The LANS seminar series (formerly known as LANS Informal Seminar) is an event hosted by the Laboratory for Applied Mathematics, Numerical Software, and Statistics (LANS) at Argonne National Laboratory. This seminar series feature researchers around the world conducting research in applied mathematics, statistics, optimization, scientific computing, numerical analysis, machine learning, data-driven methods, and related topics. Please contact us for speaker suggestions.
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2026
Kate Smith
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University
Tackling Heterogeneity in Fault-Tolerant Quantum Systems
May 28, 2026
2:30-3:30 PM (CT)
Kamil Khan
Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, McMaster University, Canada
Recent Advances in Constructing Convex Relaxations for Global Optimization
May 21, 2026
2:30-3:30 PM (CT)
Alen Alexanderian
Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at North Carolina State University
Optimal placement of multi-type sensors for infinite-dimensional Bayesian inverse problems
May 14, 2026
2:30-3:30 PM (CT)
Carlo Graziani
Computational scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory
LLMs as Black Boxes
May 7, 2026
2:30-3:30 PM (CT)
Jerry Luo
Postdoc in the Knowledge Lab at the University of Chicago
Generalizations and Extensions of Bounded-Confidence Models
April 30, 2026
2:30-3:30 PM
Longfei Gao
Performance Engineer in the ALCF at Argonne National Laboratory
Floating Point Arithmetic Through Dekker’s System
April 23, 2026
2:30-3:30 PM
Nicholas Nelsen
Klarman Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University
Operator Learning Meets Inverse Problems
April 16, 2026
2:30-3:30 PM
Nisha Chandramoorthy
Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Chicago
Toward Physical Generative Models
April 9, 2026
2:30 PM-3:30 PM
Yijiang Li
Postdoctoral Appointee in the Mathematics and Computer Science division at Argonne National Laboratory
Towards Scalable Federated Learning for Scientific Computing
Thursday, March 26
3:00-4:00 p.m. (CT)
Marco Mangano
Postdoc in the Mathematics and Computer Science division at Argonne National Laboratory
Optimal Experimental Design for Digital Twins Using a Network-Flow Approach
Thursday, March 19
2:30-3:30 p.m. (CT)
Kibaek Kim
Computational Mathematician in the Mathematics and Computer Science division at Argonne. Senior Scientist at-Large, UChicago Consortium for Advanced Science and Engineering.
What We are Building in GridAI: GridMind, LUMINA, and APPFL
Huiling Liao
Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technology
Region of Interest Detection by Acquisition-Guided Sampling
February 26, 2026
2:30 p.m. (CT)
Joseph Frimpong
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) and Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials (MICCoM) at Argonne National Laboratory.
Accelerating Calculations Based on Many-body Perturbation Theory with Machine Learning
February 19, 2026
2:30-3:30 p.m. (CT)
Krishnan Raghavan
Assistant Computational Mathematician at Argonne National Laboratory
Using Claude Code for optimizing day-to-day research activities
February 5, 2026
2:30-3:30 p.m. (CT)
Sue Parkinson
Ph.D. Candidate at University of Chicago
On The Role of Depth in Deep Learning
January 22, 2026
9-10 a.m. (CT)
Thomas Schön
Beijer Professor, Artificial Intelligence, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University
Clinical signals and theoretical insights: Exploring the principles and practice of AI
January 22, 2026
2:30-3:30 p.m. (CT)
Chuanqi Chen
Ph.D. Candidate at University of Wisconsin, Madison
Conditional Gaussian Koopman Network for Modeling Complex Dynamical Systems and Efficient Data Assimilation
January 21, 2026
9:30-10:30 a.m. (CT)
April Tran
Ph.D. Candidate at University of Colorado, Boulder
Recent Advances in Weak-form Scientific Machine Learning for Robust Digital Twin Construction
January 20, 2026
10:00-11:00 a.m. (CT)
Caleb Ju
Ph.D. Candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology
Auto-exploration for online reinforcement learning
January 12, 2026
Chuanqi Chen
Ph.D. Candidate at University of Wisconsin, Madison
Conditional Gaussian Koopman Network for Modeling Complex Dynamical Systems and Efficient Data Assimilation
January 21, 2026
9:30-10:30 a.m. (CT)
2025
Becky Durst
J.H. Wilkinson Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
Finite Elements at a Glance
December 11, 2025
Md Taufique Hussain
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Wake Forest University
Enabling Graph Analysis at Extreme Scale with Sparse Linear Algebra
Thursday, December 4, 2025
2:30 p.m. (CT)
Behrouz Touri
Associate Professor in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Distributed Optimization: Imperfect Information Sharing and State-dependency
Dr. Harbir Antil
Professor of Mathematics, George Mason University, Center for Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (CMAI).
