All Topics (October 14 through December 31) Thursday, October 17 4:00 PM Small Mass Limit of Noisy Inertial Particle Dynamics: Homogenization, Instantaneous Equilibration, and Entropy Production (Jeremiah Birrell - UMass Amherst) Thursday, October 24 4:00 PM Mean Field for the Stochastic Blockmodel: Optimization Landscape and Convergence Issues (Purnamrita Sarkar - UT Austin) Thursday, October 31 4:00 PM Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data in Multiple Sclerosis Lesions (Elizabeth Sweeney - Weill Cornell Medical College) Thursday, November 7 4:00 PM Quasi-linear parabolic equations with singular forcing (Scott Smith - University of Wisconsin) Thursday, November 14 4:00 PM Learning & Exploiting Low-dimensional Structure In High-Dimensional Data - David Dunson (NESS Colloquium) Thursday, November 21 4:00 PM Large deviations for functionals of Gaussian processes (Xiaoming Song - Drexel) Thursday, December 5 4:00 PM Fractal Dimension and Random Minimum Spanning Trees (Benjamin Schweinhart - Ohio State)