Talks and discussions connecting students with researchers across mathematics, statistics, computing, and decision sciences.
The next conversations in the BAMS seminar programme.
To be announced
No upcoming seminars have been announced.
A record of talks hosted by BAMS, with slides, notes, and recordings where available.
Academic year 2025–2026
Prof. Giuseppe Savaré
From Monge’s earthmoving problem to Kantorovich’s formulation, this seminar explores the mathematical foundations of optimal transport and its connections to machine learning and image processing.
External course and tutorial collection — not the speaker’s BAMS slides.
Prof. Marc Mézard
A non-technical introduction to spin glasses, tracing how the study of disordered magnetic materials developed into a theory of complex systems, with particular attention to neural networks.
No materials available for this seminar.
Dr. Balázs Márk Békési
A two-part introduction to gauge theory, starting with electromagnetism and abelian gauge theory before moving to principal bundles, connections, and Yang–Mills theory.
9 April 2026
Lecture 1: Abelian Aspects
An introduction to abelian gauge theory through Maxwell’s equations and differential forms.
16 April 2026
Lecture 2: Introduction to Yang–Mills Theory
An introduction to principal bundles, connections, gauge groups, and the Yang–Mills functional.
Materials and recordings shared with the BAMS community by Prof. Alessandro Pigati.
Prof. Antonio De Rosa
Can a closed curve in space be spanned by a surface of least area? This seminar explores Plateau’s problem, Jesse Douglas’s solution, and the development of minimal surfaces, geometric partial differential equations, and geometric measure theory.
Prof. Botond Szabó
Why are Gaussian processes so widely used, and why can they be computationally expensive? This seminar explores theory-driven approximation methods for making Gaussian process models more scalable.
Prof. Fabio Maccheroni
A journey from the Banach–Caccioppoli contraction theorem to Google’s PageRank algorithm, exploring how fixed-point mathematics connects abstract theory with the modern web.
Deck titled “From 1920s Lviv to the Cyberspace”.
Banach’s 1920 doctoral thesis — supplementary material.
