DEPARTMENT EVENTS

Colloquia & Special Lectures

Every academic year, Colloquia is held on Mondays at 3:00 PM in Duncan Hall 1064 between the First and Last Days of Classes in each semester.  Any talks outside this time and day will be scheduled as a Special Lecture. 

 

Fall 2023


August 21 - Departmental Organizational Meeting

August 28 - Richard Tapia
"Euler’s Approach to the Isoperimetric Problem: Genius, Naivete, Confusion."
Host: Perez-Salazar

September 4 - Labor Day -- No Classes

September 11 - 
"Title"
Host:

September 18 - Debankur Mukherjee
"Load Balancing under Data Locality: Extending Mean-Field Framework to Constrained Large-Scale Systems"
Host: Pang

September 25 - Mariel Vazquez --Special Lecture
Mathematics Lecture in Honor of Hispanic Heritage"
Host: Tapia Center

October 2 - Alex Gittens
"Sketching to trade-off accuracy for reduced computation in scientific computing"
Host: Hicks

October 9 - Midterm Recess -- No Classes

October 16 - Rose Yu
"On the Interplay Between Deep Learning and Dynamical Systems"
Host: de Hoop

October 19 - Tiancheng Zheng --Special Lecture
A Tutorial on Optimization Softwares"
Host: Ma

October 23 - Krishna Balasubramanian
"From Stability to Chaos: Analyzing Gradient Descent Dynamics in Quadratic Regression"
Host: Ma

October 30 - Suncica Canic
"A MATHEMATICAL APPROACH TO THE DESIGN OF A BIOARTIFICIAL PANCREAS"
Host: Riviere

November 6 - Daniel Bienstock
"Solving the ACOPF problem"
Host: Perez-Salazar

November 13 - Alexander Stolyar
"Large-scale Particle Systems With Mean-field Interaction"
Host: Pang

November 20 - Svetlana Tokareva
"Uncertainty quantification for PDEs on graphs and applications to simulations of gas networks"
Host: Chan

November 27 - Rujeko Chinomona
"Improving Time Integration for Multiphysics Simulation and Advancing State-of-the-Art Numerical Methods in Practical Applications"
Host: Riviere 

 


Spring 2024


January 8 - Zaiwei Chen
"Reinforcement Learning in Zero-Sum Markov Games: Algorithm and Convergence Guarantees."
Host: Hicks

January 11 -  Shuvomoy Das Gupta -- Special Lecture
"A Unified Methodology for Constructing Optimal Optimization Algorithms"
Host: Hicks

January 15 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day -- No Classes

January 18 - Kimberly Villalobos Carballo -- Special Lecture
"Modern Optimization and Deep Learning: Theory, Computation, and Healthcare Applications"
Host: Hicks

January 22 - Yongchun Li
"On the Partial Convexification of the Low-Rank Constrained Optimization"
Host: Hicks

January 29
"Title"
Host: 

February 1 - Alessandro Zocca -- Special Lecture
"Enhancing grid robustness against correlated uncertainty and rare events: Mathematical strategies for sustainable power networks"
Host: Hicks

February 5 - Wenbo Chen
"Synergizing Machine Learning and Optimization: Scalable Real-Time Decision Making in Energy and Supply Chains"
Host: Hicks

February 12 - Eduardo Corona
"A fast algorithmic framework for stokesian suspensions simulation using integral equations"
Host: Anderson

February 19 - 
"Title"
Host: Anderson

February 26 - Rui Gao
"Multistage distributional robustness, time consistency and optimal policy"
Host: Ma

March 4 - Swati Gupta
"New Challenges in Optimization for Ethical Decisions. "
Host: Hicks

March 11 - Spring Break -- No Classes

March 18 - Dongbin Xiu
"Data Driven Modeling of Unknown Systems with Deep Neural Networks"
Host: Zhang

March 25 -
"Title"
Host: 

April 1 - Haizhao Yang
"Finite Expression Method: A Symbolic Approach for Scientific Machine Learning"
Host: Zhang

April 8 - 
"Title"
Host: 

April 15 - Wenpin Tang
"Title"
Host: Pang

April 22 - Alper Atamturk --Pucha Lecture
"Title"
Host: