Events & Seminars
Electrical Impedance Tomography with Minimal Measurements
Online Decision Making with Variance Information and Privacy Constriants
Entropy-based convergence rates of greedy algorithms
Multi-task Learning for Gaussian Graphical Regressions with High Dimensional Covariates
Precision Medicine: Subgroup Identification in Clinical Trials
A non-perturbative renormalization group analysis of stochastic spiking networks
On the Nonexistence of Generalized Bent Functions
The Emergence of Generalizability and Semantic Low-Dim Subspaces in Diffusion Models
Conjectural equivalences of derived categories of Higgs bundles
Knowledge, Topology, and Mathematical Characterization of Closure Operator for Subset Systems
Jun
12
Seminar on Statistics and Data Science
Efficient Embedding and Generative Modeling for Hypergraphs
Room 4504 (lift 25/26)
11:00am-12:00noon
Jun
12
Seminar on Statistics
Nonparametric undirected graphical model selection using diffusion models
Room 4504 (lift 25/26)
2:00pm-3:00pm
Jun
12
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
15
Seminar on Statistics
Agentic AI: Mathematical Framework, Statistical Theory, Optimization Algorithms, and Applications
Room 2463 (lift 25/26)
10:00am
Jun
15
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
16
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
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
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
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
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Pushing TASEP and dual stable Grothendieck polynomials
Room 4475 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm-4:00pm
Jun
18
Seminar on Statistics
Harnessing AI-Predicted Data for Trustworthy Statistical Inference
Room 4502 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm
Jun
22
Special Colloquium
Transferring Treatment Effects Across Heterogeneous Sites via Distributional Causal Inference
Room 4503 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm-4:00pm
Jun
23
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
In-Context Learning in Scientific Computing
Room 4504 (lift 25/26)
10:00am-11:00am
Jun
29
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
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
Jun
10
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
The trigonometric-type three-field Blaszak-Marciniak lattice equation
Room 4503 (lift 25/26)
4:00pm-5:00pm
Jun
10
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Efficient Particle Method for Multiscale Photon Transport
Room 4503 (lift 25 & 26)
3:00pm-4:00pm
Jun
10
PhD Thesis Examination
Development of High-Order Shock-Capturing Methods for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
Room 4472 (lift 25/26)
10:00am
Jun
10
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
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
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
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
Special Colloquium
Recent developments on Finite mixture models
Room 1409 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm-4:00pm
May
27
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Interpolation of Hopf monoids
Room 1410 (lift 25/26)
4:00pm-5:00pm
May
27
PhD Thesis Examination
On the Learning of Gaussian Mixture Models: Model Selection and Parameter Estimation
Room 1409 (lift 25/26)
10:00am
May
22
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
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
PhD Thesis Examination
Essays on the Interest Rate and Corporate Derivatives Pricing
Room 1409 (lift 25/26)
2:00pm
May
21
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
PhD Student Seminar
Onsager Principle-Based Physics-Informed Neural Network for Conserved Interfacial Dynamics
Room 5508 (lift 25/26)
4:00pm
May
14
PhD Student Seminar
TextBoost: Boosting Scene Text Fidelity in Ultra-low Bitrate Image Compression
Room 4475 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm
May
14
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
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
PhD Student Seminar
Prediction-powered Inference by Mixture of Experts
Room 4472, Academic Building, HKUST (lift 25-26)
10:00am
May
13
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