3rd Workshop onGradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning

Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus

Organisers
O. Deniz Akyildiz · Louis Sharrock · Grigorios A. Pavliotis
With support from

General information.

The workshop will take place at 170 Queen’s Gate, an elegant Victorian venue in South Kensington.

Running for two and a half days, the programme begins on the morning of 23 November and continues through 25 November. A dedicated poster session is scheduled for the afternoon of 24 November.

Venue
170 Queen’s Gate
Location
South Kensington, London
Dates
23–25 November 2026
Duration
Two and a half days
Poster session
24 November, afternoon

Confirmed speakers.

Meet the researchers joining us in London this November. More speakers will be added as invitations are accepted.

Portrait of Andrea Agazzi

Andrea Agazzi

University of Bern

Portrait of Giacomo Borghi

Giacomo Borghi

TU Munich

Portrait of Francesca Crucinio

Francesca Crucinio

University of Turin

Portrait of Andrew Duncan

Andrew Duncan

Imperial College London

Portrait of Anna Korba

Anna Korba

ENSAE Paris / CREST

Portrait of Pierre Monmarché

Pierre Monmarché

Université Gustave Eiffel

Portrait of Sebastian Reich

Sebastian Reich

University of Potsdam

Portrait of Claudia Schillings

Claudia Schillings

Freie Universität Berlin

Portrait of André Schlichting

André Schlichting

University of Ulm

Portrait of Anna Shalova

Anna Shalova

University of Amsterdam

Portrait of Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Eric Vanden-Eijnden

New York University

Portrait of Marie-Therese Wolfram

Marie-Therese Wolfram

University of Warwick

Portrait of Olivier Zahm

Olivier Zahm

Inria / Université Grenoble Alpes

Registration is open.

Book your place at the 3rd Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning.

Registration open

Join us in London

Registration is now available online, with reduced pricing for students.

Student
£40
Non-student
£80
Dates
23–25 November 2026
Venue
170 Queen’s Gate
Register online

Poster abstract submissions open

Submit a poster abstract

Final submission deadline

Submission contents Title + short abstract

File format PDF · maximum 1 page

Please submit as soon as possible. Abstracts will be reviewed as they arrive, and suitable submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis. Poster capacity is limited, so submissions may close before the final deadline once all available places have been filled.

Workshop registration is separate. A poster abstract does not reserve a place. Please check availability and register before submitting.

To be considered for the poster session, email your abstract to deniz.akyildiz@imperial.ac.uk using exactly the subject line below.

Email subject Poster Submission to Gradient Flows Workshop

Previous editions.

Two editions have already brought together the community around continuous dynamics, probabilistic inference and machine learning.

Edition 022025

2nd Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning

A one-day exploration of gradient-flow approaches for sampling, inference and learning—from Langevin and Wasserstein dynamics to diffusion models, robustness and sequential Bayesian methods.

Date
, 10:00
Venue
The Alan Turing Institute, British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Organisers
O. Deniz Akyildiz, Andrew Duncan & Francesca Crucinio

Speakers

  • Sahani Pathiraja
  • Rocco Caprio
  • Anna Korba
  • Paula Cordero Encinar
  • Arthur Gretton
  • Jonas Latz
View the 2025 event
Edition 012023

1st Workshop on Gradient Flows for Sampling, Inference, and Learning

The inaugural one-day workshop connected continuous dynamics with Bayesian posterior sampling, variational inference, generative modelling and deep-learning optimisation.

Date
, 10:00
Venue
Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
Organisers
O. Deniz Akyildiz, Christopher Nemeth, Theodore Papamarkou & Louis Sharrock

Speakers

  • Nikolas Nüsken
  • Alessandro Barp
  • Anna Korba
  • Song Liu
  • Francesca Crucinio
  • Qiang Liu
View the 2023 event