Michal Branicki short CV

EDUCATION: PhD Mathematics, University of Cambridge (Trinity College), UK MSc, University of Warsaw, Poland MSc, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, etc.: 2002-2006 Gates Cambridge Scholarship 2000 Socrates/Erasmus Scholarship (MSc the Netherlands) 2007 ‘Young scientist’ invitation for “Euler equations 250 Years On”, Aussois, France 2007 IUTAM representative for 75 year anniversary of ICSU 2004 Best talk. Second-year-of-research presentations, University of Cambridge, UK 2004 Rayleigh-Knight Prize, DAMTP, University of Cambridge, UK http://www.gatescambridge.org/shapeimage_2_link_0
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT: 2007 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition, London, UK “Dynamics of Spin” 2008 Techfest, IIT, Bombay, Indiahttp://royalsociety.org/summer-science/2007/dyanmics-of-spin/http://www.techfest.org/shapeimage_3_link_0shapeimage_3_link_1
GRANTS/FUNDING: 2024 - 27 (sole PI, 3yrs) ONR, US ‘Provably accurate data assimilation approaches for 
 improved fully Bayesian predictions of geophysical 
 dynamics though reduced-order models’ 2023 - 24 (sole PI) Dstl, UK ‘Hidden geometry of data-driven models and uncertainty 
 quantification in machine learning’ 2020 - 23 (sole PI, 3yrs) ONR ‘Geometry of information flow and UQ for robust neural 
 network architectures in Deep Learning’ 2019 LMS travel grant 2017 - Faculty Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute for Data Science 2017 ONR ICMS workshop grant ‘Prediction and data assimilation for non-local diffusions’ 2015 - 18 (sole PI, 3yrs) ONR N00014-15-1-2351 ‘Path-space information theory for UQ 
 in Lagrangian predictions from Eulerian models’ 2016 ONRG-VSP N62909-16-1-2179 2016 ONRG-VSP N62909-16-1-2193 2008 ONR travel grant N62909-09-1-4018
 

PAST AND UPCOMING TALKS (invited):

  1. BulletMarch 9-10, 2019, NRL, Monterrey, US, Workshop on Data Assimilation (postponed)

  2. BulletDec 11-14, 2019, SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations: Rigorous and computational studies of Data Assimilation, Palm Springs, US

  3. BulletNov 25, 2019, Maths seminar, Shanghai University, China

  4. BulletNov 7, 2019, Maths Colloquium, Hong Kong University, HK

  5. BulletJuly 8-12, 2019, AIP Applied Inverse Problems, Grenoble, France 

  6. BulletJuly 8-12, 2019, Equadiff19, Leiden, The Netherlands

  7. BulletJune 6, 2019, maths seminar, U. Utrecht, The Netherlands

  8. BulletMay 21-25, 2019, SIAM Conf on Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, US

  9. BulletMarch 15-19, 2019, Courant Institute, NYU, US 

  10. BulletJun 25-29, 2018, Schroedinger Institute, Vienna,  Interplay of multi-scale data assimilation with advanced PDE discretisations

  11. BulletMarch 12-16, 2018, Schroedinger Institute, Vienna, Mathematical aspects of Physical Oceanography

  12. BulletNov 13-17, 2017, IPAM, UCLA, USA, , Uncertainty Quantification for Stochastic Systems

  13. BulletSep 12, SciCADE’17, Bath, UK, Inverse Problems and Data Assimilation 

  14. BulletAug 21-25, 2017, SAMSI, NC, USA

  15. BulletJul 10-14, 2017, SIAM Annual Meeting,  Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  16. BulletMay 8-10, 2017, LMS/Turing workshop on Inverse Problems and Data Science, Edinburgh

  17. BulletJun 25-23, 2017, (ENOC17), 9th  European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference  Budapest, Hungary

  18. BulletMar 27 - 29, 2017 (FU Berlin, Zuse Institute) SFB114, Information-theoretic methods for complex systems

  19. BulletJan 9-12, 2017 (Institute for Advanced Study, TU Munich)  Machine learning challenges in multiscale systems

  20. BulletOct 23-29, 2016 (CiC, UNAM, Mexico)  Partial orders, Mixing, Majorization and Applications

  21. BulletSep 30 - Oct 2, 2016 (Philadelphia, USA) SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Planet Earth, minisymposium: Recent Theoretical and Computational Advances in Prediction of Rare and Extreme Events

  22. BulletJul 1-5, 2016 (Orlando, FL) 11th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, minisymposium: Data assimilation and nonlinear filtering, “Well-posedness and accuracy of a class of nonlinear mini-max filters"

