var sms = '<div id="sms_bulletin">  <div id="sms_header">  <div class="do_not_print" id="arrow_left"><a href="?next=2"><img src="//www2.math.ethz.ch/smsjs/images/arrow_left.png"/></a></div><div class="do_not_print" id="arrow_right"><a href="?next=4"><img src="//www2.math.ethz.ch/smsjs/images/arrow_right.png"/></a></div>    <div class="sms_title">      <span style="float: left;">SMS</span>      <span>SWISS MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY</span>      <span style="float: right;">SMG</span>    </div>    <div class="sms_info">      <span style="float: left; width: 250px;">Bulletin no. 4</span>      <span style="float: right; text-align:right; width: 250px;">5.10 - 9.10.2026</span>      <span style="text-align: center; display: block; width: 250px; margin: auto; position: relative;">Autumn Semester 2026</span>    </div>  </div>  <div></div>  <div id="sms_content">    <div class="day">      <div class="day_title">        Monday, October 5      </div>      <div class="day_content">        <div class="day_content_item no_event">        No events scheduled today!        </div>      </div>    </div>    <div class="day">      <div class="day_title">        Tuesday, October 6      </div>      <div class="day_content">        <div class="day_content_item normal"><div class="event_location uni_zh"><a class="external" href="https://uzh.ch">Universit&auml;t Z&uuml;rich</a></div><div class="event_type"><a class="external" href="https://www.math.uzh.ch/mat770.1">Oberseminar: Algebraische Geometrie</a></div><br /><div class="event_speaker">Dr. Doosung Park (University of Wuppertal)</div><div class="event_title">Title T.B.A.</div><div class="event_time">13:15 &bull; UZH Irchel, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Z&uuml;rich, Building Y27, Room H 25</div>        </div>        <div class="day_content_item normal"><div class="event_location uni_ge"><a class="external" href="https://unige.ch">Université de Genève</a></div><div class="event_type"><a class="external" href="https://www.unige.ch/math/annonces/seminaire-danalyse-numerique">Séminaire d\'Analyse Numérique </a></div><br /><div class="event_speaker"> Ali Raza</div><div class="event_title">Mathematical analysis of a stochastic delay model for respiratory syncytial virus dynamics <span class="abstract-button do_not_print">abstract</span></div><div class="abstract-text" style="display: none"><strong>Abstract:</strong><br />Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a single-stranded RNA virus responsible for a wide range of respiratory tract infections, including those affecting the lungs, airways, and middle ear. Understanding its transmission dynamics remains essential for effective disease control. A bio-inspired stochastic delay model for RSV transmission is proposed and analyzed. The model’s qualitative properties, including positivity, boundedness, equilibrium states, and the basic reproduction number, are rigorously established through well-posedness theorems. Parameter sensitivity is also examined. To investigate the system’s stochastic behavior, numerical schemes such as the Stochastic Euler, Runge–Kutta, and Euler–Maruyama methods are applied. However, these traditional approaches fail to fully preserve the dynamic characteristics of the model. To address these limitations, a stochastic nonstandard finite difference (NSFD) scheme with delay is developed. This approach ensures nonnegativity, boundedness, consistency, and unconditional convergence, overcoming issues of instability and divergence often observed in standard stochastic numerical methods. Comparative simulations demonstrate that the NSFD method reliably reproduces the true dynamic states of the model. The proposed stochastic delayed modeling framework enhances our understanding of RSV dynamics and provides a stable computational tool for analyzing complex biological systems. The findings open new avenues for exploring nonlinear stochastic processes in epidemiological and neurobiological modeling.