Future events

• Computational Materials Science and Mathematics at the Particle and Atomistic Scales
• ICMS, Edinburgh, UK, 10-14 November 2025
• I am on the organising committee and will run a one-day session devoted to numerical continuation/deflation and optimisation techniques at the atomistic scale. More info to follow.

• Singularities in Discrete Systems
• Oberwolfach, Germany 4-9 May 2025.
• website

• Summer School on Deep Learning for Mathematical Imaging
• University of Liverpool, July 2024
• I am invited by Dr Andreas Alpers to deliver a short course on machine learning approaches to microstructure modelling in Python, including a hands-on showcase of my library PyAPD, to research interns at The Centre for Mathematical Imaging Techniques.
• website

• Visit to Paris, Marseille and Besançon
• June 2024
• A multi-stop visit hosted by Prof. Virginie Ehrlacher, Dr Geneviève Dusson and Dr Tom Swinburne. Details to follow.

Past events

(24 talks, including 9 in the last year)

• Maxwell Analysis Day;
• ICMS, Edinburgh, UK, 27 March 2024;
• A half-day event bringing together the HW and UoE analysis groups.
• I was the organiser on behalf of HW and also gave a talk on my work on unbalanced optimal transport.
• website

• Workshop on Optimal Transport, Humboldt University of Berlin
• Berlin, Germany, 11 - 15 March 2024
• poster presentation
• website

• Centre for Mathematical Imaging Techniques Seminar, University of Liverpool
• Liverpool, UK, 28 February 2024
• seminar talk

• Analysis Seminar, University of Strathclyde
• Glasgow, 5 December 2023
• seminar talk

• Workshop on Polycrystals
• ICMS, Edinburgh, 27 October 2023
• invited talk

• Applied Maths Seminar, University of Glasgow
• Glasgow, UK, 19 October 2023
• seminar talk

• Joint University of Edinburgh & Heriot-Watt University Applied and Computational Maths seminar
• Edinburgh, UK, 4 October 2023
• seminar talk
• video of my talk

• Uncertainty quantification and stochastic modelling of materials
• Cambridge, UK, 10 July 2023 - 1 September 2023
• A research programme at Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
• website and video of my talk

• New Mathematics for the Exascale: Applications to Materials Science
• UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, 13 March - 16 June 2023
• A research programme at Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
• website

• Research visit to Laboratoire de Mathématiques de Besançon (Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté)
• Besançon, France, 7-11 November 2022
• hosted by Geneviève Dusson
• research topic: uncertainty quantification for interatomic potentials.

• Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics (CMAM 2022)
• Vienna, Austria, 29 August - 2 September 2022
• speaker at Minisymposium: Multiscale methods for materials and molecules
• conference website

• Error control in first-principles modelling
• CECAM-HQ-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 20-24 June 2022
• CECAM flagship workshop, invited talk
• website and video of my talk

• Polycrystals: Microstructure and Plasticity
• Edinburgh, UK, 19-22 April 2022
• workshop website

• Reading Group on Mathematics of Data Science, University of Birmingham
• Birmingham, UK, on-going from February 2022
• Topic: Entropic Optimal Transport
• website

• Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Birmingham
• Birmingham, UK, 12 February 2022
• seminar talk

• Fluids and Materials Seminar, University of Bristol
• online, 3 February 2022
• seminar talk

• Elasticity Day 2021
• online, 21st-22nd April 2021
• organised by Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

• Münster Winterschool on Analysis and Applied Mathematics
• online, 22-26 February 2021
• workshop website

• IMSI Mathematical and Computational Materials Science Workshop
• online, 15-19 February 2021
• workshop website

• Warwick-Jiaotong Workshop: QM/MM methods and other multi-scale boundary conditions for atomistic material simulation
• online, 22 June 2020
• invited talk

• Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar, Cardiff University
• Cardiff, UK, 29 October 2019
• seminar talk

• MACM International Conference CoMFoS19: Mathematical Aspects of Continuum Mechanics
• Kanazawa, Japan 15 - 16 July 2019
• invited talk
• conference website

• Research visit to Kanazawa University
• Kanazawa, Japan, 13 June - 19 July 2019
• hosted by Prof. M. Kimura and Dr P. van Meurs
• research topic: bottom-up approaches to near-crack-tip plasticity

• SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19)
• Spokane, Washington, USA, 25 February - 1 March 2019
• speaker at a Minisymposium: Multiphysics and Multiscale Problems in Computational Science and Engineering
• conference website

• The 12th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications
• Taipei, Taiwan, 5 - 9 July 2018
• speaker at a Special Session: Mathematics and Materials: Models and Applications
• conference website

• Coagulation-Fragmentation Equations and Semigroups: A meeting in Honour of Wilson Lamb
• Glasgow, UK, 23 May 2018
• conference website

• Nonlinear analysis and the physical and biological sciences (in honour of Jack Carr)
• Edinburgh, UK, 21 - 22 May 2018
• workshop website

• Warwick EPSRC Symposium: Density Functional Theory and Beyond: Analysis and Computation
• Coventry, UK, 3 - 7 July 2017
• conference website

• INdAM Workshop on Innovative Mathematical Models and Methods for Industrial Applications;
• Rome, Italy, 15 - 19 May 2017
• conference website

• Joint CDT Colloquium;
• Edinburgh, UK, 18 - 21 April 2017
• speaker
• more info