The LANS seminar series (formerly known as LANS Informal Seminar) is an event hosted by the Laboratory for Applied Mathematics, Numerical Software, and Statistics (LANS) at Argonne National Laboratory. This seminar series feature researchers around the world conducting research in applied mathematics, statistics, optimization, scientific computing, numerical analysis, machine learning, data-driven methods, and related topics. The series consists of talks held on every Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. (Central Time). Please contact us for speaker suggestions.
Upcoming Speakers
Israel Donato-Ridgley
Research Assistant, Northwestern University
Presenting on August 16, 2023
Andrew Lyons
Independent Researcher
Presenting on August 23, 2023
Raaghav Ramani
PhD student in the Applied Mathematics Department at UC Davis
Presenting on August 30, 2023
Bao Wang
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Utah
Presenting on September 6, 2023
Mark Embree
Professor of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
Presenting on September 13, 2023
Past Speakers
2023
Drew Kouri
Optimization & Uncertainty Quantification at Sandia National Laboratories
Presented on August 9, 2023
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Matthieu Darcy
PhD student in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at Caltech
Presented on August 2, 2023
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Amit Apte
Professor and Chair, Data Science at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research at Pune
Presented on July 26, 2023
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Wilkie Olin Ammentorp
Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne
Presented on July 19, 2023
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Tyler Chang
Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne
Presented on July 12, 2023
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Elias Cueto
Professor of Continuum and Computational Mechanics, Universidad de Zaragoza
Presented on July 5, 2023
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Nan Chen
Assistant Professor of Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Presented on June 21, 2023
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Marek Pecha
PhD candidate of Applied Mathematics, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Presented on June 14, 2023
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Pranav Bhaswanth Madabhushi
Optimization Engineer at Opus One Solutions from GE Digital
Presented on June 7, 2023
John Davis Jakeman
Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories
Presented on May 31, 2023
François Pacaud
Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne
Presented on May 24, 2023
Dariusz Ucinski
Professor in the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering at University of Zielona Góra
Presented on May 17, 2023
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Nisha Chandramoorthy
Assistant Professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech
Presented on May 10, 2023
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Saber Jafarpour
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Decision and Control Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Presented on April 26, 2023
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Ahmed Attia
Assistant Computational Mathematician at Argonne
Presented on April 19, 2023
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Christopher Rackauckas
Research Affiliate and Co-PI of the Julia Lab at MIT
Presented on April 12, 2023
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Syed Bahauddin Alam
Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology
Presented on April 5, 2023
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Karen Ullrich
Research Scientist at FAIR NY
Presented on March 29, 2023
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Aditya Grover
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UCLA
Presented on March 22, 2023
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Mihhail Berezovski
Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Presented on March 15, 2023
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Hannes Stärk
PhD student at MIT in the CS and AI Laboratory (CSAIL)
Presented on March 1, 2023
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Nick Goberville
Connected and Automated Vehicle Research Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory
Presented on February 22, 2023
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Brahim Mustapha
Accelerator Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory
Presented on February 15, 2023
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Sanmukh Kuppannagari
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Data Sciences at Case Western Reserve University
Presented on February 8, 2023
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Jim Franke
Geophysical Sciences Graduate Student at the University of Chicago
Presented on February 1, 2023
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Deep Ray
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California
Presented on January 25, 2023
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Nathaniel Pritchard
Statistics Graduate Student at the University of Wisconsin
Presented on January 18, 2023
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Shivam Barwey
Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne and PhD candidate of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan
Presented on January 11, 2023
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2022
Max Bowman
Electrical and Computer Engineering Student at Rice University
Presented on December 21, 2022
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Minseok Ryu
Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne
Presented on December 14, 2022
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James Evans
Professor at the University of Chicago
Presented on November 30, 2022
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Guannan Zhang
Senior Research Staff in Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAM) Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Presented on November 16, 2022
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Brandon Amos
Research Scientist in the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) group at Meta AI
Presented on November 9, 2022
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Xinyu Fei
Ph.D. student in Industrial and Operations Engineering at University of Michigan
Presented on November 2, 2022
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Romain Egélé
Master’s student in AI and advanced visual computing at École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Île-de-France, France
Presented on October 27, 2022
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Oliver Hinder
Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
Presented on October 19, 2022
Themis Sapsis
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at MIT
Presented on October 12, 2022
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Olivera Kotevska
Research Scientist at ORNL
Presented on October 5, 2022
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Can Li
Assistant Professor at Purdue University
Presented on September 29, 2022
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Nicholas Geneva
Mechanical Engineering PhD Student at University of Notre Dame
