Past Seminars

Summer 2024

Date	Speaker	Title
8/6/24	Trevor GrandPre (Princeton)	Impact of Linker Length on Biomolecular Condensate Formation
6/28/24	Paula Lorenzo Sánchez (University of Bologna)	Koopman operator theory for enhanced Pacific SST forecasting
6/28/24	Claire Valva (NYU)	Consistent spectral approximation of Koopman operators: Applications to climate dynamics

Spring 2024

Date	Speaker	Title
5/28/24	Anton Bovier (UBonn, Germany)	A branching random walk with self repulsion
5/21/24	Kui Ren (Columbia)	Inverse problems to mean field game systems: analysis and computation
5/14/24	James Siderius (Dartmouth, Tuck)	How AI Aggregators Affect Knowledge Sharing
5/6/24	Bohan Zhou (UC Santa Barbara)	Acceleration for MCMC methods on discrete states
4/30/24	Eva Loeser (UCSD)	Fluid Limit for a Stochastic Model of Enzymatic Processing with General Distributions
4/23/24	Mathieu Le Provost (MIT)	Preserving linear invariants in ensemble filtering methods
4/16/24	Carlo Lucibello (Bocconi University, Italy)	The Exponential Capacity of Dense Associative Memories
4/9/24	Erik Bates (NCSU)	Parisi formulas in multi-species and vector spin glass models
4/2/24	Asher Leeks (Yale)	The (anti-)social lives of viruses: the emergence of a new form of viral genome organisation through evolutionary conflict
3/26/24	Wenjun Zhao (Brown)	Optimal transport with covariates: Wasserstein barycenter and its extensions

Winter 2024

Date	Speaker	Title
3/12/24	Rachael Alfant (Rice)	A Stochastic Programming Approach to Capacity Allocation for Cloud Computing Systems
3/5/24	Chris Vales (UNH)	Energy conservative quadrature based hyperreduction of Lagrangian hydrodynamics problems
2/27/24	Alex McAvoy (UNC Chapel Hill)	Evaluating mutation-selection dynamics in structured populations
2/21/24	Christopher Jones (UNC Chapel Hill)	Optimizing data assimilation for the underlying numerical solver with motivation from next generation sea ice models
2/20/24	Casey Dowdle (Dartmouth, Mathematics)	Quantum Computing and the Battle for Quantum Advantage
2/13/24	Maryclare Griffin (UMass Amherst)	Testing and estimation for sparsity-inducing power penalties
2/6/24	Jeremy Manning (Dartmouth, PBS)	How do our thoughts take shape?
1/30/24	Mario Bencomo (California State U, Fresno)	Topics in Differential Equations, Inverse Problems, and Optimal Control
1/16/24	Wei Zhu (UMass Amherst)	Symmetry-Preserving Machine Learning: Theory and Applications
1/9/24	Mohammad Javad Latifi Jebelli (Dartmouth, Mathematics)	Kernel Smoothing Operators on Thick Open Domains

Fall 2023

Date	Speaker	Title
11/14/23	Georg Stadler (NYU)	Mitigating the nonlinearity in PDEs, with application to continuous sea ice models
11/7/23	Hiroki Sayama (Binghamton)	Studying Social Fragmentation Using Adaptive Network-based Artificial Society Models
10/31/23	Will Thompson (Vermont Complex Systems Center)	Understanding the Emergence of Inequality with Two Models of Social Dynamics
10/24/23	Aditya Viswanathan (University of Michigan-Dearborn)	Phaseless Imaging: Fast Algorithms, Recovery Guarantees, and Applications to Bio-Imaging
10/17/23	Heather Zinn Brooks (Harvey Mudd)	Emergence of polarization in a sigmoidal bounded-confidence model of opinion dynamics
10/10/23	Daniel Watkins (Brown)	Dynamics of coupled Arctic air-ice-ocean interactions from floe scale to basin scale
10/3/23	Longmei Shu (Dartmouth, Mathematics)	Dynamics of bimatrix games and a social-climate model
9/26/23	Jacob Scott (Case Western Reserve University)	Perturbing the evolutionary mechanisms and ecological forces underlying drug resistance in cancer and pathogens: evolutionary therapy and formal control
9/19/23	Tongtong Li (Dartmouth, Mathematics)	A structurally informed data assimilation approach for discontinuous state variables
9/12/23	Eugene Demidenko (Dartmouth, Mathematics)	M-statistics: Optimal Statistical Inference for a Small Sample

Spring 2023

Date	Speaker	Title
5/30/23	Ethan Levien (Dartmouth, Mathematics)	Evolution in the presence of large (but finite) offspring fluctuations
5/23/23	Ben Allen (Emmanuel College)	Natural selection for collective action
5/16/23	Maximilian Ramgraber (MIT)	Adaptive localization in nonlinear ensemble transport filtering
5/9/23	Jason Wei (OpenAI)	Scaling unlocks emergent abilities in language models
4/25/23	Soroush Vosoughi (Dartmouth, CS)	Unsupervised Structural Graph Representation Learning
4/11/23	Tyler Maunu (Brandeis)	New Approaches to Positive Semidefinite Matrix Recovery
4/4/23	Eugene Santos Jr. (Dartmouth, Thayer)	Learning the Finer Things
3/28/23	Matt Jones (Yale)	Nash Equilibrium in a Low-Information Vote Trading Game

Winter 2023

Date	Speaker	Title
2/14/23	Rob Frost (Dartmouth, Geisel)	Eigenvectors from eigenvalues sparse principal component analysis
2/7/23	David Palmer (MIT)	Applied Geometric Measure Theory from DeepCurrents to Topological Defects
1/24/23	Phil Chodrow (Middlebury College)	Generative Hypergraph Clustering: Scalable Heuristics and Sparse Thresholds

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	Title
11/15/23	Matt Colbrook and Alex Townsend (Cambridge, Cornell)	On spectral computations in infinite dimensions: Spectral measures, Koopman operators and beyond
11/8/23	Yanlai Chen (UMass Dartmouth)	EIM-degradation free RBM via over collocation and residual hyper reduction and its application to fluid flow problems and optimal mass transport
10/25/23	Alex Barnett (Flatiron Institute)	Equispaced Fourier representations for efficient Gaussian process regression from a billion data points
10/18/23	Lu Zhang (Columbia University)	Coupling physics-deep learning inversion
10/11/23	Pankaj Mehta (Boston University)	Complex systems in high dimensions: from Machine Learning to Microbial Ecology
10/4/23	Gaik Ambartsoumian (UT Arlington)	Broken Rays, Cones, and Stars in Tomography
9/27/23	Zachary Kilpatrick (University of Colorado Boulder)	Stochastic dynamics of decision-making: From individuals to groups
9/20/23	Pete Rigas (Cornell)	Variational quantum algorithm for numerical PDE solving
9/13/23	Mohammad Javad Latifi Jebelli (Dartmouth, Mathematics)	OPUC and Super Telescoping Formula

Still adding the rest of the history back to Spring 2006…