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.  

As usual, registration is compulsory but free for BMS members.

Preliminary schedule

09h00 - 09h30: welcome and coffee

09h30 - 10h30: Godeaux lecture 

9h30: Godeaux Lecture, Ivan Nourdin

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.

This is based on a 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 (Tim Van Der Linden VUB/UCLouvain, Marino Gran UCLouvain)
Speakers: Julia Ramos González (KU Leuven), Federico Campanini (UCLouvain), William Hautekiet (ULB)
1b. Mathematical Physics (Nicolas Wijsen, KULak, Maxime Fays ULiège)
1c. Analysis and Representation Theory (Hendrik De Bie UGent, David Eelbode UA) 

12h15 - 14h00: Lunch break

14h00 - 15h15: parallel sessions

Session 2 14h-15h15
2a Number theory (Jasson Vindas UGent, Maja Volkov, UMons)
Speakers: Giovanni BOSCO (UMons), Frederik BROUCKE (UGent), Justin VAST (UCLouvain)
2b. Optimisation (Masoud Ahookhosh UA, Geovani Nunes Grapiglia UCLouvain)
2c. Global Analysis and Differential Geometry (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 (François Thilmany UCL/KUL, Jonas Deré KUL)
Speakers: Mario Klisse (KU Leuven), Lam Pham (UGent), Gonzalo Ruiz (UCL)
3b. Graph Theory (Jan Goedgebeur KULak, Gwenael Joret ULB)
Speakers: Jorik Jooken (KU Leuven), Carol Zamfirescu (Ghent University),Yelena Yuditsky (ULB)
3c. Wavelets and Approximation Methods (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