(Colloquium) Adam Lowrance, Vassar College
2025-10-08 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Rockefeller Hall 203

(Colloquium) Patrick Gambill, Washington State University and Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
2025-10-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Rockefeller Hall 200

(LAVA) Eli Schwamm, VC '19
2025-10-17 15:00 - 16:00 | Rockefeller Hall 310
LAVA Talk on My early career with math, statistics, and medicine, with Eli Schwamm (VC ’19), MD, Friday, October 17, 2025 at 3PM.
Note: this LAVA talk will be virtual. Please join us on Zoom at https://vassar.zoom.us/j/96274757988

About Eli:
Dr. Eli Schwamm, class of 2019, majored in Math and Statistics. After graduating from Vassar, he worked for two years at the Medical Practice Evaluation Center, a health policy lab that specializes in projecting the costs and impacts of proposed public health programs. His work focused on multi-level survey analysis and Markov multi-state modelling, investigating behavioral trends in smoking and e-cigarette use among youth and adults. He went on to study at Harvard Medical School, class of 2025, and is now in his first year of residency at the Harvard/Mass General Brigham Neurology program. He still uses R to this day!

(Colloquium) Christina Athanasouli, Williams College
2025-10-31 16:00 - 17:00 | Rockefeller Hall 312

(Colloquium) Robyn Brooks, University of Utah
2025-11-07 16:00 - 17:00 | Rockefeller Hall 312

(Colloquium) Richard Schwartz, Brown University
2025-11-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Rockefeller Hall 312

(Colloquium) Sébastien Labbé, CRM-CNRS
2025-11-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Rockefeller Hall 200

(Colloquium) Peter Oberly, University of Rochester
2025-11-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Rockefeller Hall 312

(Colloquium) Tara Holm, Cornell University
2025-12-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Rockefeller Hall 312

(LAVA) Rachel Wagner-Kaiser, VC '10
2025-12-08 17:00 - 18:00 | Rockefeller Hall 200
LAVA Talk on Beyond the AI Hype Cycle, with Rachel Wagner-Kaiser (VC ’10), Monday, December 8, 2025 at 5PM in Rocky 200.

About Rachel:
Rachel Wagner-Kaiser, Ph.D., class of 2010, double-majored in Physics & Astronomy at Vassar. Rachel is now Director, Data Scientist in consulting at KPMG US. She has 15 years of experience in data and AI and specializes in building AI and natural language processing solutions for real-world problems constrained by limited or messy data.

Rachel works across industries to lead technical teams to design, build, deploy, and maintain NLP solutions. Her expertise has helped companies organize and decode their unstructured data to solve a variety of business problems and drive value through automation at scale.
She is also author of the book “Teaching Computers to Read”, a practical guide to effective AI solutions.

(Colloquium) Cheyne Glass, SUNY New Paltz
2026-02-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Taylor Hall 203

(Colloquium) Kaitlyn Cook, Smith College
2026-02-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Rockefeller Hall 312

(Colloquium) Enrique Alvarado, Iowa State University
2026-02-23 16:00 - 17:00

(LAVA) Elijah Appelson, VC '23
2026-02-27 15:00 - 16:00 | Rockefeller Hall 310
LAVA Talk Data Science @ ACLU of Louisiana with Elijah Appelson (VC ’23)
Friday, February 27, 2026 at 3PM in Rocky 310.

About Elijah:
Elijah Appelson is an activist, mathematician, and computational social scientist. Since 2023, he has served as the first Data Scientist at the ACLU of Louisiana, focusing on immigration, policing, and the broader criminal legal system. In this role, he conducts statistical analyses for legal cases, supports policy change, and develops educational tools, including “Visualizing Police Violence in Louisiana”. Skilled in web scraping, machine learning, and data storytelling, Elijah uses these tools to promote accountability. Previously, he held positions at the Center for Community Alternatives and the Vera Institute of Justice, blending technical expertise with a commitment to civil rights. His research interest is the intersection of technology, human rights, and the political economy. Elijah graduated from Vassar College in 2023 with a Degree in Mathematics (core/pure path).

(Colloquium) Matt Jones, Colby College
2026-03-24 16:00 - 17:00 | Rockefeller Hall 310

(Colloquium) Sandra Kingan, Brooklyn College & CUNY Graduate Center
2026-04-01 16:00 - 17:00

(Colloquium) Leonid Petrov, University of Virginia
2026-04-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Rockefeller Hall 312

(LAVA) Thuy Le, VC '21
2026-04-10 15:00 - 16:00 | Rockefeller Hall 310
Save the Date (more details to follow soon)!
LAVA Talk with Thuy Le (VC ’21)
Friday, April 10, 2026 at 3PM in Rocky 310.
