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Monday, February 01, 2016
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
CNLS Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 1690)

Seminar

Uncertainty quantification for dynamical systems without closed form solutions

Oxana Chkrebtii
The Ohio State University

When models are defined implicitly by systems of differential equations without a closed form solution, small local errors in finite-dimensional solution approximations can propagate into large deviations from the true underlying state trajectory. Inference for such models relies on a likelihood approximation constructed around a numerical solution, which underestimates posterior uncertainty. This talk will introduce a formalism for modeling and propagating discretization uncertainty through the Bayesian inferential framework, allowing exact inference and uncertainty quantification for discretized differential equation models.

Host: Nathan Urban