2023
CAM Colloquium: KIM-CHUAN TOH
9:30–10:30 am Jones 303
TUESDAY, May 30, 2023, AT 9:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis
KIM-CHUAN TOH, Department of Mathematics and Institute of Operations Research and Analytics, National University of Singapore
“Algorithms for Semidefinite Programming”
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CAM Colloquium: CHI-KWONG LI
3:00–4:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, May 18, 2023, at 3:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis
CHI-KWONG LI, Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary & Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
“Some Recent Results in Quantum Tomography”
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CAM Colloquium: RACHEL WARD
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, May 11, 2023, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with The Data Science Institute
RACHEL WARD, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
“Gradient Descent for Low-Rank Matrix Factorization”
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CAM PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE: SOLOMON QUINN
3:00–4:00 pm Jones 303
Wednesday, May 10, 2023, at 3:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
SOLOMON QUINN, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Asymmetric Transport in Continuous Topological Insulators”
CAM & Statistics Student Seminar: MELISSA ADRIAN
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 226
Monday, May 8, 2023, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), in Jones 226, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Melissa Adrian, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Data Assimilation in Data-Driven Weather Forecasting: Pairing FourCastNet with the Auto-Differentiable Ensemble Kalman Filter”
CAM & DSI Joint Colloquium: AMIT SINGER
3:00–4:00 pm Jones 303
FRIDAY, May 5, 2023, AT 3:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis
Joint Colloquium with The Data Science Institute
AMIT SINGER, Department of Mathematics, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM), & Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML), Princeton University
“Method of Moments in Cryo-EM”
CAM & Statistics Student Seminar: TAYLOR CHRISTIANSEN
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 226
Monday, May 1, 2023, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), in Jones 226, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
TAYLOR CHRISTIANSEN, Goldin-Meadow Laboratory, University of Chicago
“Warmth, Competence, and Their Impact on Social Perception”
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CAM & Statistics Student Seminar: PHILLIP LO
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 226
Monday, April 24, 2023, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), in Jones 226, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PHILLIP LO, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Learning Coronal Nonlinear Force-Free Magnetic Fields Through Differentiable Rendering”
CAM Colloquium: KUI REN
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, April 20, 2023, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
KUI REN, Department of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
“State-dependent Diffusion for Global Optimization”
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CAM PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE: YIAN CHEN
3:00–4:00 pm Jones 303
Wednesday, April 19, 2023, at 3:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue or Via Zoom
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
YIAN CHEN, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Structured Low-complexity Matrix and Tensor Approximation with Applications”