The Spring 2026 SIAM Seminar is held on Fridays during Period 8 (3:00pm) in Room LIT221.
Each seminar consists of a presentation given by either a student or faculty member on a research project involving applied mathematics, followed by a discussion period. Refreshments in the form of sandwiches and desserts are typically provided at each seminar.
| Date | Speaker's Name | Topic | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 16 | Dr. Lara Kassab, California State Univ. | Matrix Factorizations | Towards a Fairer Non-Negative Matrix Factorization |
| January 21 (Wednesday) | Dr. Sifan Wang, Yale | Partial Differential Equations | Toward a “GPT” Moment for Scientific Computing |
| January 26 (Monday) | Dr. Johannes Brust, Arizona State Univ. | Tensor Decomposition | Exploiting Low-Rank and Related Structures in Data Science Compute |
| January 28 (Wednesday) | Dr. Yulia Alexandr, UCLA | Machine Learning, Algebraic Geometry | Algebraic foundations of machine learning |
| January 30 | Dr. Tristan Goodwill, Univ. of Chicago | Partial Differential Equations | A complex scaling method for junctions of semi-infinite interfaces |
| February 6 | Shiwei Chai, UF ISOM | Optimization | Customer Scheduling in Large Service Systems Under Model Uncertainty |
| February 23 (Monday) in the Atrium | Dr. R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, Univ. of Washington | Optimization | Progressive Decoupling and the Proximal Method of Multipliers in Optimization |
| March 6 | Dr. Todd J Arbogast, UT Austin | Partial Differential Equations | Finite Volume Approximation of Nonlinear Advection-Diffusion Equations |
| April 3 | Dr. Xiao Yu, UF Civil Engineering | Flocculation Dynamics | |
| April 17 | Dr. Warren E. Dixon, UF MAE |