Events

Yifan Peng

CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Yifan Peng

12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A

Tuesday, March, 19, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue
CAM & Stats Student Seminar
Yifan Peng, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Nonparametric Estimation via Variance-Reduced Sketching”

Mar 19
Muhammed Shuaibi

AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series: Muhammed Shuaibi

4:30–6:00 pm

March 19, 2024 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 401
AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series
Organized by the University of Chicago’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
Muhammed Shuaibi (Meta AI)
“Towards AI Accelerated Catalyst Discovery: Bridging the Gap from Theory to Experiments”

Mar 19
Shiwei Zhang

CAM and The James Franck Institute Joint Colloquium: Shiwei Zhang

4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303

Thursday, March 21, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with The James Franck Institute
Shiwei Zhang, Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ), Flatiron Institute
“TBA”

Mar 21
Stephen Bates

Statistics Colloquium: Stephen Bates

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Monday, March 25, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Pre-Seminar refreshments will be served at 11:00 AM in Jones 303
Statistics Colloquium
Stephen Bates, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department, MIT
“Hypothesis testing with information asymmetry”

Mar 25
Jianfeng Lu

CAM Colloquium: Jianfeng Lu

4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303

TUESDAY, MARCH, 26 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM Colloquium
JIANFENG LU, Mathematics Department, Duke University
“Actor-critic method for solving high dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman type PDEs”

Mar 26
Eliu Huerta

AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series: Eliu Huerta

4:30–6:00 pm Searle 240A

March 26, 2024 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Searle Chemistry Lab, Room 240A
AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series: Eliu Huerta (Argonne)
Organized by the University of Chicago’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
“AI for Science: from small molecules to black hole mergers”

Mar 26
Nathan Srebro

Statistics Colloquium: Nathan Srebro

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Monday, April 1, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Pre-Seminar refreshments will be served at 11:00 AM in Jones 303
Statistics Colloquium
Nathan Srebro, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
“Overfitting with Linear Predictors, Short Programs and Neural Networks”

Apr 1
Andrew Ferguson

AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series: Andrew Ferguson

4:30–6:00 pm William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 401

Tuesday,  April 2, 2024, at 4:30 PM, William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 401
AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series
Andrew Ferguson, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago.
“Data-driven backmapping of coarse-grained simulations of proteins and DNA”
Organized by the University of Chicago’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

Apr 2
Bianca Dumitrascu

CAM Colloquium: Bianca M. Dumitrascu

4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303

THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM Colloquium
BIANCA M. DUMITRASCU, Herbert and Florence Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University
“TBA”

Apr 4
Inderjit S. Dhillon

CAM Colloquium: Inderjit S. Dhillon

12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303

Friday, April 5, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM Joint Colloquium with the Data Science Institute Distinguished Speaker Series
Inderjit S. Dhillon, Center for Big Data Analytics, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
​​​​​​​“TBA”

Apr 5
Haiyan Huang

Statistics Colloquium: Haiyan Huang

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Monday, April 8, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Statistics Colloquium
Haiyan Huang, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
“TBA”

Apr 8
Wanrong Zhu, PhD student

Student Seminar: Wanrong Zhu

10:00 am–12:00 pm Jones 304

Thursday, April 11, 2024, at 10:00 AM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Wanrong Zhu, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
​​​​​​​“TBA”

Apr 11
Nick Trefethen

CAM Colloquium: Nick Trefethen

2:30–3:30 pm Jones 303

FRIDAY, April 12, 2024, at 2:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Nick Trefethen, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
“The AAA Algorithm for Rational Approximation”

Apr 12
Krishakumar Balasubramanian

Statistics Colloquium: Krishnakumar Balasubramanian

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Monday April 15, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Pre-Seminar refreshments will be served at 11:00 AM in Jones 303
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Department of Statistics, University of California- Davis
“Gaussian Approximations for Stabilizing Statistics”

Apr 15
Yulong Lu

CAM Colloquium: Yulong Lu

4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303

Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Yulong Lu, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
“TBA”

Apr 18
Harry Crane

Statistics Colloquium: Harry Crane

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Monday, April 22, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Statistics Colloquium
Harry Crane, Department of Statistics, Rutgers
“TBA”

Apr 22
Melissa Adrian, PhD student

Student Seminar: Melissa Adrian

3:30–5:30 pm Jones 111

Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 3:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Melissa Adrian, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“TBA”

Apr 25
Jonathan Hauenstein

CAM Colloquium: Jonathan Hauenstein

4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303

Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Jonathan Hauenstein, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame
“TBA”

Apr 25
Emmanuel Candes

Bahadur Memorial Lectures: Emmanuel Candès (day 1)

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Monday, April 29, 2024, at 11:30 AM
Jones Laboratory, Room 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Pre-Seminar Refreshments will be served at 11:00 AM in Jones 303
Emmanuel Candès, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“TBA”

Apr 29
Emmanuel Candes, Department of Statistics, Stanford University

Bahadur Memorial Lectures: Emmanuel Candès (day 2)

3:30–4:30 pm Jones 303

Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 3:30 PM
Jones Laboratory, Room 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Pre-Seminar Refreshments will be served at 3:00 PM in Jones 303
​​​​​​​Emmanuel Candès, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“TBA”

May 1
Sourav Chatterjee

Billingsley Lectures on Probability: Sourav Chatterjee

4:30–5:30 pm Math/Stat 112

Thursday, May 2, 2023, at 4:30 PM, Math/Stat 112, 5727 South University Avenue
Billingsley Lectures on Probability
Reception immediately following the lecture at 5:30 pm, in the Reading Room, Math/Stat 101, 5727 South University Avenue
Sourav Chatterjee, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“TBA”

May 2
Andrew Gelman

Statistics Colloquium: Andrew Gelman

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Monday, May 6, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Pre-Seminar refreshments will be served at 11:00 AM in Jones 303
Statistics Colloquium
Andrew Gelman, Departments of Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University
“TBA”

May 6
Brian Reich

Statistics Colloquium: Brian Reich

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Monday, May 13, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Statistics Colloquium
Brian Reich, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
“TBA”

May 13
Bernd Sturmfels

CAM Special Colloquium: Bernd Sturmfels

4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303

Thursday, May 30, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM Special Colloquium
BERND STURMFELS, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
“Algebraic Varieties in Quantum Chemistry”

May 30