Conferences & Seminars

Nov 2011, Systems, Information, Learning and Optimization (SILO) seminar, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. talk slides

Jul 2011, FoCM'11: Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Budapest, Hungry.

Jun 2011, Workshop: Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS'11), Edinburgh (UK).

Mar 2011, South African Symposium on Applied and Numerical Mathematics (SANUM 2011) , University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. talk slides

Oct 2010, Maxwell Symposium on Computational Mathematics, ICMS, Edinburgh.

Sep 2010, 2nd IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimization, University of Birmingham, UK.

Sep 2010, INSPIRE 2010, Conference on information representation and estimation, University College London, London, UK.

Jul 2010, SIAM Annual Meeting 2010, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In this meeting I was presented the award of the 2010 SIAM Student Paper Prize and gave a talk on the paper. talk slides

Apr 2010, Maths2010 - British Maths Colloquium & British Applied Maths Colloquium, Edinburgh.

Mar 2010, Edinburgh SIAM Student Chapter Inaugural Conference, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

Feb 2010, 3rd Annual Oxford SIAM Student Chapter Conference, Oxford University. talk slides

Jul 2009, EPSRC Symposium Capstone Conference, Warwick University, UK.

Jun 2009, 23rd Biennial Conference on Numerical Analysis, U. of Strathclyde, UK

Apr 2009, Workshop: Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS'09), Saint Malo (France).

Invitations and Visits

Fall 2011, Visiting Scholar at IMA, University of Minnesota, to take part in the seminar series on the "IMA Thematic Year of Mathematics of Information", Minneapolis, USA.

Jun 2010, PCMI 2010 Graduate Summer School on Image Processing, Park City Mathematics Institute (PMCI), Park City, Utah, USA.

Aug 2009, Summer School on Theoretical Foundations & Numerical Methods for Sparse recovery, RICAM, Linz, Austria.

Events Organised

As an official of the Edinburgh SIAM Student Chapter, I contributed to the organisation of the following events

Jun 2011, Chapter Seminar 2011, with speaker Prof Gil Strang, MIT.

Feb 2011, Chapter Conference 2011, with plenary speaker Prof Roger Fletcher, University of Dundee.

Mar 2010, Chapter Inaugural Conference, with plenary speaker Prof Sir David Wallace, Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Presentations at E-CoS Seminars

Mar 05, 2010, A simple proof of the Restricted Isometry Property for Random Matrices by R. Baraniuk et. al.

Feb 13, 2009, Average Performance Analysis for Thresholding by K. Schnass and P. Vandergheynst.

Postgraduate Colloquium

Feb 03, 2011, Africa: the "misunderstood" continent.

Feb 04, 2010, Improved RIC Bounds for Gaussian Matrices, with applications in Compressed Sensing.