Talks

Upcoming talks at Conferences and Workshops 2025

  • SIAM CSE 25, Mar 3 – 7, 2025, Fort Worth TX. Caroline, together with Amir Sagiv, is organizing a mini-symposium on “Measure Transport – Theory and Applications”
  • Workshop on “Statistics and optimal transport”, Columbia University, Mar 27 – 28, 2025.
  • Computational and Applied Mathematics seminar, NC State University, April 11, 2025. Caroline will give a presentation.
  • Caroline will give a talk at Florida State University, April 18, 2025.
  • NSF Computational Math PI meeting, University of Utah, May 8 – 9, 2025.
  • WiSDM collaboration workshop at UNC Chapel Hill, Aug 4 – 8, 2025.

Videos & Recordings

Caroline’s presentation at the 1W-MINDS seminar on Feb 17, 2022

ICERM “Optimal transport in data science”, May 12, 2023

UNC FRG presentation recording, April 17, 2023

Kantorovich initiative seminar, Oct 27, 2022

Caroline’s presentation at RPI on Nov 1, 2023
“Math meets Art” project summary from 2020

Past talks

Starting from Fall 2022
  • Caroline gave an online presentation at the Applied Algebraic Topology Research Network (AATRN), Nov 13, 2024. Link to YouTube video.
  • TriCAMS 2024 at UNC Chapel Hill, Oct 26 – 27, 2024. Aaron, Amartya, Chuxiangbo, and Kaitlyn presented posters. Aaron won a poster prize!
  • SIAM Mathematics of Data Science 24, Oct 21 – 25, 2024, Atlanta GA. Caroline and Shiying organized the mini-symposium “Manifold learning, trajectory inference, and applications in biology”. Caroline gave a talk in this session and Amartya presented a poster. Shiying gave a talk in the mini-symposium “Incorporating Optimal Transport in Machine Learning: Theory and Applications” and present a poster in the mini-symposium “Computational Methods for Measure Transport and Generative Modeling”. Caroline’s talk was featured in SIAM News!
  • Caroline gave a presentation at the Seminar in Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Oct 15, 2024.
  • Caroline give an online presentation at the Math Bio Club at UT Arlington, Oct 9, 2024.
  • Caroline gave a presentation in the Applied Math/PDE/Data Science seminar at UC Santa Barbara, Sep 27, 2024.
  • UNC Data Science Day 2024, Sep 26, 2024. Aaron, Amartya, Chuxiangbo and Kaitlyn presented a poster. Aaron and Amartya won a poster prize!
  • Casa Matematica Oaxaca (CMO) Workshop ”Optimal Transport and Dynamics”, Aug 11 – 16, 2024, Oaxaca (Mexico). Caroline gave a presentation. Link to the recording.
  • Workshop on Machine Learning in Infinite Dimensions, Aug 5-9, 2024, Bath (UK). Caroline gave a presentation.
  • SIAM annual meeting 24, July 18-20, 2024, Spokane WA (online component). Caroline gave a presentation in the mini-symposium “Modeling and Computation of Optimal Transport with Applications in Biology”.
  • NSF Computational Mathematics PI meeting, July 15 – 16, 2024, University of Washington. Caroline and Shiying presented a poster.
  • Optimal transport through the Midwest summer school, July 15-19, 2024. Aaron and Chuxiangbo participated.
  • 2024 MPS Workshop for New Investigators, July 7 – 9, 2024, Alexandria, VA. Shiying participated.
  • MRC Conference: Mathematics of Adversarial, Interpretable, and Explainable AI, June 23 – 29, 2024, Java Center NY. Shiying participated.
  • SIAM Imaging 24, May 28 – 31, 2024, Atlanta GA. Shiying presented in the mini-symposium “Computational optimal transport meets Imaging”.
  • Caroline visited TU Graz for the “DK closing event“, May 24, 2024. She gave a talk both at the event and the geometry seminar.
  • Algorithms & PDE workshop, May 17-19, Austin TX. Caroline gave a presentation. Shiying, Aaron and Chuxiangbo participated in the summer school and workshop.
  • Caroline gave a spotlight talk at the “Women in Optimal Transport” workshop, April 17 – 19, 2024, University of British Columbia
  • Caroline presented in the special session “Recent Advances in Optimal Transport and Applications” at the 2024 AMS Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting, April 6-7, 2024, Howard University
  • Caroline gave a talk in the “Mathematics of Information, Data, and Signals” seminar at UC San Diego on March 14, 2024.
  • SIAM UQ 24, Feb 27 – Mar 1, 2024, Trieste (Italy)
    • Caroline and Shiying organized a mini-symposium on “Gradient Flows and Optimal Transport for Uncertainty Estimation in Probabilistic Modeling”
    • Caroline spoke in the mini-symposium “Computational transport”
