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Jonas Latz

@latzplacian.bsky.social
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Intrigued by inverse problems & uncertainties. Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the University of Manchester (views are my own; he/him) | web: www.latzplacian.org

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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
When randomising the timestep sizes in Euler‘s method, we need to linearly interpolate between subsequent timepoints to approximate the ODE solution at times of interest. The resulting piecewise linear path can sometimes be written as a Markov process. I have analysed this Markov process:
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The random timestep Euler method and its continuous dynamics
Abstract. Ordinary differential equation (ODE) solvers with randomly sampled timestep sizes appear in the context of chaotic dynamical systems, differentia
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Andrea Bertozzi, Nadia Drenska, Matt Thorpe, and I have guest edited a theme issue on “Partial differential equations in data science” in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Take a look: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsta/202... @royalsociety.org @royalsocietypublishing.org
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences: Vol 383, No 2298
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
#Oberwolfach: every mathematician’s happy place
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Exciting news! 😊 Best of luck for the election, Master!
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
A few years ago, Björn Sprungk and I had written a contribution towards the “Snapshots of Modern Mathematics from #Oberwolfach” (publications.mfo.de/handle/mfo/3...). Once in a while a collection of snapshots is published in a volume. I have received my copy today. 😊
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Why do people call it _adaptive MCMC_ instead of - CMC - “M”CMC - \hat{M}CMC - M😉CMC
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
#sciencememe
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Please find below the announcement for the 2nd RSS/Turing Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning (I am a speaker ☺️)
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2nd RSS/Turing Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Earlier today I gave my first talk for 2025 — in the Applied Mathematics Seminar at the University of Glasgow! Great audience and nice discussions afterwards. 😊
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Did you know that Schengen is a small village in Luxembourg? It is right at the French-German-Luxembourgish trijunction. I grew up nearby and I can assure you that it is my favourite border to cross. See you in 2025! ☺️
Luxair plane at an airport
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Stationary Gaussian processes are often inappropriate as priors in Bayesian image reconstruction. When using non-stationary priors, the non-stationarity needs to be carefully estimated. New preprint (with Aretha L. Teckentrup and Simon Urbainczyk) arxiv.org/abs/2412.10248
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Deep Gaussian Process Priors for Bayesian Image Reconstruction
In image reconstruction, an accurate quantification of uncertainty is of great importance for informed decision making. Here, the Bayesian approach to inverse problems can be used: the image is repres...
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Overleaf is down. What was the last thing you were writing about on there? I‘ll start: the K-Means method
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
At last year‘s Edinburgh Science Festival, we organised a ‚Mathematics Showdown‘: five PhD students give engaging research talks for a general audience, the audience votes for a winner. Here are the talks:
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Mathematics Showdown 2023 - YouTube
Contributions to the Mathematics Showdown 2023 at the Edinburgh Science Festival.
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Markovian #Meme.
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Open PhD position Anna Scaife and I are looking for a PhD student interested in analysing astronomical images using modern physics-on-graphs-based machine learning methods. The position is within the UKRI-CDT AI in Decision Making for Complex Systems. Please share with potential candidates! 😊
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Image segmentation in radioastronomy with physical models on graphs at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Image segmentation in radioastronomy with physical models on graphs at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Me talking to my algorithm… #meme
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Discretisation memes! 😊
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I need to slowly move all my #mathematics #memes to the #mathsky. Let’s start with _Tolkien and convergence to stationarity_.
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A few weeks ago, my student Alix Leroy and I were visiting Siemens Energy in Berlin for #knowledgeexchange and a guided tour around their production facilities. 😊
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Say, you discretise an ODE with forward Euler choosing iid exponentially distributed stepsizes and linearly interpolate between discretisation points. Then, your interpolated path can be written as a continuous-time Markov process. An analysis of this Markov process: arxiv.org/abs/2408.01409
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The random timestep Euler method and its continuous dynamics
ODE solvers with randomly sampled timestep sizes appear in the context of chaotic dynamical systems, differential equations with low regularity, and, implicitly, in stochastic optimisation. In this wo...
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Finding the Lyapunov function you are looking for = finding happiness. 😊
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Ever felt insecure about your own work? You are not alone. Gauss in a letter to Bessel: “When I am new to a subject, I distrust my own notions - especially if they contradict Laplace.” (from W. Ahrens: “Scherz und Ernst in der Mathematik”, Teubner, Leipzig 1904.)
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Jonas Latz @latzplacian.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Hi #mathsky and everyone! My name is Jonas, I do applied maths for living — usually solving problems that concern data, uncertainties, or both. I am based at the University of Manchester, UK.
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