- Tentative program HERE

- Autumn School Lecturers

1. Francisco de Melo Virissimo, London School of Economics, UK

Francisco is a mathematician and environmental scientist, with a primary interest in climate and ocean phenomena. 

Francisco joined GRI in November 2021. Since then, much of his work has been focused on climate prediction, particularly on computational ensemble design and uncertainty quantification, as tools to provide robust and reliable knowledge to climate information users and consumers (such as economists, decision makers and journalists).

Homepage: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/profile/francisco-de-melo-virissimo/

2. Tiffany Vlaar, University of Glasgow, UK

Dr Tiffany Vlaar (she/her) is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Glasgow, with research interests in the mathematics of deep learning and climate change AI. She is a member of ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems).

Before joining the University of Glasgow, Tiffany was a postdoctoral researcher at the Mila – Quebec AI Institute and McGill University. She obtained her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh, where she was a Turing Enrichment student, and holds an MSc in Physics from the Perimeter Institute. Tiffany is also a co-organizer of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), which will be held in Glasgow in 2030.

Homepage: https://tiffanyvlaar.github.io/about/