The UC Merced chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) is dedicated to enhancing the applied mathematics mission of the university and providing developmental opportunities to its students. Towards that end, we currently run the student-led SAMPLe (Some Applied Math for People to Learn) seminar and organize social events whenever possible.
2019 Spring Semester
Room: COB-1 276, Time: refreshments at 1:30pm and talk at 2:00pm (otherwise announced)
- Friday, February 8
Speaker: Alex John Quijano
Title: Is Romance Dead? Generating Poetry using Character-Level Recurrent Neural Networks - Friday, February 15
Speaker: Tucker Hartland
Title: Hierarchical Matrix Compression in PDE Constrained Optimization - Friday, March 1
Speaker: Omar DeGuchy
Title: Neural Ordinary Differential Equations - Friday, March 8 (COB-1 205, 1:30pm - 3pm)
Speaker: Changho Kim
Title: An Interesting Way to Combine Numbers - Friday, March 15
Speaker: Jacky Alvarez and Ashley De Luna
Title: Julia Sets - Friday, April 5
Speaker: Rado Vuchkov
Title: Preconditioning by limited memory quasi-Newton methods