EVENTS | Department of Mathematics

Dec
30

Prof. Zongwu CAI
Center for Statistical Science Seminar
Models on Testing Predictability of Asset Returns
Room 1504 (lift 25/26), Academic Building, HKUST
3:00pm-4:00pm

Dec
28

Prof. Thuan NGUYEN
Seminar on Statistics
Classified Mixed Model Prediction
Room 2463 (lift 25 & 26)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Dec
28

Prof. Jiming JIANG
Seminar on Statistics
On High-dimensional Misspecified Mixed Model Analysis and Genome-wide Association Study
Room 2463 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Dec
21

Prof. Man-Chun LEE
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Chern-Ricci flow on non-compact manifolds
Room 3494 (lift 25,26)
4:15pm-5:15pm

Dec
21

Prof. Yanqi QIU
Seminar on Probability
The Lyons-Peres conjecture
Room 4472 (lift 25 & 26)
3:30pm

Dec
21

Prof. Bun WONG
Lecture Series
Complex Geometry (Lecture 3)
Room 3494 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Dec
21

Prof. Simon FOUCART
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
The Fundamentals of Compressive Sensing Lecture 3 & 4
Room 5510, Academic Building (lift 25 & 26), HKUST
10:00am-12:00noon

Dec
21

Prof. Alexander VOLBERG
Special Seminar
Hamming cube, martingales, Monge-Amp\�ere, and ancient solutions of heat equation
Room 4472, Academic Building, (lift 25&26), HKUST
1:45pm-2:45pm

Dec
20

Prof. Lei LI
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Some new progress of time fractional differential equations with Caputo derivatives
Room 5506, Academic Building (lift 25 & 26), HKUST
2:00pm-3:00pm

Dec
20

Mr. Shizhang LI
Seminar on Geometry
On some of Jonathan Nicaise's work (reading report)
Room 1504 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-3:30pm

Dec
19

Mr. Shizhang LI
Seminar on Geometry
(Part 1) Formal model of Rigid space and Projective reduction & (Part 2) Hodge numbers of rigid analytic varieties
Room 1504 (lift 25 & 26)
2:00pm-4:30pm

Dec
18

Mr. Shizhang LI
Seminar on Geometry
A basic introduction of rigid spaces
Room 1504 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-12:30pm

Dec
15

Frontiers of Theory and Applications of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
IAS4042
9:00am-5:00pm

Dec
15

Prof. Xinghua ZHENG
Seminar on Probability
Spatial SIR epidemic processes and their asymptotics
Lecture Theatre K (LTK), Academic Building, HKUST
4:00pm-5:30pm

Dec
15

Prof. Guangyue HAN
Seminar on Probability
An introduction to information theory
Lecture Theatre K (LTK), Academic Building, HKUST
2:00pm-3:30pm

Dec
14

Frontiers of Theory and Applications of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
IAS4042
9:00am-5:00pm

Dec
14

Prof. Bun WONG
Lecture Series
Complex Geometry (Lecture 2)
Room 3494 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Dec
13

Frontiers of Theory and Applications of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
IAS4042
9:00am-5:00pm

Dec
12

Frontiers of Theory and Applications of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
IAS4042
9:00am-5:00pm

Dec
11

Frontiers of Theory and Applications of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
IAS4042
8:30am-5:00pm

Dec
11

Prof. Zhilin LI
Seminar on Scientific Computation
Fast solvers for interface, irregular domain, and discontinuous coefficients problems using an augmented strategy
Room 1511, Academic Building (lift 27 & 28)
3:30pm-5:30pm

Dec
11

Mr. Kai Fa WONG
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Geometry and Arithmetic of Shtukas'
Room 1511, Academic Building (lift 27&28), HKUST
2:00pm-3:00pm

Dec
9

Prof. Simon FOUCART
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
The Fundamentals of Compressive Sensing
Room 3494
1:30pm-3:30pm

Dec
7

Prof. Bun WONG
Lecture Series
Complex Geometry (Lecture 1)
Room 3494 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Dec
4

IAS Focused Program on Scientific Computing, 4-8 December 2017
IAS Lecture Theater
8:40am-6:00pm

Nov
30

Prof. Mengjie CHEN
Seminar on Statistics
Removing Unwanted Variation Using both Control and Target Genes in Single Cell RNA Sequencing Studies
Room 5508 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Nov
28

Prof. Yanli SONG
Lie Theory Seminar
K-type multiplicities of tempered representations via coadjoint orbits
Room 4472 (lift 25 & 26)
4:00pm-5:00pm

Nov
27

Prof. Mourad E.H. ISMAIL
Lecture Series
Elliptic analogues. We will define the q-gamma and the elliptic gamma function. An outline of the theory will be given but we will include proofs of only elementary material. We will explain how the theory parallels the q-series theory
Room 2406 (lift 17 & 18)
3:00-4:30pm