Digital Twins and Generative AI: A PDE–Constrained Optimization Perspective
Ratul Chowdhury
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Iowa State
Insights and Oversights of Machine Learning in Structural Protein Biology
Sara Shashaani
Associate Professor, Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Affiliated Faculty, Operations Research Graduate Program at North Carolina
Stochastic Trust Region Optimization with Quadratic Regularization
Jr-Shin Li
Newton R. and Sarah Louisa Glasgow Wilson Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Distributional Control as a Representation Learning Machine
Matthew Dearing
Enterprise Software Engineer and Technical Lead, Artificial Intelligence, at Argonne Initiative, Argonne National Laboratory.
Argo: From Launch to GenAI-as-a-Service for National Laboratory Operations
Robert Webber
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California San Diego
Adaptive Algorithms for Data Summarization
October 2, 2025
2:30 p.m. (CT)
Nick Alger
Researcher, Oden Institute, UT Austin
Tucker Tensor Train Taylor Series Approximation of High-Dimensional Implicit Mappings
September 25, 2025
2:30 p.m. (CT)
Robert Bitmead
Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego
A Critical Context for Data-Driven Feedback Control
September 18, 2025
2:30 p.m. (CT)
Nick McGreivy
PhD Plasma Physics, Princeton University
September 11, 2025
2:30 p.m. (CT)
Allyson Hahn
Mathematics PhD Candidate Northern Illinois University, Geometric Function Theory on Quasiconformally Homogeneous Domains
September 4, 2025
2:30 p.m. (CT)
Nina Andrejevic
Assistant Computational Scientist, Advanced Photon Source
August 21, 2025
2:30 p.m. (CT)
Hugo Diaz-Norambuena
Postdoctoral Researcher, Applied Mathematics, North Carolina State University
August 14, 2025
2:30 p.m. (CT)
Matthias Chung
Associate Professor of Mathematics, Emory University
July 21, 2025
2:00 p.m. (CT)
Chang-Han Rhee
Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University
July 10, 2025
2:30 p.m. (CT)
Sven Leyffer
Senior Computational Mathematician/Deputy Director, MCS, Argonne National Laboratory
July 3, 2025
Adrian Maldonado
Assistant Scientist, MCS, Argonne National Laboratory
June 26, 2025
2:30 p.m. (CT)
Sheikh Md Shakeel Hassan
Ph.D. Student, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
June 19, 2025
Romain Pereira
Postdoctoral Appointee, Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS), Argonne National Laboratory
June 12, 2025
Peter Y. Lu
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
June 5, 2025
Fabien Evrard
Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
May 29, 2025
Sylvia Herbert, Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of California, San Diego
May 8, 2025
Kaja Gruntkowska, PhD Student
Optimization, Machine Learning, KAUST
May 1, 2025
Haithem Taha, Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine.
April 24, 2025
Sourav Medya, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago (UIC)
April 17, 2025
Hassan Harb, Postdoctoral Researcher
Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
April 10, 2025
Miaolan Xie, Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Chicago
As of July 2025, Assistant Professor in Industrial Engineering, Purdue
April 3, 2025
San Dinh, Postdoctoral Researcher
Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) division, Argonne National Laboratory
March 27, 2025
Anirban Samaddar, Postdoctoral Researcher
Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) division, Argonne National Laboratory
March 20, 2025
Yixuan Sun, Postdoctoral Appointee
Mathematics and Computer Science (MCS) division, Argonne National Laboratory
February 27, 2025
Dr. Lei Fan, Assistant Professor
Department of Engineering Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Joint Appointment, University of Houston
February 20, 2025
Hongseok Kim, Professor
Department of Electronic Engineering at Sogang University
February 13, 2025
Nathan Kirk, Senior Research Associate
The Center for Interdisciplinary Scientific Computation, Illinois Institute of Technology
February 6, 2025
Philip Dinenis, Postdoctoral Researcher
Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
January 30, 2025
Evan Toler, Postdoctoral Researcher
Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory
January 23, 2025
Hongwei Jin, Postdoctoral Researcher
Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
January 16, 2025
Dominic Yang, Postdoc
MCS Division, Argonne National Laboratory
January 9, 2025
Adeyemi Adeoye, Ph.D Candidate
University of Vienna, Austria & IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
January 8, 2025
2024
Arjun Vijaywargiya, Ph.D. Candidate
University of Notre Dame
December 17, 2024
Varakini Sanmugadas, Ph.D.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
December 13, 2024
Kazutomo Yoshii
Principal Experimental Systems Specialist, Argonne National Laboratory
December 11, 2024
Marco Mangano, Ph.D
University of Michigan
December 10, 2024
Adarsha Balaji
Postdoc, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
December 4, 2024
Thilina Ratnayaka
Post-Doctoral Research Appointee, High-Performance Computing and Numerical Linear Algebra, ALCF, Argonne National Laboratory
November 27, 2024
Mohammad Ramadan
