2025
Billingsley Lectures on Probability: Nina Holden
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
SPECIAL EVENT: BILLNGSLEY LECTURES ON PROBABILITY
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
NINA HOLDEN, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,
“Scaling limits of random planar map”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Kulunu Dharmakeerthi
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time),in Searle 240A, 5735 South Ellis Avenue
KULUNU DHARMAKEERTHI, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Denoising Diffusions: Insights from Optimal Transport Theory”
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Bahadur Memorial Lectures: John Lafferty (Day 2)
3:30–4:30 pm John Crerar Library Room 390 (3rd floor)
SPECIAL EVENT: BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES (DAY 2)
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2025, at 3:30 PM, in John Crerar Library, Room 390, 5730 S. Ellis Avenue
JOHN LAFFERTY, John C. Malone Professor of Statistics & Data Science at Yale University
“Abstraction in Artificial and Natural Intelligence: Part II: Models, Mechanisms, and Experiments”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Rohan Hore
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Wednesday April 30, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), in Searle 240A, 5735 South Ellis Avenue
ROHAN HORE, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Harnessing monotonicity: theory, practice, and promise”
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Bahadur Memorial Lectures: John Lafferty (Day 1)
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
SPECIAL EVENT: BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES (DAY 1)
MONDAY, April 28, 2025, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
JOHN LAFFERTY, John C. Malone Professor of Statistics & Data Science at Yale University
“Abstraction in Artificial and Natural Intelligence: Part I: Relational and Sequential Reasoning”
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CAM Colloquium: DIMITRIS GIANNAKIS
12:00–1:00 pm Jones 303
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2025, at 12:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with The Data Science Institute
DIMITRIS GIANNAKIS, Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
“Tensor network approximation of Koopman operators”
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CAM PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE: JUNE WU
11:00 am–12:00 pm Via Zoom
Friday, April 25, 2025, at 11:00 AM (Central Daylight Time), via Zoom
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
JUNE WU, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Nonlinear Matrix Concentration and its applications”
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CAM Colloquium: PIERRE AMENOAGBADJI
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
PIERRE AMENOAGBADJI, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
“Wave propagation in junctions of periodic half-spaces”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Abigail Poteshman
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time),in Searle 240A, 5735 South Ellis Avenue
ABIGAIL POTESHMAN, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“High-throughput characterization of spin-defects in semiconductors using trans-dimensional Bayesian model selection”
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CAM Colloquium: JACK XIN
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
JACK XIN, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
“DeepParticle: learning multiscale PDEs with data generated from interacting particle methods”