Invited Presentations
Presentations from the Conference
Selected presentations from the 2016 SIAM Annual Meeting Science have been captured and are available as slides with synchronized audio. In addition there are PDF’s of the slides available for printing. View presentation slides with synchronized audio.
Invited Speakers
Computational Behavioral Ecology
Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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Large Deviation Theory Applied to Climate Physics, A New Frontier of Statistical Physics and Applied Mathematics
Freddy Bouchet, ENS de Lyon and CNRS, France
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On the Mathematical Study of Defects in Liquid Crystals
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University, Canada
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Anatomy of MERS Epidemic
Vittoria Colizza, Inserm, Paris, France
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Privacy and Validity in the Land of Plenty
Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research, USA
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The Life Cycle of An Eigenvalue Problem: From Data to Numerics
Mark Embree, Virginia Tech, USA
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Dynamics, Mixing, and Coherence
Gary Froyland, University of New South Wales, Australia
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Ecological Collapse and the Phase Transition to Turbulence
Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
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Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Childhood Infectious Disease: Predictability and the Impact of Vaccination
Bryan Grenfell, Princeton University, USA (Joint speaker with the SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences)
Deep Learning: A Cornucopia of Applications and Mathematical Mysteries
Yann LeCun, New York University, USA
Graph Structure in Polynomial Systems: Chordal Networks
Pablo A. Parrilo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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Social Science in the Age of Big Data
Matthew Salganik, Princeton University, USA
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Mathematical Sciences Education: What Is Wrong and Why Should You Care?
Karen Saxe, Macalester College, USA
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Implementing Reproducibility in Computational Science
Victoria Stodden, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
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Eigenvectors of Tensors
Bernd Sturmfels, University of California Berkeley, USA (American Mathematical Society (AMS) Invited Presentation)
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First Order Methods for Well Structured Optimization Problems
Marc Teboulle, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
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Beyond the Black Box in Derivative-Free and Simulation-Based Optimization
Stefan Wild, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
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Special Lectures
I. E. Block Community Lecture - Block Lecture Flyer [PDF, 200KB]
Toy Models
Tadashi Tokieda, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and Stanford University, USA
The AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture
Biofluids of Reproduction: Oscillators, Viscoelastic Networks and Sticky Situations
Lisa Fauci, Tulane University, USA
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W. T. and Idalia Reid Prize in Mathematics Lecture
Data and the Computational Modeling of Complex Systems
Ioannis G. Kevrekidis, Princeton University, USA
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The John von Neumann Lecture
Satisfiability and Combinatorics
Donald E. Knuth, Stanford University, USA
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