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	May 30, 11:00 - 14:00, Stein Variational Gradient Descent and Consensus-Based Optimization: Towards a Convergence Analysis and Generalization (B3 L5 R5220), Lukang Sun, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science	Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
	Jun 1, 16:00 - 17:00, Stochastic differential games, network of networks and the crowd evacuation problem (B1 L4 R4102), Dr. Julian Barreiro Gomez, Center on Stability, Instability, and Turbulence (SITE) at the New York University in Abu Dhabi	Seminar
	Jun 4, 10:00 - 11:00, Stochastic environmental modeling in a time of convergence: physics meets artificial intelligence (B1 L4 R4102), Prof. Stefano Castruccio, Associate professor, University of Notre Dame, USA	Seminar
	Dec 9, 14:30 - 15:30, Stochastic Interacting Particle Methods and Generative Learning for Multiscale PDEs (B1 L3 R3119), Jack Xin, Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics, School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine	machine learning, Mathematics and Applications Colloquium, PDEs
	Jul 15, 15:00 - 16:00, Stochastic Model Hyperreduction for Modeling and Quantifying Model-Form Uncertainties by Professor Charbel Farhat (B3 L5 R5220), Professor Charbel Farhat	Seminar
	May 15, 08:00 - May 28, 17:00, Stochastic Numerics and Statistical Learning: Theory and Applications Workshop (KAUST Campus), Stochastic Numerics PI Professor Raul Tempone (Chair) and Computational Probability PI Professor Ajay Jasra (Co-Chair)	Workshop
	May 21, 08:00 - Jun 1, 17:00, Stochastic Numerics and Statistical Learning: Theory and Applications Workshop 2023 (B9), Stochastic Numerics PI Professor Raul Tempone (Chair) and Computational Probability PI Professor Ajay Jasra (Co-Chair)	machine learning, statistical learning, stochastic algorithms, Workshop
	May 19, 08:00 - May 30, 17:00, Stochastic Numerics and Statistical Learning: Theory and Applications Workshop 2024 (B2 B3 A0215), Stochastic Numerics PI Professor Raul Tempone (Chair) and Computational Probability PI Professor Ajay Jasra (Co-Chair)	machine learning, statistical learning, stochastic algorithms, Workshop
	May 18, 09:00 - May 25, 15:30, Stochastic Numerics and Statistical Learning: Theory and Applications Workshop 2025 (Auditorium 0215 between B2 & B3)	machine learning, statistical learning, stochastic algorithm, Workshop
	Oct 31, 15:30 - 17:00, Stochastic Optimal Control with Exercise Rate Optimization and Markovian Projections: Pricing American Options and Importance Sampling Applications (B5 L5 R5209), Raul Tempone, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science	Markovian projection, Public Colloquium, sampling
	Jul 27, 17:00 - 19:00, Stochastic Optimization in Target Positioning and Location-based Applications (KAUST), Hui Chen, Ph.D. Student (former), Electrical and Computer Engineering	Hand Gestures Recognition, optimization, Ph.D. Dissertation Defense, stochastic algorithm
	Nov 18, 09:10 - 09:50, Stochastic Partial Differential Approach for Describing Crystallization Droplets in Water Emulsion (KAUST), Prof. Mhamed Eddahbi, Mathematics, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia	Conference
	Apr 14, 18:00 - 20:00, Strategies for Improving Communication Efficiency in Distributed and Federated Learning: Compression, Local Training, and Personalization (B5 L5 R5209), Kai Yi, Ph.D. Student, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering	Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
	Oct 6, 12:00 - 13:00, Strong, Versatile and Invisible - Magnetic Transducers (B9 L2 H1 R2322)	Graduate Seminar
	Apr 22, 16:00 - 17:00, Structure-conforming Operator Learning via Transformers (KAUST), Prof. Shuhao Cao, University of Missouri–Kansas City	Seminar, transformers
	May 2, 12:15 - 14:00, Student Poster Competition: The KAUST Research Conference on Computational Advances in Structural Biology (B9 Hallway), Xin Gao, Program Chair, Computer Science	Poster Competition, structural biology
	Sep 12, 09:30 - 11:00, Study of III-nitride Nanowire Growth and Devices on Unconventional Substrates (B3 L5 R5209), Aditya Prabaswara, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering	III-nitride nanowires, optoelectronics, Ph.D. Dissertation Defense, semiconductors
