2026
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”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Joon Shin
12:00–1:00 pm Rosenwald 011
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, at 12:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Rosenwald 011, 1115 E 58th St
JOON SHIN, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Random optimization, physics, and hardness”
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POSTPONED-CAM Colloquium: SUNGWOO JEONG
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
POSTPONED- MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2026, 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue (A new date will be determined)
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 Colloquium: EITAN LEVIN
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
EITAN LEVIN, Applied and Computational Math, California Institute of Technology
“Any-Dimensional Data Science”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Hannah Chen
12:00–1:00 pm Rosenwald 011
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at 12:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Rosenwald 011, 1115 E 58th St
HANNAH CHEN, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Telling time with a circadian clock: Light and temperature integration in cyanobacteria”
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CAM PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE: HONGLI ZHAO
1:00–2:00 pm Jones 303
Friday, January 16, 2026, at 1:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Location: Jones 303
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
HONGLI ZHAO, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Optimization and Control for Scalable Modeling and Inference in Dynamical Systems”