2019

The chair recently participated in the TNO black-box challenge, a challenge where participants are invited to test their own methods for the solution of truly black box structural reliability problems.

B. Sudret and J. Nagel published a paper combining surrogate models (principal component analysis and polynomial chaos expansions), sensitivity analysis and Bayesian model calibration in the field of urban drainage simulation.

Christos Lataniotis successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Data-driven uncertainty quantification for high-dimensional engineering problems". 

Xujia Zhu receives the SIAM Student Travel Award to attend the 2020 SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification (UQ2020). This award corresponds to a complimentary registration to the conference and the reimbursement of the travel costs.

The 9th International Conference on Sensitivity Analysis of Model Output will be held in Barcelona between October 28-30, 2019.

A workshop titled Vine copulas and their applications will take place at TU Munich from July 8th and 9th. Emiliano Torre will give a talk about Vine copulas for uncertainty quantification: why and how?

The 3rd International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering will be held in Hersonissos (Crete Island, Greece) on June 24-26, 2019.

Xujia Zhu received the 2019 CERRA student recognition award for his paper titled Surrogating the response PDF of stochastic simulators using generalized lambda distributions at the 13^th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering in Seoul, Korea.

The 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering will be held at Seoul National University (South Korea) between May 26-30, 2019. The Chair organizes a mini-symposium on “Surrogate Models for Uncertainty Quantification, Reliability and Sensitivity Analysis” together with Profs. J.-M. Bourinet (France), S. Mahadevan and A. Taflanidis (USA).

The conference proceedings of the 19th working conference of the IFIP Working Group 7.5 on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems (IFIP 2018) are now available.

Bruno Sudret gives a talk titled Data-based sparse polynomial chaos expansions: applications in dynamics and machine learning at the Uncertainty Quantification & Optimization Conference at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France.

The edition 2019 of the MASCOT-NUM annual conference will be held in Rueil-Malmaison, near Paris, from 18th to 20th March, 2019. 

Bruno Sudret gives an invited talk entitled Sparse polynomial chaos expansions for uncertainty quantification and global sensitivity analysis at the Ateliers de Modélisation de l’Atmosphère 2019 organized by MeteoFrance.

New paper published in Automatica in collaboration with NTNU Norway

The SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering will take place in Spokane, Washington between February 25 - March 1, 2019.

The 90th annual meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanis will take place from Februrary 18-22, 2019 in Vienna, Austria.

The chair of Risk, Safety and Uncertainty Quantification has an open post-doc position.

Collaboration paper with ETH Department of Management, Technology, and Economics is the lead article in the first 2019 issue of Quantitative Economic