The Applied Mathematics Colloquium meets on selected Tuesday afternoons during the academic year, from 2:45-3:45 p.m. ET.

2023-2024

Most seminars will take place in room 214 Mudd and will be offered in a hybrid format, unless otherwise noted. A Zoom link will be distributed by email a few days before the event. You may also request the Zoom link for a seminar by sending an email to [email protected].

9/19/23
Sam Stechmann, University of Wisconsin
"Element learning: a systematic approach of accelerating finite element-type methods via machine learning, with applications to radiative transfer"

9/26/23
Alberto Bressan, Penn State University
"Hyperbolic conservation laws: past and future"

10/3/23
Linda Cummings, New Jersey Institute of Technology 
"Dewetting and dielectrowetting in thin films of nematic liquid crystals"

10/10/23
Yiping Lu, Courant Institute
"Simulation-Calibrated Scientific Machine Learning" 

10/20/23
Friday, 11:00 AM, 210 Mudd (APAM Conference Room)
José A. Carrillo, Oxford University
"Aggregation-Diffusion Equations for Collective Behaviour in the Sciences"

10/23/23
Monday, 11:00 AM, 210 Mudd (APAM Conference Room)
Leonardo Zepeda-Núñez, Google
"Statistical Downscaling via Optimal Transport and Conditional Diffusion Models"

10/24/23
Ari Stern, WUSTL
"Structure-preserving hybrid finite element methods"

10/31/23
Jiequn Han, Flatiron Institute
"Enjoy the Best of Both Worlds: A Neural-Network Warm-Start Approach for PDE Problems"

11/14/23
Fadil Santosa, John Hopkins University
"Modeling Plasmons on Graphene with Time- and Space-Dependent Properties"

11/28/23
Russ Caflisch, Courant Institute
"Optimization of the Boltzmann Equation"

12/7/23
Thursday, 10:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Qin Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Accelerating optimization over probability measure space"

1/23/24
Pierre Amenoagbadji, Columbia University
"Wave propagation in quasiperiodic media"

1/30/24
Yifan Chen, Courant Institute
"Fast, Multimodal, and Derivative-Free Bayes Inference with Fisher-Rao Gradient Flows"

2/20/24
Jinchao Xu, KAUST and Penn State Univ 
"Deep Learning and Scientific Computing"

3/19/24
Yoonsang Lee, Dartmouth University
"Solving PDEs and learning dynamical systems using neural networks"

3/26/24 
Andrew Stuart, Caltech
"Gradient Flows for Sampling: Mean-Field Models, Gaussian Approximations and Affine Invariance"  

4/9/24
Yimin Zhong, Auburn University

4/30/24 
Dmitry Batenkov, Tel- Aviv University

2022-2023

Most seminars will take place in room 214 Mudd and will be offered in a hybrid format, unless otherwise noted. A Zoom link will be distributed by email a few days before the event. You may also request the Zoom link for a seminar by sending an email to [email protected].

At this time, only Columbia University ID-holders and approved guests are invited to in-person talks. All others are invited to attend remotely.

9/20/22
Haizhao Yang, University of Maryland, College Park
"Finite Expression Method for Solving High-Dimensional PDEs"

10/4/22
Anuj Kumar, UC-Santa Cruz
"Optimal scalar transport using branching flows"

10/6/22
Special Day & Time, Thursday, 11:00 AM, 214 Mudd
Bjorn Engquist, UT Austin
"Globally convergent stochastic gradient descent"

10/18/22
Joint MSERC and Applied Math colloquium
Mitchell Luskin, University of Minnesota
"Modeling incommensurate trilayer van der Waals heterostructures"

10/25/22
Jack Xin, UC Irvine
"Relaxed Differentiable Methods for Two Level Optimization and Deep Neural Network Architecture Search"

11/1/22
Weilin Li, City College of New York, CUNY
"Super-resolution: theory and algorithms"

11/4/22
Special Day & Time, Friday, 2:45 PM, 227 Mudd
Robert Lipton, Louisiana State University
"Nonlocal Dynamic Fracture"

11/15/22 - Virtual only
Jian-Guo Liu, Duke University
"A selection principle for weak KAM solutions via Freidlin-Wentzell large deviation principle of invariant measures"

11/22/22
Jin-Peng Liu, UC Berkeley and MIT
"Efficient quantum algorithms for nonlinear ODEs and PDEs"

11/29/22
Georg Stadler, Courant Institute
"Taming nonlinearity by lifting Newton methods, with application to sea-ice modeling"

