AMPD UP: Applied Math Presentations and Discourse for Understanding Papers

Description and purpose: This is a reading group for applied mathematicians at ASU. Each week, a different member of the group presents the results of a recent applied math research paper to the rest of the group. That way, each group member only has to read one or two of the papers covered by the group but gets to learn about all of these papers. In addition to spreading knowledge, this will help students become better researchers and presenters.

Meeting time and place: Wednesdays from 9 to 10 a.m. in WXLR A202

Contact: For more information, contact Kimball Johnston (kjohn313@asu.edu)

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Schedule

Date	Presenter	Paper	Additional resources
8/27/2025	Brandon Burkhardt, Kimball Johnston, and Jimmie Adriazola	Organizational and introductory meeting	slides
9/3/2025	Jimmie Adriazola	Neural Operator: Learning Maps Between Function Spaces	notes, code
9/10/2025	Kimball Johnston	A mean-field games laboratory for generative modeling	notes
9/17/2025	Break	None	None
9/24/2025	Sébastien Motsch	The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector: The Linear Algebra behind Google	code, notes
10/1/2025	Brandon Burkhardt	Computational methods for large-scale inverse problems: a survey on hybrid projection methods	9x9 deblurring example, 128x128 brute force deblurring example, 128x128 steepest descent deblurring example
10/8/2025	Break	None	None
10/15/2025	Ashley Harrison	Data-informed model reduction for inference and prediction from non-identifiable models	notes
10/22/2025	Jack Ramina	Computational optimal transport	None
10/29/2025	Break	None	None
11/5/2025	Sohyeon Jung	Reduced Order Modeling with Shallow Recurrent Decoder Networks	notes
11/12/2025	Daniel Tolosa Villarreal	Persistence paths and signature features in topological data analysis	notes
11/19/2025	Jimmie Adriazola	Kernel methods are competitive for operator learning	notes
11/26/2025	Break (Thanksgiving)	None	None
12/3/2025	Kimball Johnston	A mean-field games laboratory for generative modeling	notes

For a list of papers suggested for the club to cover, visit https://hackmd.io/@Kx_iyveCTci_IuvfFQDNog/SkCwcxduxl.