StemForAll 2026 Schedule

July 27-August 7, 2026

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Week 1: July 27-July 31

Monday, July 27
9:00-9:30 a.m. Introduction and program announcements (Landers Auditorium)
9:30-10:30 a.m. Mini-course on uncertainty principles and exact signal recovery, Alex Iosevich (Landers Auditorium)
10:30-11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m.-noon Mini-course on representation theory with applications to signal recovery, Karam Aldahleh (Landers Auditorium)
Noon-2:00 p.m. Lunch break
2:00-4:00 p.m. Meetings with research supervisors
4:00-5:00 p.m. Guest lecture by Jonathan Pakianathan: “What Are Tessellations of Riemann Surfaces?”
5:00-6:00 p.m. Meetings of research groups without research supervisors

Tuesday, July 28
9:00-9:30 a.m. Check-in with research groups (Landers Auditorium)
9:30-10:30 a.m. Mini-course on uncertainty principles and exact signal recovery, Alex Iosevich (Landers Auditorium)
10:30-11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m.-noon Mini-course on representation theory with applications to signal recovery, Karam Aldahleh (Landers Auditorium)
Noon-2:00 p.m. Lunch break
2:00-4:00 p.m. Meetings with research supervisors
4:00-5:00 p.m. Guest lecture by Alex Iosevich: “What Is the Erdős Distance Problem?”
5:00-6:00 p.m. Meetings of research groups without research supervisors

Wednesday, July 29
9:00-9:30 a.m. Check-in with research groups (Landers Auditorium)
9:30-10:30 a.m. Mini-course on uncertainty principles and exact signal recovery, Alex Iosevich (Landers Auditorium)
10:30-11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m.-noon Mini-course on representation theory with applications to signal recovery, Karam Aldahleh (Landers Auditorium)
Noon-2:00 p.m. Lunch break
2:00-4:00 p.m. Meetings with research supervisors
4:00-5:00 p.m. Guest lecture by Neeraja Kulkarni: “What Is the Kakeya Conjecture?”
5:00-6:00 p.m. Meetings of research groups without research supervisors

Thursday, July 30
9:00-9:30 a.m. Check-in with research groups (Landers Auditorium)
9:30-10:30 a.m. Mini-course on uncertainty principles and exact signal recovery, Alex Iosevich (Landers Auditorium)
10:30-11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m.-noon Mini-course on representation theory with applications to signal recovery, Karam Aldahleh (Landers Auditorium)
Noon-2:00 p.m. Lunch break
2:00-4:00 p.m. Meetings with research supervisors
4:00-5:00 p.m. Guest lecture by Vishal Gupta: “What Is Spectral Graph Theory?”
5:00-6:00 p.m. Meetings of research groups without research supervisors

Friday, July 31
9:00-9:30 a.m. Check-in with research groups (Landers Auditorium)
9:30-10:30 a.m. Mini-course on uncertainty principles and exact signal recovery, Alex Iosevich (Landers Auditorium)
10:30-11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m.-noon Mini-course on representation theory with applications to signal recovery, Karam Aldahleh (Landers Auditorium)
Noon-2:00 p.m. Lunch break
2:00-4:00 p.m. Meetings with research supervisors
4:00-5:00 p.m. Guest lecture by Svetlana Pack: “What Is Kolmogorov Complexity?”
5:00-6:00 p.m. Meetings of research groups without research supervisors


Week 2: August 3-August 7

Monday, August 3-Wednesday, August 5
9:00-11:00 a.m. Meetings with research supervisors
11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Lunch and independent study
2:00-4:00 p.m. Meetings with research supervisors
4:00-5:30 p.m. Meetings without research supervisors
7:00-8:00 p.m. Meetings of research groups with or without supervisors

Thursday, August 6
9:00-11:00 a.m. Meetings with research supervisors
11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Lunch and independent study
2:00-4:00 p.m. Meetings with research supervisors
4:00-5:00 p.m. Panel discussion on academic and industry jobs (Landers Auditorium). The panelists are: Georgiy Arutunyants (Parker Avery), Masha Gordina (University of Rochester-Mathematics), and Alice Quillen (University of Rochester-Physics)
5:00-6:30 p.m. Meetings without research supervisors
7:30-9:00 p.m. Meetings of research groups with or without supervisors

Friday, August 7
8:00-11:30 a.m. Research groups prepare final presentations
1:00-1:20 p.m. Final presentations: Interpreting LLMs (Landers Auditorium)
1:30-1:45 p.m. Steenrod Algebras (Landers Auditorium)
1:50-2:20 p.m. Medical Data (Landers Auditorium)
2:30-2:50 p.m. Asset Pricing (Landers Auditorium)
3:00-3:15 p.m. Economic Indicators (Landers Auditorium)
3:20-4.00 p.m. Non-Abelian Signal Recovery (Landers Auditorium)
4:10-4:40 p.m. Parseval Frames and Signal Recovery (Landers Auditorium)
4:50-5:20 p.m. Graph Recovery (Landers Auditorium)


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