Postdoctoral Appointee, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
November 20, 2024
Sai Praneeth Karimireddy
Assistant Professor, Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California
November 13, 2024
Shivam Barwey
Argonne Energy Technology and Security (AETS) Fellow, Transportation and Power Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory
November 6, 2024
Kwassi Joseph Dzahini
Postdoctoral Appointee, Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
October 30, 2024
Ming Du
Assistant Computational Scientist, Computation and Artificial Intelligence group of the Advanced Photon
October 23, 2024
Srinivas Eswar
Postdoctoral fellow, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Presented on October 16, 2024
Gushu Li
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
Presented on October 9, 2024
Timothy Roberts
William H. Kruskal Instructor, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Presented on September 25, 2024
Anastasios (Tasos) Kyrillidis
Noah Harding Assistant Professor, Computer Science department, Rice University, MSR Visiting Research Collaborator
Presented on August 21, 2024
Dacian Daescu
Professor Fariboz Meseeh Mathematics and Statistices, Liberal Arts & Sciences, Portland State University
Presented on August 7, 2024
Paul Manns
Assistant Professor, TU Dortmund University
Presented on August 6, 2024
Ahmed Attia
Assistant Computational Mathematician, Argonne National Laboratory
Presented on July 31, 2024
Jayanta Mandi
Postdoctoral Researcher, DTAI Research Unit, Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven
Presented on July 17, 2024
Sven Leyffer
Deputy Division Director / Senior Computational Mathematician, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Presented on July 3, 2024
Siddharth Bhandari
Research Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute Chicago
Presented on June 19, 2024
Dario Dematties
Computer Vision/Deep Learning Postdoctoral Researcher, Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering (NAISE)
Presented on June 12, 2024
Anter El-Azab
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Purdue University
Presented on May 29, 2024
Hadi Meidani
Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presented on May 22, 2024
Arkaprabha Ganguli
MCS
Presented on May 8, 2024
Jemima Tabeart
Assistant Professor, Computational Science Group, TU Eindhoven
Presented on May 1, 2024
Theodor Komann
Ph.D. student in Mathematics, Technical University of Darmstadt, Currently his second year in Stefan Ulbrich’s nonlinear optimization group
Presented on April 18, 2024
Ruslan Shaydulin
Quantum Algorithms Researcher, Global Technology Applied Research Center at JPMorgan Chase
Presented on April 12, 2024
Hao-Jun Michael Shi
Research Scientist, AI and Systems Co-Design team, Meta Platforms
Presented on April 10, 2024
Kush Varshney
IBM
Presented on April 3, 2024
Nicole Aretz
Research Fellow at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
Presented on March 27, 2024
Marcus Schwarting
PhD Student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago
Presented on March 20, 2024
Byung-Jun Yoon
Texas A&M University and Brookhaven National Laboratory
Presented on March 13, 2024
Julianne Chung
Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Emory University
Presented on March 6, 2024
Sharon Di
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University
Presented on February 21, 2024
Falk Hante
Professor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Humboldt University of Berlin
Presented on February 14, 2024
Amy Braverman
Principal Statistician at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
Presented on February 7, 2024
Joerg Gablonsky
Technical Fellow at Boeing
Craig Bosma
Associate Technical Fellow, Applied Mathematics at Boeing
Presented on January 30, 2024
Akash Dhruv
Postdoctoral Appointee in the MCS Division at Argonne
Presented on January 10, 2024
2023
Herschel Rabitz
Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University
Presented on December 20, 2023
Alexis Montoison
Ph.D. student in applied mathematics at Polytechnique Montréal
Presented on December 13, 2023
Pengcheng Xie
Ph.D. candidate in Computational Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Presenting on December 6, 2023
Matt Menickelly
Computational Mathematician in the MCS division at Argonne
Presenting on November 29, 2023
Daniel Lengyel
Ph.D. student in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London
Presenting on November 22, 2023
Catherine Powell
Professor in Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Manchester
Presented on November 8, 2023
Mitchell Krock
Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne
Presented on November 1, 2023
Chris Geoga
Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Presented on October 25, 2023
Joyce Ho
Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Emory University
Presented on October 20, 2023
Narayan Rangaraj
Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research - IIT Bombay
Presented on October 18, 2023
Ilse Ipsen
Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at North Carolina State University
Presented on October 11, 2023
Baoyu Zhou
Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Michigan in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering and at the University of Chicago in the Booth School of Business
Presented on September 27, 2023
Seongha Park
Assistant Computer Scientist at Argonne
Presented on September 20, 2023
Mark Embree
Professor of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
Presented on September 13, 2023
Bao Wang
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Utah
Presented on September 6, 2023
Raaghav Ramani
PhD student in the Applied Mathematics Department at UC Davis
Presented on August 30, 2023
Andrew Lyons
Independent Researcher
Presented on August 23, 2023
Israel Donato-Ridgley
Research Assistant, Northwestern University
Presented on August 16, 2023
Drew Kouri
Optimization & Uncertainty Quantification at Sandia National Laboratories
Presented on August 9, 2023
Matthieu Darcy
PhD student in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at Caltech
Presented on August 2, 2023
Amit Apte
Professor and Chair, Data Science at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research at Pune
Presented on July 26, 2023
Wilkie Olin Ammentorp
Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne
Presented on July 19, 2023
Tyler Chang
Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne
Presented on July 12, 2023
Elias Cueto
Professor of Continuum and Computational Mechanics, Universidad de Zaragoza
Presented on July 5, 2023
Nan Chen
Assistant Professor of Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Presented on June 21, 2023
Marek Pecha
PhD candidate of Applied Mathematics, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
Presented on June 14, 2023
Pranav Bhaswanth Madabhushi
Optimization Engineer at Opus One Solutions from GE Digital
Presented on June 7, 2023
John Davis Jakeman
Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories
Presented on May 31, 2023
François Pacaud
Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne
Presented on May 24, 2023
Dariusz Ucinski
Professor in the Institute of Control and Computation Engineering at University of Zielona Góra
Presented on May 17, 2023
Nisha Chandramoorthy
Assistant Professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech
Presented on May 10, 2023
Saber Jafarpour
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Decision and Control Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology
Presented on April 26, 2023
Ahmed Attia
Assistant Computational Mathematician at Argonne
Presented on April 19, 2023
Christopher Rackauckas
Research Affiliate and Co-PI of the Julia Lab at MIT
Presented on April 12, 2023
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology
Presented on April 5, 2023
Karen Ullrich
Research Scientist at FAIR NY
Presented on March 29, 2023
Aditya Grover
Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UCLA
Presented on March 22, 2023
Mihhail Berezovski
Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Presented on March 15, 2023
Hannes Stärk
PhD student at MIT in the CS and AI Laboratory (CSAIL)
Presented on March 1, 2023
Nick Goberville
Connected and Automated Vehicle Research Engineer at Argonne National Laboratory
Presented on February 22, 2023
Brahim Mustapha
Accelerator Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory
Presented on February 15, 2023
Sanmukh Kuppannagari
Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Data Sciences at Case Western Reserve University
Presented on February 8, 2023
Jim Franke
Geophysical Sciences Graduate Student at the University of Chicago
Presented on February 1, 2023
Deep Ray
Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California
Presented on January 25, 2023
Nathaniel Pritchard
Statistics Graduate Student at the University of Wisconsin
Presented on January 18, 2023
Shivam Barwey
Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne and PhD candidate of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan
Presented on January 11, 2023
2022
Max Bowman
Electrical and Computer Engineering Student at Rice University
Presented on December 21, 2022
Minseok Ryu
Postdoctoral Appointee at Argonne
Presented on December 14, 2022
James Evans
Professor at the University of Chicago
Presented on November 30, 2022
Guannan Zhang
Senior Research Staff in Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAM) Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Presented on November 16, 2022
Brandon Amos
Research Scientist in the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) group at Meta AI
Presented on November 9, 2022
Xinyu Fei
Ph.D. student in Industrial and Operations Engineering at University of Michigan
Presented on November 2, 2022
Romain Egélé
Master’s student in AI and advanced visual computing at École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Île-de-France, France
Presented on October 27, 2022
Oliver Hinder
Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh
Presented on October 19, 2022
Themis Sapsis
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at MIT
Presented on October 12, 2022
Olivera Kotevska
Research Scientist at ORNL
Presented on October 5, 2022
Can Li
Assistant Professor at Purdue University
Presented on September 29, 2022
Nicholas Geneva
Mechanical Engineering PhD Student at University of Notre Dame
Presented on September 21, 2022