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 2026
August 24-Departmental Organizational Meeting
August 31- Moise Blanchard, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: "Memory/Query-Complexity Tradeoffs in Convex Optimization and Linear Regression"
Host: Das Gupta
September 7- Labor Day Holiday -- No Classes
September 14- Hayden Schaeffer, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: "Learning Families of Operators: Prediction, Approximation, and Generalization"
Host: Hicks
September 17- Amarjit Budhiraja, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Title: "Stochastic Systems at Scale: Analysis, Control, and Computation"
Host: Hicks
September 21- Jianfeng Zhang, University of Southern California
Title: "Some New Perspectives on Kyle-Back Insider Trading Problems"
Host: Pang
September 28- Carla Michini, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: "Equilibria in Integer-Splittable Cost-Sharing Games: Existence, Approximation, and Computation"
Host: Hicks
October 5- Calum MacRury, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: "Efficient Algorithms for Online Subadditive Combinatorial Allocations"
Host: Perez-Salazar
October 8- Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin, The Pennsylvania State University
Title: "Mean-field limits for systems of interacting biological neurons"
Host: Hicks
October 12- Midterm Recess -- No Classes
October 15- Rachel A. Ward, The University of Texas at Austin, Oden Institute
Title: "All hands on deck! Applied mathematics in the era of ready-made proofs"
Host: Hicks
October 19- Bjorn Engquist, The University of Texas at Austin
Host: Anderson
October 26- Alex Wang, Purdue University
Title: ""
Host: Das Gupta
November 2- INFORMS
November 5- Saif Benjaafar, University of Michigan
Title: ""
Host: Hicks
November 9- No Colloquium. (K2I's 40th Anniversary at 4:00PM)
November 16- Andy Sun, MIT ----Shell Lecture
Title: ""
Host: Das Gupta
November 23- Sven Leyffer, Argonne National Laboratory
Title: ""
Host: Heinkenschloss
November 30- Renyuan Xu, Stanford University
Title: ""
Host:Pang