</div><div class="event_time">14:00 &bull; Université de Genève, Conseil Général 7-9, Room 1-05</div>        </div>        <div class="day_content_item normal"><div class="event_location uni_zh"><a class="external" href="https://ethz.ch">ETH Z&uuml;rich</a></div><div class="event_type"><a class="external" href="https://www.pauli-lectures.ethz.ch/">Wolfgang Pauli Lectures</a></div><br /><div class="event_speaker">Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)</div><div class="event_title"><a class="external" href="https://pauli-lectures.ethz.ch/lectures26.html">How genes are switched on</a> <span class="abstract-button do_not_print">abstract</span></div><div class="abstract-text" style="display: none"><strong>Abstract:</strong><br />The human genome comprises over 20,000 genes that bring about life and sustain it over decades. However, genes are silent and must be given voice through a fundamental biological process called gene expression. The first step in gene expression is transcription, in which genetic information encoded in DNA is copied into RNA. The lecture explores the molecular mechanisms of transcription and its regulation to explain how genes are switched on during embryonic development, for cellular function, and in human health and disease.</div><div class="event_time">17:00 &bull; ETH Zentrum, R&auml;mistrasse 101, Z&uuml;rich, Building HG, Room F 30</div>        </div>      </div>    </div>    <div class="day">      <div class="day_title">        Wednesday, October 7      </div>      <div class="day_content">        <div class="day_content_item normal"><div class="event_location uni_zh"><a class="external" href="https://ethz.ch">ETH Z&uuml;rich</a></div><div class="event_type"><a class="external" href="https://math.ethz.ch/s/algebraic-geometry-and-moduli-seminar">Algebraic Geometry and Moduli Seminar</a></div><br /><div class="event_speaker">Dr. Denis Nesterov (ETH Zürich)</div><div class="event_title">Title T.B.A.</div><div class="event_time">13:30 &bull; ETH Zentrum, R&auml;mistrasse 101, Z&uuml;rich, Building HG, Room G 43</div>        </div>        <div class="day_content_item normal"><div class="event_location uni_zh"><a class="external" href="https://ethz.ch">ETH Z&uuml;rich</a></div><div class="event_type"><a class="external" href="https://stat.ethz.ch/events/zukost">ZueKoSt: Seminar on Applied Statistics</a></div><br /><div class="event_speaker"> Daniel  Sabanés Bové</div><div class="event_title">mmrm: : A Robust and Comprehensive R Package for Implementing Mixed Models for Repeated Measures <span class="abstract-button do_not_print">abstract</span></div><div class="abstract-text" style="display: none"><strong>Abstract:</strong><br />Mixed models for repeated measures (MMRM) analysis has been extensively used to analyze longitudinal datasets. SAS has been the gold standard for this analysis in the past, and previously R packages have fallen short for one of the following reasons: model convergence issues, unavailability of covariance structures or adjusted degrees of freedom, or numerical results being far from SAS. To fill in this important gap in the open-source statistical software landscape, a cross-company workstream of openstatsware.org has developed the {mmrm} R package. A critical advantage of {mmrm} over existing implementations is that it is faster and converges more reliably. It also provides a comprehensive set of features: users can specify a variety of covariance matrices, weight observations, fit models with restricted or standard maximum likelihood inference, perform hypothesis testing with Satterthwaite or Kenward-Roger adjusted degrees of freedom, extract the least square means estimates using the emmeans package, and use tidymodels for easy model fitting. We introduce the modeling framework, the implementation strategy and discuss open source collaboration as a critical ingredient to success.</div><div class="event_time">16:15 &bull; ETH Zentrum, R&auml;mistrasse 101, Z&uuml;rich, Building HG, Room G 19.1</div>        </div>        <div class="day_content_item normal"><div class="event_location uni_zh"><a class="external" href="https://ethz.ch">ETH Z&uuml;rich</a></div><div class="event_type"><a class="external" href="https://www.pauli-lectures.ethz.ch/">Wolfgang Pauli Lectures</a></div><br /><div class="event_speaker">Prof. Dr. Patrick  Cramer (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)</div><div class="event_title"><a class="external" href="https://pauli-lectures.ethz.ch/lectures26.html">Transcription of the genome</a> <span class="abstract-button do_not_print">abstract</span></div><div class="abstract-text" style="display: none"><strong>Abstract:</strong><br />Our laboratory uses a combination of structural biology, functional genomics and computational approaches to elucidate the molecular mechanisms and cellular regulation of transcription, the first step in gene expression that governs cell differentiation, embryo development and cancer formation. In my lecture I will provide an overview of our current understanding of the molecular mechanisms underlying gene transcription in eukaryotic cells. I will also provide data that show that transcription is regulated at three key steps, which were revealed by structure-based multiomics analysis.</div><div class="event_time">17:00 &bull; ETH Zentrum, R&auml;mistrasse 101, Z&uuml;rich, Building HG, Room F 30</div>        </div>      </div>    </div>    <div class="day">      <div class="day_title">        Thursday, October 8      </div>      <div class="day_content">        <div class="day_content_item normal"><div class="event_location uni_zh"><a class="external" href="https://ethz.ch">ETH Z&uuml;rich</a></div><div class="event_type"><a class="external" href="https://www.pauli-lectures.ethz.ch/">Wolfgang Pauli Lectures</a></div><br /><div class="event_speaker">Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)</div><div class="event_title"><a class="external" href="https://pauli-lectures.ethz.ch/lectures26.html">Antivirals against SARS-Cov2 polymerase</a> <span class="abstract-button do_not_print">abstract</span></div><div class="abstract-text" style="display: none"><strong>Abstract:</strong><br />Despite the availability of vaccines, there remains a need for safe and effective antiviral drugs against coronaviruses to treat vulnerable patients, control transmission, and prepare for future outbreaks. In the spring of 2020, our lab was part of a global race to the 3D structure of the coronavirus SARS-Cov2 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase and provided mechanistic insights into viral RNA replication. We later also used structure-function studies to reveal the mechanisms of antiviral drugs such as remdesivir and molnupiravir, revealing key limitations in their efficacy and safety. Building on this framework, we are identifying novel polymerase inhibitors through large-scale chemical screening, in the hope to uncover leads for the development of next-generation antiviral therapies.</div><div class="event_time">10:00 &bull; ETH Zentrum, Building HIT, Room E 51</div>        </div>        <div class="day_content_item normal"><div class="event_location uni_zh"><a class="external" href="https://ethz.ch">ETH Z&uuml;rich</a></div><div class="event_type"><a class="external" href="https://math.ethz.ch/fim/activities/nachdiplom-lectures">Nachdiplomvorlesung</a></div><br /><div class="event_speaker"> Cristopher Moore (Santa Fe Institute)</div><div class="event_title">Computational complexity and phase transitions</div><div class="event_time">10:15 &bull; ETH Zentrum, R&auml;mistrasse 101, Z&uuml;rich, Building HG, Room G 19.1</div>        </div>        <div class="day_content_item normal"><div class="event_location uni_zh"><a class="external" href="https://ethz.ch">ETH Z&uuml;rich</a></div><div class="event_type"><a class="external" href="https://math.ethz.ch/fim/activities/nachdiplom-lectures">Nachdiplomvorlesung</a></div><br /><div class="event_speaker"> Kaibo Hu (University of Oxford)</div><div class="event_title">Finite Element Tensor Calculus</div><div class="event_time">10:15 &bull; ETH Zentrum, R&auml;mistrasse 101, Z&uuml;rich, Building HG, Room G 43</div>        </div>        <div class="day_content_item normal"><div class="event_location uni_zh"><a class="external" href="https://ethz.ch">ETH Z&uuml;rich</a></div><div class="event_type"><a class="external" href="https://math.ethz.ch/s/daco-seminar">DACO Seminar</a></div><br /><div class="event_speaker"> Yatin Dandi (EPFL)</div><div class="event_title">Deep Learning as Neural Low-Degree Filtering: A Spectral Theory of Hierarchical Feature Learning <span class="abstract-button do_not_print">abstract</span></div><div class="abstract-text" style="display: none"><strong>Abstract:</strong><br />Understanding how deep neural networks learn useful internal representations from data remains