All Topics (April 18 through June 30) Thursday, April 20 4:00 PM TBA (James Robins -- Harvard) Thursday, April 27 4:00 PM Function-space regularized divergences and optimal transport for enhanced generative modeling (Markos Katsoulakis -- UMass Amherst) Thursday, May 4 4:00 PM Manifold-integrated Gaussian process modeling, with applications to surrogate modeling of quark-gluon plasma simulations (Simon Mak -- Duke University)