Computational Math Seminar

Logistics

Schedule

DateSpeakerTitle
01/23 Haixiang Zhang Intro to optimization
01/30 Michael Kielstra What if programming, but linear?
02/06 Break
02/13 Tom Schang Evolutionary algorithms: what, why, when, and how?
02/20 Lewis Pan Numerical methods for PDE in industry: why most things just aren't used.
02/27 Michael Mahoney Randomized linear algebra/sketching for optimization
03/05 Berk Ozturk Robust optimization
03/12 Haixiang Zhang Low-rank matrix completion
03/19 Grace Zdeblick Meshing
03/26 Spring Break
04/02 Ahmad Abassi Standing water waves
04/09 Coding/social hour
04/16 Gil Goldshlager Optimization methods and challenges in variational Monte Carlo simulations of quantum systems.
04/23 Andrew Scharf FEniCSx