	Jul 30, 16:00 - 17:00, Study of ultraviolet AlGaN nanowires light-emitting diodes (B3 L5 R5209), Davide Priante, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering	nanofabrication, optoelectronics, Ph.D. Dissertation Defense, photonics
	Aug 12, 14:00 - 16:00, Stylistic and spatial disentanglement in GANs (KAUST), Yazeed Alharbi, Ph.D., Computer Science	Computer Vision, Deep learning, generative adversarial network, machine learning, Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
	May 1, 12:00 - 13:00, Sub-dimensional Mardia measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis (B9 L3 R3128), Joydeep Chowdhury, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics	Graduate Seminar
	Nov 11, 13:30 - 14:30, Success and Challenges of Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineering Applications (B1 L3 R3119), Feng Liu, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Irvine	algorithms, CDF, Computer simulations, Mathematics and Applications Colloquium, Turbulent
	Jun 3, 13:50 - Jul 29, 15:00, Summer 2025 Seminar Series of the UNESCO Chair on Education to Connect the Unconnected (Zoom),	Seminar
	Nov 28, 13:00 - 14:00, Surface Electromagnetics: Physics Exploration and Engineering Applications (B2 L5 R5220), Prof. Fan Yang, Electronic Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, China	applications in microwaves and optics, concepts and designs, development, Seminar, surface electromagnetics
	Feb 9, 13:00 - 14:30, Surface Tracking for Large-scale Dynamic Foams and Fluids (B1, L2, R2202), Aleksei Kalinov, PhD Student at Institute of Science and Technology Austria	Seminar
	Oct 22, 13:00 - 14:00, Sustainability-led Designs through Digital Twins (B9 L2 H2), Dr. Eric Lou	Graduate Seminar
	Apr 1, 14:00 - 14:45, Swarms for People (KAUST), Sabine Hauert, Associate Professor, Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol	Conference, RobotoKAUST
	Mar 12, 12:00 - 13:00, Symbolic AI in Computational Biology (B9 H1 R2322), Robert Hoehndorf, Associate Professor, Computer Science	Seminar
	Feb 26, 16:30 - 17:30, Symbolic AI in Computational Biology: Applications to Disease Gene and Drug Target Identification (The University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom), Robert Hoehndorf, Associate Professor, Computer Science	Seminar
	Nov 29, 15:00 - 16:00, Symmetry and Beyond (B3 L5 R5220), Prof. Jiping Zhang	groups, Lecture, monstrous moonshine, symmetric polynomials, symmetry
	Jun 30, 10:00 - 11:00, Synthetic Molecular Communication Across Different Scales: From Theory to Experiments (B1 L3 R3119), Robert Schober	Seminar
	Mar 20, 12:00 - 13:00, Tackling credential abuse together (B9 L2 H2 H2.), Michael Reiter, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University	data security, Lecture
	Aug 14, 08:00 - 10:00, Tackling the Communication Bottlenecks of Distributed Deep Learning Training Workloads (B2 L5 R5220), Chen-Yu (Elton) Ho, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science	Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
	Dec 7, 12:00 - 13:00, Tales of a Spur Hunter: The Wandering Spur (B9 L2 R2325), Michael Peter Kennedy, Full Professor, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin	Dean's Distinguished Lecture
	Oct 2, 12:00 - 13:00, Task-driven Automated Data Visualization (B9 L2 H2 R2325), Dr. Yunhai Wang, Professor, Computer Science, Shandong University, China	data visualisation, EdWordle, high dimensional data, parameters, Seminar, ShapeWordle, time series data, visualisation techniques
	Nov 14, 15:30 - 17:00, Tensor-train Methods for Partial Differential Equations and its application to a Neutron Transport Problem (B9 L4 R4225), Daniele Boffi, Associate Dean for Faculty, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering	Partial Differential Equations, Public Colloquium
	May 6, 09:00 - 11:00, The 2025 Iberian Blackout: Anatomy of a Grid Collapse (B9 L2 R2322), Charalambos (Harrys) Konstantinou, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering	power grid, renewable energy, resilience, Seminar
	May 2, 09:00 - May 4, 17:00, The 2nd SAAI Factory Hackathon Kickoff Symposium at KAUST (B20 Auditorium), The 2nd SAAI Factory Hackathon Kickoff Symposium 2023	artificial intelligence, Hackathon, Symposium
