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2025 Ziwet Lectures

Lior Haresh
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
4:00-5:00 PM
1360 East Hall Map
Lectures each day September 9-11, 2025 from 4-5 pm in East Hall 1360.
There will be a reception after the Tuesday Colloquium in the Math Upper Atrium.
Titles and abstracts TBD.

Dr. Lior Horesh is a Principal Research Scientist, Master Inventor and a Senior Manager of the ‎Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (formerly Mathematics of AI) department at IBM Research. His department’s mission is to approach some of the big ‎challenges the field of AI is facing, from a principled mathematical angle. This involves conceiving ‎and bringing in state-of-the-art mathematical theories, algorithms and analysis tools, in hope of ‎advancing fundamentally reasoning, generalizability, scalability, interpretability of AI.

Additionally, Dr. Horesh ‎holds an adjunct Associate Professor position at the Computer Science department of Columbia ‎University where he teaches graduate level Advanced Machine Learning and Quantum Computing ‎courses. Dr. Horesh Received his Ph.D. in 2006 from UCL and joined IBM in 2009.

Dr. Horesh's research ‎work focuses on algorithmic and theoretical aspects of tensor algebra, numerical analysis, simulation ‎of complex systems, inverse problems, non-linear optimization, experimental design, machine learning, quantum ‎computing and the interplay between deductive logic derivation (first-principles modelling) and inductive statistical AI in the context of symbolic scientific discovery.

Ziwet Lectures:
The Ziwet Lectures were established in 1934 through a bequest from Professor Ziwet, Chair of the UM Department of Mathematics from 1888-1925. He stipulated that his estate “should be used for the promotion of scientific work.” The Ziwet lectures have been one of the most prestigious lecture series in the department.
Building: East Hall
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Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Mathematics
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Special Events - Department of Mathematics, Department of Mathematics
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