TBC

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

User Carolyn Gordon (Dartmouth College).

Tuesday 31 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Kirk Public Lecture: Title TBC

CIF - Causal inference: From theory to practice and back again

User Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen (University of Pennsylvania).

Monday 27 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

House Discussion Room, Newton Institute.

Scientific Steering Committee meeting - tbc

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Monday 18 May 2026, 12:00-16:30

Rothschild Public Lecture: Title TBC

GST - Geometric spectral theory and applications

User Jens Marklof (University of Bristol).