	Apr 28, 09:20 - 09:40, The AI Initiative at KAUST (KAUST), Bernard Ghanem, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering	artificial intelligence, Conference, machine learning
	Mar 6, 12:00 - 13:00, The Ball-Proximal (=“Broximal”) Point Method: a New Algorithm, Convergence Theory, and Applications (B9, L2, R2325), Kaja Gruntkowska, PhD student, Statistics, KAUST	Graduate Seminar
	Mar 27, 12:00 - 13:00, The Best of Both Worlds: Distributed PCA That is Both Exact and Communication Efficient (B9 L2 R2322 H1), Prof. Waheed Bajwa, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University-New Brunswick	Graduate Seminar
	Nov 18, 16:35 - 16:50, The capabilities of Summation-by- Parts Operators for Non-linear Stability of Semi- discrete Schemes (KAUST), Mohammed Sayyari, Ph.D. Student, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science	Conference
	Mar 21, 14:00 - 16:00, The capabilities of summation-by-parts and structure-preserving operators for compressible computational fluid dynamics and reaction-diffusion models (B2 L5 R5209), Mohammed Sayyari, Ph.D. Student, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science	Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
	Apr 1, 18:45 - 19:30, The challenging path to creating fully autonomous and controllable microrobots (KAUST), Prof. Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia, Autonomous Microrobotic Systems Laboratory, University of Southern California (USC)	autonomy, Catalytic Artificial Muscles, Conference, Crawling Control, Flight Control, microrobots, Power, RobotoKAUST
	Mar 9, 15:00 - 16:00, The conditional particle filter - scalable MCMC for dynamic models (KAUST), Prof. Matti Vihola, Professor of Statistics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland	Seminar
	Mar 25, 12:00 - 13:00, The Convex Gaussian Min-Max Theorem: A Powerful Tool for the Analysis of Regularized Convex Optimization Problems (KAUST), Tareq Al-Naffouri, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering	Graduate Seminar
	Oct 11, 12:00 - 13:00, The Data-sparse Renaissance in Numerical Linear Algebra (B9 R2322 H1), David Keyes, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science	Graduate Seminar
	Apr 3, 13:15 - 14:45, The Discrete Charm of Geometry (B9 L2 H2), Prof. Alexander I. Bobenko, Technische Universität Berlin	continuous shapes, discrete models, geometric structures, mathematics, Screening
	Apr 10, 12:00 - 13:00, The Earliest Arrival of Quantum Advantage (B9 L2 R2325), David Keyes, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science	Graduate Seminar, quantum computing, quantum processing unit, supercomputers
	Apr 21, 12:00 - 13:00, The Earliest Arrival of Quantum Utility (B9, L2, R2325), David Keyes, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science	Graduate Seminar
	Jun 9, 19:00 - 21:00, The envelope formula and its applications in variational analysis - Session 1 (KAUST), Adjunct Prof. Levon Nurbekyan, Department of Mathematics at UCLA	Course
	Jun 14, 19:00 - 21:00, The envelope formula and its applications in variational analysis - Session 2 (KAUST), Adjunct Prof. Levon Nurbekyan, Department of Mathematics at UCLA	Course
	Jun 16, 19:00 - 21:00, The envelope formula and its applications in variational analysis - Session 3 (KAUST), Adjunct Prof. Levon Nurbekyan, Department of Mathematics at UCLA	Course
	Nov 9, 17:00 - 19:00, The equations of polyconvex thermoelasticity (KAUST), Myrto Galanopoulou, Ph.D. Student, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science	Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
	Mar 18, 12:00 - 13:00, The Evolution of Machine Learning (B4 B5 A0215), Professor George Karypis, University of Minnesota	Graduate Seminar, machine learning, University of Minnesota
	Feb 28, 12:00 - 13:00, The fourth wave: ultrawide bandgap compound semiconductors for photonics and electronics (KAUST), Xiaohang Li, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering	electronics, Graduate Seminar, photonics, semiconductors, The fourth wave
	Jan 21, 12:00 - 13:00, The fourth wave: ultrawide bandgap semiconductors (B9 L2 LH 2325), Xiaohang Li, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering	Graduate Seminar
