2026
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”
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CAM Colloquium: YIJUN DONG
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
YIJUN DONG, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
“Understanding Post-training through the Lens of Intrinsic Dimension”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Matt Fraizer
12:00–1:00 pm Rosenwald 011
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, at 12:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Rosenwald 011, 1115 E 58th St
MATT FRAIZER, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Continuous topological insulators: an introduction with some recent developments”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Ruiting Liang
12:00–1:00 pm DSI Room 105
Wednesday, January 7, 2026, at 12:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), DSI, 5460 S University Ave, Room 105, Chicago, IL 60615
RUITING LIANG, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Multi-component KPZ from microscopic dynamics”
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2025
CAM Colloquium: Jonathan Weare
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
JONATHAN WEARE, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
“Convergence of Unadjusted Langevin and HMC in High Dimensions: Delocalization of Bias”