Upcoming Events

Towards unlocking the mystery of adversarial fragility of neural networks

Friday, May 2, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Weiyu Xu, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Mathematics Faculty Colloquium - Yangbo Ye

Thursday, May 8, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Title: Number theory and cryptography   Abstract:  In this presentation Professor Ye will survey his work and progress in number theory since his last colloquium talk in the department. Topics include the Riemann zeta function, automorphic L-functions, their functoriality, upper bounds, and zero statistics, computational number theory, and its applications to cyberspace security or insecurity.   Short Bio: Professor Yangbo Ye is a professor of Mathematics with expertise in number theory and...

Past Events

The Central Role of AMCS in Advancing the State-of-the-Art in Computer Science

Friday, April 25, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Rahul Singh, Dept. of Computer Science

Mathematics Special Lecture - Isaac Goldbring; University of California, Irvine

Thursday, April 24, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
MacLean Hall
Title: A model theorist’s perspective on the Connes Embedding Problem (and its resolution)Abstract: In 2020, a group of computer scientists resolved the Connes Embedding Problem (CEP) from von Neumann algebra theory. In this informal talk, I’ll explain how basic ideas from mathematical logic can be used to simplify and strengthen the resolution of the CEP from the computer science result.Professor Goldbring is giving a colloquium talk, Effective metric structure theory and operator algebras, at...

When Deep Learning Meets Polyhedral Theory

Friday, April 18, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Thiago Serra Azevedo Silva, Dept. of Business Analytics

Deepest Cuts for Benders Decomposition

Friday, April 11, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Mojtaba Hosseini, Dept. of Business Analytics

From Electric Vehicles to Constrained Variational Inequalities

Friday, April 4, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Qi Luo, Dept. of Business Analytics

Mathematics Faculty Colloquium - Weimin Han; University of Iowa Department of Mathematics

Thursday, April 3, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Title: Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities: Theory, Numerical Analysis, and ApplicationsAbstract: In recent years, modeling, mathematical analysis, and numerical solution of hemivariational inequalities, or more generally, variational-hemivariational inequalities, have attracted much attention in the research communities. Through the formulation of variational-hemivariational inequalities, application problems involving nonsmooth, monotone or non-monotone, multivalued constitutive laws...

Quantum Computing, Discrete Methods, Complex Probabilities

Friday, March 28, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Wayne Polyzou, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy

Alumni talk about a career in industry

Friday, March 7, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: TBA (now at Netflix)

Mathematics of stochastic tools, and their diverse applications

Friday, February 28, 2025 3:30pm to 4:20pm
MacLean Hall
Speaker: Palle Jorgensen (Dept. of Mathematics)
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The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2025

Saturday, February 22, 2025 10:00am to 7:00pm
University of Iowa Main Library
"The UICC is hosted by the students and for the students to promote computing as a science and a profession." Date: Feb. 22 Check out past conferences! [ 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 20202021, 2022, 2023, 2024] ACM@UIowa welcomes students, faculty, and all members of the community to our annual UIowa Computing Conference! The theme for UICC 2025 is "Finance and Technology." On Feb. 22, join us at the AJB and the Main Library SHAM auditorium for a deep exploration of how computer science and...