	May 8, 09:45 - 10:15, The future of coral reef monitoring (B18 Fellowship Hall), Michael Berumen, Professor, Marine Science	Computer Vision for Automation, Conference, Distributed Robot Systems, Mapping, Marine Robotics, SLAM
	May 8, 11:00 - 13:00, The impact of electrolyte swelling on the mixed conduction properties of n-type organic semiconductors (B5 L5 R5220), Jokubas Surgailis, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering	Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
	Oct 25, 12:00 - 13:00, The Impact of Information Technology on the Future of Energy Consumption (B9 R2322 H1), Elmootazbellah Elnozahy, Professor (former), Computer Science	Graduate Seminar
	Oct 6, 16:00 - 17:30, The Infinity Laplacian (Session I) (KAUST), Prof. José Miguel Urbano, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal	Course
	Oct 8, 16:00 - 17:30, The Infinity Laplacian (Session II) (KAUST), Prof. José Miguel Urbano, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal	Course
	Oct 13, 16:00 - 17:30, The Infinity Laplacian (Session III) (KAUST), Prof. José Miguel Urbano, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal	Course
	Oct 15, 16:00 - 17:30, The Infinity Laplacian (Session IV) (KAUST), Prof. José Miguel Urbano, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal	Course
	Dec 4, 12:00 - 13:00, The Internet of Bodies: A Gateway to Holistic Healthcare - 2022-12-04 (B9 L2 R2322 H1), Ahmed Eltawil, Associate Dean for Research, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering	Graduate Seminar, The Internet of Bodies
	Jan 22, 12:00 - 13:00, The Internet of Bodies: A Gateway to Holistic Healthcare - 2023-01-22 (B9 L2 R2322), Ahmed Eltawil, Associate Dean for Research, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering	Graduate Seminar, The Internet of Bodies
	May 14, 10:00 - 11:30, The Internet of Fiber-Optic Things and Smart Sensing (B1 L3 R3119), Juan Manuel Marin Mosquera, Ph.D. Candidate (former), Electrical and Computer Engineering	Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
	Jul 13, 21:00 - 23:00, The Interplay between Mean-Field Games and Machine-Learning (Session I) (KAUST), Prof. Levon Nurbekyan, Department of Mathematics, UCLA	Course
	Jul 14, 21:00 - 23:00, The Interplay between Mean-Field Games and Machine-Learning (Session II) (KAUST), Prof. Levon Nurbekyan, Department of Mathematics, UCLA	Course
	Jul 15, 21:00 - 23:00, The Interplay between Mean-Field Games and Machine-Learning (Session III) (KAUST), Prof. Levon Nurbekyan, Department of Mathematics, UCLA	Course
	Oct 31, 09:00 - Nov 3, 17:00, The KAUST 2022 Workshop on Statistics (B2 B3 A0215)	big data, complex data, data science, modeling, statistics, Workshop
	Nov 6, 09:00 - Nov 9, 17:00, The KAUST 2023 Workshop on Statistics (B18 R4203)	big data, data science, environment, health, modeling, statistics, sustainability, Workshop
	Nov 18, 09:00 - Nov 21, 17:00, The KAUST 2024 Workshop on Statistics (Auditorium between Building 4 - 5)	Workshop
	Nov 2, 09:00 - Nov 6, 17:00, The KAUST 2025 Workshop on Statistics (Between Building 2 / 3, Level 0, Auditorium 0215)	Workshop
	Nov 18, 08:00 - Nov 19, 17:00, The KAUST Red Sea Research Conference on Frontier Technology (Auditorium between Buildings 2 and 3)	Workshop
	Jan 28, 14:00 - Feb 1, 12:00, The KAUST Research Conference on Divide, Conquer and Combine Methods in Large-scale Simulation and Analytics (DD28) (B20), CEMSE Division with financial support from the Office of Research Funding and Services (RFS)	Conference
	Feb 28, 08:00 - Mar 2, 20:00, The KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy 2022 (B19 H1), Eric Feron, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering	Conference, robotics
	Jul 6, 14:00 - 17:00, The Lagrangian Approach to First Order Mean Field Games (Session I) (KAUST), Prof. Francisco J. Silva, Applied Mathematics, University of Limoges, France	Course
	Jul 8, 14:00 - 17:00, The Lagrangian Approach to First Order Mean Field Games (Session II) (KAUST), Prof. Francisco J. Silva, Applied Mathematics, University of Limoges, France	Course
	Sep 8, 16:00 - 17:30, The Lipschitz Extension Problem (Session I) (KAUST), Prof. José Miguel Urbano, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal	Course