Nov
23

Prof. Wei XU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Moment Matching Machine Learning Methods for Risk Management of Large Variable Annuity Portfolios
Room 5506 (lift 25 & 26)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Nov
23

Prof. Yue M. LU
Joint Seminar by Depts of Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Mathematics (MATH)
Asymptotic Methods for Big Data: Precise Analysis, Fundamental Limits, and Optimal Designs
Room 2303 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00-12:00noon

Nov
22

Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Half-day Workshop on Applied Mathematics
Room 2405 (lift 17 & 18)
2:00pm-4:30pm

Nov
22

Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Half-day Workshop on Applied Mathematics
Room 2405 (lift 17 & 18)
2:00pm-4:30pm

Nov
20

Mr. Max JOSHUA
Math-Physic Joint Seminar
Twinkle ? a low-Earth orbit visible and infrared exoplanet spectroscopy observatory
Room 4582 (lift 27 & 28)
6:30pm-9:00pm

Nov
20

Prof. Mourad E.H. ISMAIL
Lecture Series
The Ramanujan function, its zeros and combinatorics
Room 2406 (lift 17 & 18)
3:00pm-4:30pm

Nov
17

Prof. Mourad E.H. ISMAIL
Lecture Series
Partition identities and continued fractions. This includes the Rogers-Ramanujan and related identities. There are also related continued fractions
Room 2306 (lift 17 & 18)
3:00-4:30pm

Nov
13

Prof. Mourad E.H. ISMAIL
Lecture Series
The theory of q-Hermite polynomials, the Askey--Wilson and related integrals
Room 2406 (lift 17 & 18)
3:00-4:30pm

Nov
13

Prof. Hiroyoshi MITAKE
Seminar on Geometry
On asymptotic speed for level set equations with source terms
Room 4475 (lift 25 & 26)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Nov
10

Prof. Mourad E.H. ISMAIL
Lecture Series
The combinatorics of q -binomial coefficients and summation theorems. This is a mixture of results on partitions and counting problems involving vector spaces over finite fields
Room 2406 (lift 17 & 18)
3:00-4:30pm

Nov
9

Dr. Zhixiang LIN
Seminar on Statistics
Simultaneous dimension reduction and adjustment for confounding variation
Room 4472 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Nov
7

Mr. Dave LIU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Crypto Currency Security and Performance on Large Data
Room 1504, Academic Building, HKUST
10:30am-11:30am

Nov
6

Prof. Mourad E.H. ISMAIL
Lecture Series
Introductory definitions of the q divided difference operators, q-binomial coefficients, and elementary theory of partitions
Room 2406 (lift 17 & 18)
3:00pm-4:30pm

Nov
3

Mr. Bo LI
Scientific Computation Concentration
Exploring the Function Space of Deep-Learning Machines
Room 3494 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Nov
3

Prof. Andrey LOSEV
Seminar on Geometry
On Feynman Geometry
Room 5508 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00-12noon

Oct
27

Prof. Scott SLOAN
Scientific Computation Concentration
Geotechnical Stability Analysis
LT H (lift 25 & 26)
6:00pm-8:00pm

Oct
25

Prof. Yue M. LU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Asymptotic Methods for High-Dimensional Inference: Exploiting the Blessings of Dimensionality
Room 5510 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Oct
21

Prof. Lie FU
Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium
From K3 surfaces to hyper-K?hler varieties
Room 4475, Academic Building, HKUST
11:20am-12:20pm

Oct
21

Prof. Lie FU
Hong Kong Geometry Colloquium
From K3 surfaces to hyper-K�hler varieties
Room 4475, Academic Building, HKUST
10:00am-11:00am

Oct
20

Prof. Yuk J. LEUNG
Lecture Series
Lecture Series on Quadratic Differentials and Inverse Problems
Room 4472, Academic Building, HKUST(lift 25&26)
3:00pm-4:30pm

Oct
18

Prof. Yuk J. LEUNG
Lecture Series
Transmission Eigenvalues for Spherically Stratified Media (joint work with David Colton)
IAS4042
12:00noon-1:30pm

Oct
17

Dr. Ji LI
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
An Algorithmic Overview of Phase Retrieval
Room 2408 (lift 17 & 18)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Oct
17

Prof. Lie FU
Seminar on Geometry
Chow rings of crepant resolution: the motivic version of Ruan's conjecture
Room 5508 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Oct
13

Prof. Yuk J. LEUNG
Lecture Series
Lecture Series on Quadratic Differentials and Inverse Problems
Room 4472, Academic Building, HKUST(lift 25&26)
3:00pm-4:30pm

