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Alex Townsend
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:  A Mathematical Guide to Operator Learning Abstract:  A fundamental challenge in modern…
DOE CSGF Award
Both Amy Rude and Lila Perkins were awarded the prestigious DOE Fellowship.  Congratulations, Lila & Amy!  Amy Rude:  I recently received the Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF) from the Department of Energy for my proposed research with Dr. Nathan Kutz. With this support, I aim to develop an open-source…
Robert Webber
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.  Title:  Everything is Vecchia: Unifying low-rank and sparse inverse Cholesky approximationsAbstract. The partial pivoted Cholesky approximation accurately represents matrices that are close to…
Ethan Epperly
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.  Title:  Sparser, better, faster, stronger: Emerging approaches in the theory and practice of randomized dimensionality reductionAbstract: For approaching thirty years, randomized…
Philippe Rigollet
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:  The mean-field dynamics of TransformersAbstract: We develop a mathematical…
Ulises Pereira-Obilinovic
The Department of Applied Mathematics weekly seminar is given by scholars and researchers working in applied mathematics, broadly interpreted.  Title:  Neural dynamics outside task-coding dimensions drive decision trajectories through transient amplificationAbstract: Most behaviors involve neural dynamics in high-dimensional activity…
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…