AMA organizes a series of Distinguished Lectures in celebration of PolyU 85th and AMA 50th Anniversary

Year 2022 marks not only PolyU’s 85^th anniversary but also the 50^th anniversary of Department of Applied Mathematics. In celebration of its Golden Jubilee, AMA has organized a PolyU 85th and AMA 50th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture series to commemorate this special year. International scholars specializing in research of applied mathematics and statistics have been inviting to give lectures and exchange ideas to lay a solid ground for further research collaborations.

Professor Terry Rockafellar, University of Washington, USA| Origins and Motivations of Modern Variational Analysis | 1 November 2022

Professor Weinan E, Peking University, China | A Mathematical Perspective on Machine Learning | 25 October 2022 (Tuesday)

Professor Tao Tang, Beijing Normal University - HK Baptist University United International College | Deep adaptive sampling for numerical PDEs | 18 October 2022 (Tuesday)

Professor Kim- Chuan Toh, National University of Singapore | Algorithms for Semidefinite Programming | 11 October 2022 (Tuesday)

Professor Yinyu Ye, Stanford University, USA | DRSOM: A Dimension-Reduced Second-Order Method for Convex and Nonconvex Optimization |19 September 2022 (Monday)

Professor Rama Cont, University of Oxford, UK |Tail-GAN: Nonparametric Scenario Generation for Tail Risk Estimation |9 August 2022 (Tuesday)

Professor Jianqing Fan, Princeton University, USA |Structural Deep Learning in Conditional Asset Pricing| 6 June 2022 (Monday)

Professor Jong-Shi Pang, University of Southern California, USA |Some Strongly Polynomially Solvable Convex Quadratic Programs and Beyond | 3 May 2022 (Tuesday)

Professor Prof. José A. Carrillo, University of Oxford, UK |Nonlocal Aggregation-Diffusion Equations: Entropies, Gradient flows, Phase Transitions and Applications | 20 April 2022 (Wednesday)

Professor Chi-wang Shu, Brown University, USA | High Order Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Equations | 2 March 2022 (Wednesday)

Professor Nicholas J. Higham, University of Manchester, U.K | Mixed Precision Algorithms in Numerical Linear Algebra | 8 February 2022 (Tuesday)