  • Caroline gave a presentation at the Bio-Math seminar at NCSU on Feb 20, 2024.
  • Caroline gave an online talk at the DOGSPOT seminar at UC San Diego on Feb 9, 2024.
  • Caroline gave a presentation in the Computational Medicine Research in Progress seminar at UNC on Jan 19, 2024.
  • Shiying presented at JMM, Jan 3-6, 2024. She spoke in AMS Special Session on Computational Techniques to Study the Geometry of the Shape Space.
  • Shiying gave a seminar talk at Vanderbilt on Nov 28, 2023
  • TriCAMS 23, Nov 10-12, 2023, at NCCU and Duke.
    • Aaron, Amartya, Chuxiangbo, Kwatcho, Maddy and Shiying presented a poster! Caroline was on the UNC leadership team.
    • Shiying won a poster prize!
  • Seminar on Mathematics of Imaging Sciences, Data Sciences, and Optimization, Nov. 1, 2023, RPI. Caroline gave an online presentation
  • SIAM-NNP, Oct 21-22, 2023, NJIT. Shiying gave a presentation in the mini-symposium “Optimal Transport: Computation, Applications, and Extensions”
  • Pattern Theory Seminar, Oct 18, 2023, Brown University. Caroline gave a presentation.
  • PSU-Purdue-UMD Joint Seminar on Mathematical Data Science, Oct 16, 2023. Caroline gave an online seminar.
  • CCIAM colloquium, Oct 11, 2023, UNC.
    Shiying gave a presentation.
  • CCIAM colloquium, Oct 4, 2023, UNC.
    Aaron gave a 3-min presentation in the Graduate Student Research Showcase.
  • Mathematical Biology seminar, Sep 29, 2023, Duke University. Caroline gave a seminar talk.
  • UNC Data Science Day, Sep 29, 2023, UNC. Aaron, Amartya and Shiying presented a poster
  • ICIAM Conference, August 20 – 25, 2023, Tokyo (Japan)
    • Caroline and Shiying, together with Siting Liu and Wuchen Li organized the mini-symposium “Mean-field games and optimal transport with applications in data science and biology”
    • Shiying spoke in the mini-symposium “Theoretical and computational advances in measure transport”
    • Caroline spoke in the mini-symposium “Approximation and modeling with manifold-valued data”
  • Workshop on Computational and Data Science, Aug 17 – 18, 2023, Duke University. Caroline gave a presentation.
  • Caroline gave a seminar talk at the Oberseminar on “Optimization and Data Analysis” at TU Munich on July 13, 2023.
  • ICERM Workshop “Modern Applied and Computational Analysis”, June 26 – 30, 2023, Brown University. Caroline participated.
  • 13th AIMS Conference “Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications”, May 31 – June 4, 2023, Wilmington NC. Caroline presented in the special session “Optimal Transport and Mean Field Games with Applications and Computations”
  • AMS MRC “Ricci Curvatures of Graphs and Applications to Data Science”, May 28 – June 3, 2023. Shiying participated.
  • 18th “Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics” (FACM) Workshop, May 26 – 27, 2023, NJIT. Caroline gave a presentation in the mini-symposium “Machine Learning Approaches for Inverse Problems and PDEs”, Shiying presented a poster, Kwatcho and Aaron participated.
  • International Conference on Approximation Theory and Beyond, May 15 – 18, 2023, Vanderbilt University
    • Caroline and Shiying gave a presentation
  • ICERM Workshop “Optimal transport in Data Science”, May 8 – 12, 2023, Brown University
    • Caroline gave a presentation and Shiying presented a poster. Recording
  • Data Science Networking Event, April 20, 2023, UNC Wilson Library. Caroline gave a 3-min flash talk.
  • Caroline gave a presentation in the UNC STOR+MATH FRG on April 17, 2023. Location: Hanes Hall 115, 2:30 – 3:30 pm.
  • SIAM SEAS, Mar 25 – 26, 2023, Virginia Tech
    • Caroline co-organized the mini-symposium “Non-linear stochastic data assimilation – theory and applications”
    • Caroline and Shiying gave a talk!
  • Caroline and Shiying presented at the Applied Mathematics Research Showcase on Jan 18, 2023
  • Caroline gave a talk at the Kantorovich initiative seminar on Oct 27, 2022
  • Caroline gave a talk in the Math colloquium at the University of South Carolina on Oct 20, 2022
  • SIAM Data Science, Sep 26 – 30, 2022, San Diego CA
    • Caroline co-organized the mini-symposium “Geometric distances and robust data analysis”
    • Caroline gave a talk in the mini-symposium “Graphs, Geometry, PDEs, and Learning”
  • Caroline and Shiying presented a lightning talk and a poster at TriCAMS 22, Sep 17 – 18, 2022, NC State