BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:921@fds.yale.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T120000 DTSTAMP:20260205T150340Z URL:https://fds.yale.edu/events/sds-seminar-joel-a-tropp-caltech/ SUMMARY:S&\;DS Seminar: Joel A. Tropp (Caltech) DESCRIPTION:\nSpeaker bio: Joel A. Tropp is the Steele Family Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics in the Computing and Mathematical S ciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. His research lies at the intersection of applied mathematics\, numerical linear algebr a\, sparse approximation\, and random matrix theory\, with foundational co ntributions that have shaped modern approaches to data analysis and random ized algorithms.\n\n\n\nTropp earned his undergraduate degrees in Mathemat ics and Plan II Honors from the University of Texas in 1999\, followed by an MS (2001) and PhD (2004) in Computational and Applied Mathematics. His doctoral work\, \;Topics in Sparse Approximation\, was advised by Inde rjit Dhillon and Anna C. Gilbert. After serving on the faculty at the Univ ersity of Michigan from 2004 to 2007\, he joined Caltech in 2007.\n\n\n\nH e is widely known for developing rigorous performance guarantees for algor ithms in sparse approximation and compressed sensing\, for influential wor k on randomized algorithms for computing low-rank matrix decompositions (i ncluding randomized SVD)\, and for establishing powerful matrix concentrat ion inequalities\, such as the matrix Chernoff bound. His work combines ma thematical depth with practical impact\, and is broadly used across signal processing\, machine learning\, and data science.\n\n\n\nTropp’s honors include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2008)\, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2010)\, the Vasil A. Popo v Prize in approximation theory (2010)\, and the Monroe H. Martin Prize in applied mathematics (2011). He is a SIAM Fellow\, has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science\, and was elected a Fellow o f the American Mathematical Society in the class of 2026.\n CATEGORIES:Fellows Events,FDS Events,Statistics & Data Science Seminar LOCATION:KT 101\, 219 Prospect St\, New Haven\, CT\, 06511-8499\, United St ates X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=219 Prospect St\, New Haven \, CT\, 06511-8499\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=KT 101:geo:0 ,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR