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In this two-week summer school for advanced undergraduate students, participants will be introduced to the mathematics underlying selected fundamental algorithms in data science, with a focus on methods of unsupervised learning for embedding and clustering data. Students will learn topics from high-dimensional probability, random matrix theory, graph theory, optimal transport, and spectral theory, among others. The material is geared toward students considering graduate study in the mathematics of data science.

Registration and Financial Support

Financial support in the form of reimbursement of travel and living expenses will be provided to facilitate students' participation. To apply, please submit your application materials at the link below. The application deadline is February 16, 2026.

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Faculty hosts

• William Leeb
• Jeff Calder
• Wei-Kuo Chen

Questions?

Email Professor William Leeb at [email protected]. 

Conference on order and function in complex systems: coherent structures, selection and stability 
August 10 – 14, 2026
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Overview

Many systems of interest in the natural sciences and engineering are complex, in that they possess a large number of degrees of freedom, which makes it a priori difficult to predict their behavior. Despite this, the behavior of many complex systems may be largely driven by a small number of coherent states, with a simpler description and a small number of free effective degrees of freedom. The focus of this conference is on methods from dynamical systems, PDE theory, and functional analysis for explaining and predicting the emergence of such coherent structures, as well as understanding their subsequent temporal dynamics. These coherent structures include fronts, waves, vortices or patterned states such as rolls or spots. Their existence and dynamics are essential to a range of applications spanning ecology, fluid dynamics, materials science, biology, and physics. There are nonetheless many mathematical commonalities in the study of coherent structures in these seemingly disparate areas of application. Recent years have seen many significant advances in both the theoretical and experimental understanding of different aspects of coherent structures. The conference will assemble international experts in the dynamics of coherent structures, together with a sizable group of early career researchers, for a week-long meeting covering the many facets of coherent structures research. It will facilitate the cross pollination of ideas key to recent advances in theory, computation, and experiment.

Organizers

• Montie Avery, Emory University
• Grégory Faye, CNRS, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse
• Ryan Goh, Boston University
• Matt Holzer, George Mason University
• Gabriela Jaramillo, University of Houston
• Merlin Pelz, University of Minnesota
• Qiliang Wu, Ohio University