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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: Magnetic fields, Pseudo-magnetic fields and Applications
Abstract: Quantum tunneling is a phenomenon which plays an important role in, for example, physical, chemical and biological… Read more
Last month, Applied & Computational Mathematics MS student Erick Javier Sánchez Gama, was featured in the Arts & Sciences First-Generation Storytelling Celebration. Learn about Erick’s experiences and advice as a first-generation student, along with other first-generation storytellers here.
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: Interplay of Linear Algebra, Machine Learning, and High Performance Computing
Abstract: In recent years, we have seen a large body of research using hierarchical matrix algebra to construct low… 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: Mathematical imaging: From geometric PDEs and variational modelling to deep learning for images
Abstract: Images are a rich source of beautiful mathematical formalism and analysis.… Read more
Bernard on top of Ruth Mountain
By Bernard Deconinck
October 11, 2024
This might be a very different newsletter opener if I had written it at the end of last academic year, as opposed to the beginning of this one.
After a tumultuous Spring Quarter (Gaza protests, grad student union protests) I was ready for a quiet summer to recharge before my last year as chair. A quiet summer it was not! The turbulent summer started with a… 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: Generative modeling with flows and diffusions
Abstract: Generative models based on dynamical transport have recently led to significant advances in unsupervised learning. At mathematical level, these… Read more
By Tony Garcia
It’s a typical late winter afternoon in Seattle, overcast skies with some gentle rainfall. I’m at my favorite Indian restaurant on the ave, and the familiar smell of garam masala and star anise fills my head while I scroll through my phone to pass the time until my food arrives.
A familiar voice cuts through my focus, and I look up to see Damien Beecroft and Arvid Levander… Read more
By Payton Howell & Wietse Vaes
Over the course of the last year we’ve faced challenges and celebrated wins; we’ve hunkered down studying, researched together, and spent time socializing with everyone around us. This year was different for both of us, while this was Payton’s first year in Seattle, Wietse spent the fall quarter finishing his Master’s Thesis with professor Jingwei Hu. Despite the differences before we started the program, we quickly bonded through getting… Read more
By Jake Price
My undergraduate years were spent at Kalamazoo College, a small undergraduate liberal arts college in western Michigan. It gained some acclaim from being featured in Colleges that Change Lives, a book presenting small, student-focused institutions that seemed to be read largely by parents in the late 90s and early 2000s (including my mom). Studying mathematics and physics there was a dream, and I benefited tremendously from the personal relationships I was able to make… Read more
By Charlie (Yihan) Yin,
“No matter what, I’ll never work in a math or data-related job because they’re just not cool.” That’s what I swore to the moon when I was 10 years old, but eight years later, I proved myself wrong. I discovered that’s not true at all.
Fast forward to three years ago when I received my offer from the University of Washington. I was excited because Seattle is my dream city, and it was thrilling to be able to study and live there. During my first year, I… Read more