2026
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”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Sean Yetter
12:00–1:00 pm Rosenwald 011
Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at 12:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Rosenwald 011, 1115 E 58th St
SEAN YETTER, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“General Moment Closure for the Neutral Two-Locus Wright-Fisher Dynamics”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Melissa Adrian
12:00–1:00 pm Rosenwald 011
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, at 12:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Rosenwald 011, 1115 E 58th St
MELISSA ADRIAN, Data Science Institute, University of Chicago & Purdue University
“Auto-differentiable data assimilation: Co-learning of states, dynamics, and filtering algorithms”
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CANCELED-CAM Colloquium: CHUSHAN WANG
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
CANCELED-THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CHUSHAN WANG, Department of Statistics, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Numerical methods for nonlinear Schrödinger equations with low regularity or singularity”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Joonhyuk Jung
12:00–1:00 pm Rosenwald 011
Wednesday, February 4, 2026, at 12:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Rosenwald 011, 1115 E 58th St
JOONHYUK JUNG, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Sharp Inequalities between Total Variation and Hellinger Distances for Gaussian Mixtures”
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CAM Colloquium: SUNGWOO JEONG
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2026, 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
SUNGWOO JEONG, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
“Convergence of two kernel algorithms: Continuous analogues of the SVD and the Cholesky decomposition.”
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CAM PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE: GENGSHUO TIAN
10:00 am–12:00 pm Stuart 101
Monday, February 2, 2026, at 10:00 AM (Central Daylight Time), Location: Stuart 101, Harold Leonard Stuart Hall, 5835 S. Greenwood Ave.
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
GENGSHUO TIAN, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Understanding Neural Variability: Mechanistic and Computational Models of Population Activity”
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CAM Colloquium: YUANZHAO ZHANG
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
YUANZHAO ZHANG, Santa Fe Institute
“Physics-uninformed machine learning”