Young Scholar Day 2025

The BMS will organize its “Young Scholar Day” on Tuesday June 3  2025 on the KUL campus, rooms 'MSI' (Mgr. Sencie Instituut). The aim of this event is to give the opportunity to early career researchers in Belgium to meet and present their results during short talks.

Furthermore, the 2025 Godeaux lecture will be given at the beginning of the event.  

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Registration is closed (maybe we can find a few free spaces if you write to us for late registration).

Schedule

09h00 - 09h30: welcome and coffee

09h30 - 10h30: Godeaux lecture Ivan Nourdin (ULuxembourg) 

Title: Quantitative CLT for deep neural networks
Abstract: I will discuss the asymptotic behavior at initialization of fully connected deep neural networks with Gaussian weights and biases when the widths of the hidden layers go to infinity. The focus of the talk will be on the one-dimensional case and optimal bounds for the total variation distance obtained by means of Stein’s method. (Joint work with S. Favaro, B. Hanin, D. Marinucci and G. Peccati.)

10h30 - 11h00: coffee break

11h00 - 12h15: parallel sessions

Session 1 - 11h-12h15

• 1a. Category Theory
  Organisers: Tim Van Der Linden (VUB/UCLouvain), Marino Gran (UCLouvain)
  Speakers: Julia Ramos González (KU Leuven), Federico Campanini (UCLouvain), William Hautekiet (ULB)
• 1b. Mathematical Physics
  Organisers: Fabio Bacchini (KULak), Maxime Fays (ULiège)
  Speakers: Yangyang Zhang (UGent) Chun Fung Wong (KU Leuven) Edward Bryden (UAntwerpen)
• 1c. Analysis and Representation Theory
  Organisers: Hendrik De Bie (UGent), David Eelbode (UA)
  Speakers: Marianna Chatzakou (UGent) Joeri De Ro (VUB) Teppo Mertens (UGent)

12h15 - 14h00: Lunch break

14h00 - 15h15: parallel sessions

Session 2 14h-15h15

• 2a. Number theory
  Organisers: Jasson Vindas (UGent), Maja Volkov, (UMons}
  Speakers: Giovanni Bosco (UMons), Frederik Broucke (UGent), Justin Vast (UCLouvain)
• 2b. Optimisation
  Organisers: Masoud Ahookhosh (UA), Geovani Nunes Grapiglia (UCLouvain)
  Speakers: Subhayan Saha (UMons), Susan Ghaderi (KU Leuven), Florentin Goyens (UCLouvain)
• 2c. Global Analysis and Differential Geometry
  Organisers: Tom Mestdag (UA), David Tewodrose (VUB)
  Speakers: Charlotte Kirchhoff-Lukat (KULeuven), Susovan Pal (VUB), Jose Torrente Teruel (UA and University of Cordoba)

15h15 - 15h45: coffee break

15h45 - 17h00: parallel session

Session 3 15h45-17h.

• 3a. Topological groups
  Organisers: François Thilmany (UCLouvain/KUL), Jonas Deré (KUL)
  Speakers: Mario Klisse (KU Leuven), Lam Pham (UGent), Gonzalo Ruiz (UCL)
• 3b. Graph Theory
  Organisers: Jan Goedgebeur (KULak), Gwenael Joret (ULB)
  Speakers: Jorik Jooken (KU Leuven), Carol Zamfirescu (UGent),Yelena Yuditsky (ULB)
• 3c. Wavelets and Approximation Methods
  Organisers: Quentin Menet (UMons), Samuel Nicolay (ULiège)
  Speakers: Gregory Debruyne (UGent), Athanasios Kouroupis (KU Leuven) et Thomas Lamby (ULiège).

17h00 - 18h00: Drink!

Event organised with the support of KULeuven