{"id":590,"date":"2026-01-23T11:39:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T16:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/sdmss\/?page_id=590"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:38:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:38:02","slug":"colloquium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/sdmss\/colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t
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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, August 25, 2025
\nTime:<\/strong> 11:00 AM \u2013 12:00 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Xin Li<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: University of Central Florida
\nTitle<\/strong>: Dynamic Inertial Newton Inspired Algorithms and Their Applications to Non-Smooth and Non-Convex Optimizations<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, September 8, 2025
\nTime:<\/strong> 11:00 PM \u2013 12:00 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Yuesheng Xu<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: Old Dominion University
\nTitle<\/strong>: Multi-Grade Deep Learning<\/a>
\nHost<\/strong>: Qiyu Sun<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, October 6, 2025
\nTime:<\/strong> 3:30 PM \u2013 4:30 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Thibaud Alemany
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: University of Central Florida
\nTitle<\/strong>: Geometric properties of reproducing Kernels in Linear Model Spaces<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, October 20, 2025
\nTime:<\/strong>\u00a03:30 PM \u2013 4:30 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Robert Buckingham<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: University of Cincinnati
\nTitle<\/strong>: Wave Breaking in Nonlinear Dispersive Equations<\/a>
\nHost<\/strong>: Robert Jenkins<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Friday, October 24, 2025
\nTime:<\/strong> 10:30 AM \u2013 11:30 AM
\nLocation: <\/strong>BA1 O213
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Liang Hong<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: University of Texas at Dallas
\nTitle<\/strong>: Conformal prediction of future insurance claims in the regression problem<\/a>
\nHost<\/strong>: Chudamani Poudyal<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, October 27, 2025
\nTime:<\/strong>\u00a03:30 PM \u2013 4:30 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Christian K\u00fcmmerle<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: University of Central Florida
\nTitle<\/strong>: Iterative Quadratic Reweighting for Low-Rank Neural Network Training & Minimum-Cost Flow Problems<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Thursday, November 13, 2025
\nTime:<\/strong> 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Suzanne Lenhart<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: University of Tennessee, Knoxville
\nTitle<\/strong>: Natural System Management: Modeling Examples<\/a>
\nHost<\/strong>: Jiongmin Yong<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, January 12, 2026
\nTime:<\/strong>\u00a03:30 PM \u2013 4:30 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Junping Shi<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: College of William & Mary
\nTitle<\/strong>: Reaction-diffusion models for animal movement with\u00a0spatial memory and nonlocal advection<\/a>
\nHost<\/strong>: Andrew Nevai<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, January 26, 2026
\nTime:<\/strong> 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Annalisa Calini<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: College of Charleston
\nTitle<\/strong>: Soliton equations and geometric flows for Legendrian and transverse curves in the 3-sphere<\/a>
\nHost<\/strong>: Alexander Tovbis<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Tuesday, February 10, 2026
\nTime:<\/strong> 11:00 AM \u2013 12:00 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Ba\u015fak G\u00fcrel<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: University of Central Florida
\nTitle<\/strong>: Topological Entropy of Hamiltonian Systems and Persistence Modules<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, February 23, 2026
\nTime:<\/strong> 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Hsin-Hsiung \u201cBill\u201d Huang<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: University of Central Florida
\nTitle<\/strong>: Scalable Bayesian uncertainty quantification for mixed membership in multilayer networks via spectral-assisted Gaussian variational inference with degree heterogeneity<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, March 2, 2026
\nTime:<\/strong>\u00a03:30 PM \u2013 4:30 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Ying (Joy) Zhou<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: Lafayette College
\nTitle<\/strong>: Ideal Free Distribution and Evolution of Dispersal in Integrodifference Equation Models<\/a>
\nHost<\/strong>: Zhisheng Shuai<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date: <\/strong>Monday, March 9, 2026
\nTime:\u00a0<\/strong>3:30 PM \u2013 4:30 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker: <\/strong>Abiy Tasissa<\/a>
\nAffiliation: <\/strong>Tufts University
\nTitle: <\/strong>Learning Geometry from Anchored data<\/a>
\nHost: <\/strong>Christian K\u00fcmmerle<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, March 23, 2026
\nTime:<\/strong>\u00a03:30 PM \u2013 4:30 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: David Guinovart<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: University of Minnesota
\nTitle<\/strong>: Controlling Surface Waves with Laminated Metabarriers: Theory and Dynamic Homogenization<\/a>
\nHost<\/strong>: Kuppalapalle Vajravelu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, April 6, 2026
\nTime:<\/strong>\u00a03:30 PM \u2013 4:30 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Ram Mohapatra<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: University of Central Florida
\nTitle<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, April 13, 2026
\nTime:<\/strong> 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Alexander Katsevich<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: University of Central Florida
\nTitle<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, April 20, 2026
\nTime:<\/strong>\u00a03:30 PM \u2013 4:30 PM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Shankhadeep Mondal<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: University of Central Florida
\nTitle<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Friday, May 1, 2026
\nTime:<\/strong> 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
\nLocation: <\/strong>MSB 318
\nSpeaker<\/strong>: Steven J. Miller<\/a>
\nAffiliation<\/strong>: Williams College
\nTitle<\/strong>: Benford’s Law: Why the IRS might care about the 3x+1 problem and zeta(s)<\/a>
\nHost<\/strong>: Wissam Ghantous<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-590","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/sdmss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/sdmss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/sdmss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/sdmss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/sdmss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/sdmss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2235,"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/sdmss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/590\/revisions\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/sdmss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}