Oct
11

Prof. Yuk J. LEUNG
Lecture Series
Lecture Series on Quadratic Differentials and Inverse Problems
Room 4472, Academic Building, HKUST(lift 25&26)
3:30pm-5:00pm

Oct
6

Prof. Ding PAN
Scientific Computation Concentration
Computational Materials Science and Sustainability
Room 2406, Academic Building, HKUST (lift# 17/18)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Oct
6

Prof. Renjie FENG
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Critical radius and supremum of random spherical harmonics
Room 3472 (lift no. 25/26)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Oct
4

Dr. Xin LIU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
A Parallelizable Algorithm for Orthogonally Constrained Optimization Problems
Rm4472 (lift # 25/26)
4:00pm-5:00pm

Oct
3

Prof. Renjie FENG
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Spectrum of SYK model
Room 3472 (lift no. 25/26)
4:00pm-5:00pm

Sep
28

Prof. Zhiyuan LI
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Tautological cycles on moduli space of IHS manifolds
Room 4475 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00-12:00noon

Sep
26

Prof. Congpei AN
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
A quick numerical trip to spherical t-designs
Room 5506 (lift# 26/26)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Sep
26

Prof. Zhiyuan LI
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Supersingular irreducible holomorphic symplectic varieties
Room 4475 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00-12:00noon

Sep
22

Symposium on Quantitative Finance
Organized by MSc Program in Financial Mathematics
IAS Lecture Theater, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST
9:00am-5:45pm

Sep
22

Prof. Bochen LIU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Group actions, the Mattila integral and its applications
Rm 5506 (lift no. 25/26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Sep
18

Prof. Phillips GRIFFITHS
Departmental Colloquium
Hodge theory and boundaries of moduli spaces
IAS Rm4042, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus
2:30pm-3:30pm

Sep
14

Prof. Phillip GRIFFITHS
A Tale of Two Mathematicians
IAS Lecture Theater, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus
2:30-4:00pm

Sep
13

Prof. Jianyu HU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
A peculiar lens-shaped structure observed in the South China Sea
Room 3494 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Sep
11

Prof. Jianyu HU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Dynamics of wind-driven upwelling off the northeastern coast of Hainan Island
Room 4475 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00-4:00pm

Sep
8

Prof. Jianyu HU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Progress on upwelling studies in the China seas
Room 4475 (lift 25 & 26)
4:00-5:00pm

Sep
1

Prof. Amit SINGER
HKUST Jockey Club INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
Mathematics for Cryo-electron Microscopy
IAS Lecture Theater, Lee Shau Kee Campus
4:00pm-5:15pm

Sep
1

Prof. NING GAO
HKUST Jockey Club INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
Cryo-electron Microscopy Breakthroughs and Applications in 3D Biological Imaging
IAS Lecture Theater, Lee Shau Kee Campus
2:30pm-3:45pm

Aug
31

Prof. Ming-Chih LAI
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Vesicle dynamics and electrohydrodynamics: modeling and simulations
Room 1505 (lift 25 & 26)
4:30pm-6:00pm

Aug
29

Beihang-HKUST Summer School Group Discussion
Room 1505 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00pm-5:00pm

Aug
28

Prof. Dinesh SINGH
Departmental Colloquium
From The Indus Valley To Srinivas Ramanujan: A History Of Indian Mathematics
LT G (lift 25 & 26)
3:00-4:00pm

Aug
28

Prof. Chengwen ZHONG
Seminar on Scientific Computation
An Implicit Discrete Unified Gas-Kinetic Scheme for All Flow Regimes
Room 4472 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Aug
25

Prof. Takashi SAKAJO
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
One-dimensional Hydrodynamic Model for
Room 5506 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00-4:00pm

Aug
24

Prof. Ming-Chih LAI
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
An introduction to Immersed Boundary Method and its applications to interfacial flows with surfactant
Room 1505 (lift 25 & 26)
4:30-6:00pm

Aug
24

Prof. Richard JAMES
Departmental Colloquium
Twisted X-rays, orbital angular momentum and the determination of atomic structure
Room 3472 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Aug
23

Prof. Richard JAMES
Departmental Colloquium
Twisted X-rays, orbital angular momentum and the determination of atomic structure
Room 4504 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00-4:00pm

Aug
21

Prof. Ruo LI
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
(1) On Hyperbolic Moment Models for Kinetic Equation; (2) Viscos Regularization for Moment System of Boltzmann Equation
Room 4475 (lift 25 & 26)
2:00-5:00pm

Aug
21

Prof. Chenchen MOU
Seminar on PDE
Uniqueness and existence of viscosity solutions for a class of integro-differential equations
Room 3472 (lift 25 & 26)
2:00-3:00pm

Aug
19

Prof. Keaton HAMM
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
CUR Matrix Decomposition and Subspace Segmentation
Room 1505 (lift 25 & 26)
10:00am-11:00am

