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Sam Power@spmontecarlo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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MCMC workshop in Stockholm! Come visit during Nobel week. Apparently I am giving a talk, which I learned from the announcement.

If you have to (I.e., agreed without consulting a calendar) do NeurIPS reviews, at least find a good spot to do so. Out of office in the best way. Also, Sweden, not too bad.

Another statistics seminar, another quote: (on the multinomial allocation model) “April 22nd, the birthday of Lenin, the famous politician”. Mathematicians y’all.

At this workshop today. Xiao-Li Meng just asked the audience what ”principled statistics” mean (to them), followed by the wonderful description that statisticians should do ”principled corner-cutting”. This will now be my motto.

Attending a talk on Jensen’s inequality in the setting of von Neumann algebras. Tempted to ask if, like in probability theory, in operator algebra Jensen’s always goes in the wrong direction. Not sure the crowd here will appreciate it.

Last minute but the Cramér society's online conference for Federica Milinanni's award for best thesis 2025 is happening today @ 13:55 Stockholm time. Zoom link: lu-se.zoom.us/j/6241307147... Schedule below:

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Hej Göteborg! Snart är det dags för en ny upplaga av "Forskaren i framtidens offentlighet". När? 15 april, 9.15-15.30 Var? Chalmers Är det gratis? Yes, men man måste föranmäla sig och platserna är begränsade. Länk till anmälan: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @bjornlundberg.bsky.social

Happy birthday to Emmy Noether. Talking about her today in classes. Here are some drawing about her by coni777.bsky.social crojasmolina.com/illustration...

At a new gin bar in Gothenburg and they are serving sloe gin AND playing Outkast so I guess this is my new spot? 🤷‍♂️

It's terrible but can't lie, I laughed. With this + the Donald Glover as Yoshi "story", The Onion is on one today.

The Onion@theonion.com · 5mo ago

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Back in Århus and TIL that Itô spent about 2 years here in the 60s, between his time at Stanford and Cornell. Somehow I had completely missed this. There is even a Springer book covering lectures he gave here:

Stochastic Processes

The volume Stochastic Processes by K. Itö was published as No. 16 of Lecture Notes Series from Mathematics Institute, Aarhus University in August, 1969, based on Lectures given at that Institute durin...

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Finally getting back to making a paper we "finished" before Christmas submissions-ready. Me this morning: This will only take a day or two. Me 7h later: ok so the notations section is almost done...

💡 Sök eller nominera till Forskningsfyren! JULIA RAVANIS mottog utmärkelsen 2025: ”För mig kändes det som ett bevis på att all tid och allt engagemang som jag lagt på populärvetenskapligt berättande var mödan värd; jag kände mig väldigt uppskattad.” 🏆 sverigesungaakademi.se/barn-och-sam...

Julia Ravanis om att få priset Forskningsfyren - Sveriges unga akademi

Julia Ravanis tilldelades den första Forskningsfyren, ett nytt pris för spridande av kunskap ”för sitt nyskapande sätt att sprida kunskap över generationsgränser genom en unik förening av poesi, human...

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Happy and proud that Federica received this year's Cramér prize from the Cramér Society (and, I guess, by extension the Swedish Statistics Society). Incredibly well-deserved; extra fitting that the thesis dealt with challenging problems at the intersection of stats & large deviations.

This is highlighting something that I believe is becoming increasingly problematic at technical universities in Sweden, and more generally (Swedish) society as far as education goes.

Jeff Melnick@melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The dj on the MIT station just went on a gorgeous tangent about how this semester he’s taking all liberal arts classes, and instead of asking him to reproduce established knowledge (as in most MIT courses) they push him to think about how he thinks. My Super Bowl MVP.

The similarities between writing mathematics and writing novels are piling up.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 6mo ago

And the thing that will have the most value for me is that people will see my name and know that a human being worked on this book and did her best to make it the best, and most meaningful, book she could.

For over a week I have been trying to remember why I had put "Blocked" (and nothing else) in my calendar for all of Monday. Today it hit me: Sunday is the Super Bowl. Once again, the time difference struggle is real.

I guess now that it is official: excited to have joined the APT editorial board. Journal of Applied Probability is another journal that has always felt like "home" to me, so happy to be able to contribute more to it on the editorial side.

Applied Probability Trust - Editorial Board

Editorial office Peter Taylor, University of Melbourne, Editor in ChiefResearch interests: Stochastic Networks, Queueing Theory, Matrix-Analytic Methods, Economic Applications, Markov Decision Proces...

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As 3/5ths of the family has been down with the flu for over a week, I have had a lot of "free" (aka cannot work but also not directly occupied) time and have gone through lots of episodes of the InControl podcast that I had saved "for later". Supreme content for anyone in control/PDE/probability

inControl

The first podcast on control theory. inControl shop: https://incontrolpodcast.myshopify.com/

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Managed to set up an exam problem that was at the same time (much!) easier than I intended and just horrible to grade.

Second time in a row I have submitted something with several hours left until deadline. Feels strange to not have the adrenaline rush of "what if the submission portal does not load".

As I have seen some complaints (rightfully so) about the peer review system in the last 24hrs, here is an example where the process—note, ignoring all the bad parts about rights, financial stakes etc.—very much made our paper better. The paper was just accepted to Bernoulli after a first (1/8)

Large deviations for Independent Metropolis Hastings and Metropolis-adjusted Langevin algorithm

In this paper, we prove large deviation principles for the empirical measures associated with the Independent Metropolis Hastings (IMH) sampler and the Metropolis-adjusted Langevin Algorithm (MALA). T...

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I know they’re sent out automatically, but how about we make sure journals do not send out review request or reminders during weekends or holidays? I know, I should not be checking my email etc., but c’mon now. You can guess what prompted this…

Reading about school shooting over the years, I have always thought "but I would not happen here". Surreal to now read about a shooting at Brown—my wife and I both walking around the house in Brown sweaters—in one of the buildings that I have spent countless of hours in, right next to Applied Math.

Viktor Nilsson’s PhD defense is now on the way at KTH. Prof Luc Rey-Bellet setting things off.

First batch of new additions to the office, some new and some replacing lost/worn out copies. Holiday reading seems covered.

Happy to be invited as a Tandem Fellow at @aiasdk.bsky.social this coming February. Will be working on large deviations, simulations and points processes with Christian Hirsch. Also great to visit Århus again, it has been too long since last time.

🚨New work alert🚨 With (soon to defend) graduate student Viktor Nilsson we study large deviations for dynamic Schrödinger bridges using the weak convergence/control-theoretic framework. We prove uniform Laplace principles for bridge processes and combine with an LDP for the static problem.

A weak convergence approach to the large deviations of the dynamic Schrödinger problem

In this paper, we consider large deviations for dynamical Schrödinger problems, using the variational approach developed by Dupuis, Ellis, Budhiraja, and others. Recent results on scaled families of S...

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Next stop: @tue.nl for a talk in the CASA colloquium. Always nice to come "home".