2026
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Yifan Peng
12:30–1:30 pm DSI 103
Wednesday, April 22 2026, at 4:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Location: Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
YIFAN PENG, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“FAST NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA FOR GENERATIVE MODELING”
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CAM Special Colloquium: Inderjit S. Dhillon
4:00–5:00 pm Kent 107
TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Kent Chemical Laboratory, Room 107, 1020 E. 58th St.
Special Colloquium
INDERJIT S. DHILLON, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin; Google
“CASPR: Combining Axes Preconditioners through Kronecker Approximation for Training Large Neural Networks”
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CAM Colloquium: Bamdad Hosseini
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
BAMDAD HOSSEINI, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
“A unifying perspective of scientific machine learning with kernel methods”
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CAM Special Colloquium: Kaibo Hu
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Special Colloquium
KAIBO HU, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
“Towards Finite Element Tensor Calculus: from Computational Topological Hydrodynamics to Discrete Geometric Structures”
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Distinguished Speaker Series: Ingrid Daubechies
12:00–1:30 pm Data Science Institute, Room 105
DSI Distinguished Speaker Lecture Series
Ingrid Daubechies, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Duke University
Discovering low-dimensional manifolds in high-dimensional data
March 27 DSI 105 (5460 S University)
lunch 12:00pm, lecture 12:30-1:30pm
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CAM Colloquium: Junshan Lin
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
JUNSHAN LIN, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University
“Resonances through Subwavelength Holes: Theory, Computation and Applications”
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CAM PHD DISSERTATION DEFENSE: ABIGAIL POTESHMAN
2:00–3:30 pm ERC 301B,
Thursday, March 26, 2026, at 2:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Location: ERC 301B, William Eckhardt Research Center,
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
ABIGAIL POTESHMAN, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Computational methods for materials science with applications in next-generation computing architectures”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Peter Nekrasov
12:30–1:30 pm Social Sciences 401
Wednesday, March 25, 2026, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), Social Sciences 401
PETER NEKRASOV, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Efficient representations for Elastodynamics”
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CAM Colloquium: FERNANDO GUEVARA VASQUEZ
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2026, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
FERNANDO GUEVARA VASQUEZ, Mathematics Department, University of Utah
“A discrete potential theory on weighted graphs”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Jiaheng Chen
12:00–1:00 pm Rosenwald 011
Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 12:00 PM (Central Daylight Time), Rosenwald 011, 1115 E 58th St
JIAHENG CHEN, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Learning Pseudo-Differential Operators”