2025
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Yifu Wang
12:30–1:30 pm DSI Room 105
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), DSI, 5460 S University Ave, Room 105, Chicago, IL 60615
YIFU WANG, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Minimizing the Arithmetic and Communication Complexity of Jacobi’s Method”
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CAM Special Colloquium: Peter Bürgisser
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Special Colloquium
PETER BÜRGISSER, Department of Mathematics, Technical University of Berlin
“Complexity of Computing Complex Zeros of Structured Polynomial Systems”
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CAM Colloquium: Alex Blumenthal
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
ALEX BLUMENTHAL, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Tractability of Chaotic Dynamics in Noisy Systems”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Jacob Linden
12:30–1:30 pm DSI Room 105
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), DSI, 5460 S University Ave, Room 105, Chicago, IL 60615
JACOB LINDEN, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Lens Optimization via Shape Differentiation”
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CAM Colloquium: Krithika Manohar
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
KRITHIKA MANOHAR, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington
“Learning Guarantees for Data-Driven Sparse Sensing and Nonlinear System Identifications”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Jimmy Lederman
12:30–1:30 pm DSI Room 105
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), DSI, 5460 S University Ave, Room 105, Chicago, IL 60615
JIMMY LEDERMAN, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Bayesian Compositional Data Analysis with the Reparametrized Libby-Novick Beta Distribution”
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John Reinitz Memorial Lecture
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
John Reinitz Memorial Lecture
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
SUZANNA PARKINSON, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“On The Role of Depth in Deep Learning”
NATHAN WANIOREK, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Long-Time Accuracy of Ensemble Kalman Filters for Chaotic Dynamical Systems and Surrogate Models”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Giorgio Micaletto
12:30–1:30 pm DSI Room 105
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), DSI, 5460 S University Ave, Room 105, Chicago, IL 60615
GIORGIO MICALETTO, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Robust Bridge Sampling: Diagnostics for Influence, Conditioning, and Proposal Variance”
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CAM Colloquium: Justin Finkel
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
JUSTIN FINKEL, Department of Geophysical Sciences and the Data Science Institute, University of Chicago
“Try Early, Emulate: on Timescale Considerations for Sampling Extreme Weather Events”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Mirko Giacchini & Erasmo Tani
12:30–1:30 pm DSI Room 105
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), DSI, 5460 S University Ave, Room 105, Chicago, IL 60615
MIRKO GIACCHINI & ERASMO TANI, Sapienza University of Rome
“Man, these New York Times games are hard! A computational perspective”