CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Joon Shin
12:00–1:00 pm Rosenwald 011
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, at 12:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Rosenwald 011, 1115 E 58th St
JOON SHIN, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Random optimization, physics, and hardness”
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CAM Colloquium: YUANZHAO ZHANG
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
YUANZHAO ZHANG, Santa Fe Institute
“Physics-uninformed machine learning”
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CAM PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE: GENGSHUO TIAN
10:00 am–12:00 pm TBD
Monday, February 2, 2026, at 10:00 AM (Central Daylight Time), Location: Stuart 101, Harold Leonard Stuart Hall, 5835 S. Greenwood Ave.
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
GENGSHUO TIAN, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Understanding Neural Variability: Mechanistic and Computational Models of Population Activity”
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CAM Colloquium: CHUSHAN WANG
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CHUSHAN WANG, Department of Statistics, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Numerical methods for nonlinear Schrödinger equations with low regularity or singularity”
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CAM Colloquium: TIANYUN TANG
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
TIANYUN TANG, Department of Statistics, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Convex relaxation approaches for high-dimensional optimal transport”
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CAM Colloquium: Jared Bronski
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
JARED BRONSKI, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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CAM Colloquium: FERNANDO GUEVARA VASQUEZ
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
FERNANDO GUEVARA VASQUEZ, Mathematics Department, University of Utah
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CAM Colloquium: Junshan Lin
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
JUNSHAN LIN, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
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Distinguished Speaker Series: Ingrid Daubechies
12:00–1:30 pm Data Science Institute, Room 105
Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University – Discovering low-dimensional manifolds in high-dimensional data
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CAM Colloquium: Bamdad Hosseini
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
BAMDAD HOSSEINI, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
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CAM Colloquium: Jonathan Mattingly
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
JONATHAN MATTINGLY, Department of Mathematics, Duke University
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CAM Colloquium: Qiang Du
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
QIANG DU, Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, and Data Science Institute, Columbia University
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CAM Colloquium: Knut Solna
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
KNUT SOLNA, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine
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Distinguished Speaker Series: Benjamin Recht
12:00–1:30 pm Data Science Institute, Room 105
Benjamin Recht, University of California, Berkeley
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CAM Colloquium: CHARLES EPSTEIN
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CHARLES L. EPSTEIN, Center for Computational Mathematics at the Flatiron Institute, New York
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CAM Colloquium: Leslie Greengard
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
LESLIE GREENGARD, Flatiron Institute and Courant Institute, New York University
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CAM Colloquium: FLORIAN SCHÄFER
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, MAY 21, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
FLORIAN SCHÄFER, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University