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Colloquium

November 12, 2025

FDS Colloquium: George Lan (Georgia Tech), “Algorithmic Foundations of Risk-averse Optimization for Trustworthy AI”

Talk summary: Over the past two decades, stochastic optimization has made remarkable strides, driving its widespread adoption in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). […]
November 19, 2025

FDS Colloquium: Juan Carlos Perdomo Silva (NYU), “The Relative Value of Prediction”

Talk Summary: Predictive algorithms are increasingly used to guide the allocation of scarce resources—from deciding which students receive tutoring in Wisconsin to targeting cash […]
December 10, 2025

Cancelled: FDS Colloquium: J. Nathan Kutz (UW), “Learning and Data Assimilation of Physics from Videos”

This event has been cancelled. Talk summary: Sensing is a universal task in science and engineering. Downstream tasks from sensing include learning dynamical models, […]