Schedule for Fall, 2025: All sessions held on Wednesdays at 4:00pm at ENR2, Room S395 (unless otherwise noted under NOTES) DATEPROFESSORTITLE & ABSTRACTNOTES9/3/2025Leonid KunyanskyMathematicsStudent Host: Aidan BuckoInverse problems arising in biomedical imaging 9/10/2025Kwang-Sung JunComputer ScienceStudent Host: Brenda Alvarez-OrtizLarge Language Model as Distribution Learning: Your Preference Model is Explicitly a Language Model 9/17/2025Oliver MontiChem & BiochemStudent Host: Shambhavi SrivastavaCutting through the noise: Advancing electronics one molecule at a time 9/24/2025Jan WehrMathematicsStudent Host: Jack MurphyThe Green Earth Hypothesis 10/1/2025no class 10/8/2025Tom PurcellChem & BiochemStudent Host: Rachel DeanCreating Automated Workflows for Functional Materials Discovery 10/15/2025Lise-Marie Imbert GerardMathematicsStudent Host: Lenox BaloglouA journey in applied mathematics: from two physical problems to numerical methods 10/22/2025no class 10/29/2025Ildar GabitovMathematicsStudent Host: Nigel VanPeltNonlinear Waves: (1) Our Department’s Role in Shaping the Theory, (2) Real-World Applications 11/5/2025Alexander BuckschPlant SciencesStudent Host: Sarwesh RauniyarToo much noise? - A quantitative dive into the mathematical challenges in plant phenomics 11/12/2025Anna DornhausEcology & Evolutionary BiologyStudent Host: Tim Zou 11/19/2025Erfan Yazdandoost HamedaniSystems & Industrial EngineeringStudent Host: Nishanta Baral 12/3/2025Liliana SalvadorAnimal & Comparative Biomed SciStudent Host: Griffin Smith
