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List of Past Colloquia

Fall 2024

Date and Time	Speaker	Title / Abstract
September 4 at 3:00 PM	Arya Gayathri Memana	A C* Algebra Approach to Szegő's Theorem
September 18 at 3:00 PM	Tuyen Pham	Faster Computations for Representatives of Persistent Homology
October 2 at 3:00 PM	Julian Michele	Extensions of local fields given by Eisenstein polynomials with a small number of terms
October 23 at 3:00 PM	Darren Schmidt	Ekedahl-Oort Types in Z_p Towers of Curves
October 30 at 3:00 PM	Michael Coopman	Major Index Distribution
November 20 at 3:00 PM	Ekansh Jauhari	Topological Complexity of Intertwining Motion

Spring 2024

Date and Time	Speaker	Title / Abstract
January 31 at 4:05 pm	Ekansh Jauhari	Topology and Robotics - a new approach to motion planning
February 7 at 4:05 pm	Chirantha Tharusha Bandara	Mathematical Model on HIV and Nutrition
February 21 at 4:05 pm	The GMA Board	Information Session
March 6 at 4:05 pm	Aaron Kolby Thrasher	Price Inequalities and an Analog of Almgren’s Frequency Function
March 27 at 4:05 pm	Rhea Shroff	Accelerating the Computation of Tensor Z-Eigenvalues
April 10 at 4:05 pm	Lezhi Liu	A Learned Proximal Alternating Minimization Algorithm and Its Induced Network for a Class of Two-block Nonconvex and Nonsmooth Optimization

Fall 2023

Date and Time	Speaker	Title / Abstract
September 6 at 4:05 pm	Himanshu Yadav	Topological Data Analysis with Point Cloud and Affine Subspaces
September 20 at 4:05 pm	Adam Gregory	Utility of combinatorial formulas for special polynomials
October 11 at 4:05 pm	Connor Morrow	Congruences mod powers of 5 for Andrews's even parts below odd parts partition function
November 1 at 4:05 pm	Matt Dallas	Singular Newton-Anderson and Bifurcation Phenomena
November 15 at 4:05 pm	Dario Teran Acaro	The adic unit disk. An introduction to Adic Spaces
November 29 at 4:05 pm	Hayden Hunter	On Higher Dimensional Milnor Frames

Spring 2023

Date and Time	Speaker	Title / Abstract
February 1st at 4:05 pm	Dario Teran Acaro	The Berkovich Closed Disk
February 15 at 4:05 pm	Palak Arora	Optimal Approximation Problems for Commutative and Noncommutative Polynomials
March 1 at 4:05 pm	Dr. Hubert Wagner	Is topology useful in solving real-world problems?
March 22 at 4:05 pm	Luke Morris	Abstraction and Composition in Modeling and Simulation
April 19 at 4:05 pm	Aritram Dhar	q-series: Computations and Applications

Fall 2022

Date and Time	Speaker	Title / Abstract
August 31 at 4:05 pm	Andres Zuniga	Convexity in Riemannian Geometry
September 14 at 4:05pm	David Burrell, Phoebe Ferguson, George Roman, Caleb Davis, and Zachariah Thomas	TA Panel
October 5 at 4:05 pm	Recep Celebi	A Brief Tour of Local Class Field Theory
October 26 at 4:05 pm	Aritram Dhar	Proofs of Two Formulas of Vladeta Jovovic
November 30 at 4:05 pm	Dr. Tracy Stepien	Traveling Waves in a Model of Cell Migration With a Moving Boundary

Spring 2022

Date and Time	Speaker	Title / Abstract
February 16 at 4:05 pm	David Burrell	Construction of Finite Groups
March 23 at 4:05pm	Yuxin Zhou	Distinguish chromatic numbers for isosceles triangles in choiceless set theorem
April 20 at 4:05 pm	Dr. Jonathan Bush	Vietoris—Rips complexes and the Gromov—Hausdorff distance

Fall 2021

Date and Time	Speaker	Title / Abstract
September 1 at 4:05 pm	John Streese	Introduction to Partitions, Rank and Crank, and relationships to quasi-modular forms
September 15 at 4:05pm	Paul Schwartz	How Fermat's Last Theorem rocked the mathematical world
September 29 at 4:05 pm	Josh Arroyo	Constructing Odd Ordered Magic and Diabolic Hypercubes
October 13 at 4:05 pm	Chunmei Wang	Efficient Numerical Methods for Weak Solutions of Partial Differential Equations
October 27 at 4:05 pm	Hayden Hunter	Curvature of Finite Dimensional Manifolds
November 11 at 4:05 pm	Lauren Wickman	On the Metrizability of the Universal Minimal Flow of Certain Automorphism Groups
December 8 at 4:05 pm	William Sims	Graph Flattenability

Fall 2019

Date and Time	Speaker	Title / Abstract
August 28 at 4:05 pm	Matthew Dallas	Fractional Calculus: Motivation and Fundamentals
September 11 at 4:05pm	Zachary Hamaker: Zachary is a newly Assistant Professor.	Jobs Panel
September 25 at 4:05 pm	Philip Boyland	Topology, Tangling and Fluid Mixing
October 9 at 4:05 pm	Alexander Dranishnikov	Topology and Robot Motion Planning
October 23 at 4:05 pm	Tracy Stepien	Cell migration in development, wound healing, and cancer: Modeling, simulation and analysis
November 6 at 4:05 pm	Jesse Thorner	Heuristics in Number TheoryHeuristics in Number Theory
November 20 at 4:05 pm	Zachary Hamaker

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

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.
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

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

Fall 2017

Date and Time	SpeakerSpeaker	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

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

Fall 2016

Date and Time	Speaker	Abstract
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

Spring 2016

Date and Time	Speaker	Title
January 20, 4:05pm	Dr. Murali Rao	Probability
February 3, 4:05pm	Mr. Ali Uncu	Some Weighted Partition Identities
February 17, 4:05pm		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

Fall 2015

Date and Time	Speaker	Title
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

Spring 2014

Date and Time	Speaker	Title
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)

Fall 2014

Date and Time	Speaker	Title
September 3 4:05pm	Dr. Jed Keesling	Dr. Jed Keesling
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

Spring 2013

Date and Time	Speaker	Title
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

Fall 2013

Date and Time	Speaker	Title
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.

Spring 2012

Date and Time	Speaker	Title
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

Fall 2012

Date and Time	Speaker	Title
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