2026
CAM Colloquium: Kunt Solna
4:00–5:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2026, at 4:00 PM (Rescheduled Date), in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
KNUT SOLNA, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine
“Some aspects of waves in random media and imaging with incoherent waves.”
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CAM PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE: ZHAO LYU
8:30–10:30 am Jones 111
Monday, June 15, 2026, at 8:30 AM (Central Daylight Time), Location: Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
ZHAO LYU, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Cross-Validation for Structural Model Selection”
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CAM PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE: PETER NEKRASOV
1:00–3:00 pm Jones 303
Friday, June 5, 2026, at 1:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Location: Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
PETER NEKRASOV, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Reflections on ice: flexural wave scattering with applications to Arctic ice shelves”
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CANCELLED (will be rescheduled)-CAM Colloquium: Knut Solna
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
CANCELLED (will be rescheduled)-THURSDAY MAY 28 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 107, 1020 E. 58th St.
KNUT SOLNA, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine
“Some aspects of waves in random media and imaging with incoherent waves.”
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CAM Special Colloquium: Diana T. Stoeva
4:00–5:00 pm Kent 107
TUESDAY, MAY 26, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 107, 1020 E. 58th St.
Special Colloquium
DIANA T. STOEVA, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna
“Frame multipliers and their inversion”
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Distinguished Speaker Series: John Overdeck (Two Sigma)
12:00–1:00 pm Data Science Institute, Room 105
DSI Distinguished Speaker Series
John Overdeck, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Two Sigma
A Conversation with John Overdeck
Friday, May 22 DSI 105 (5460 S University)
Event details and talk abstract
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CANCELLED (will be rescheduled) CAM Colloquium: FLORIAN SCHÄFER
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
CANCELLED (will be rescheduled)-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
“Toward Information Geometric Mechanics”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Jimmy Lederman
12:30–1:30 pm DSI 103
Wednesday, May 20, 2026, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), Data Science Institute, 5460 S University Ave, Room 103
JIMMY LEDERMAN, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Bessel-Powered Dirichlet-Multinomial Dynamical Systems”
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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
“Lightweight, geometrically flexible fast algorithms for the evaluation of elliptic and parabolic layer potentials”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Yuan Ziang
12:30–1:30 pm DSI 103
Wednesday, May 13, 2026, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), Data Science Institute, 5460 S University Ave, Room 103
YUAN ZIANG, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Interference-aware Rerandomization”