Department of Mathematics, HKUST

Events & Seminars

May
8

Prof. Yavar KIAN
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Simultaneous identification of piecewise constant sound speed and initial data for the photoacoustic tomography problem
Room 2131C (lift 19)
3:00pm-4:00pm

May
8

Mr. Changlin HE
MPhil Thesis Examination
A Utility-Based Framework for Multiple Testing: Validity, Optimality and Interpretability
Room 4503 (lift 25-26)
9:00am

May
11

Miss. Hongrui WANG
PhD Student Seminar
SyncTrack: Rhythmic Stability and Synchronization in Multi-Track Music Generation
Room 5560 (lift 27/28)
03:00pm

May
11

Mr. Zhen ZHENG
PhD Student Seminar
Optimal Regularity for the Very Fast Diffusion Equation
Room 4472 (lift 25/26)
10:00am

May
11

Mr. Weixiao SUN
PhD Student Seminar
Fedrated Transfer PCA for Spiked Covariance Matrices
Room 5508 (lift 25/26)
10:00am

May
11

Mr. Xiaolong WANG
PhD Student Seminar
Toward Controllable Multi-Character Video World Models
Room 2406 (lift 17/18)
3:00pm

May
11

Mr. Shuai ZONG
PhD Student Seminar
Spherical functors
Room 5508 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm

May
11

Miss. Zhanmiao HUANG
PhD Student Seminar
Generalizing bias-corrected learning across temporal windows and multi-compartment structures in the mushroom body
Room 5402, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 17-18)
4:00pm

May
12

Miss. Tong WU
PhD Student Seminar
On the Subsample Size of Quantile-Based Randomized Kaczmarz: Theory and Streaming Extensions
https://hkust.zoom.us/j/92696138934 (Passcode: 285407)
2:00pm

May
12

Mr. Jianda MAO
PhD Student Seminar
Feedback-Driven Prompt Refinement for Image Editing via Self-Distillation
Room 5508 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm

May
13

Miss. Mengyu HUO
PhD Student Seminar
Boundary Regularity of Solutions to the Fractional Porous Medium Type Equation
Room 2463, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 25-26)
1:00pm

May
13

Mr. Jianzhou LUO
PhD Student Seminar
Sum-of-Squares Optimization over G-Invariant Cones
Room 4475 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm

May
13

Mr. Zhen HOU
PhD Student Seminar
Statistical Inference for Kernel Ridge Regression under Covariate Shift
Room 5508, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 25-26)
3:00pm

May
13

Miss. Ziyue TAN
PhD Student Seminar
A Unified Framework for Integrating Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics to Uncover Spatiotemporal Tissue Architecture
Room 4472 (lift 25/26)
4:30pm

May
14

Mr. Yanwu GU
PhD Student Seminar
Prediction-powered Inference by Mixture of Experts
Room 4472, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 25-26)
10:00am

May
14

Mr. Yuntong HUANG
PhD Student Seminar
A KWC-Based Phase-Field Model for Grain Boundary Grooving
Room 5506, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 25-26)
10:00am

May
14

Mr. Meng LI
PhD Student Seminar
Enhancing Future Prediction of Linear and Nonlinear Reduced-Order Models for Transport-Dominated Problems Using Lagrangian Data
https://hkust.zoom.us/j/94566932667 (Passcode: 286097)
11:00am

May
14

Mr. Bingxin WANG
PhD Student Seminar
TextBoost: Boosting Scene Text Fidelity in Ultra-low Bitrate Image Compression
Room 4475 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm

May
14

Ms. Wenlin ZHANG
PhD Student Seminar
Onsager Principle-Based Physics-Informed Neural Network for Conserved Interfacial Dynamics
Room 5508 (lift 25/26)
4:00pm

May
21

Mr. Ruizhe XIA
PhD Thesis Examination
Efficient Riemannian Optimization for Low-Rank Matrices: Achieving Optimal Complexity and Robustness to Ill-Conditioning
Rm 1409 (lift 25/26), 1/F Academic Building, HKUST
10:00am

May
21

Mr. Wencan XIA
PhD Thesis Examination
Essays on the Interest Rate and Corporate Derivatives Pricing
Room 1409 (lift 25/26)
2:00pm

May
22

Mr. Hongze TAN
PhD Thesis Examination
Hochschild (Co)homology and Derived Categories of Coherent Sheaves
Rm1409, (lift 25/26), 1/F Academic Building, HKUST
09:00am