  23. BulletApril 2016 (Schneefernerhaus, Germany), Information Theory and Earth Sciences, plenary talk: "Interplay between information theory, uncertainty quantification, and improving reduced-order predictions"

  24. BulletApril 2016 (SIAM UQ, Lausanne, Switzerland), minisymposium  "Perspectives on model-informed data assimilation"

  25. BulletDec 14-16, 2015 (Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK),  ATI scoping workshop on ‘Data-Rich Phenomena - Modelling, Analysing & Simulation Using Partial Differential Equations’, talk `Data-Driven Uncertainty Quantification in PDE/ODE Models: Information-Theoretic Perspective"

  26. BulletNov 2015 (Durham, UK) maths seminar, "Fundamental limitations of polynomial chaos expansions for uncertainty quantification"

  27. BulletJune 10, 2015, (Edinburgh, UK) workshop on Bayesian Inverse problems, “Well-posedness of Bayesian filtering algorithms with model error"

  28. BulletMarch 7-8, 2015 (Georgetown University, Washington DC) AMS sectional meeting: Data Assimilation: Recent Progress in Theory, Methods and Applications, “Quantifying Bayesian filter performance through path-space information theory"

  29. BulletMarch 1-6, 2015 (Les Houches, France) workshop: Theoretical Advances in Planetary Flows and Climate Dynamics, “Multi model mixture density estimators & information theory for stochastic filtering and prediction”

  30. BulletJul 7-11 2014 (Madrid, Spain) AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications

  31. BulletJul 20-25 2014 (WCCM XI, Barcelona, Spain) minisymposium: Uncertainty Modeling and High Performance Stochastic Methods for Computationally Intensive Calibration, Prediction and Optimization

  32. BulletJun 30 - Jul 2 2014 (Mathematical Institute, U. Warwick, UK) workshop: Filtering High 
    Dimensional Complex Systems

  33. BulletMarch 31- Apr 3 2014 (SIAM UQ14, Savannah, GA, USA) minisymposium: Filtering, Data
    Assimilation & UQ

  34. BulletMarch 17-18 2014 (Isaac Newton Institute, U. Cambridge, UK) workshop: “Model-Data Integration in Physical Models”

  35. BulletDec 2-6 2013 (Advanced Study Center, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) NDNS+ Workshop
                                                                            "Stochastic Modeling of Multi-scale Systems"

  36. BulletOct 29 2013 (Isaac Newton Institute, U. Cambridge, UK) “Non-equilibrium Statistical 
                                                                                Mechanics and Theory of Extreme Events”

  37. BulletMarch 19 2013 (Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, UK) ‘Fluctuation-Dissipation theorem for
    high-dimensional forced dissipative systems’; workshop    : Emergent Constraints in the Earth System

  38. BulletMarch 13 2013 (IMA, U. of Minnesota) workshop: Stochastic Modeling of the Oceans &      
                                                                                                                       Atmosphere

  39. BulletFeb 25 2013 (Imperial College London, UK) Math Dept. Colloquium

  40. BulletJan 31 2013 (UCSD, CA) Math Dept. Colloquium

  41. BulletJan 30 2013 (IPAM, UCLA)  Adaptive Data Analysis and Sparsity

  42. BulletJan 28 2013 (Caltech, CA) Applied Math Colloquium

  43. BulletDec 18 2012 (NCAR, Boulder, CO)   Frontiers  in  Computational Physics:   Modeling the
                                                                                                                      Earth System

  44. BulletNov 30 2012 (Courant, NYU)  Uncertainty Quantification  and  Inverse Problems

  45. BulletSept 26 2012 (University of Oxford, UK)   Data Assimilation and numerical methods for
                         solving the filtering problem and high order methods for solving parabolic PDEs

  46. BulletSept 10 2012 (NCAR, Boulder, CO)      DTC & NUOPC  Ensemble  Design  Workshop

  47. BulletJul 3 2012 (Orlando, Florida)    AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential
                                                                                                   Equations and Applications

  48. BulletJune 14  2012 (PNNL, WA)   Mathematics Colloquium: Quantifying and Reducing
               Uncertainty in Imperfect  Predictions of Non-Gaussian Systems with Intermittency

  49. BulletMay 23-26 2012 (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)    Long time stochastic and statistical
                                                                     approximations for turbulent dynamical systems

  50. BulletApril 3 2012 (NCSU, NC), Math. Dept. ‘Fundamental Limitations of Polynomial Chaos for Uncertainty Quantification in systems with intermittency’

  51. BulletApril 2,4 2012 (Raleigh, NC)  SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification