Dr Tim Sullivan | Publications
This is a list of all publications, ordered reverse-chronologically; preprints that are later published after peer review are re-sorted according to their final publication date. See also for a categorised version of this list.
- I. Klebanov and T. J. Sullivan. “Transporting higher-order quadrature rules: Quasi-Monte Carlo points and sparse grids for mixture distributions.” Stat. Comput. 36(1):no. 46, 19pp., 2026.
- O. Ernst, F. Nobile, C. Schillings, and T. J. Sullivan (ed.). Uncertainty Quantification, 20–25 April 2025, Oberwolfach Reports, 2025.
- J. Bunker, M. Girolami, H. Lambley, A. M. Stuart, and T. J. Sullivan. “Autoencoders in function space.” J. Mach. Learn. Res. 26(165):1–54, 2025.
- I. Klebanov, H. Lambley, and T. J. Sullivan. “Classification of small-ball modes and maximum a posteriori estimators.” arXiv Preprint, 2025.
- T. J. Sullivan. “Hille's theorem for Bochner integrals of functions with values in locally convex spaces.” Real Anal. Exchange 49(2):377–388, 2024.
- I. R. Best, T. J. Sullivan, and J. R. Kermode. “Uncertainty quantification in atomistic simulations of silicon using interatomic potentials.” J. Chem. Phys. 161(6):064112, 14pp., 2024.
- T. Matsumoto and T. J. Sullivan. “Images of Gaussian and other stochastic processes under closed, densely-defined, unbounded linear operators.” Anal. Appl. 22(3):619–633, 2024.
- H. Lambley and T. J. Sullivan. “An order-theoretic perspective on modes and maximum a posteriori estimation in Bayesian inverse problems.” SIAM/ASA J. Uncertain. Quantif. 11(4):1195–1224, 2023.
- K. Pentland, M. Tamborrino, and T. J. Sullivan. “Error bound analysis of the stochastic parareal algorithm.” SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 45(5):A2657–A2678, 2023.
- H. C. Lie, D. Rudolf, B. Sprungk, and T. J. Sullivan. “Dimension-independent Markov chain Monte Carlo on the sphere.” Scand. J. Statist. 41pp., 2023.
- K. Pentland, M. Tamborrino, T. J. Sullivan, J. Buchanan, and L. C. Appel. “GParareal: A time-parallel ODE solver using Gaussian process emulation.” Stat. Comput. 33(1):no. 20, 23pp., 2023.
- M. Mollenhauer, N. Mücke, and T. J. Sullivan. “Learning linear operators: Infinite-dimensional regression as a well-behaved non-compact inverse problem.” arXiv Preprint, 2022.
- J. Cockayne, M. M. Graham, C. J. Oates, T. J. Sullivan, and O. Teymur. “Testing whether a learning procedure is calibrated.” J. Mach. Learn. Res. 23(203):1–36, 2022.
- P. Hennig, I. C. F. Ipsen, M. Mahsereci, and T. J. Sullivan (ed.). Probabilistic Numerical Methods — From Theory to Implementation, Dagstuhl Reports 11(9):102–119, 2022.
- H. C. Lie, M. Stahn, and T. J. Sullivan. “Randomised one-step time integration methods for deterministic operator differential equations.” Calcolo 59(1):13, 33pp., 2022.
- B. Ayanbayev, I. Klebanov, H. C. Lie, and T. J. Sullivan. “Γ-convergence of Onsager–Machlup functionals: II. Infinite product measures on Banach spaces.” Inverse Probl. 38(2):025006, 35pp., 2022.
- B. Ayanbayev, I. Klebanov, H. C. Lie, and T. J. Sullivan. “Γ-convergence of Onsager–Machlup functionals: I. With applications to maximum a posteriori estimation in Bayesian inverse problems.” Inverse Probl. 38(2):025005, 32pp., 2022.
- I. Klebanov, B. Sprungk, and T. J. Sullivan. “The linear conditional expectation in Hilbert space.” Bernoulli 27(4):2267–2299, 2021.
- J. Wang, J. Cockayne, O. Chkrebtii, T. J. Sullivan, and C. J. Oates. “Bayesian numerical methods for nonlinear partial differential equations.” Stat. Comput. 31(5), 2021.
- H. C. Lie, T. J. Sullivan, and A. L. Teckentrup. “Error bounds for some approximate posterior measures in Bayesian inference” in Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications ENUMATH 2019, ed. F. J. Vermolen and C. Vuik. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 139:275–283, 2021.
- F. Schäfer, T. J. Sullivan, and H. Owhadi. “Compression, inversion, and approximate PCA of dense kernel matrices at near-linear computational complexity.” Multiscale Model. Simul. 19(2):688–730, 2021.
- H. Kersting, T. J. Sullivan, and P. Hennig. “Convergence rates of Gaussian ODE filters.” Stat. Comput. 30(6):1791–1816, 2020.
- L. Bonnet, J.-L. Akian, É. Savin, and T. J. Sullivan. “Adaptive reconstruction of imperfectly-observed monotone functions, with applications to uncertainty quantification.” Algorithms 13(8):196, 2020.
- I. Klebanov, I. Schuster, and T. J. Sullivan. “A rigorous theory of conditional mean embeddings.” SIAM J. Math. Data Sci. 2(3):583–606, 2020.
- M. McKerns, F. J. Alexander, K. S. Hickman, T. J. Sullivan, and D. E. Vaughan. “Optimal bounds on nonlinear partial differential equations in model certification, validation, and experimental design” in Handbook on Big Data and Machine Learning in the Physical Sciences, Volume 2: Advanced Analysis Solutions for Leading Experimental Techniques, ed. K. K. van Dam, K. G. Yager, S. I. Campbell, R. Farnsworth, and M. van Dam. World Scientific Series on Emerging Technologies 271–306, 2020.
- C. J. Oates, J. Cockayne, D. Prangle, T. J. Sullivan, and M. Girolami. “Optimality criteria for probabilistic numerical methods” in Multivariate Algorithms and Information-Based Complexity, ed. F. J. Hickernell and P. Kritzer. Radon Series on Computational and Applied Mathematics 27:65–88, 2020.
- E. Nava-Yazdani, H.-C. Hege, T. J. Sullivan, and C. von Tycowicz. “Geodesic analysis in Kendall's shape space with epidemiological applications.” J. Math. Imaging Vis. 62(4):549–559, 2020.
- O. Ernst, F. Nobile, C. Schillings, and T. J. Sullivan (eds.). Uncertainty Quantification, 11–15 March 2019, Oberwolfach Reports 16(1):695–772, 2019.
- J. Cockayne, C. J. Oates, T. J. Sullivan, and M. Girolami. “Bayesian probabilistic numerical methods.” SIAM Rev. 61(4):756–789, 2019.
- M. Girolami, I. C. F. Ipsen, C. J. Oates, A. B. Owen, and T. J. Sullivan. “Editorial: Special Edition on Probabilistic Numerics.” Stat. Comput. 29(6):1181–1183, 2019.
- C. J. Oates and T. J. Sullivan. “A modern retrospective on probabilistic numerics.” Stat. Comput. 29(6):1335–1351, 2019.
- H. C. Lie, A. M. Stuart, and T. J. Sullivan. “Strong convergence rates of probabilistic integrators for ordinary differential equations.” Stat. Comput. 29(6):1265–1283, 2019.
- T. J. Sullivan. “Contributed discussion on the article ‘A Bayesian conjugate gradient method’.” Bayesian Anal. 14(3):985–989, 2019.
- O. Teymur, H. C. Lie, T. J. Sullivan, and B. Calderhead. “Implicit probabilistic integrators for ODEs” in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NIPS 2018), ed. S. Bengio, H. Wallach, H. Larochelle, K. Grauman, N. Cesa-Bianchi, and R. Garnett. 7244–7253, 2018.
- H. C. Lie, T. J. Sullivan, and A. L. Teckentrup. “Random forward models and log-likelihoods in Bayesian inverse problems.” SIAM/ASA J. Uncertain. Quantif. 6(4):1600–1629, 2018.
- H. C. Lie and T. J. Sullivan. “Erratum: Equivalence of weak and strong modes of measures on topological vector spaces (2018 Inverse Problems 34 115013).” Inverse Probl. 34(12):129601, 2018.
- H. C. Lie and T. J. Sullivan. “Equivalence of weak and strong modes of measures on topological vector spaces.” Inverse Probl. 34(11):115013, 2018.
- H. C. Lie and T. J. Sullivan. “Quasi-invariance of countable products of Cauchy measures under non-unitary dilations.” Electron. Commun. Prob. 23(8):1–6, 2018.
- I. Schuster, P. G. Constantine, and T. J. Sullivan. “Exact active subspace Metropolis–Hastings, with applications to the Lorenz-96 system.” arXiv Preprint, 2017.
- T. J. Sullivan. “Well-posedness of Bayesian inverse problems in quasi-Banach spaces with stable priors” in 88th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM), Weimar 2017, ed. C. Könke and C. Trunk. Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics 17(1):871–874, 2017.
- T. J. Sullivan. “Well-posed Bayesian inverse problems and heavy-tailed stable quasi-Banach space priors.” Inverse Probl. Imaging 11(5):857–874, 2017.
- J. Cockayne, C. J. Oates, T. J. Sullivan, and M. Girolami. “Probabilistic numerical methods for PDE-constrained Bayesian inverse problems” in Proceedings of the 36th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, ed. G. Verdoolaege. AIP Conference Proceedings 1853:060001-1–060001-8, 2017.
- J. Cockayne, C. J. Oates, T. J. Sullivan, and M. Girolami. “Probabilistic meshless methods for partial differential equations and Bayesian inverse problems.” arXiv Preprint, 2016.
- T. J. Sullivan. Introduction to Uncertainty Quantification, volume 63 of Texts in Applied Mathematics. Springer, 2015. ISBN 978-3-319-23394-9 (hardcover), 978-3-319-23395-6 (e-book).
- H. Owhadi, C. Scovel, and T. J. Sullivan. “On the brittleness of Bayesian inference.” SIAM Rev. 57(4):566–582, 2015.
- H. Owhadi, C. Scovel, and T. J. Sullivan. “Brittleness of Bayesian inference under finite information in a continuous world.” Electron. J. Stat. 9(1):1–79, 2015.
- P.-H. T. Kamga, B. Li, M. McKerns, L. H. Nguyen, M. Ortiz, H. Owhadi, and T. J. Sullivan. “Optimal uncertainty quantification with model uncertainty and legacy data.” J. Mech. Phys. Solids 72:1–19, 2014.
- T. J. Sullivan. “Optimal Uncertainty Quantification for Hypervelocity Impact” in Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Fluid Dynamics, 15–19 September 2014, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium, and 2–3 June 2014, Stanford University, United States. STO-AVT-VKI Lecture Series, AVT-235, , 2014.
- T. J. Sullivan, M. McKerns, M. Ortiz, H. Owhadi, and C. Scovel. “Optimal uncertainty quantification: Distributional robustness versus Bayesian brittleness.” ASME J. Med. Dev. 7(4):040920, 2013.
- T. J. Sullivan, M. McKerns, D. Meyer, F. Theil, H. Owhadi, and M. Ortiz. “Optimal uncertainty quantification for legacy data observations of Lipschitz functions.” ESAIM Math. Model. Numer. Anal. 47(6):1657–1689, 2013.
- H. Owhadi, C. Scovel, T. J. Sullivan, M. McKerns, and M. Ortiz. “Optimal Uncertainty Quantification.” SIAM Rev. 55(2):271–345, 2013.
- T. J. Sullivan, M. Koslowski, F. Theil, and M. Ortiz. “Thermalization of rate-independent processes by entropic regularization.” Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. S 6(1):215–233, 2013.
- L. Rast, T. J. Sullivan, and V. K. Tewary. “Stratified graphene/noble metal systems for low-loss plasmonics applications.” Phys. Rev. B 87(4):045428, 2013.
- M. Ortiz, M. McKerns, H. Owhadi, T. J. Sullivan, and C. Scovel. “Optimal Uncertainty Quantification” in Advanced Computational Engineering, 12–18 February 2012, ed. O. Allix, C. Carstensen, J. Schröder, and P. Wriggers. Oberwolfach Reports 9(1):537–540, 2012.
- T. J. Sullivan, M. Koslowski, F. Theil, and M. Ortiz. “Thermalization of rate-independent processes by entropic regularization” in Interplay of Analysis and Probability in Physics, 22–28 January 2012, ed. W. König, P. Mörters, M. Peletier, and J. Zimmer. Oberwolfach Reports 9(1):322–325, 2012.
- M. Adams, A. Lashgari, B. Li, M. McKerns, J. Mihaly, M. Ortiz, H. Owhadi, A. J. Rosakis, M. Stalzer, and T. J. Sullivan. “Rigorous model-based uncertainty quantification with application to terminal ballistics. Part II: Systems with uncontrollable inputs and large scatter.” J. Mech. Phys. Solids 60(5):1002–1019, 2012.
- A. A. Kidane, A. Lashgari, B. Li, M. McKerns, M. Ortiz, G. Ravichandran, M. Stalzer, and T. J. Sullivan. “Rigorous model-based uncertainty quantification with application to terminal ballistics. Part I: Systems with controllable inputs and small scatter.” J. Mech. Phys. Solids 60(5):983–1001, 2012.
- T. J. Sullivan and H. Owhadi. “Distances and diameters in concentration inequalities: from geometry to optimal assignment of sampling resources.” Int. J. Uncertain. Quantif. 2(1):21–38, 2012.
- C. Scovel, H. Owhadi, T. J. Sullivan, M. McKerns, and M. Ortiz. “What is UQ?” in ADTSC Science Highlights 2012. Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-UR 12-20429:26–27, 2012.
- M. M. McKerns, L. Strand, T. J. Sullivan, A. Fang, and M. A. G. Aivazis. “Building a Framework for Predictive Science” in Proceedings of the 10th Python in Science Conference (SciPy 2011), June 2011, ed. S. van der Walt and J. Millman. 67–78, 2011.
- T. J. Sullivan, U. Topcu, M. McKerns, and H. Owhadi. “Uncertainty quantification via codimension-one partitioning.” Internat. J. Numer. Methods Engrg. 85(12):1499–1521, 2011.
- T. J. Sullivan and F. Theil. “On gradient descents in random wiggly energies” in Microstructures in Solids: From Quantum Models to Continua, 14–20 March 2010, ed. A. Mielke and M. Ortiz. Oberwolfach Reports 7(1):739–741, 2010.
- M. McKerns, H. Owhadi, C. Scovel, T. J. Sullivan, and M. Ortiz. “The optimal uncertainty algorithm in the mystic framework.” Caltech CACR Technical Report No. 523, August 2010.
- T. J. Sullivan, M. McKerns, U. Topcu, and H. Owhadi. “Uncertainty quantification via codimension-one domain partitioning and a new concentration inequality.” Proc. Soc. Behav. Sci. 2(6):7751–7752, 2010.
- F. Theil, T. J. Sullivan, M. Koslowski, and M. Ortiz. “Dissipative systems in contact with a heat bath: Application to Andrade creep” in Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Variational Concepts with Applications to the Mechanics of Materials, Bochum, Germany, September 22–26, 2008, ed. K. Hackl. IUTAM Bookseries 21:261–272, 2010.
- T. J. Sullivan, M. Koslowski, F. Theil, and M. Ortiz. “On the behavior of dissipative systems in contact with a heat bath: Application to Andrade creep.” J. Mech. Phys. Solids 57(7):1058–1077, 2009.
- T. J. Sullivan and F. Theil. “Deterministic stick-slip dynamics in a one-dimensional random potential” in Analysis and Numerics for Rate-Independent Processes, 25 February–3 March 2007, ed. G. Dal Maso, G. Francfort, A. Mielke, and T. Roubíček. Oberwolfach Reports 4(1):652–655, 2007.