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Symbolic regression in the physical sciences

28 - 29 April 2025 09:00 - 17:00 The Royal Society Free Watch online
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Carlton House Terrace

Discussion meeting organised by Dr Deaglan Bartlett, Dr Harry Desmond, Professor Pedro G Ferreira and Professor Gabriel Kronberger.

Symbolic Regression is a branch of Machine Learning that attempts to find interpretable mathematical expressions which can accurate approximate a data set. This meeting will bring together practitioners of Symbolic Regression with physicists who are tackling problems which are particularly amenable to their analysis.

Programme

The programme, including the speaker biographies and abstracts, will be available soon.

Attending the meeting

This event is intended for researchers in relevant fields.

  • Free to attend
  • Both virtual and in-person attendance is available. Advance registration is essential. Please follow the link to register
  • Lunch is available on both days of the meeting for an optional £25 per day. There are plenty of places to eat nearby if you would prefer to purchase food offsite
  • Participants are welcome to bring their own lunch to the meeting

Enquiries: Scientific Programmes team.

Organisers

  • Pedro Ferreira

    Professor Pedro Ferreira, University of Oxford, UK

    Pedro G Ferreira is a Professor of Physics at Oxford University and a Tutorial Fellow of Oriel College. He has held research appointments at the University of California at Berkeley and CERN. He is also associated faculty at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town. His fields of interest are General Relativity, the Early Universe, the Cosmic Microwave Background, and Cosmological Data in general. He wrote one of the first papers on the growth of structure in quintessence, he was on the science team that showed the Universe was flat with the Boomerang and Maxima data, and he was one of the first people to show the impact of modified gravity models in large scale structure. He maintains an active involvement in a number of experiments, namely QUIET and FASTSOUND on FMOS and is involved in proposals for the satellite missions EUCLID and CORE. Professor Ferreira has published a book, State of the Universe (W&N -2006) and is working on a new book on the history of relativity, to be published in Spring 2013.