2026
Distinguished Speaker Series: Ingrid Daubechies
12:00–1:30 pm Data Science Institute, Room 105
DSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture Series
Ingrid Daubechies, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Duke University
Discovering low-dimensional manifolds in high-dimensional data
March 27 DSI 105 (5460 S University)
lunch 12:00pm, lecture 12:30-1:30pm
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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
“Resonances through Subwavelength Holes: Theory, Computation and Applications”
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CAM PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE: ABIGAIL POTESHMAN
2:00–3:30 pm ERC 301B,
Thursday, March 26, 2026, at 2:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Location: ERC 301B, William Eckhardt Research Center,
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
ABIGAIL POTESHMAN, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Computational methods for materials science with applications in next-generation computing architectures”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Peter Nekrasov
12:30–1:30 pm Social Sciences 401
Wednesday, March 25, 2026, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), Social Sciences 401
PETER NEKRASOV, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Efficient representations for Elastodynamics”
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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
“A discrete potential theory on weighted graphs”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Jiaheng Chen
12:00–1:00 pm Rosenwald 011
Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 12:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Rosenwald 011, 1115 E 58th St
JIAHENG CHEN, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Learning Pseudo-Differential Operators”
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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
“Stability of Dynamical Systems on Graphs”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Adela DePavia
12:00–1:00 pm Rosenwald 011
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, at 12:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Rosenwald 011, 1115 E 58th St
ADELA DEPAVIA, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“How do simple rotations affect Adam”
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Distinguished Speaker Series: Jeffrey Heer (UWashington)
12:00–1:30 pm DSI105
DSI Distinguished Speaker Series Lecture
Jeffrey Heer, Jerre D. Noe Endowed Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
Augmenting Data Scientists: The Promise and Peril of AI-Assisted Analysis
Friday, Feb 20 DSI 105 (5460 S University)
lunch 12:00pm, lecture 12:30-1:30pm
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CANCELED-CAM Colloquium: TIANYUN TANG
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
CANCELED-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”