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Adrienne Fairhall
The Department of Applied Mathematics is pleased to host this series of colloquium lectures, funded in part by a generous gift from the Boeing Company. This series will bring to campus prominent applied mathematicians from around the world.Title:  Biological algorithms of learningAbstract: How does natural intelligence resemble or differ from…
Stefania Fresca
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.  Title:  Geometric variability and multi-scale optimization in surrogate modelsAbstract: Solving differential problems using full order models (FOMs), such as the finite element method, can…
Yousef Saad
The Department of Applied Mathematics is pleased to host this series of colloquium lectures, funded in part by a generous gift from the Boeing Company. This series will bring to campus prominent applied mathematicians from around the world.Title:  Extrapolation and Acceleration Methods in Scientific ComputingAbstract: Acceleration and extrapolation…
Nicholas Nelsen
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.  Title:  Operator learning meets inverse problemsAbstract: Operator learning involves data-driven models that accept continuum function data as inputs or outputs. Such models are robust to…
Stefan Henneking
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.  Title:  Bayesian Inversion for Linear Autonomous Dynamical Systems with Application to Real-Time Tsunami Forecasting in CascadiaAbstract: We present a digital twin (DT) for tsunami early…
Per-Gunnar Martinsson
The Department of Applied Mathematics is pleased to host this series of colloquium lectures, funded in part by a generous gift from the Boeing Company. This series will bring to campus prominent applied mathematicians from around the world.Title:  Randomized algorithms for linear algebraic computationsAbstract:  The talk will describe how…
Phebe Vayanos
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.  Title:  Offline risk score and policy learning for responsible allocation of scarce housing to people experiencing homelessnessAbstract: We study two problems in homeless services…
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.  Title:  Fast cut cell quadratures and robust contouring algorithmsAbstract: I will present research that I’ve carried out in industry over the past two years, first at Coreform, LLC, now…
Krithika Manohar
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.  Title:  Learning Guarantees for Data-Driven Sparse Sensing and Nonlinear System IdentificationAbstract: A core challenge in scientific machine learning is how to learn from limited, noisy, or…
CFRM Program Director Tim Leung with UW mascot Dubs II.
Tim Leung was interviewed by The Olympian: Popular Pierce County distillery closed tasting rooms. Is crypto the reason?Tim Leung is the Boeing Endowed Professor in the University of Washington’s Department of Applied Mathematics, and has done extensive research on cryptocurrency. He also directs the department’s Computational Finance and Risk Management Program. In an interview…