2026
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Yuan Ziang (UChicago)
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Friday, October 23, 2026, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
YUAN ZIANG, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Surrogate System in Prediction and Identification”
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CAM Colloquium: Andre Wibisono
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
ANDRE WIBISONO, Department of Computer Science, Yale University
“Hamiltonian Dynamics for Accelerated Optimization and Sampling”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Maximillian Newman
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Friday, October 16, 2026, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
MAXIMILLIAN NEWMAN, Simons Lab, University of Chicago
“Non-parametric identifiability of exponential mixtures”
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CAM Colloquium: Zhiyan Ding
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
ZHIYAN DING, Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan
“Quantum State Preparation via Open Quantum System Dynamics: From Provable Guarantees to Near-Term Implementation”
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CAM & Statistics Student Seminar: Jimmy Lederman
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Friday, October 9, 2026, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
JIMMY LEDERMAN, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Heterogeneous Dispersion Negative Binomial Modeling with Poisson Process Augmentation”
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CAM Colloquium: FLORIAN SCHAEFER
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
FLORIAN SCHAEFER, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
“Toward Information Geometric Mechanics”
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CAM Colloquium: Jeremy Hoskins
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
JEREMY HOSKINS, Department of Statistics, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“On thin ice: integral equations for linear flexural-gravity waves”
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CAM Colloquium: Kunt Solna
4:00–5:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2026, at 4:00 PM (Rescheduled Date), in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
KNUT SOLNA, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine
“Some aspects of waves in random media and imaging with incoherent waves.”
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CAM PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE: ZHAO LYU
8:30–10:30 am Jones 111
Monday, June 15, 2026, at 8:30 AM (Central Daylight Time), Location: Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
ZHAO LYU, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Cross-Validation for Structural Model Selection”
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CAM PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE: PETER NEKRASOV
1:00–3:00 pm Jones 303
Friday, June 5, 2026, at 1:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Location: Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
PETER NEKRASOV, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Reflections on ice: flexural wave scattering with applications to Arctic ice shelves”