	Sep 10, 16:00 - 17:30, The Lipschitz Extension Problem (Session II) (KAUST), Prof. José Miguel Urbano, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal	Course
	Sep 15, 16:00 - 17:30, The Lipschitz Extension Problem (Session III) (KAUST), Prof. José Miguel Urbano, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal	Course
	Sep 17, 16:00 - 17:30, The Lipschitz Extension Problem (Session IV) (KAUST), Prof. José Miguel Urbano, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal	Course
	May 28, 10:00 - 12:00, The Many Faces of Compression: Theory and Practice in Federated Optimization (B3, L5, R5209), Elnur Gasanov, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science	communication efficiency, compression methods, Ph.D. Dissertation Defense, proximal algorithms
	Mar 17, 12:00 - 13:00, The Maxwell-Stefan system for multi-component diffusion (B9 L2 H2), Athanasios Tzavaras, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science	Graduate Seminar
	Nov 3, 16:00 - 17:30, The method of intrinsic scaling - Session 1 (KAUST), Jose Urbano, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal	Course
	Nov 5, 16:00 - 17:30, The method of intrinsic scaling - Session 2 (KAUST), Jose Urbano, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal	Course
	Nov 10, 16:00 - 17:30, The method of intrinsic scaling - Session 3 (KAUST), Jose Urbano, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal	Course
	Nov 12, 16:00 - 17:30, The method of intrinsic scaling - Session 4 (KAUST), Jose Urbano, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal	Course
	Sep 16, 15:00 - 16:00, The Multi-Level Monte Carlo Technique for Approximation of Distribution Functions and an Application to AF4 By Prof. Klaus Ritter (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany) (B1 R4214), Prof. Klaus Ritter, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern	Seminar
	May 10, 17:15 - 17:45, The need for robotics and automatization to meet our global coral restoration goals (B18 Fellowship Hall), Dr. Sebastian Schmidt-Roach, BESE/Red Sea Research Center, KAUST	Conference, Factory Automation, Marine Robotics, planning, Scheduling and Coordination
	Nov 14, 14:30 - 15:30, The Partition of Unity Finite Element Method for the Schrödinger Equation (B9 L4 R4225), Francesca Gardini, Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pavia, Italy	Seminar
	Apr 11, 12:00 - 14:00, The Physical Review Applied : An Insider’s Look (B1 L2 R2202), Prof. Badreddine M. Assouar, Institut Jean Lamour, University of Lorraine	manuscript, peer-review, Seminar
	Nov 6, 11:30 - 12:30, The Prospect of Generative Language Processing (B9 L2 H2 H2), Prof. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed	artificial intelligence, generative language processing, Graduate Seminar, nlp
	Nov 18, 14:25 - 14:50, The Relativistic Heat Equation on Flat Friedman Space time. (KAUST), Dr. Usamah Al-Ali, Mathematics, Saudi Electronic University, Saudi Arabia	Conference
	Apr 1, 16:15 - 17:00, The Robots are Coming – to your Farm (KAUST), Girish Chowdhary, Associate Professor, UIUC	agriculture, artificial intelligence, Conference, robotics, RobotoKAUST
	Nov 18, 09:50 - 10:30, The Role and Importance of Sparse Matrices in Statistics (KAUST), Haavard Rue, Program Chair, Statistics	Conference
	Jan 30, 12:00 - 13:00, The Role of Microgrids in Enhancing Power System Resilience against Natural Disasters (Auditorium between B4 and 5), Nikos D. Hatziargyriou, Professor Emeritus, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)	Lecture
	Nov 8, 15:00 - 16:00, The role of skewed distributions in Bayesian inference: conjugacy, scalable approximations and asymptotics (B1 L4 R4102), Daniele Durante, Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University, Italy	bayesian inference, Seminar
	Apr 29, 12:00 - 13:00, The Role of Volcanic Activity in Climate and Global Change (KAUST), Georgiy L. Stenchikov, Professor, Earth Science and Engineering	Graduate Seminar
	Apr 29, 11:00 - 12:00, The route to chaos in routing games: Population increase drives period-doubling instability and chaos with Price of Anarchy equal to one (B1 L3 R3119), Georgios Piliouras, Assistant Professor, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)	game-theoretic analysis, robotics, Seminar, SUTD