Welcome to the seminar webpage of the CRM Applied Mathematics Laboratory. Seminars take place on Monday at 4:30pm ET either in hybrid or online format. Hybrid seminars are held at McGill's Burnside Hall (room 1104) and streamed online via Zoom. Online seminars take place on Zoom only. Please contact using the email address at the bottom of the page to subscribe to our mailing list and to receive Zoom links.

Organizing committee:
Jason Bramburger (Concordia)
Simone Brugiapaglia (Concordia)
Matthieu Cadiot (Mcgill)



CRM Applied Mathematics Seminars, Winter 2023

Time and Date Speaker Title and Abstract Location and Host Links
4:30pm
Jan. 16 2023		 Matt Holzer
(George Mason)		 Dynamics of Invasion Fronts in Spatially Extended Systems Hybrid
J. Bramburger		 Slides
4:30pm
Jan. 23 2023		 Aaron Berk
(McGill)		 On compressed sensing with generative neural networks and Fourier measurements Hybrid
S. Brugiapaglia		 Slides
4:30pm
Jan. 30 2023		 Martina Neuman
(Michigan State)		 Superiority of GNN over NN in generalizing bandlimited functions Hybrid
S. Brugiapaglia		 Slides
4:30pm
Feb. 6 2023		 Elizabeth Carlson
(University of Victoria)		 Deep Connections Between Data-Driven Methods and the Behavior & Stability of Turbulent Flows Zoom
J. Bramburger		 Slides
4:30pm
Feb. 13 2023		 Weiqi Wang
(Concordia)		 Compressive Fourier collocation methods for high-dimensional diffusion equations with periodic boundary conditions Hybrid
S. Brugiapaglia		 Slides
4:30pm
Feb. 20 2023		 Inbar Seroussi
(Tel-Aviv University)		 Generalization properties of Nonlinear Learning Models in High Dimensions Hybrid
C. Paquette		 Coming Soon
4:30pm
Feb. 27 2023		 Study break ~ ~ ~
4:30pm
Mar. 6 2023		 Laurent Lessard
(Northeastern)		 Robust control perspectives on algorithm analysis and design Hybrid
J. Forbes		 Coming Soon
4:30pm
Mar. 13 2023		 Katya Scheinberg
(Cornell)		 Overview of adaptive stochastic optimization methods Hybrid
C. Paquette		 Slides
4:30pm
Mar. 20 2023		 Ashwin Pananjady
(Georgia Tech)		 Sharply predicting the behavior of iterative algorithms in random nonconvex optimization problems Zoom
C. Paquette		 Coming Soon
4:30pm
Mar. 27 2023		 Mathias Legrand
(McGill)		 Modal Analysis of One Dimensional Structures Prone to Unilateral Contact Conditions Hybrid
J. Forbes		 Coming Soon
4:30pm
Apr. 3 2023		 Markos Katsoulakis
(University of Massachusetts)		 Function-space regularized information divergences and optimal transport for enhanced generative modeling Hybrid
R. Choksi		 Slides
4:30pm
Apr. 10 2023		 Easter Monday ~ ~ ~



CRM Applied Mathematics Seminars, Fall 2022

Time and Date Speaker Title and Abstract Location and Host CRM Recordings
4pm
Sept. 12 2022		 James Forbes
(McGill)		 Regularization Techniques in Koopman-based System Identification Hybrid
T. Hoheisel		 Not available
4pm
Sept. 19 2022		 Quentin Bertrand
(Mila)		 Implicit Differentiation in Non-Smooth Convex Learning Hybrid
S. Brugiapaglia		 Coming Soon
4pm
Sept. 26 2022		 Akitoshi Takayasu
(University of Tsukuba)		 A general approach for rigorously integrating PDEs using semigroup theory Hybrid
J-P. Lessard		 Coming Soon
4pm
Oct. 3 2022		 David Goluskin
(U. of Victoria)		 Verifying global stability of fluid flows despite transient growth of energy Hybrid
J. Bramburger		 Coming Soon
4pm
Oct. 10 2022		 Thanksgiving ~ ~ ~
4pm
Oct. 17 2022		 Nicola Guglielmi
(Gran Sasso Science Institute)		 Robust stability of linear systems of linear delay differential equations on Zoom
A. Humphries		 Coming Soon
4pm
Oct. 24 2022		 Robert Baraldi
(Sandia National Labs)		 An Inexact Trust-Region Algorithm for Nonsmooth Nonconvex Regularized Problems Hybrid
S. Brugiapaglia		 Coming Soon
4pm
Oct. 31 2022		 Olivier Lafitte
(UMI-CRM)		 Zeldovich-Von Neumann Doring detonation theory Hybrid
D. Tageddine		 Coming Soon
4pm
Nov. 7 2022		 Serge Prudhomme
(Polytechnique Montreal)		 On the approximation of the wave equation based on Green's functions and neural networks Hybrid
S. Brugiapaglia		 Coming Soon
3pm
Nov. 14 2022		 Tatiana Bubba
(University of Bath)		 Deeply learned regularization for limited angle computed tomography on Zoom
S. Brugiapaglia		 Coming Soon
4pm
Nov. 21 2022		 Boumediene Hamzi
(Johns Hopkins University)		 Machine Learning and dynamical systems meet in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces Hybrid
J. Bramburger		 Coming Soon
4pm
Nov. 28 2022		 Kimon Fountoulakis
(U. of Waterloo)		 Graph Attention Retrospective on Zoom
C. Paquette		 Coming Soon
4h
Dec. 5 2022		 Stephanie Dodson
(Colby College)		 When curvature promotes or obstructs the ability of a pacemaking region to drive activity in excitable tissue on Zoom
J. Bramburger		 Coming Soon