a central open problem in the theory of deep learning. We introduce Neural Low-Degree Filtering (Neural LoFi), a stylized limit of gradient-based training in which hierarchical feature learning becomes an explicit iterative spectral procedure. In this limit, the dynamics at each layer decouple: given the current representation, the next layer selects directions with maximal accessible low-degree correlation to the label. This yields a tractable surrogate mechanism for deep learning, together with a natural kernel-space interpretation. Neural LoFi provides a mathematically explicit framework for studying multi-layer feature learning beyond the lazy regime. It predicts how representations are selected layer by layer, explains how emergence of concepts arises with given sample complexity, and gives a concrete mechanism by which depth progressively constructs new features from old ones through low-degree compositionality. We complement the theory with mechanistic experiments on fully connected and convolutional architectures, showing that Neural LoFi improves over lazy random-feature baselines, recovers meaningful structured filters, and predicts representations aligned with early gradient-descent feature discovery with real datasets.The talk is based on joint work with Matteo Vilucchio, Luca Arnaboldi, Hugo Tabanelli, and Florent Krzakala (https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13612).</div><div class="event_time">13:45 &bull; ETH Zentrum, Building TBD, Room  </div>        </div>        <div class="day_content_item normal"><div class="event_location uni_zh"><a class="external" href="https://ethz.ch">ETH Z&uuml;rich</a></div><div class="event_type"><a class="external" href="https://math.ethz.ch/fim/activities/nachdiplom-lectures">Nachdiplomvorlesung</a></div><br /><div class="event_speaker"> Alan Reid (Rice University)</div><div class="event_title">Arithmetic groups and their profinite completions</div><div class="event_time">14:15 &bull; ETH Zentrum, R&auml;mistrasse 101, Z&uuml;rich, Building HG, Room G 43</div>        </div>        <div class="day_content_item normal"><div class="event_location uni_zh"><a class="external" href="https://ethz.ch">ETH Z&uuml;rich</a></div><div class="event_type"><a class="external" href="https://math.ethz.ch/s/talks-in-financial-and-insurance-mathematics">Talks in Financial and Insurance Mathematics</a></div><br /><div class="event_speaker">Dr. Jonghwa Park (ETH Zürich)</div><div class="event_title">Title T.B.A.</div><div class="event_time">17:15 &bull; ETH Zentrum, R&auml;mistrasse 101, Z&uuml;rich, Building HG, Room G 43</div>        </div>      </div>    </div>    <div class="day">      <div class="day_title">        Friday, October 9      </div>      <div class="day_content">        <div class="day_content_item normal"><div class="event_location uni_zh"><a class="external" href="https://ethz.ch">ETH Z&uuml;rich</a></div><div class="event_type"><a class="external" href="https://math.ethz.ch/s/number-theory-seminar">Number Theory Seminar</a></div><br /><div class="event_speaker">Prof. Dr. Johannes Sprang (Duisburg-Essen)</div><div class="event_title">Title TBA: Johannes Sprang</div><div class="event_time">14:15 &bull; ETH Zentrum, R&auml;mistrasse 101, Z&uuml;rich, Building HG, Room G 43</div>        </div>        <div class="day_content_item normal"><div class="event_location uni_zh"><a class="external" href="https://ethz.ch">ETH Z&uuml;rich</a></div><div class="event_type"><a class="external" href="https://math.ethz.ch/s/algebraic-geometry-and-moduli-seminar">Algebraic Geometry and Moduli Seminar</a></div><br /><div class="event_speaker"> Daniel Holmes (IST Austria)</div><div class="event_title">Title T.B.A.</div><div class="event_time">16:00 &bull; ETH Zentrum, R&auml;mistrasse 101, Z&uuml;rich, Building HG, Room G 43</div>        </div>      </div>    </div>  </div>  <div id="sms_footer">    address: Alessandra Naldi Windler, Departement Mathematik, HG G 51.4, ETH Zurich, Raemistrasse 101, CH-8092 Zurich<br />    email: <a href="mailto:bulletin@math.ch">bulletin@math.ch</a> | phone: +41 44 632 3684 | url: <a href="https://math.ch">https://math.ch</a>    <br /><br /><img src="//www2.math.ethz.ch/smsjs/sms_logo.gif" width="150" alt="SMS/SMG Logo" title="SMS/SMG Logo" />  </div></div>';