EVENTS | Department of Mathematics

Jun
27

Prof. Yuling JIAO
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Deep PDE solvers: Error analysis and adaptive scheme
Room 2463 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jun
27

Special Colloquium
Random games and edge percolation on the hypercube
Lecture Theatre K
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jun
27

Miss. Chuqi CHEN
PhD Thesis Examination
Overcoming Training Challenges in Neural Network based PDE Solvers: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications
Room 4579, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 27-28)
10:30am

Jun
26

Prof. Linglong KONG
Seminar on Statistics
Tuning-free Estimation and Inference of Cumulative Distribution Function under Local Differential Privacy
Room 2302 (lift 17 & 18)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jun
25

Prof. Yuefeng HAN
Seminar on Statistics
Statistical Inference for Low-Rank Tensor Models
Room 4504 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jun
23

Prof. Yun YANG
Seminar on Statistics
Bayesian Inference via Geometry: Gradient Flows and Optimal Transport in Probability Spaces
Room 4502 (lift 25/26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Jun
19

Prof. Yang-Yao NIU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Development of simplified kinetics models of the hydrocarbon fuel for oblique detonation wave phenomena based on detailed mechanism and shock tube data
Room 4504 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Jun
18

Prof. Jinchi LV
Seminar on Statistics
SOFARI-R: High-Dimensional Manifold-Based Inference for Latent Responses
Room 2504 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jun
18

Yifeng HUANG
Algebra and Geometry Seminar
High-rank motivic degree-zero Donaldson-Thomas theory on singular curves, and q-series
Room 4502 (lift 25/26)
10:00am-11:30am

Jun
13

Prof. Yang-Yao NIU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Towards High-Resolution Simulation of High-speed Compressible Multi-Component Flows (Insight into Model Equations)
Room 4502 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Jun
13

Prof. Yang-Yao NIU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Towards High-Resolution Simulation of High-speed Compressible Multi-Component Flows
Room 4502 (lift 25 & 26)
10:00am-11:00am

Jun
12

Mr. Jiayu QIU
PhD Thesis Examination
Mathematical Theory of Edge Transport in Photonic and Electronic Systems
Room 4472 (lift 25/26)
10:00am

Jun
5

Prof. Valentin BUCIUMAS
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
On p-q dualities
Room 4504 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jun
5

Prof. Junshan LIN
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Computational Optimization of Spectral Band-gap for Periodic Wave Operators
Room 4504 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Jun
4

Prof. Junshan LIN
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Computational Optimization of Spectral Band-gap for Periodic Wave Operators
Room 4504 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Jun
3

Prof. Manish M. PATNAIK
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Partitions and Compactifications of Loop Arithmetic Quotients
Room 4504 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jun
2

Mr. Zhiwei WANG
PhD Thesis Examination
Statistical and Computational Methods for Genomic Data Analysis
Room 4472 (lift 25/26)
10:00am

May
28

Khoa Bang Pham
Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Motivic Nearby Functors and Recent Developments
https://hkust.zoom.us/j/92781946467?pwd=amdWb2JBUUNtY0FaTWdSWFpqOHRMZz09
4:00pm

May
21

Dr. Kunlun QI
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
On the Kinetic Description of Objective Molecular Dynamics (OMD): Multiscale Modeling, Numerics and Data-Driven Applications
Room 1410 (lift 25/26)
10:30am-11:30am

May
16

Prof. Henri BERESTYCKI
Departmental Colloquium
The influence of domain shape in reaction-diffusion equations
Lecture Theatre H
3:00pm-4:00pm

May
15

Mr. Tiankai HU
PhD Student Seminar
Online Inference for Extreme Parameters in High Dimensions with Diverging Stages
Room 1409 (lift 25/26)
4:30pm

May
15

Miss. Lifang ZHENG
PhD Student Seminar
Scalable Labeling with LLMs: Towards Causally-Aware Factor Discovery
Room 5510 (lift 25-26)
4:00pm

May
15

Miss. Wenqi ZENG
PhD Thesis Examination
Uncovering the Dynamics of Molecular Systems: Structure, Simulation, and Signal
Room 4472 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm

May
15

Dr. Zi WANG
PhD Student Seminar
Bridgeland stability conditions of sheaves on blow up surfaces
https://hkust.zoom.us/j/2245558991 (Passcode: HKUST)
11:00am

May
15

Mr. Lei SUN
PhD Student Seminar
CTSDiff: Controllable Time - Varying Statistics Diffusion for Multi-Assets Financial Time Seriess
Room 4475 (lift 25-26)
11:00am

May
14

Miss. Zhanmiao HUANG
PhD Student Seminar
Memory Capacity Enhancement Through Bias-Corrected Plasticity in the Sparse Coding Mushroom Body Circuit
Room 1409 (lift 25/26)
4:00pm

