2025
CAM Colloquium: TIAN LI
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
TIAN LI, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago
“Tilted Empirical Risk Minimization”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Gengshuo Tian
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time),in Searle 240A, 5735 South Ellis Avenue
GENGSHUO TIAN, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“A nonlocal variational framework for optimal neural representations”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Jacob Linden
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time),in Searle 240A, 5735 South Ellis Avenue
JACOB LINDEN, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Lens Optimization via Shape Differentiation”
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CAM Colloquium: HEATHER WILBER
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
HEATHER WILBER, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
“Numerics for the acoustic wave equation in unfriendly domains”
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CAM Colloquium: CHRISTOPHER RYCROFT
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CHRISTOPHER RYCROFT, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Uncovering the Rules of Crumpling with a Data-Driven Approach”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Sean O'Hagan
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time),in Searle 240A, 5735 South Ellis Avenue
SEAN O’HAGAN, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“A Bayesian Nonparametric Model for the Conditional Quantile Function”
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CAM Colloquium: TRISTAN GOODWILL
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
TRISTAN GOODWILL, Department of Statistics, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Solving decomposable scattering problems with unbounded interfaces.”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Anna Asch, Elias Boshara, & Kingsley Yeon
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time),in Searle 240A, 5735 South Ellis Avenue
ANNA ASCH, ELIAS BOSHARA, & KINGSLEY YEON, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“How did DeepSeek train a state-of-the-art LLM for only $5.6m?”
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CAM Colloquium: MOLEI TAO
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
MOLEI TAO, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Optimization, Sampling, and Generative Modeling in Non-Euclidean Spaces”
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CAM Colloquium: QIN LI
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
QIN LI, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Accelerating Optimization Over Probability Measure Space”