Welcome to the seminar webpage of the CRM Applied Mathematics Laboratory. Seminars take place on Monday at 4pm ET either in hybrid or online format. Hybrid seminars are held at McGill's Burnside Hall (room 1104) and streamed online via Zoom. Online seminars take place on Zoom only. Please contact using the email address at the bottom of the page to subscribe to our mailing list and to receive Zoom links.

Organizing committee:
Rachel Morris (Concordia, [email protected])
Tim Hoheisel (McGill, [email protected])
Dominic Blanco (McGill, [email protected])



CRM Applied Mathematics Seminars, Winter 2026

Time and Date Speaker Title and Abstract Location and Host
4 pm
Jan 12 2026
Jack Hughes
(Concordia)
Pulses, waves, and mesas in dissipative mass-conserved reaction-diffusion systems and their implications to cell motility Hybrid
Rachel Morris
4 pm
Jan 19 2026
Tucker Carrington
(Queen's)
Using sparse bases and sparse grids to solve the Schroedinger equation for studying nuclear motion Hybrid
Simone Brugiapaglia
4 pm
Jan 26 2026
Gilles Francfort
(Flatiron Institute)
Modeling defects in solids: from damage to fracture and back Hybrid
Rustum Choksi
4 pm
Feb. 2 2026
Zachary Adams
(Concordia)
Metstable clustering in weakly interacting particle systems Hybrid
Jason Bramburger and Rachel Morris
4 pm
Feb. 9 2026
Ben Seeger
(University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)
Equations on the Wasserstein space and applications Hybrid
Jessica Lin
4 pm
Feb. 16 2026
Geordie Richards
(University of Guelph)
On the long-time statistical behavior of solutions to some stochastic dispersive PDEs Hybrid
Jessica Lin
11:30 am
Feb. 19 2026
Mihai Nica
(University of Guelph)
A Gaussian integral formula for the Hermite polynomials: Theory and Applications In Person BURN920
Janosch Ortmann
4 pm
Mar. 2 2026
Reading Week ~ ~
4 pm
Mar. 9 2026
Matthieu Dolbeault
(Brown)
Constructive discretization and approximation in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces Hybrid
Rustum Choksi
4 pm
Mar. 16 2026
Yvonne Alama Bronsard
(MIT)
Numerical approximations to nonlinear dispersive equations, from short to long times Hybrid
Rustum Choksi
4 pm
Mar. 23 2026
Sina Mohammad-Taheri
(Concordia)
Greedy sparse recovery under structure: weighted generalization and deep unrolling. Hybrid
Rachel Morris
4 pm
Apr. 13 2026
Sophie Morin
(Polytechnique)
Asymptotic analysis and equivariant machine learning in contact detection for ellipses Hybrid
Rachel Morris
4 pm
Apr. 27 2026
Victor-Emmanuel Brunel
(ENSAE/CREST)
TBD Hybrid
Tim Hoheisel



CRM Applied Mathematics Seminars, Fall 2025

Time and Date Speaker Title and Abstract Location and Host
4pm
Sept. 15 2025
Rachel Morris
(Concordia)
On the Convergence and Regularity of Adversarially Robust Classifiers Hybrid
Tim Hoheisel
4pm
Sept. 22 2025
Francesca Bartolucci and Emanuele Naldi
(TU Delft and University of Genova)
Functional Analysis of Neural Networks. Hybrid
Rachel Morris
4pm
Sept. 29 2025
Giusy Mazzone
(Queen's)
On the mathematical analysis of fluid solid interaction problems Hybrid
Jean-Christophe Nave
4pm
Oct. 6 2025
Leonard Wong
(University of Toronto)
Information geometry meets optimal transport Hybrid
Tim Hoheisel
4pm
Oct. 13 2024
Thanksgiving ~ ~
4pm
Oct. 20 2025
Wouter Kouw
(TU Eindhoven)
On deriving efficient information-seeking behaviour for intelligent autonomous systems Hybrid
James Forbes
4pm
Oct. 27 2025
Alan Lindsay
(Notre Dame)
Mathematics of randomness, heterogeneity in cellular decision making and signaling Hybrid
Jason Bramburger
4pm
Nov. 3 2025
Hussein Nassar
(University of Houston)
How periodic surfaces bend without stretching Hybrid
Behrooz Yousefzadeh
4pm
Nov. 10 2025
Carlos Garcia-Azpeitia
(Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
The Three-Body Problem: From Lagranges Triangle to the Figure-Eight Choreography Hybrid
Jean-Philippe Lessard
3:30pm
Nov. 14 2025
Ben Adcock
(SFU)
Can uncertainty be quantified? On confident hallucinations in deep learning-based methods for inverse problems Hybrid
Tim Hoheisel and Mehdi Dagdoug
4pm
Nov. 17 2025
Dimitrios Giannakis
(Dartmouth)
Quantum mechanical closure of partial differential equations with symmetries Hybrid
Jason Bramburger
4pm
Nov. 24 2025
Felicia Magpantay
(Queen's)
Challenges in modeling the transmission dynamics of childhood diseases Hybrid
Tony Humphries
4pm
Dec. 1 2025
Aram-Alexandre Pooladian
(Yale)
Tight stability bounds for transport maps Hybrid
Tim Hoheisel