May
14

Prof. Adeel KHAN
Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Microlocal categorical sheaves on shifted symplectic spaces
Room 4502 (lift 25 & 26)
4:00pm-5:30pm

May
13

Mr. Xinyu LIU
PhD Student Seminar
Model Selection and Parameter Estimation of Gaussian Mixture Models
Room 1409 (lift 25/26)
4:00pm

May
13

Miss. Ying CAO
PhD Student Seminar
The Incidence Algebra of Polyhedra over the Minkowski Algebra
Room 4502 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm

May
13

Prof. Lucas BENIGNI
Seminar on Probability
Delocalization of eigenvectors of large random matrices
Lecture Theatre H
3:00pm-4:00pm

May
13

Prof. Yuqi GU
Seminar on Statistics
Minimax-Optimal Dimension-Reduced Clustering for High-Dimensional Nonspherical Mixtures
Room 1409 (lift 25/26)
11:00am-12:00noon

May
12

Miss. Tong WU
PhD Student Seminar
Fast Non-convex Matrix Sensing with Optimal Sample Complexity
Room 4472 (lift 25-26)
5:00pm

May
12

Miss. Jialin ZENG
PhD Thesis Examination
Exploring Decision-Making in Reinforcement Learning: Bandits with Knapsacks, Multi-Agent Systems, and Continuous Control
Room 4475 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm

May
12

Mr. Wencan XIA
PhD Student Seminar
SOFR Futures Pricing under Affine Term Structure Model with Scheduled Jumps
Room 2612B (lift 31-32)
2:00pm

May
12

Dr. Bokai YAN
PhD Student Seminar
Approximation Bounds for Transformer Networks with Application to Regression
Room 2612B (lift 31-32)
12:00noon

May
12

Dr. Yahong YANG
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Homotopy Dynamics for Neural Networks in Solving Partial Differential Equations
Room 1409 (lift 25/26)
11:00am-12:00noon

May
12

Prof. Weiguo GAO
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Overlapping Multiplicative Schwarz Preconditioning for Linear and Nonlinear Systems
Room 1409 (lift 25/26)
10:00am-11:00am

May
10

Miss. Yaxin FENG
PhD Student Seminar
A brief introduction of recent development of optimal transport and mean-field game
https://hkust.zoom.us/j/93614526640?pwd=mIbnsQojp0sThQa4YyIcpfUQvdHPIY.1
9:00am

May
9

Miss. Yonglin LIU
PhD Student Seminar
Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamic Based Uncertainty Quantification Framework for Neural Operators
Room 4472 (lift 25-26)
5:00pm

May
9

Dr. Qian TANG
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Stokes Matrices and Quantum Groups
Room 5506 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

May
9

Mr. Lizhong CHEN
PhD Student Seminar
TTC in School Choice: A Pareto-Efficient and Strategy-Proof Mechanism with Minimal Justified Envy
Room 5510 (lift 25/26)
2:00pm

May
9

Mr. Yueyan JIANG
PhD Student Seminar
Estimating Upper bound of Kissing number via Semidefinite Programming
Room 4472 (lift 25/26)
2:00pm

May
9

Miss. Yakun LI
PhD Student Seminar
Thin-film Hydrodynamics of Active Nematic Fluid
Room 5510 (lift 25/26)
11:00am

May
9

Miss. Jiamin WU
PhD Thesis Examination
A Study of 3D Learning in Computer Vision and Science
Room 4475 (lift 25/26)
10:30am

May
8

Mr. Ruizhe XIA
PhD Student Seminar
Improved Guarantees of Riemannian Optimization for Low- Rank Matrix Recovery
Room 5506 (lift 25-26)
5:00pm

May
8

Prof. Junichi HARADA
Seminar on PDE
Finite energy solutions to the 6D Fujita equation in the Sobolev critical case
Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/97692499717 (Passcode: 816427)
4:00pm

May
8

Mr. Yuanhui LUO
PhD Student Seminar
Latent Subgroup Analysis with Observational Data
Room 2408 (lift 17-18)
2:00pm

May
7

Miss. Xinrui HUANG
PhD Student Seminar
XMR: A cross-population Mendelian randomization method for causal inference using genome-wide summary statistics
Room 2612B (lift 31/32)
4:00pm

May
7

Mr. Junwei MA
PhD Student Seminar
Tulczyjew's Approach for Particles in Gauge Fields
Room 2128B (lift 19)
4:00pm

May
7

Prof. Shijun LIAO
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Noise-expansion cascade � a fundamental property of Navier-Stokes equation
Room 2303 (lift 17 & 18)
4:00pm-5:00pm

