2026
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)
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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”
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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
“Radiation Conditions for Maxwell Wave-guides”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Elias Boshara
12:30–1:30 pm DSI, Room 103
Wednesday, May 6, 2026, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), Data Science Institute, 5460 S University Ave, Room 103
ELIAS BOSHARA, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Spatial Statistics for Voting Rules”
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Distinguished Speaker Series: Benjamin Recht (UC Berkeley)
12:00–1:30 pm Data Science Institute, Room 105
DSI Distinguished Speaker Series
Benjamin Recht, Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley
The Irrational Decision: How We Gave Computers the Power to Choose for Us
Friday, May 1 DSI 105 (5460 S University)
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CAM Colloquium: CHRIS PETERSON
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CHRIS PETERSON, Math Department, Colorado State University
“Intrinsic volumes, random projections, and integration”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Thomas Wang
12:30–1:30 pm DSI, Room 103
Wednesday, April 29, 2026, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), Data Science Institute, 5460 S University Ave, Room 103
THOMAS WANG, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Symmetries in Computations”