Every academic year, Colloquia is held on Mondays at 3:00 PM in Duncan Hall 1064 between the First and Last Days of Classes in each semester. Any talks outside this time and day will be scheduled as a Special Lecture.
Fall 2025
August 25 - Departmental Organizational Meeting
September 1 - Labor Day -- No Classes
September 8 - Raghu Bollapragada
"Adaptive, Fast, and Scalable Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization"
Host: Heinkenschloss, Ma
September 15 - Amir Sagiv
"Sampling by Transport and the Approximation of Measures"
Host: Anderson
September 22- Timothy Chan -- Special talk as part of Operations Research in Cancer Care Workshop.
Organized by The Center for Operations Research in Cancer (CORC) at Rice University and UT-MD Anderson Cancer Center.
"Old Dog, New Tricks: Modern Healthcare Applications of Classical Operations Research"
Location: BRC Building, 6500 Main St., Houston, TX 77030
More information is available here.
September 29 - Chi-Wang Shu
"High order numerical methods for hyperbolic equations"
Host: Zhang
October 6 - Jason Altschuler
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Host: Das Gupta
October 13 - Midterm Recess -- No Classes
October 20 - Ignacio Grossman -- Shell Lecture
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Host: Schaefer
October 27 - George Biros
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Host: Anderson
November 3 - Per-Olof Persson
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Host: Zhang
November 10 - Jianfeng Lu
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Host: Zhang
November 17 - Oktay Gunluk
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Host: Perez-Salazar
November 24 - George Lan
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Host: Das Gupta
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Spring 2025
January 12 -
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January 19 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day -- No Classes
January 26 - Sven Leyffer
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Host: Heinkenschloss, Hicks
February 2 -
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February 9 -
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February 16 -
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February 23 - Luis Vicente
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March 2 -
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March 9 -
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March 16 - Spring Break -- No Classes
March 23 -
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March 30 -
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April 6 -
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April 13 - John Urschel -- Putcha Lecture
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Host: Hicks
April 20 -
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