Seminar in Geometry and Statistics (Sept. 2024 - April 2026)
This seminar took place monthly at the Department of Mathematics and Data Science of VUB. The organizers were Dr. Susovan Pal and myself. It was concluded in April 2026 with the Brussels Geostat Workshop.
We had the pleasure to hear the following speakers:
DATE: 12 March 2026
SPEAKER: Marco Usula (Oxford University)
TITLE: PINNs, minimal surfaces, and knots
DATE: 19 February 2026
SPEAKER: Fernando Galaz-Garcia (Durham University)
TITLE: Metric geometry of spaces of persistence diagrams
DATE: 22 January 2026
SPEAKER: Lynn Delcon (VUB)
TITLE: Boundary Point Detection Methods: An Information-based Comparative Study
DATE: 12 December 2025
SPEAKER: Simon Jacobsson (KU Leuven)
TITLE: A Riemannian geometry of low-rank tensors
DATE: 20 November 2025
SPEAKER: Alexey Lazarev (Toulouse Université)
TITLE: Curvature regularization and Riemannian clustering in the latent space of an autoencoder
DATE: 16 October 2025
SPEAKER: Marie Bormann (Bonn Universität)
TITLE: A gradient flow that is none: Heat flow with Wentzell boundary conditions
DATE: 11 September 2025
SPEAKER: Martin Andersson (Uppsala University)
TITLE: Finite-sample inference for intrinsic dimension via Gaussian kernels
DATE: 24 April 2025
SPEAKER: Alice Le Brigant (Sorbonne Université)
TITLE: The Lp Fisher-Rao metric and the alpha-connection
DATE: 18 March 2025
SPEAKER: Mauricio Che (University of Vienna)
TITLE: Spaces of Persistence Diagrams and Optimal Partial Transport
DATE: 13 February 2025
SPEAKER: Diego Bolón Rodríguez (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
TITLE: A review on highest density region estimation
DATE: 23 January 2025
SPEAKER: Eddie Aamari (École Normale Supérieure de Paris)
TITLE: A theory of stratification learning: clustering-by-dimensionality with reconstruction
DATE: 12 December 2024
SPEAKER: Susovan Pal (VUB)
TITLE: Optimal lift, a tool for statistical testing on Singular Shape Spaces
DATE: 13 November 2024
SPEAKER: Claire Brécheteau (Nantes Université)
TITLE: Statistical tests for uniformity and iidness on homogeneous spaces
DATE: 11 September 2024
SPEAKER: Pierre-Antoine Absil (Université Catholique de Louvain)
TITLE: Feasible and Infeasible Optimization on Manifolds