Spring Retreat
Spring Retreat 2024
As in previous years, the 2024 Spring Retreat took place at Missenden Abbey in the Chilterns, this year - from 8-11 April 2024. As usual, our first-year students presented their work during the course of the retreat and also, braved the rainy weather for a long walk on one of the afternoons. With 26 Year 1 students, this year's retreat was packed with presentations by our students as well as CDT faculty members from Imperial College London and Oxford who also made presentations:
Dr Ajay Chandra (Imperial) - Rough Geometric Integration;
Professor Matthias Winkel (Oxford) - Combinatorial up-down chains and their diffusive continuum limits;
Professor Ben Hambly (Oxford) - Order Books and SPDEs
Spring Retreat 2024 photographs provided by CDT student representatives, Vlad Tuchilus and Christopher Chalhoub
Spring Retreat 2023
The 2023 CDT Spring Retreat took place from 27-31 March 2023 at Missenden Abbey, a 12th Century former medieval abbey, set within 10 acres of beautiful grounds in the heart of the Chilterns. Our first-year students spent the week at this residential retreat and shared their research plans with each other and CDT faculty members. As well as talks from our first year students there were also presentations from CDT faculty members:
Professor Ben Hambly (Oxford) - Particle systems and systemic risk;
Dr Cristopher Salvi (Imperial) - Recent developments in signature kernel methods;
Professor Jeroen Lamb (Oxford) - Bifurcation & Random Dynamic Systems
Spring Retreat 2023 photographs provided by CDT student Zihao Shen and Professor Christoph Reisinger
Spring Retreat 2022
Our Spring Retreat took place in person at Missenden Abbey, from 4-7 April 2022. Our first year students from Oxford and Imperial joined together, to discuss their research plans with each other and our faculty members.
During the week there were also be presentations from our faculty members:
Professor Christoph Reisinger: Analysis and implementation of policy gradient methods for continuous-time stochastic control
Professor Johannes Muhle-Karbe: A Leland Model for Delta Hedging in Central Risk Books
Dr Pietro Siorpaes: A personal journey on robust pricing
View the full retreat programme
Spring Retreat 2021- online
Our 2021 Spring Retreat was replaced by a series of weekly talks and discussions from our current first years to run from 30 April - 1 July 2021. Each student introduced their research area and other students and faculty for a discussion of the topic following each student presentation.
Spring Retreat 2020 - online
Our 2020 Spring Retreat was held 29 April to 1 May 2020.
This was a remote meeting with students presenting their research in 30 minute talks via an online platform.
Members of the faculty joined the meeting to give feedback on these talks which were accompanied by lively discussions.
