Tony Zaayter attended the Geometry & Computing 2026 conference, held from October 5 to 9, 2026, at the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM) in Luminy, Marseille, France. He was also one of the organizers of the Young Researchers in Geometry Day (JCGeo 2026), held on October 9, the last…
Xavier Pennec (Inria, Université Côte d’Azur) gave six lectures at the Introductory School “Geometric Statistics”, held from September 14 to 18, 2026, at the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics (HIM), University of Bonn, Germany, as part of the Dual Trimester Program “Geometric Statistics: Theory, Application, and Computation”. His lectures covered…
Xavier Pennec, Olivier Bisson, Tony Zaayter and Tom Szwagier (now at IRIT, Toulouse) participated in the Foundations of Computational Mathematics 2026 conference, held from 8 to 18 July 2026 at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna, Austria. More information is available on the conference programme. Xavier was one of…
Xavier Pennec and Tony Zaayter, members of the MEDITWIN project, which aims to create digital twins for tomorrow’s medicine, attended the symposium held on 3 June 2026 at PariSanté Campus. They participated in the organisation of the workshop on Diffeomorphic and Multimodal Registration. Tony gave a presentation in that workshop,…
Good news for flags! Soon after the PhD defense of Tom Szwagier, two of his main thesis contributions have been accepted for publication in statistics journals. The paper “The Curse of Isotropy: from Principal Components to Principal Subspaces“ from Tom Szwagier and Xavier Pennec has been accepted for publication in Statistical…
Tom Szwagier’s PhD defense took place on November 28th, 2025 at 2:00 PM at Centre Inria Université Côte d’Azur. The presentation is now on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g2zJ-Qmk6U. Rethinking Statistical Methods with Flags A flag is a sequence of nested linear subspaces of increasing dimension. It can also be defined as a…
Stephen Marsland (Victoria University of Wellington ) Thursday, May 23, 2024, 3:30pm Evolutionary game theory and the origins of money and sex In this talk I will provide a brief introduction to evolutionary game theory, illustrated by two very different examples. In the first we ask how money-like systems can…
Stefan Sommer visited our group on November 23, 2023 in the context of Morten Akhøj Pedersen’s PhD defence to present and discuss his work on conditioned diffusions in geometric statistics.
Guillaume Olikier visited our group on June 08, 2023 to present and discuss his work on first-order optimization on stratified sets.
Elena Di Bernardino visited our group on June 07, 2023 to present and discuss her work on geometry of random excursion sets.
