Events
Upcoming Events
A Data-Driven Framework for Flood Mitigation Using Transformers and Reinforcement Learning
Speaker: Shaoping Xiao, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Colloquium - A Hessian View of Fine-tuning, Task Attribution, and Reinforcement Learning: Three Vignettes in Modern Machine Learning
The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2026
The University of Iowa Computing Conference (UICC) 2026
Past Events
Colloquium - Securing Operating System Kernels with Fewer Shots
Yueqi Chen
AbstractDespite significant efforts on cybersecurity, we are observing an increasing number of attacks in recent years. The reason for this harsh reality is all our efforts aim at individual incidents and there is no deep understanding of attack surfaces in software systems. As a result, software systems are integrated with too many individual patches and ad-hoc mitigations, which slows
down systems significantly without introducing substantial security benefits.
In this...
Logarithmic Lipschitz Norms and Diffusion-Induced instability
Speaker: Zahra Aminzare, Dept. of Mathematics
Decision Making under Uncertainty: An Optimization Perspective
Speaker: Beste Basciftci, Dept. of Business Analytics
Dynamical Systems and Neuronal Dynamics
Speaker: Yangyang Wang, Department of Mathematics
Optimization & approximation: the mathematical challenges of machine learning
Speaker: David Stewart, Department of Mathematics
Evidence Synthesis
Speaker: Ariel Aloe, Department of Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
Introduction to Scientific Machine Learning
Speaker: Xueyu Zhu, Department of Mathematics.
Intelligent traffic light via policy-based reinforcement learning
Speaker: Shaoping Xiao, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Flattening the error curve of predictors for implicit methods in IVPs
Speaker: Laurent Jay, Department of Mathematics
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GAUSS Seminar: Numbers and Games [hybrid]
This talk will focus itself on games. Some basic games will be introduced and their strategies analyzed. We will scratch the surface of combinatorial game theory, a lovely, playful, and often overlooked branch of mathematics. In the process we will stumble upon the surreal numbers and explore the very nature of “numbers”. This talk will be accessible for all audiences. There is no prerequisite knowledge needed, just an open mind.
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