12/5/22
Special Day & Time, Monday, 11:30 AM, 227 Mudd
Youssef Marzouk, MIT
"Transport methods for simulation-based Bayesian inference and data assimilation"

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Spring 2023

2/7/23
Lin Lin, UC Berkeley
"Quantum algorithms for eigenvalue problems"

2/21/23
Franca Hoffmann, Caltech
"Covariance-modulated Optimal Transport and Gradient Flows"

3/7/23
Wenpin Tang, IEOR Department, Columbia Engineering
"Phase transition in mean field models"

3/21/23
Eric Vanden Eijnden, NYU, Courant
"Generative Models for Sampling and Forecasting"

3/28/23
Andrew Stuart, Caltech
"The Mean-Field Ensemble Kalman Filter"

3/29/23
4:30 PM, Davis Auditorium, CEPSR
Distinguished Colloquium in Interdisciplinary & Applied Mathematics
Andrew Stuart, Caltech
"The Legacy of Rudolph Kalman: Applications, Algorithms and Analysis"

4/4/23
Mike O'Neil, Courant Institute
"Modern high-order integral equation methods for electromagnetic scattering"

4/7/23
Malena Español, Arizona State University
Friday, 1:00 PM, 214 Mudd
"Modeling the Mechanics of 2D Materials"

4/11/23
Jeff Calder, University of Minnesota
"Partial differential equations and graph-based learning"

4/18/23
Roy Lederman, Yale University
"The Geometry of Molecular Conformations in Cryo-EM"

5/2/23
Chunmei Wang, University of Florida
"Efficient Numerical Methods for Weak Solutions of Partial Differential Equations"
 

2021-2022

Most seminars will take place online, unless otherwise noted. A Zoom link will be distributed by email a few days before the event. You may also request the Zoom link for a seminar by sending an email to [email protected].

At this time, only Columbia University ID-holders and approved guests are invited to in-person talks. All others are invited to attend remotely.
 

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Spring 2022

January 11, 2022
2:45 PM ET (virtual)
Xiaowen Zhu, University of California, Irvine
"From localization to superconductivity: on the Anderson model and on magnetic response in the twisted bilayer graphene (TBG)"

Januray 13, 2022
10:00 AM ET (virtual)
Justin Finkel, University of Chicago 
"Stratospheric extremes through the lens of transition path theory"

January 18, 2022
11:00 AM ET (virtual)
Tiffany Vlaar, University of Edinburgh
"Constrained and Multirate Training of Neural Networks"

January 20, 2022
11:00 AM ET (virtual)
Shanyin Tong, New York University
"Extreme Event Probability Estimation using PDE-Constrained Optimization and Large Deviation Theory, with Application to Tsunamis"

January 25, 2022
2:45 PM ET (virtual)
Jason Kaye, Flatiron Institute
"Efficient numerical algorithms for simulating quantum dynamics"

February 1, 2022
2:45 PM ET (virtual)
Liliana Borcea, University of Michigan
"A data driven reduced order model for the wave operator and its application to velocity estimation"

February 8, 2022
2:45 PM ET (virtual)
Christophe Josserand, CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique
"Freezing impacts and flows"

February 15, 2022
2:45 PM ET (virtual)
Antoine Gloria, Sorbonne Université
"Approximate Floquet Bloch theory for waves in quasi-periodic media"

February 22, 2022
2:45 PM ET (virtual)
Kaizheng Wang, IEOR, Columbia Engineering
"Adaptive and robust multi-task learning"

March 4, 2022
Friday, 2:00 PM, 210 Mudd, APAM Conference Room (hybrid)
David Keyes, KAUST
"Nonlinear Preconditioning for Implicit Solution of Discretized PDEs"

March 22, 2022
2:45 PM ET, 210 Mudd (hybrid)
Steve Strogatz, Cornell University
"The math and science of getting in sync" (video)

March 29, 2022
2:45 PM ET (virtual)
Carlos Fernandez-Granda, Courant Institute, NYU
"Deep learning for scientific discovery"

April 5, 2022
2:45 PM ET, 210 Mudd (hybrid)
Hari Sundar, University of Utah
"Local timestepping and 4D tree-based adaptivity: Enabling spacetime adaptivity for scalable numerical simulations"

April 12, 2022
2:45 PM ET (virtual)
Jingwei Hu, University of Washington
"Dynamical low-rank methods for solving high-dimensional collisional kinetic equations"

April 19, 2022
2:45 PM ET (virtual)
Maria Cameron, University of Maryland
"Computing transition paths in periodically driven Duffing oscillator arrays”

April 22, 2022
11:00 AM ET, 214 Mudd (hybrid)
Alejandro Aceves, SMU
“Modeling climate change: A dynamical systems approach”