Presented on September 21, 2022
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SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Upcoming
16 August 2023
TBD
Speaker: Israel Donato-Ridgley, Research Assistant at Northwestern University
23 August 2023
TBD
Speaker: Andrew Lyons, Dartmouth College
6 September 2023
Implicit Methods for Deep Learning on Graphs
Speaker: Bao Wang, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Utah
13 September 2023
TBD
Speaker: Mark Embree, Professor of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
Past
2023
9 August 2023
TBD
Speaker: Drew Kouri, Optimization & Uncertainty Quantification at Sandia National Laboratories
2 August 2023
TBD
Speaker: Matthieu Darcy, PhD student in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at Caltech
26 July 2023
TBD
Speaker: Amit Apte, Professor and Chair, Data Science at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research at Pune
19 July 2023
Computing with Rhythm: An Overview of Phasor Networks
Speaker: Wilkie Olin Ammentorp, Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne
12 July 2023
TBD
Speaker: Tyler Chang, Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne
5 July 2023
TBD
Speaker: Elias Cueto, Professor of Continuum and Computational Mechanics, Universidad de Zaragoza
21 June 2023
Data Assimilation: Dynamical Interpolation, State Estimation, and Model
Speaker: Nan Chen, Assistant Professor of Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
14 June 2023
Wildfires Identification in Alaska using Satellite Images and Machine Learning
Speaker: Marek Pecha, PhD candidate of Applied Mathematics, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
7 June 2023
Modelling and Solving a Large-Scale Distribution Network AC Optimal Powerflow Problem
Speaker: Pranav Bhaswanth Madabhushi, Optimization Engineer at Opus One Solutions from GE Digital
31 May 2023
Multi-Fidelity Uncertainty Quantification
Speaker: John Jakeman, Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories
24 May 2023
Revisiting Structure-Exploiting Interior-Point Methods
Speaker: François Pacaud, Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne
17 May 2023
Optimum Experimental Design for Parameter Estimation of Spatiotemporal Systems
Speaker: Dariusz Ucinski, Professor in the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering at University of Zielona Góra
10 May 2023
Generalization and Sampling from the Dynamics Perspective
Speaker: Nisha Chandramoorthy, Assistant Professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech
26 April 2023
Weak and Semi-Contraction for Large-Scale Network Systems
Speaker: Saber Jafarpour, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Decision and Control Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology
19 April 2023
TBD
Speaker: Ahmed Attia, Assistant Computational Mathematician at Argonne
12 April 2023
Differentiable Simulation and Scientific Machine Learning: Fast Solving and Automated Model Construction
Speaker: Christopher Rackauckas, Research Affiliate and Co-PI of the Julia Lab at MIT
5 April 2023
Uncertainty-Aware, Intelligent, & Trustworthy Digital Twin-Enabling Technologies for Complex Nuclear Systems
Speaker: Syed Bahauddin Alam, Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology
29 March 2023
Getting the Most Out of Your Representations
Speaker: Karen Ullrich, Research Scientist at FAIR NY
22 March 2023
ClimaX: A Foundation Model for Weather and Climate
Speaker: Aditya Grover, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UCLA
15 March 2023
Research Projects in Data-Enabled Industrial Mathematics
Speaker: Mihhail Berezovski, Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
1 March 2023
Modeling Molecular Interactions with Machine Learning
Speaker: Hannes Stärk, PhD student at MIT in the CS and AI Laboratory (CSAIL)
22 February 2023
Automated Vehicle Sensor Characterization in Dynamic Environments
Speaker: Nick Goberville, Connected and Automated Vehicle Research Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory
15 February 2023
AI-ML Developments for Heavy-Ion Linac Operations
Speaker: Brahim Mustapha, Accelerator Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory
8 February 2023
Algorithmic Innovations for Accelerating Implementations of Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Sanmukh Kuppannagari, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Data Sciences at Case Western Reserve University
1 February 2023
Insight into Subtropical Marine Cloud Dynamics from Unsupervised Classification with a Rotationally Invariant Autoencoder
Speaker: Jim Franke, Geophysical Sciences Graduate Student at University of Chicago
25 January 2023
VarMiON: A Variationally Mimetic Operator Network
Speaker: Deep Ray, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California
18 January 2023
Towards Practical Large-scale Least Squares Solvers with Iterative Right Random Sketching
Speaker: Nathaniel Pritchard, Statistics Graduate Student at the University of Wisconsin
11 January 2023
Data-driven Models for Accelerating Unsteady Flow Simulations in Complex Geometries
Speaker: Shivam Barwey, Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne and PhD candidate of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan
2022
21 December 2022
Hardware-Conscious Optimization of the Quantum Toffoli Gate
Speaker: Max Bowman, Electrical and Computer Engineering Student at Rice University
14 December 2022
Privacy-Preserving Distributed Optimization Algorithms and Software Framework
Speaker: Minseok Ryu, Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne
30 November 2022
AI2: Artificial Intelligence for Augmented Innovation
Speaker: James Evans, Professor at University of Chicago
16 November 2022
A Nonlocal Gradient for High-Dimensional Black-Box Optimization in Scientific Applications
Speaker: Guannan Zhang, Senior Research Staff in Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAM) Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
9 November 2022
Learning with Differentiable and Amortized Optimization
Speaker: Brandon Amos, Research Scientist in the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) group at Meta AI
2 November 2022
Deterministic and Robust Control Pulse Optimization for Quantum Systems
Speaker: Xinyu Fei, Ph.D. student in Industrial and Operations Engineering at University of Michigan
27 October 2022
Asynchronous Distributed Bayesian Optimization at HPC Scale
Speaker: Romain Egélé, Master’s student in artificial intelligence and advanced visual computing at École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Île-de-France, France
19 October 2022
Practical Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient for Large-Scale Linear Programming using Restarts and Other Enhancements
Speaker: Oliver Hinder, Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
12 October 2022
Likelihood-Weighted Active Learning with Application to Bayesian Optimization, Uncertainty Quantification, and Decision Making in High Dimensions
Speaker: Themis Sapsis, Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at MIT
5 October 2022
Privacy Algorithms: Current Developments and Future Directions
Speaker: Olivera Kotevska, Research Scientist at ORNL
29 September 2022
Machine Learning for Combinatorial and Global Optimization
Speaker: Can Li, Assistant Professor at Purdue University
21 September 2022
Modulus: Making Scientific Deep Learning Accessible and Scalable
Speaker: Nicholas Geneva, Mechanical Engineering PhD Student at the University of Notre Dame