2025
John Reinitz Memorial Lecture
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
John Reinitz Memorial Lecture
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
SUZANNA PARKINSON, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“On The Role of Depth in Deep Learning”
NATHAN WANIOREK, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Long-Time Accuracy of Ensemble Kalman Filters for Chaotic Dynamical Systems and Surrogate Models”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Giorgio Micaletto
12:30–1:30 pm DSI Room 105
Wednesday, October 22, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), DSI, 5460 S University Ave, Room 105, Chicago, IL 60615
GIORGIO MICALETTO, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Robust Bridge Sampling: Diagnostics for Influence, Conditioning, and Proposal Variance”
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CAM Colloquium: Justin Finkel
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
JUSTIN FINKEL, Department of Geophysical Sciences and the Data Science Institute, University of Chicago
“Try Early, Emulate: on Timescale Considerations for Sampling Extreme Weather Events”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Mirko Giacchini & Erasmo Tani
12:30–1:30 pm DSI Room 105
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), DSI, 5460 S University Ave, Room 105, Chicago, IL 60615
MIRKO GIACCHINI & ERASMO TANI, Sapienza University of Rome
“Man, these New York Times games are hard! A computational perspective”
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CAM Colloquium: Youssef Marzouk
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
YOUSSEF MARZOUK, Center for Computational Science and Engineering & Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems & Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Designing Dynamic Measure Transport for Sampling and Quantization”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: John Hood
12:30–1:30 pm DSI, Room 105
Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), DSI, 5460 S University Ave, Room 105, Chicago, IL 60615
JOHN HOOD, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“An Approachable Approach to Nonnegative Tensor Factorization”
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CAM Colloquium: Yuehaw Khoo
4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2025, at 4:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
YUEHAW KHOO, Department of Statistics, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“High-Dimensional Linear Algebra”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Angela Wang
12:30–1:30 pm DSI, Room 105
Wednesday, October 1, 2025, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), DSI, 5460 S University Ave, Room 105, Chicago, IL 60615
ANGELA WANG, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Multi-component KPZ from microscopic dynamics”
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CAM PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE: PHILLIP LO
2:30–3:30 pm Jones 303
Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at 2:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
PHILLIP LO, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Three Ways to Tame Structured Data”
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CAM Colloquium: SIYAO YANG
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2025, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
SIYAO YANG, Department of Statistics, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Tensor Density Estimator by Convolution-Deconvolution”