List of Past Colloquia
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Spring 2019
| Date and Time | Speaker | Title / Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| January 16 at 4:05 pm | John Hester | Refutational Completeness of Paramodulation |
| January 30 at 4:05 pm | Colin Defant | Structure in Stack-Sorting |
| February 27 at 4:05 pm | Scott McCullough | Setting Analysis Free |
| March 13 at 4:05 pm | John Oprea | Geometry, Soap Films and Biology |
| March 27 at 4:05 pm | Paul Robinson | Higher Trigonometry |
| April 10 at 4:05 pm | Alexandre Turull | Finite Groups and their Representations as Groups of Matrices |
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Fall 2018
| Date and Time | Speaker | Title / Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| August 29 at 4:05 pm | Alexander Elchesen | The Grothendieck Group of a Commutative Monoid |
| September 12 at 4:05 pm | Summer Atkins | Fellowships and Internships |
| September 26 at 4:05 pm | Luca Fabrizio Di Cerbo: Luca is an Assistant Professor, and has also applied to jobs in the financial industry. Amy Grady: Amy is a Lecturer, and has experience applying for tenure track teaching positions both at large schools and at smaller liberal arts type schools. James Pascoe: James is one of the Department's new Assistant Professors hires doing analysis research. Sara Pollock: Sara is an new Assistant Professor doing work in numerical analysis and scientific computing. Mike Jury: Associate Professor and member of the Faculty Search Committee this year. | |
| October 10 at 4:05 pm | Dalton Worsnup | Homotopy Type Theory |
| October 24 at 4:05 pm | Parker Edwards | Fantastic real semialgebraic sets and where to find them |
| November 7 at 4:05 pm | Andrew Kriehn | A Cook's Tour of Hyperbolic Geometry |
| November 28 at 4:05 pm | Darby J. Smith | Intracelluar Transport: Rigor Motors and Bayesian Inference |
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Spring 2018
| Date and Time | Speaker | Title / Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| January 17 at 4:05 pm | Colin Defant | How to Guard a highly symmetric Mall |
| January 29 at 4:05 pm | Keith Copenhaver | How Normal is Your Family Tree? |
| February 14 at 4:05 pm | Jason Johnson | The Ghost of Bach |
| February 28 at 4:05 pm | Jobs Panel | Featuring Leo Betthauser, Peter Bubenik, Michael Catanzaro, Jeramiah Hocutt, and Jindrich Zapletal |
| March 14 at 4:05 pm | Jamie Scott | An Introduction to Inverse Semigroups |
| March 28 at 4:05 pm | Paul Schwartz | A look At Continua Arising In Generalized Inverse Limits |
| April 11 at 4:05 pm | Anthony Van Duzer | Machine Sortable Permutation |
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Fall 2017
| Date and Time | Speaker | Title / Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| August 30 at 4:05 pm | Michael Engen | On the dimension of composition posets |
| September 27 at 4:05 pm | Dr. Paul Robinson | Divergent Series |
| October 11 at 4:05 pm | Nikola Milicevic | A General Introduction to TDA |
| October 25 at 4:05 pm | Dr. Michael Hull | Dehn's solution to the word problem in surface groups |
| November 8 at 4:05 pm | Celeste Vallejo | All models are wrong but some are useful |
| November 29 at 4:05 pm | Andrew Latham | A characterization of subnormal subgroups |
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Spring 2017
| Date and Time | Speaker | Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| January 11 at 4:05 pm | Douglas Pfeffer | 17th and 18th Century Calculus — A Series Approach |
| January 25 at 4:05 pm | Jason Johnson | A Combinatorial Proof of Fine's Theorem on Partitions |
| February 8 at 4:05 pm | Joshua Hiller | What do you mean "the" multistage model of carcinogenesis? |
| February 15 at 4:05 pm | Career Panel | Featuring Dr. Cenzer, Dr. Knudson, Dr. Alladi, Dr. Bubenik, Evan Milliken, and Ali Uncu |
| February 22 at 4:05 pm | Todd Molnar | The Local Distribution of the Number of Small Prime Factors |
| March 15 at 4:05 pm | John Hester | Metaphysics in Mathematics |
| March 29 at 4:05 pm | TBA | TBA |
| April 12 at 4:05 pm | TBA | TBA |
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Fall 2016
| Date and Time | Speaker | Abstract |
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| August 31 at 4:05 pm | Francis Adams | Set Theory and Small Sets of Reals |
| September 14 at 4:05 pm | Jeremiah Hocutt | Beyond Cesàro Continuity or: Who ever said differentiable functions were continuous? |
| September 28 at 4:05 pm | Keith Copenhaver | Counting With Unknowns: Generating Functions |
| October 12 at 4:05 pm | Endrit Fejzullahu | The Probabilistic Method in Combinatorics |
| October 26 at 4:05 pm | Darby Smith | Molecular Motors: Stochastic Equations of Motion |
| November 16 at 4:05 pm | Dr. Richard Crew | p-adic numbers and p-adic differential equations |
| December 7 at 4:05 pm | Dr. Miklós Bóna | Permutations and Genome Sorting |
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Spring 2016
| January 20, 4:05pm | Dr. Murali Rao | Probability |
| February 3, 4:05pm | Mr. Ali Uncu | Some Weighted Partition Identities |
