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 10-
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September 14- Hayden Schaeffer, University of California, Los Angeles
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September 17- Amarjit Budhiraja, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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September 21- Jianfeng Zhang, University of Southern California
Host: Pang
September 24-
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September 28- Carla Michini, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Hicks
October 1-
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October 5- Calum McRury, Georgia Institute of Technology
Host: Perez-Salazar
October 8- Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin, The Pennsylvania State University
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October 12- Midterm Recess -- No Classes
October 15- Rachel A. Ward, The University of Texas at Austin, Oden Institute
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October 19- Bjorn Engquist, The University of Texas at Austin
Host: Anderson
October 26- Alex Wang, Purdue University
Host: Das Gupta
November 2- INFORMS
November 5- Saif Benjaafar, University of Michigan
Title: ""
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November 9- No Colloquium. (K2I's 40th Anniversary at 4:00PM)
November 16 - Andy Sun, MIT ----Shell Lecture
Host:Das Gupta
November 23- Sven Leyffer, Argonne National Laboratory
Host: Heinkenschloss
November 30- Renyuan Xu, Stanford University
Host: Pang