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.
Spring 2026
January 12 - Haomin Zhou
"Computing high-dimensional Wasserstein geometric flows in neural network parameter space"
Host: Zhang
January 19 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day -- No Classes
January 26 - Sven Leyffer
"Solving Massive Combinatorial Optimization Problems"
Hosts: Heinkenschloss, Hicks
February 2 - Andrea Bonito
"Optimal Recovery in Elliptic Partial Differential Equations"
Host: Riviere
February 9 - Andrea Lodi
"Batched First-Order Methods for Parallel LP Solving in MIP"
Host: Schaefer
February 16 - Ben Grimmer
"Beyond Minimax Optimality: A Subgame Perfect Gradient Method"
Hosts: Das Gupta, Ma
February 23 - Luis Nunes Vicente
"Reducing Sample Complexity in Stochastic Derivative-Free Optimization via Tail Bounds and Hypothesis Testing"
Hosts: Anderson, Perez-Salazar
March 2 - Wei Cai
"Title"
Host: Riviere
March 9 - Ludovic Tangpi
"Title"
Host: Pang
March 16 - Spring Break -- No Classes
March 23 - Stephen Shipman
"Title"
Host: Anderson
March 30 - Andreas Mang
"Title"
Host: Anderson
April 6 - Phebe Vayanos
"Title"
Host: Hicks
April 13 - John Urschel -- Putcha Lecture
"Title"
Host: Hicks
April 20 - Sam Burer
"Title"
Host: Perez-Salazar