News and Announcements
His paper "Hierarchical graph Laplacian eigen transforms", coauthored with 2016 Applied Math Ph.D. graduate Jeff Irion received the 2016 JSIAM Letters Best Paper Award; and he received the 2016 Bulletin of JSIAM Best Author Award for his 2015 paper "Applied harmonic analysis on graphs and networks".
He was an Invited Speaker at the 16th International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems, Aachen, Aug 1-5, 2016 and a Plenary Speaker at the SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, Philadelphia, Aug 8-11, 2016.
The recently released version of Wolfram's Mathematica software now implements the celebrated Tracy–Widom distribution, named after GGAM member Prof. Craig A. Tracy and his long-term collaborator Harold Widom.
Dr. Lopes' main research areas are in high-dimensional statistics and machine learning, with a particular focus on resampling and bootstrap methods in high dimensions.
The Noether Senior Scholar Award is presented by the American Statistical Association (ASA) to a distinguished senior researcher or teacher in nonparametric statistics. Prof. Jane-Ling Wang was recognized for her outstanding contributions to the theory, applications and teaching of nonparametric statistics.
Dr. Hsieh's research is in machine learning and optimization.
GGAM member Prof. John Hunter (Mathematics) will give the GGAM Spring Colloquium.
Upcoming Seminars
Mon, Sep 26, 4:10PM - MSB 1147
Disc. Math : Christopher O'Neill, UC Davis
Minimal presentations of shifted numerical monoids
Wed, Sep 28, 12:10PM - MSB 2112
Student App/Math : TBA
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Wed, Sep 28, 3:10PM - MSB 2112
Geometry : Allison Moore, UC Davis
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Wed, Sep 28, 4:30PM - MSB 1147
Math Physics : Bruno Nachtergaele, UC Davis
Stability of Frustration-Free Ground States of Quantum Spin Systems
Fri, Sep 30, 12:15PM - MSB 2112
QMAP : Arnab Rudra, Davis
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Fri, Sep 30, 4:10PM - MSB 1147
Applied & PDEs : Matthias Koeppe, UC Davis
Integer optimization, cutting planes, and computer-assisted proofs