Jun
16

Prof. Jingmei QIU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Sampling-Based Adaptive Rank Integrators for Multi-scale Kinetic Models
Room 4504 (lift 25/26)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Jun
16

Dr. Satyaki  MUKHERJEE
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Stability, Fluctuations, and Non-Chaos in Gaussian Mixture NPMLEs
Room 1409 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jun
16

Miss. Yakun  LI
PhD Thesis Examination
Variational Modeling and Numerical Simulations of Active Thin Films and Evaporating Thin Films
Room 4472 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm

Jun
17

Mr. Hangyu  LIN
PhD Thesis Examination
Towards Trustworthy Machine Learning: Alignment Tax of LLMs and False Discovery Rate Control
Room 4472 (lift 25/26)
10:30am

Jun
17

Prof. Kunlun  QI
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Fast Fourier spectral method for kinetic equations: from particle to wave
Room 4475 (lift 25/26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Jun
17

Prof. Yichen  ZHANG
Seminar on Statistics
The Statistical Limits of Information Sharing: Time-Series Forecasting and Optimization in Decentralized Systems
Room 4502 (lift 25/26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Jun
17

Prof. Shinsuke IWAO
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Pushing TASEP and dual stable Grothendieck polynomials
Room 4475 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jun
18

Prof. Jiwei ZHAO
Seminar on Statistics
Harnessing AI-Predicted Data for Trustworthy Statistical Inference
Room 4502 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm

Jun
22

Prof. Annie QU
Special Colloquium
Transferring Treatment Effects Across Heterogeneous Sites via Distributional Causal Inference
Room 4503 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jun
22

Dr. Jiaxin  ZHOU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Local Robustness of Bound States in the Continuum through Scattering-Matrix Eigenvector Continuation
Room 4502 (lift 25/26)
4:00pm-5:00pm

Jun
23

Prof. Yulong LU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
In-Context Learning in Scientific Computing
Room 4504 (lift 25/26)
10:00am-11:00am

Jun
29

Dr. Tim Tsz-Kit LAU
Joint Seminar with IEDA
Symmetry-Compatible Principle for Optimizer Design: Embeddings, LM Heads, SwiGLU MLPs, and MoE Routers
Room 2302 (lift 17/18)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jul
3

Dr. Qinxun  BAI
Seminar on Statistics and Data Science
Functional Critics Are Essential for Actor-Critic: From Off-Policy Stability to Efficient Exploration
Room 4502 (lift 25/26)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Jul
8

Mr. Wenrui KONG
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Curvature Estimates along Immortal Kähler-Ricci Flows
Room 2463 (lift 25/26)
4:00pm-5:00pm

Jul
17

Mr. Ka Lun LEUNG
MPhil Thesis Examination
A Structure-Preserving Method for the Traveltime Gradient of the Eikonal Equation
Room 4502 (lift 25/26)
2:00pm

Jun
15

Prof. Bo LI
Seminar on Statistics
Spatial Changepoint Detection to Map the Impact of the Mount Pinatubo Eruption
Room 5560 (lift 27/28)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Jun
15

Prof. Xiaodong YAN
Seminar on Statistics
Agentic AI: Mathematical Framework, Statistical Theory, Optimization Algorithms, and Applications
Room 2463 (lift 25/26)
10:00am

Jun
12

Prof. Xiuyuan  CHENG
Departmental Colloquium
Intrinsic low-dimensional geometry in high-dimensional data: from adaptive Gaussian processes to manifold diffusion operators
Lecture Theatre F (lift 25/26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jun
12

Prof. Minwoo  CHAE
Seminar on Statistics
Nonparametric undirected graphical model selection using diffusion models
Room 4504 (lift 25/26)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Jun
12

Prof. Ji ZHU
Seminar on Statistics and Data Science
Efficient Embedding and Generative Modeling for Hypergraphs
Room 4504 (lift 25/26)
11:00am-12:00noon

Jun
10

Prof. Guofu YU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
The trigonometric-type three-field Blaszak-Marciniak lattice equation
Room 4503 (lift 25/26)
4:00pm-5:00pm

Jun
10

Dr. Weiming LI
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Efficient Particle Method for Multiscale Photon Transport
Room 4503 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jun
10

Mr. Haohan  HUANG
PhD Thesis Examination
Development of High-Order Shock-Capturing Methods for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
Room 4472 (lift 25/26)
10:00am

Jun
10

Mr. Wan Hin MOK
MPhil Thesis Examination
Real-Time Tropical Cyclone Pressure and Wind Field Modelling using Local Measurements from Ground-Level Stations and Real-Time Tropical Cyclone Reports
Room 4472 (lift 25-26)
10:00am

Jun
8

Prof. Jianliang  QIAN
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
A Fast Butterfly-compressed Hadamard-Babich Integrator for High-frequency Helmholtz Equations in Inhomogeneous Media
Room 2463 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jun
8

Prof. Wenlong MOU
Joint Seminar with IEDA
Predicting and Optimizing Test-Time Scaling in Large Language Models
Room 4504 (lift 25/26)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Jun
3

Prof. Shuxing  LI
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Partial Difference Sets: Broadening the Scope of the Denniston Family
Zoom Link : https://hkust.zoom.us/j/92042830673?pwd=99wYPrmsasupPHMT0X9ArhwauKX2fg.1 Meeting ID: 920 4283 0673 Passcode: 585603
10:00am-10:50am

May
28

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

May
27

Prof. Anthony  LAZZERONI
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Interpolation of Hopf monoids
Room 1410 (lift 25/26)
4:00pm-5:00pm

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
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
21

Prof. Jiaxin  XIE
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Linear convergence of Gearhart-Koshy accelerated Kaczmarz methods for tensor linear systems
Room 4579 (lift 27 & 28)
4:00pm-5:00pm

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
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
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