| February 17, 4:05pm | Mr. Ben Russo | Dilation Theory and Completely Positive Maps |
| March 16, 4:05pm | Mr. Reuben Bernstein-Goff | Big Data: Obstacles, Tools, and Open Problems |
| March 30, 4:05pm | Dr. Sergei Shabanov | The Formalism of Siegert States in Resonant Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves |
| April 13, 4:05pm | Dr. Mike Jury |
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Fall 2015
| September 9 4:05pm |
Doug Pfeffer | A look at the changes to analytic rigor in the 18th and 19th centuries. |
| September 23 4:05pm |
Dr. Peter Bubenik | Topological Data Analysis |
| October 7 4:05pm |
Raymond Schaub | The Leontief Input-Output Model |
| October 21 4:05pm |
Dr. Jonathan King | How to Think about things bigger than your Brain? or (The Firing-Squad Problem and related Conundra) |
| November 4 4:05pm |
Evan Milliken | R0 and other applications of linear algebra to mathematical epidemiology |
| November 18 4:05pm |
Kiara Hall | Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics |
| December 2 4:05pm |
Celeste Vallejo | Little’s Law Applied to a Stochastic Model of Poliomyelitis |
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Spring 2014
| January 21 4:05pm |
Dr. Jindrich Zapletal | A course in descriptive set theory, Fall 2015 |
| February 4 4:05pm |
Larie Ward | Operators Grow on Trees |
| February 18 4:05pm |
Todd Molnar | The Anatomy of the Integers via Large Prime Factors with an Application to Numerical Factorization |
| March 11 4:05pm |
Dr. Paul Robinson | The Pendulum Swings |
| March 25 4:05pm |
Dr. Christopher Porter | Coin Tossing, Randomness Extraction, and Algorithmic Randomness |
| April 8 4:05pm |
Christopher Cyr | Permutable p-groups Are Hard to Find (in Sn) |
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Fall 2014
| September 3 4:05pm |
Dr. Jed Keesling | Queueing Theory and its Applications |
| September 17 4:05pm |
Ben Russo | My Love/Hate Relationship with the Cantor Set |
| October 1 4:05pm |
Dr. Scott McKinley | Fluctuating hydrodynamics of microparticles in biological fluids: modeling, simulation and analysis |
| October 15 4:05pm |
Joshua Hiller | Constructive Lower Bounds in Hypergraph Ramsey Theory |
| October 29 4:05pm |
Daniel Gray | Superpatterns Containing Special Subsets of Permutations |
| November 12 4:05pm |
Dr. Lei Zhang | Some examples of Partial Differential Equations that indicate interplay with other fields |
| December 3 4:05pm |
Ashwini Amarasinghe | Topological Dimension |
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Spring 2013
| January 22 4:05pm |
Cheyne Homberger | Patterns Within Random Permutations: Some Open (and Recently Closed) Questions |
| February 5 4:05pm |
Joel Rosenfeld | An Introduction to Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces and a Few Applications |
| February 19 4:05pm |
Kevin Knudson | Algorithms in discrete Morse theory |
| March 12 4:05pm |
Krishnaswami Alladi | Paul Erdos – One of the Most Influential Mathematicians of Our Times |
| March 26 4:05pm |
Tim Olson | The Singular Value Decomposition and the Real World |
| April 9 4:05pm |
Josh Hurwitz | A Simulation Platform to Quantify Emergency Department Patient Flow |
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Fall 2013
| August 28 4:05pm |
Jay Pantone | Checker Jumping, Coin Counting, and Cap Throwing: Why Generating Functions are Magic |
| September 11 4:05pm |
Scott McCullough | Setting Semialgebraic Geometry and Convex Analysis Free |
| September 25 4:05pm |
Jindrich Zapletal | Infinite Games in Mathematics |
| October 9 4:05pm |
Richard Crew | |
| October 23 4:05pm |
Evan Milliken | The Real Dynamics of Bieberbach’s Example |
| November 6 4:05pm |
Becky Borchering | Assessing Seasonal Drivers of Rabies Dynamics in Three North American Carnivore Species |
| November 20 4:05pm |
Ali Uncu | Generating functions for Partitions, Generalizations and Further Results. |
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Spring 2013
| January 16 4:05pm |
Nick Sharpe | A Family of K-automorphisms in Ergodic Theory |
| January 30 4:05pm |
Lee Raney | Group Representations and Characters |
| February 13 4:05pm |
Francis Adams | Nonstandard Analysis: Calculus with Infinitesimals |
| February 27 4:05pm |
Alexander Dranishnikov | The Category and the Topological Complexity |
| March 13 4:05pm |
Jill Stupiansky | Mathematical Modeling of Citrus Greening Disease |
| March 27 4:05pm |
Vince Vatter | Geometric Grid Classes of Permutations |
| April 10 4:05pm |
Sergei Shabanov | The Resonant Wave Scattering Theory and Applications |
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Fall 2012
| August 29 4:05pm |
N/A | Meet and greet |
| September 12 4:05pm |
Peter Sin | The Golod-Shafarevich Theorem |
| September 26 4:05pm |
Paul Robinson | Additive Functions |
| October 17 4:05pm |
Sebastian Wyman | Introduction to Computability, Computable Analysis, and Effective Symbolic Dynamics |
| October 24 4:05pm |
Graham Picklesimer | Finitely Additive Measures and the Theory of Games |
| November 14 4:05pm |
Jonathan King | Situations Where You Didn’t Think You Needed Ergodic Theory |
| November 28 4:05pm |
Sergei Pilyugin |