Spotlight on Research

Each year the Mathematics Department hosts a competition for graduate students called Spotlight on Research, with cash prizes. The competition is run and judged by current studnets in the MATH, AMSC, and STAT programs.

Previous winners are at this link: Spotlight on Graduate Research Awards

Archives: F2011-S2012 F2012-S2013 F2013-S2014 F2014-S2015 F2015-S2016 F2016-S2017 F2017-S2018 F2018-S2019 F2019-S2020 F2021-S2022 F2022-S2023 F2023-S2024 F2024-S2025 

  • Efficient interpretable regression and classification with translation-invariance

    Speaker: Matt Landreman (Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics, UMD) - https://ireap.umd.edu/clark/faculty/1279/Matt-Landreman

    When: Tue, September 9, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=f107d126-5ac3-4c0c-b7f0-b35301589819
  • Towards Robust Discretization of PDEs Posed on Surfaces

    Speaker: Mansur Shakipov (Department of Mathematics, UMD) -

    When: Tue, September 16, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: https://umd.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=b1e9c8f9-d248-4183-8332-b35a0158d82e
  • Digital Twins, Generative AI, and Beyond: A PDE–Constrained Optimization Perspective

    Speaker: Harbir Antil (George Mason University) - https://math.gmu.edu/~hantil/

    When: Tue, September 23, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Virtues and Pitfalls of Weak-to-Strong Generalization: From Intrinsic Dimensions to Spurious Correlations

    Speaker: Qi Lei (New York University) - https://cecilialeiqi.github.io/

    When: Tue, September 30, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Where do all the scores come from? – generation accuracy of diffusion model, and multimodal sampling via denoising annealing

    Speaker: Molei Tao (Gatech) - https://mtao8.math.gatech.edu/

    When: Tue, October 7, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Time-dependent Hamiltonian Simulation: Quantum Algorithm and Superconvergence

    Speaker: Di Fang (Duke University) - https://sites.math.duke.edu/~difang/

    When: Tue, October 21, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Analysis of a finite element method for PDEs in evolving domains with topological changes

    Speaker: Maxim Olshanskii (University of Houston) - https://www.math.uh.edu/~molshan/

    When: Tue, October 28, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Continuous Data Assimilation Using Non-Interpolant Observables

    Speaker: Vladimir Yushutin (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) - https://web.math.utk.edu/~vyushuti/landing/index.html

    When: Tue, November 4, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Convergence of a finite element discretization of Chorin's projection method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations to Leray-Hopf solutions

    Speaker: Franziska Weber (UC Berkeley ) - https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/fweber/home?authuser=0

    When: Tue, November 11, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Parsimonious recovery of cryo-em ensemble probabilities

    Speaker: Luke Evans (Flatiron Institute ) - https://users.flatironinstitute.org/~levans/

    When: Tue, November 18, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Structure-preserving finite element methods for the surface Stokes problem

    Speaker: Michael Neilan (University of Pittsburgh) -

    When: Tue, November 25, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBD

    Speaker: Xiantao Li (Penn State University) - https://xxl12.github.io/main/

    When: Tue, December 2, 2025 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206