Aug
18

Prof. Shuyang DAI
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Dislocation network structures in bilayer sheet
Room 4504 (lift 25 & 26)
4:00-5:00pm

Aug
18

Prof. Chun-Wei PAO
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Molecular Simulations of Solar Energy Harvesting Materials
Room 4504 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00-4:00pm

Aug
15

Prof. Weiyu XU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Convex Geometry for Structured Signal Recovery: Super-Resolution and Total Variation Minimization
Room 5506 (lift 25 & 26)
2:00-3:00pm

Aug
10

Student participants of RIPS-HK program
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Final presentations of research projects in
LSK 1011 (LS Building, lift 1 & 2)
4:30-6:30pm

Aug
10

Prof. Weiyu XU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Convex Geometry for Structured Signal Recovery: Super-Resolution and Total Variation Minimization
Room 4475 (lift 25 & 26)
2:00-3:00pm

Aug
9

Prof. Dan MORDEHAI
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Modelling of Defects in Solids in Small Scale
Room 4475 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00-4:00pm

Aug
7

Prof. Hongjie DONG
Seminar on PDE
Elliptic equations from composite materials
Room 3472 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00-12:00pm

Aug
4

Student participants of SPIA program
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Final presentations of research projects in SPIA program
LSK 1011 (LSK Bldg, lift 1 & 2)
4:30om-6:30pm

Aug
4

Prof. Jiequan LI
Seminar on Scientific Computation
Fundamentals of Lax-Wendroff type approach to hyperbolic problems with discontinuities
Room 2131A (lift 19)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Aug
4

Prof. Jiequan LI
Seminar on Scientific Computation
Thermodynamical effects and high resolution methods for compressible fluid flows
Room 2131A (lift 19)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Aug
4

Prof. Hongjie DONG
Seminar on PDE
On weighted Lp-estimates for elliptic and parabolic equations
Room 3472 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00-12:00pm

Aug
3

Prof. Nung Kwan YIP
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Analysis of thresholding schemes for interfacial motions
5504
3:30pm-5:00pm

Aug
3

Mr. Hao LIU
PhD Student Seminar
A Finite Element/Operator-Splitting Method for the Numerical Solution of the Monge-Ampère Equation: Two-Dimensional Problems
Room 2610 (lift 31&32)
2:30pm-3:30pm

Aug
3

Prof. Nung Kwan YIP
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Analysis of thresholding schemes for interfacial motions
5504
10:30am-12:00pm

Aug
2

Dr. Liang PAN
Seminar on Scientific Computation
Two-stage fourth-order gas-kinetic scheme for
Room 2131A (lift 19)
4:00pm-5:00pm

Aug
2

Prof. Jiequan LI
Seminar on Scientific Computation
Consistency of finite volume approximation to hyperbolic balance laws
Room 2131B (lift 19)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Aug
2

Prof. Hongjie DONG
Seminar on PDE
On weak type-(1, 1) esti
Room 3427 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00-12:00pm

Aug
1

Prof. Huaian DIAO
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Small sample statistical condition estimation for the total least squares problem
Room 5508 (lift 25 & 26)
4:00pm-4:50pm

Jul
28

Han LIU
Seminar on Scientific Computation
Combinatorial Inference
Room 4472 (lift 25 & 26)
10:30am-11:30am

Jul
25

Mr. Feng RUAN
Seminar in Statistics/Applied Mathematics
Local Asymptotics for some Stochastic Optimization Problems: Optimality, Constraint Identification, and Dual Averaging
Room 1505 (lift 25 & 26)
10:30am

Jul
20

Mr. Feng RUAN
Seminar in Statistics/Applied Mathematics
Local Asymptotics for some Stochastic Optimization Problems: Optimality, Constraint Identification, and Dual Averaging
Room 1505 (lift 25 & 26)
10:30am-11:30am

Jul
19

Prof. Jingang XIONG
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Compactness of conformal metrics of constant Q-curvature
Room 3472 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jul
18

Prof. Alex Chi-Kwong FOK
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Representation stability and moduli spaces
Room 5508 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jul
17

Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Mid-presentations of research projects in RIPS-HK and SPIA programs
Room 4502 (lift 25 & 26)
2:00pm-5:00pm

Jul
7

Prof. Xin GAO
Seminar on Statistics
A framework for scalable parameter estimation of gene circuit models using structural information
Room 4502 (lift 25 & 26)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Jul
7

Prof. Hongjie DONG
Seminar on PDE
Elliptic equations from composite materials
Room 3472 (lift 25 & 26)
11:00-12:00pm

Jul
6

Mr. Diwei LI
PhD Student Seminar
Admissible representation, discrete series, and Harish-Chandra parameter
Room 5506 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

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