Applied & Computational Mathematics Seminar
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Winter 2025

Date Speaker Title
3/10/25 George Stepaniants (Caltech) A Spectral Theory of Scalar Volterra Equations
1/16/25 Nianqiao Phyllis Ju (Emory) [MDS Job Talk] Bayesian Data Analysis with Privatized Data
1/14/25 Nicole Tianjiao Yang (Emory) [MDS Job Talk] Learning distributions with dynamical systems
1/10/25 Xiucai Ding (UC Davis) [MDS Job Talk] Multiview manifold learning for high-dimensional and noisy datasets
1/7/25 Suqi Liu (Harvard) [MDS Job Talk] Neural Knowledge Integration from Large-Scale Multimodal Health Data

Fall 2024

Date Speaker Title
11/19/24 Niels Lörch (University of Basel) Phase Transitions in the Output Distribution of Large Language Models
11/19/24 Hwai-Ray Tung (University of Utah) A double dose of topics - responding to missed antibiotic doses and first passage times under constant immigration
11/12/24 TBA (TBA) TBA
11/8/24 Yujun Yan (Dartmouth) Enhancing Generalization in Graph Neural Networks: Challenges and Solutions
11/5/24 Keenan Eikenberry (Dartmouth) Wasserstein Dependence and Representation Learning
10/29/24 TBA (TBA) TBA
10/22/24 Wojciech Jarosz (Dartmouth) Monte Carlo, from Rendering to PDEs
10/15/24 Cris Moore (Santa Fe Institute) Tensor networks and phase transitions in machine learning
10/8/24 Weiqi Chu (UMass Amherst) Opinion-dynamics models on temporal networks with random-time interactions
10/8/24 Curtis Grant (Northwestern) An Introduction to Spin Glasses
10/1/24 Zeynep Ertem (Binghamton) Epidemic Disease Modeling, Contact Networks and Clustering on Social Networks

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…