April 26, 2022
2:45 PM (virtual)
Adrianna Gillman, University of Colorado, Boulder
"Fast direct solvers for boundary integral equations"

 

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Fall 2021

September 21, 2021
2:45 PM ET
Bamdad Hosseini, Univ. of Washington
"Solving and Learning Nonlinear PDEs with Gaussian Processes"

September 28, 2021
2:45 PM ET
Amandine Aftalion, Center of Analysis and Social Mathematics (CAMS) | EHESS
"Modelling of Racing"

October 5, 2021
2:45 PM ET
John Wright, Columbia University
"Deep Networks and the Multiple Manifold Problem"

October 12, 2021
Special time: 11:00 AM ET
Michael Vogelius, Rutgers University
"Relations between scatterer regularity/geometry and the existence of nonscattering incident waves"

October 19, 2021
2:45 PM ET
Jose A. Carrillo, University of Oxford
"The Landau equation: Particle Methods & Gradient Flow Structure"

October 26, 2021
Special time: 11:00 AM ET
Arnulf Jentzen, University of Münster
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Convergence proof for gradient descent optimization methods in the training of deep neural networks"

November 9, 2021
2:45 PM ET
Katy Craig, University of California, Santa Barbara
"A Blob Method for Diffusion and Applications to Sampling and Two Layer Neural Networks"

November 16, 2021
2:45 PM ET
Laurent Demanet, MIT
"Inversion and imaging with deepfake data"

November 30, 2021
2:45 PM ET
Jack Xin, UC Irvine
"DeepParticle: deep-learning invariant measure by minimizing Wasserstein distance on data generated from an interacting particle method"

December 3, 2021
Friday, 11:00 AM ET
Jose Israel Rodriguez, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Estimating Gaussian mixtures using sparse polynomial moment systems"

December 14, 2021
2:45 PM ET
Sonia Fliss, ENSTA
"The Halfspace Matching Method or How to Solve Scattering Problems in Complex Media"

2020-2021

All seminars will take place online, via Zoom, and a link will be distributed by email a few days before the event. You may also request the Zoom link for a seminar by sending an email to [email protected].

Spring 2021

January 19, 2021 - C. T. Kelley, North Carolina State University
Anderson Acceleration: Convergence Theory and Numerical Experience
Host: Kyle Mandli

January 26, 2021 - George Karniadakis, Brown University
Approximating functions, functionals, and operators using deep neural networks for diverse applications
Host: Qiang Du

February 9, 2021 - Fabio Nobile, EPFL
Dynamical Low Rank approximation of random time dependent PDEs
Host: Amir Sagiv

February 16, 2021 - Franca Hoffmann, University of Bonn
Using Continuum Limits To Understand Data Clustering And Classification
Host: Amir Sagiv

February 23, 2021 - Benedetto Piccoli, Rutgers University-Camden
Energy-efficient traffic smoothing via AVs and mean-field models for traffic
Host: Qiang Du

March 9, 2021 - Christoph Schwab, ETH Zürich
Multilevel Analysis of Gaussian Random Fields: Covariance Compression, Estimation and Spatial Prediction
Host: Qiang Du

March 16, 2021 - Alexander Watson, University of Minnesota
Existence and computation of exponentially localized Wannier functions for non-periodic materials
Host: Michael Weinstein

March 23, 2021 - Alex Townsend, Cornell University
Computing the spectra of differential operators 
Host: Qiang Du

April 6, 2021 - Michael Brenner, Harvard University
Machine Learning of Partial Differential Equations
Host: Qiang Du

April 13, 2021 - Habib Ammari, ETH Zurich
Wave interaction with subwavelength resonators
Host: Amir Sagiv

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Fall 2020

September 22, 2020 - Chun Liu, Illinois Institute of Technology
"Generalized law of mass action (LMA) with energetic variational approaches (EnVarA) and applications"
Host: Qiang Du

September 29, 2020 - Wen Shen, Penn State
"Nonlocal Models for Traffic Flow"
Host: Qiang Du

October 27, 2020 - Francis Giraldo, Naval Postgraduate School
"Recent Results with Element-based Galerkin Nonhydrostatic Atmospheric Models"
Host Kyle Mandli

November 10, 2020 - Braxton Osting, University of Utah
"Extremal Steklov Eigenvalues"
Host: Amir Sagiv

November 17, 2020 - Nathan Kutz, University of Washington
"Discovery of Dynamical Models from Data"
Host: Amir Sagiv

