2024
CAM Colloquium: WENJING LIAO
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
WENJING LIAO, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Exploiting Low-Dimensional Data Structures and Estimating Scaling Laws for Transformer Neural Networks”
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CAM Colloquium: DANIEL SANZ-ALONSO
4:00–5:00 pm John Crerar Library 390
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in John Crerar Library 390, 5730 S. Ellis Avenue
DANIEL SANZ-ALONSO, Department of Statistics, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Ensemble Kalman Methods and Structured Operator Estimation”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Subhodh Kotekal
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, October 8, 2024, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time),in Searle 240A, 5735 South Ellis Avenue
SUBHODH KOTEKAL, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Variance estimation in compound decision theory under boundedness”
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CAM Colloquium: BIANCA M. DUMITRASCU
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
BIANCA M. DUMITRASCU, Herbert and Florence Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University
“Statistical machine learning for learning representations of embryonic development”
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CAM PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE: LICHENG (RICHARD) ZHU
4:00–5:30 pm Jones 303
Tuesday, October 1, 2024, at 4:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
LICHENG (RICHARD) ZHU, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“A triptych in computation: Deep learning for molecular mass spectra, sum-of-squares optimization, and the structure of diffusion models”
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CAM Special Colloquium: WEI CAI
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 23, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Special Colloquium
WEI CAI, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University
“SOC-MartNet: A Martingale Neural Network for the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation without Explicit inf_u H in Stochastic Optimal Controls”
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CAM Special Colloquium: JONAS LATZ
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Special Colloquium
JONAS LATZ, Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester
“Losing momentum in continuous-time stochastic optimisation”
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CAM Special Colloquium: SEBASTIAN REICH
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
MONDAY, JULY 1, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Special Colloquium
SEBASTIAN REICH, Institute of Mathematics, University of Potsdam
“Filtered data based estimators for stochastic processes driven by coloured noise”
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CAM & Department of Mathematics Joint Special Colloquium: Bernd Sturmfels
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM & Department of Mathematics Special Joint Colloquium
BERND STURMFELS, MPI Leipzig and UC Berkeley
“The two lives of the Grassmannian”
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CAM Colloquium: HAIZHAO YANG
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 226
THURSDAY, May 23, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 226, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
HAIZHAO YANG, Departments of Mathematics and Computer Science (Affiliated), The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland
“Finite Expression Method: A Symbolic Approach for Scientific Machine Learning”