May
7

Miss. Congyuan DUAN
PhD Student Seminar
Regret Minimization and Statistical Inference in Online Decision Making with High-dimensional Covariates
Room 3494 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm

May
7

Miss. Mengyue ZHA
PhD Thesis Examination
Plating Privacy onto Structured Data: Estimation Examples in Regression and an Open Challenge in PCA
Room 4475 (lift 25/26)
10:00am

May
6

Mr. Tianhao CHEN
PhD Student Seminar
Stabilizing Pre-LN Transformers via Gated Residual Paths
Room 4503 (lift 25/26)
11:00am

May
2

Prof. Yuan LOU
Departmental Colloquium
On principal eigenvalues for second order elliptic operators
Lecture Theatre F
3:00pm-4:00pm

Apr
28

Prof. Zuowei SHEN
Special Colloquium
Mathematics in Data Science
Room 2405 (lift 17 & 18)
4:00pm-5:00pm

Apr
26

Christopher BRAV
Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium
Beilinson-Parshin adeles via solid algebraic geometry
Room 2303 (lift 17 & 18)
9:30am-10:30am

Apr
26

Nick ROZENBLYUM
Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium
Geometric Langlands correspondence
Room 2303 (lift 17 & 18)
11:00am-12:00noon

Apr
25

Prof. Christopher Ira BRAV
Departmental Colloquium
Noncommutative string topology
Lecture Theatre F
3:00pm-4:00pm

Apr
24

Prof. Tristan RIVIERE
Seminar on PDE
Area Variations with Differential Constraints
Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/99230774811 (Passcode: 896212)
4:00pm

Apr
23

Nick ROZENBLYUM
Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Higher traces and characters of finite groups of Lie type
Room 2128B (lift 19)
4:00pm

Apr
16

Prof. Nicolas CROUSEILLES
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Charge and energy preserving numerical methods for Vlasov-Maxwell equations
Room 4475 (lift 25 & 26)
5:00pm-6:00pm

Apr
14

Dr. Yong LIN
Seminar on Applied Mathematics and Data Science
Introducing Goedel-Prover: A Frontier Model for Open-Source Automated Theorem Proving
Join Zoom Meeting : https://hkust.zoom.us/j/98329223175?pwd=di3nMuDReJjsFaoyrddvE1OjDotBoj.1 Meeting ID: 983 2922 3175 Passcode: hkust
8:00pm(hktime)

Apr
11

Prof. Christopher HENDERSON
Seminar on PDE
Nash inequalities and boundary behavior of kinetic equations
Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/96039685429 (Passcode: 096885)
9:30am

Apr
11

Prof. Zhigang YAO
Departmental Colloquium
Interaction of Statistics and Geometry: A New Landscape for Data Science
Lecture Theatre F
3:00pm-4:00pm

Apr
10

Mr. Hangyu LIN
PhD Student Seminar
Split Knockoffs for Transformational Sparsity in Generalized Linear Models
Room 5506 (lift 25/26)
4:00pm

Apr
7

Prof. Wenjia WANG
Seminar on Applied Mathematics and Data Science
Advancements in Kernel Learning and Offline Reinforcement Learning through Generative Models
Join Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/98329223175?pwd=di3nMuDReJjsFaoyrddvE1OjDotBoj.1 Meeting ID: 983 2922 3175 Passcode: hkust
7:00pm(hktime)

Mar
31

Prof. Fanghui LIU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics and Data Science
Be aware of model capacity when talking about generalization in machine learning
G009A, CYT Bldg
6:30pm

Mar
28

Prof. Antoine MELLET
Seminar on PDE
Phase separation and free boundary problems for aggregation-diffusion phenomena
Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/99111484217 (Passcode: 600657)
9:30am

Mar
28

Prof. Jingsong HUANG
Departmental Colloquium
Quantum computing from invariant and representation theoretical perspectives
Lecture Theatre F
3:00pm-4:00pm

Mar
26

Mr. Jonte GÖDICKE
Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Multi-fusion categories from 2-Segal spaces
Room 3598 (lift 27 & 28)
4:00pm

Mar
21

Prof. Gong CHEN
Seminar on PDE
Asymptotic stability of the sine-Gordon kink outside symmetry
Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/96353711289 (Passcode: 246196)
9:30am

Mar
21

Prof. Alejandro RAMIREZ
Departmental Colloquium
GUE fluctuations in directed ballistic deposition
Lecture Theatre F
3:00pm-4:00pm

Mar
19

Prof. Francesco SALA
Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Cohomological Hall algebras of 1-dimensional sheaves and Yangians
Room 3598
4:00pm

Mar
16

Prof. Peter L. GUO
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Zero-one characters of flagged Weyl modules
Room 4504 (lift 25/ 26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Mar
14

Prof. Yuming Paul ZHANG
Seminar on PDE
A Hele-Shaw type flow with interior and free boundary oscillation
Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/91943494293 (Passcode: 354618)
9:30am

Mar
14

Prof. Jing OUYANG
Seminar on Statistics
Covariate-Adjusted Generalized Factor Analysis with Application to Testing Fairness
Room 3598 (lift 27/28)
2:00pm

Mar
6

Prof. Frederic Robert
Seminar on PDE
Localization of bubbling for high order nonlinear equations
https://hkust.zoom.us/j/96565292221 (Passcode: 269806)
4:00pm

Mar
5

Prof. Lukas KOELSCH
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Semifields and their relations to finite geometry, coding theory, and cryptography
https://hkust.zoom.us/j/9832399155 (Passcode: 322024)
10:00am-11:00am

Feb
28

Prof. Aaron LAUDA
Departmental Colloquium
A new look at quantum knot invariants with an eye toward categorification
Lecture Theatre F
3:00pm-4:00pm

Feb
27

Special Seminar
Hang Lung Mathematics Awards Public Talk: The Future of Universities
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Hall, Asia Society Hong Kong Center
5:00-6:50pm

Feb
27

Prof. Laurent BETERMIN
Seminar on PDE
On crystallization in the plane for pair potentials with an arbitrary norm
Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/91694213932 (Passcode: 821196)
4:00pm

Feb
26

Prof. Aaron LAUDA
Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Nonsemisimple Topological Quantum Computation
Room 4472 (lift 25 & 26)
4:00pm-5:30pm

Feb
24

Prof. Zhihong XIA
Special Colloquium
A new machine learning algorithm, complex systems and AI predictions
Room 4621 (lift 31/32)
4:00pm-5:00pm

Feb
21

Prof. Ziqing XIE
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
On determining the critical perturbation values to a type of singularly perturbed Neumann problems
Room 5506 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Feb
19

Prof. Liu LIU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
A multi-fidelity approach for kinetic equations with multiple scales and uncertainties
Room 4475 (lift 25 & 26)
4:00pm-5:00pm

Feb
18

Prof. Yu ZHAO
Algebra and Geometry Seminar
Grassmannian of two term complexes and instantons on the blow ups
Room 2303 (lift 17 & 18)
10:00am-11:30am

Feb
14

Prof. Andrei NEGUT
Algebra and Geometry Seminar
q-characters for quantum loop groups
Room 3598 (lift 27 & 28)
4:30pm-6:00pm

Feb
13

Prof. Guochuan THIANG
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Exact fractional quantization
Room 3598 (lift 27 & 28)
4:00pm-5:00pm

Feb
12

Prof. Ziqing XIE
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Nehari manifold optimization and its application for finding unstable solutions of semilinear elliptic PDEs
Room 4472 (lift 25 & 26)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Feb
11

Prof. Peicheng ZHU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
New phase-field models for solid-solid phase transitions driven by material forces
Room 2306 (lift 17 & 18)
3:00pm-5:00pm

Feb
7

Prof. Qi LEI
Departmental Colloquium
Theoretical Evaluation of Data Reconstruction Error and Induced Optimal Defenses
Room 3598 (lift 25 & 26)
10:30am-11:30am

Feb
6

Prof. Peicheng ZHU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
New phase-field models for solid-solid phase transitions driven by material forces Part I: Weak solutions to a phase-field models for solid-solid phase transitions driven by material forces
Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 27-28)
4:00pm-5:00pm

Feb
6

Prof. Ziqing XIE
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Second-order flows for approaching stationary points of a class of non-convex energies via convexsplitting schemes
Room 3598, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 27-28)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Feb
4

Prof. Haiyan ZHOU
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Deep Holes of RS-codes and non RS-codes
Room 2408 (lift 17 & 18)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Feb
4

Prof. Zhengchun ZHOU
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Sequences with Good Properties for Modern Communication and Radar
Room 2408 (lift 17 & 18)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Jan
10

Prof. John C SCHOTLAND
Special Colloquium
Nonlocal PDEs and Quantum Optics
Lecture Theatre H
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jan
7

Dr. Jingge LIU
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Optimal RS Codes and GRS Codes Against Adversarial Insertions and Deletions and Optimal Constructions
Room 4503 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Jan
3

Miss. Jiayi LI
PhD Thesis Examination
New Provable Non-Convex Algorithms for Generalized Phase Retrieval
Room 4502 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm

Jan
3

Miss. Mingyu QUAN
MPhil Thesis Examination
Kinetic Model and Multiscale Simulation Method of Radiation Plasma System
Room 4504 (lift 25/26)
10:00am

Jan
3

Prof. Huaian DIAO
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Unique and stable determination of the obstacle by finitely many far-field measurements
Room 4502 (lift 25 & 26)
10:00am-11:00am

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