AMPD UP

Past AMPD UP presentations

Spring 2026

Date	Presenter	Paper	Additional resources
1/14/2026	None	None	None
1/21/2026	None	None	None
1/28/2026	Kimball Johnston	Neural Tangent Kernel: Convergence and Generalization in Neural Networks	notes, Jupyter notebook
2/4/2026	Jimmie Adriazola	On lazy training in differentiable programming	notes
2/11/2026	Break	None	None
2/18/2026	Joan Ponce	Current state and open problems in universal differential equations for systems biology	blog
2/25/2026	William Meade	A contribution to the mathematical theory of epidemics	None
3/4/2026	Vince Campo	Solving Mazes: A New Approach Based on Spectral Graph Theory	slides, code
3/11/2026	Spring break	None	None
3/18/2026	Hyunsik Yun	Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback	None
3/25/2026	Anwar Khaddaj	Efficient collocational approach for parametric uncertainty analysis	slides, code
4/1/2026	Richard Ashley	A negative formulation of social attachment guarantees	notes, code
4/8/2026	Brandon Burkhardt	We both think you did wrong - How agreement shapes and is shaped by indirect reciprocity	None
4/15/2026	Jack Ramina	Decoupled Weight Decay Regularization	Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization, notes
4/22/2026	Sohyeon Jung	Walrus: A Cross-Domain Foundation Model for Continuum Dynamics	None
4/29/2026	Break	None	None

Fall 2025

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