May
27

Mr. Xinyu LIU
PhD Thesis Examination
On the Learning of Gaussian Mixture Models: Model Selection and Parameter Estimation
Room 1409 (lift 25/26)
10:00am

May
28

Prof. Jiahua CHEN
Special Colloquium
Recent developments on Finite mixture models
Room 1409 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

May
7

Prof. Enrico VALDINOCI
Seminar on PDE
A strict maximum principle for nonlocal minimal surfaces
Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/93649245131 (Passcode: 289085)
4:00pm

May
6

Miss. Lifang ZHENG
PhD Student Seminar
Self-Evolving Large Language Models for Mathematical Reasoning under Weak Supervision
https://hkust.zoom.us/j/9644504237 (Passcode: 123456)
3:00pm

May
6

Mr. Hongyu LIU
PhD Student Seminar
An Implicit UGKS for Large Time Steps in Radiative Transfer Preserving Microscopic Transport via Cellwise Block Elimination and Moment-Consistent Coupling
Room 2408 (lift 17/18)
3:00pm

May
6

Mr. Yueyan JIANG
PhD Student Seminar
Some branch-free high precision algorithms
Room 2611 (lift 31/32)
3:00pm

May
6

Mr. Haofang SUN
PhD Student Seminar
Curvilinear Tilings and Hurwitz Problem
Room 3598 (lift 27/28)
10:30am

May
6

Mr. Jiawang ZHANG
PhD Student Seminar
Adaptive finite volume-particle method for free surface flows
Room 2611 (lift 31/32)
10:00am

May
5

Miss. Yonglin LIU
PhD Student Seminar
Probabilistic Latent Dynamics Networks: Uncertainty-Aware Modeling of Spatio-Temporal Systems
Room 2408 (lift 17/18)
11:00am

May
5

Miss. Ying CAO
PhD Student Seminar
Characteristic quasi-polynomials of integral hyperplane arrangements
Room 4475, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 25-26)
10:30am

May
5

Mr. Gaocheng LIU
PhD Student Seminar
Wave-Particle Method for Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows
Room 2612A (lift 31/32)
10:00am

May
4

Miss. Kha Man CHEONG
PhD Student Seminar
A spectral approach for online covariance change point detection
Room 5508, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 25-26)
2:00pm

May
4

Mr. Jiantong HOU
PhD Student Seminar
Topological obstruction, characteristic classes, and their quantization
Room 4472, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 25-26)
2:00pm

May
4

Mr. Yeqin ZENG
PhD Student Seminar
MacSGP: a unified framework for mapping cell-type-specific spatial gene programs in spatial transcriptomics
Room 1104 (lift 19)
11:00am

May
4

Mr. Rijiang ZHOU
PhD Student Seminar
TACO: Leveraging Trans-Ancestry Gene Co-Regulation for Transcriptome-Wide Association Studies
Room 1104 (lift 19)
10:00am

Apr
30

Henry LIU
Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Lecture series: Wall-crossing for invariants of equivariant 3CY categories
Room 2126D (lift 19)
4:00pm

Apr
30

Prof. Zhaoli GUO
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Addressing two fundamental problems in lattice Boltzmann method for two-phase flows
Room 3598 (lift 27 & 28)
11:00am-12:00noon

Apr
30

Mr. Zitong CHAO
PhD Student Seminar
A reference-guided probabilistic framework for integrating spatial multi-omics to reconstruct fine-grained cell-type distributions
Room 4472, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 25-26)
10:00am

Apr
29

Mr. Yuxuan CHEN
PhD Student Seminar
Sparsity in Linear Attention Models
Room 4472, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 25-26)
4:00pm

Apr
29

Henry LIU
Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Lecture series: Wall-crossing for invariants of equivariant 3CY categories
Room 5562 (lift 27 & 28)
4:00pm

Apr
29

Mr. Lizhong CHEN
PhD Student Seminar
Perfect Divisions in (P2∪P4, bull)-free Graphs
Room 4472, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 25-26)
2:00pm

Apr
29

Prof. Zhaoli GUO
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Unified gas-kinetic framework from Boltzmann to Navier-Stokes scales
Room 3598 (lift 27/28)
10:00am-11:00am

Professor Quoc HO was awarded the 2026 Hong Kong Mathematical Society Young Scholar Award

Professor TANG Rong receives the HKUST-POSTECH Joint Research Seed Grant Program & Global Knowledge Network Awards 2026

Professor Lin FU was elected to receive the 19th Youth Science and Technology Award from the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CSTAM)