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Marlin Figgins - From Mechanism to Practice: Evolutionary Forecasting for SARS-CoV-2. Advisor: Trevor Bedford… Read more
Congratulations to Pearsons Fellow Fanze Kong for winning the Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Prize.
From their website: The 2025 Cecil Graham Doctoral Dissertation Award is given to Dr. Fanze Kong in recognition for for their work on pattern formation in a variety of biologically relevant models. Specifically, Dr Kong used a combination of analytical tools to probe the conditions under which… Read more
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.
Title: Towards Hierarchical Flow Matching for Generative Modeling
Abstract: Flow matching has gained significant attention due to its ability to generate high-quality data and due to its simulation-free learning of data distribution. For this, it uses samples which interpolate between… Read more
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.
Title: Wave packet systems and connections to spectral analysis of limiting operators
Abstract: We discuss the design of “wave packet systems” that admit strong concentration properties in phase space. We make a connection between this problem and topics in signal processing related to… Read more
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.
Title: Nodal Statistics for Graphs and Matrices
Abstract: The study of discrete nodal statistics, that is, data regarding the zeros of Laplacian eigenvectors, provides insight into structural properties of graphs and matrices, and draws strong parallels with… Read more
Congratulations to Adrienne Fairhall, Professor of Neurobiology and Biophysics and Adjunct Professor of Applied Mathematics, who has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences!
Professor Fairhall has made foundational contributions to the problem of the neural code -- deciphering the set of patterns that the brain uses to compute -- and to the questions of how these patterns arise through the nonlinear dynamics of… Read more
Cooper Simpson was awarded the prestigious DOE Fellowship, and Josephine Thacher Noone was awarded the NSF fellowship.
Cooper Simpson:
I received the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) in the Mathematics and Computer Science track, with Professor Aleksandr (Sasha) Aravkin as my advisor. The DOE CSGF funds doctoral students to pursue research in computational science and… Read more
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.
Title: Fast inference in generative modeling of time-dependent stochastic processes
Abstract: The aim of this work is to learn models of population dynamics of physical systems that feature stochastic and mean-field effects and that depend on physics parameters. The learned models can… Read more
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: Convex Optimization
Abstract: Convex optimization has emerged as a useful tool for applications that include data analysis and model fitting, machine learning, and statistics, resource… Read more
Speaker: Paolo Ventura , University of Milan
Date: April 3, 2025
Title: Instability Isolas of Stokes Waves
Abstract: Stokes waves are the simplest nontrivial form of water waves, featuring a periodic profile moving steadily in one direction. In the '70s, Benjamin and Feir discovered through experiments that the steady profile is unstable under long-wave perturbations, i.e. disturbances that, although… Read more