2021

Tsokanas, N., Zhu, X., Abbiati, G., Marelli, S., Sudret, B., and Stojadinovic, B. published a new paper on global sensitivity analysis for hybrid simulations with stochastic substructures

Bruno Sudret gives a keynote lecture at the Euromech 618 Conference.

On Nov 16, 2021, Nora Lüthen gave a three-hour lecture on simulation-based risk analysis as a part of the CAS "Risikoanalytik und Risiko-Assessment" of the ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

The first network-wide event of GREYDIENT happened on November 8-10 in Belgium. Our PhD students Anderson and Katerina were there!

The HIPERWIND project is part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation- program. Learn more about the project and get a glimpse of early results during the first webinar on November 19 from 14:00 to 16:30 CET.

Bruno Sudret gave a lecture entitled “Benchmarking active learning methods for structural reliability analysis” at the 8th Workshop on Robust and Reliable Design organized by the GST "Mécanique et Incertain" of the Association Française de Mécanique. The online workshop was attended by more than 50 people from both French academia and industry.

Bruno Sudret and Nora Lüthen delivered a lecture and UQLab tutorial on polynomial chaos expansions at the 4th Indian National Conference on Multidisciplinary Design, Analysis and Optimization.

X. Zhu and B. Sudret published a new paper on building surrogate models to represent the response distribution of stochastic simulators.

Faes, M. G. R., Daub, M., Marelli, S., Patelli, E., Beer, M. published a new paper on Engineering analysis with probability boxes: a review on computational methods.

Today Paul-Remo Wagner successfully defended his PhD thesis on “Stochastic spectral embedding in forward and inverse uncertainty quantification”.

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The 4th International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering will be hald as on online conference from June 27th to 30th, 2021.

The International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability will be hosted by Tongji Unversity between June 20th to 24th, 2022.

X. Zhu and B. Sudret published a new paper on global sensitivity analysis for stochastic simulators.

The EMI/PMC 2021 conference will be hosted by Columbia University from May 25th to 28th, 2021.

A paper about sparse polynomial chaos expansions by N. Lüthen, S. Marelli and B. Sudret has recently been published in the SIAM/ASA Journal of Uncertainty Quantification.

We have an open project-based position for the development of a teaching web platform and a set of interactive applications related to the civil engineering Bachelor course “Structural Mechanics”.

Nora received the award for her poster on “Sparse regression-based Poincaré expansions for global sensitivity analysis”, which she presented at this year’s virtual edition of the annual MASCOT-NUM 2021 meeting.

The PhD position is funded by CNRS (via the MODCOV19 platform) and is scheduled to start on October 1st, 2021. The PhD student will be registered in the MSTII doctoral school and she/he will be attached to AIRSEA project/team at Jean Kuntzmann Lab (UMR 5224) in Grenoble (France).

The MASCOT NUM 2021 meeting focuses this year on statistical analysis and uncertainty quantification of complex numerical models for natural world. It will take place from April 27th to 30th, 2021.

Two papers about the work on Stochastic Spectral Embedding (SSE) by P.-R. Wagner, S. Marelli, C. Lataniotis and B. Sudret have been recently published. 

As part of the EXAR project, uncertainty quantification techniques were used to gain insights into the effects uncertainties have on the hydrological model predictions. This is one of the first mentions of UQ in a federal office report in Switzerland.

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic still restricting our contacts, we thought it might be a good idea to show our faces again by updating our group picture. 

The cluster of excellence EXC 2075 Data-Integrated Simulation Science (SimTech) at the University of Stuttgart invites applications for two positions of Independent Junior Research Group Leaders in Data-Integrated Simulation Science

Prof. Bruno Sudret is appointed in the scientific committee Mathematics/Statistics of the French Laboratoire National de Métrologie et d’Essais.

It is our pleasure to announce the recruitment of 15 PhD students as part of the European Innovative Training Network (ITN) GREYDIENT (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2020 “Grey-Box Models for Safe and Reliable Intelligent Mobility Systems”).

We proudly announce that the Chair ranks as the 4-th most cited on Uncertainty Quantification in the last year according to Google Scholar. Congratulations to all the PhDs, postdocs and senior scientists that contributed to this great success!

The Eccomas congress 2020 together with the 14th WCCM conference will take place in a digital version between January 11-15, 2021.