December 1, 2020 - Gal Mishne, University of California San Diego
"From local neighborhoods to global embeddings: unveiling structure in high-dimensional data"
Host: Amir Sagiv

2019-2020

9/17/19: Henry Lam, IEOR/Columbia University
"Enhancing efficiency and flexibility of stochastic gradient estimation"

9/17/19: John Schotland, University of Michigan
"Quantum Optics in Random Media"

9/26/19: Jonathan Weare, Courant Institute (Joint seminar)
"Fast randomized iterative numerical linear algebra for quantum chemistry and other applications"

9/27/19: Chandrajit Bajaj, University of Texas at Austin
"Learning the Koopman operator for dynamic data"

10/1/19: Yue Yu, Lehigh University
“A Multiscale/Multiphysics Coupling Framework for Bioprosthetic Heart Valves (BHVs) Damage”

10/11/19: Gadi Fibich, Tel Aviv University
"Diffusion of new products in social networks"

10/22/19: Charlie Epstein, University of Pennsylvania / Flatiron Institute
“The Geometry of the Phase Retrieval Problem”

10/29/19: Rustum Choksi, McGill University
"Optimal Quantization: Gersho's Conjecture in 3D and Navigating the Energy Landscape"

11/12/19: Bo Li, UCSD
"Variational Implicit-Solvent Predictions of the Ligand-Receptor (Un)Binding Kinetics"

11/19/19: Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, NYU
"Rolling versus sliding: the relative dynamics of DNA-coated colloids"

12/3/19: Ralph Smith, North Carolina State University
"Active Subspace Techniques to Construct Surrogate Models for Complex Simulation Codes"

12/4/19: Thomas Yizhao Hou, Caltech
"Recent Progress on Singularity Formation of 3D Euler Equations and Related Models"

2/18/20: Stefan Steinerberger, Yale University
"Polynomials with many roots - the mean field limit of differentiation"

2/24/20: Lorenzo Tamellini, CNR-IMATI Pavia
"Sparse-grids-based Uncertainty Quantification of geochemical compaction of sedimentary basins"

2/25/20: Alejandro Aceves, Southern Methodist University
"Light filament science: Old perspectives and new paradigms"

3/3/20: Chi-Wang Shu, Brown University
"Stability of time discretizations for semi-discrete high order schemes for time-dependent PDEs"

3/10/20: Barak Sober, Duke University
"The Manifold Moving Least-Squares (Manifold-MLS) Framework: estimating manifolds and reconstructing their atlas from discrete data sets"

3/24/20: Victor Preciado, University of Pennsylvania
"Optimal Resource Allocation to Control Epidemic Outbreaks in Networked Populations"

2018-2019

10/1/18: Nick Trefethen, University of Oxford / NYU
"Numerical computation with rational and harmonic functions"

10/2/18: Haizhao Yang National University of Singapore
"O(N log N) algorithms for matrix multiplications from highly oscillatory phenomena"

10/9/18: Xu Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Frozen Gaussian approximation for 3-D elastic wave propagation and seismic tomography"

10/11/18: Weizhu Bao, National University of Singapore
"Multiscale methods and analysis for the Dirac equation in the nonrelativistic limit regime"

10/23/18: Nawaf Bou-Rabee, Rutgers University, Camden
"Sticky Diffusions & their Numerical Solution"

10/30/18: Pavel M. Lushnikov, University of New Mexico
"Nonlinear waves and singularities in nonlinear optics, plasmas, hydrodynamics and biology"

11/13/18: Anne Gelb, Dartmouth College
"High order imaging techniques for synthetic aperture radar"

11/27/18: Benjamin Peherstorfer, Courant Institute, NYU
"Model reduction for transport-dominated problems via adaptive basis updates"

12/4/18: Keaton Burns, Flatiron Institute "Flexible algorithms for solving PDEs with spectral methods"

2/12/19: Kyle Thicke, Duke University
"Electronic structure algorithms for computing edge states and accelerating DFT calculations"

2/19/19: Weiqi Chu, Penn State University
"First-Principal based model reduction method with applications in molecular dynamics"

2/21/19: Kevin DallaSanta, Courant Institute, NYU
"The circulation response to volcanic eruptions: investigating with a hierarchy of models"

2/26/19: Maurice Fabien, Rice University
"A discontinuous Galerkin method for flow and transport in porous media"

3/5/19: Liliana Borcea, University of Michigan
"Reduced order model approach for inverse scattering"

3/12/19: Richard Mikael Slevinsky, University of Manitoba
"FastTransforms and A Nonlocal Vector Calculus on the Sphere"

4/16/19: Max Gunzburger, Florida State University
"Quo vadis UQ?"

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