Jul
27

Mr. Ningyu YAN
PhD Thesis Examination
Towards Physical AI: Physical Simulation, Generative Modeling, and Embodied Interaction
Rm 5506 (lift 25/26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
09:30am

Jul
27

Miss. Congyuan  DUAN
PhD Thesis Examination
Online Personalized Decision Making: Algorithms, Regret and Statistical Inference
Room 5508 (lift 25/26)
10:00am

Jul
27

Prof. Lin DU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Data-Driven Identification and Prediction of Dynamical Systems with Integrated Physical Structural Information
Room 4504 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm-4:00pm

Jul
29

Mr. Xuan Trung VU
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Quantum Harish-Chandra bimodules at roots of unity and affine Hecke category
Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/94909097586?pwd=BgPyjpAdGLQFix1nRPsBOU27wN4sHW.1 Meeting Chat Link: https://hkust.zoom.us/launch/jc/94909097586 Meeting ID: 949 0909 7586 Passcode: 224431
10:00am-11:00am

Jul
29

Prof. Kailiang WU
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Geometric Quasi-Linearization (GQL) and Structure-Preserving Analysis: From a General Framework to Unveiling Algebraic-Differential Relations in MHD
Room 5402 (lift 17/18)
4:00pm-5:00pm

Jul
30

Mr. Wenpei  LONG
PhD Thesis Examination
Gas-Kinetic Theory-Based Methods for Nonequilibrium Flow Simulations: Acceleration Strategies and Applications in Aerospace and Microflows
Room 4502 (lift 25/26)
10:00am

Aug
3

Prof. Yibao  LI
Seminar on Applied Mathematics
Reconstruction of phase field model with an EnKF-based restoration framework
Room 4502 (lift 25/26)
10:00am-11:00am

Aug
3

Mr. Bingxin WANG
PhD Thesis Examination
Semantic Information Under Bandwidth and Compute Constraints in Visual Compression and Generation
Room 5508 (lift 25-26), 5/F Academic Building
3:00pm

Aug
3

Mr. Yang  HU
MPhil Thesis Examination
Construction of Higher Sheaf Theory
Room 4472 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm

Aug
6

Miss. Yaxin  FENG
PhD Thesis Examination
Efficient Computational Approaches to Mean-Field Dynamical Systems and Variational Problems
Rm 4503 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm

Aug
7

Mr. Ka Hei CHOY
PhD Thesis Examination
The Spin Chain Models and q-Character Theory via Semi-infinite Cohomology
Room 4472 (lift 25/26)
10:00am

Aug
7

Mr. Bokai YAN
PhD Thesis Examination
Neural Network Methods for Nonparametric Regression
Room 5510 (lift 25-26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
10:00am

Aug
10

Mr. Bingsong  GAO
MPhil Thesis Examination
Differential Private Empirical Risk Minimization by Gradient Descent
Room 5506 (lift 25/26)
3:00pm

Aug
10

Mr. Zihao ZHANG
MPhil Thesis Examination
Understanding Contrastive Learning: Theoretical Perspectives and an Analysis of Bilinear Matrix Representations
Room 2504 (lift 25-26)
4:00pm

Jul
22

Mr. Junwei MA
PhD Thesis Examination
1D Generalized Kepler Problems
Rm 5508 (lift 25/26), 5/F Academic Building, HKUST
2:00pm

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

Jul
17

Mr. Kin Ting Ken  HUNG
PhD Thesis Examination
Applications of the Multilayer Level Set Method in Interface and Inverse Problems
Room 4502 (lift 25/26)
10:00am

Jul
16

Mr. Xin XU
PhD Thesis Examination
Towards Better Reasoning in Large Language Models
Rm 4472 (lift 25/26), 4/F Academic Building, HKUST
4:00pm

Jul
15

Dr. Carlo  SCALI
Seminar on Probability
Branching random walk in random spatial environment
Room 4475 (lift 25/26)
2:00pm-3:00pm

Jul
15

Mr. Jiacheng WU
MPhil Thesis Examination
Portfolio Optimization with Directional References and Market-State Conditioning in Crypto Markets
Room 4472 (lift 25-26)
2:00pm

Jul
14

Miss. Xinrui  HUANG
PhD Thesis Examination
Statistical and Computational Methods for Genetic and Cellular Omics Data Analysis
Rm 4503 (lift 25/26)
3:30pm

Jul
14

Mr. Tianhao  CHEN
PhD Thesis Examination
On the Architecture and Reasoning of Large Language Models
Rm 4503 (lift 25/26)
10:30am

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
7

Prof. Minjia SHI
Seminar on Pure Mathematics
Recent progress on the mass formula for linear codes with prescribed hull dimension
Zoom Meeting: https://hkust.zoom.us/j/92053464812?pwd=LGhQkwkoWuqQuzZ52lCgdqEH57Dxl6.1 Meeting ID: 920 5346 4812 Passcode: 053959
8:30am-9:30am

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

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 4502 (lift 25/26)
11:00am-12:00noon

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
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
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
18

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

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
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. 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

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