Recent & Upcoming Talks

2023

Introduction to Bootstrap

Speaker: Tejasvi Channagiri, Friday, April 21st at 1:00pm, CMC 109

Random matrices and the Combinatorics of Ribbon Graphs

Speaker: Nathan Hayford, Friday, April 7th and 14th at 1:00pm, CMC 109

Numerical integration in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

Speaker: Lorenzo Nagar (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics), Friday, March 24th, at 1:00pm, CMC 109

Idempotents in a quandle ring and its applications

Speaker: Dipali Swain, Friday, March 3rd at 1:00pm, CMC 109

Introduction to Ramsey Number, and Some Elementary Yet Beautiful Examples

Speaker: Boyoon Lee, Friday, February 24th at 1:00pm, CMC 109

Designs, Nibbles, and Approximate Structures

Speaker: Eion Mulrenin, Friday, February 10th, at 1:00pm, CMC 109

It’s Raining Coding Theory

Speaker: Panith Thiruvenkatasamy, Friday February 3rd, at 1:00pm, CMC 109

An Introduction to Tamo-Barg Codes

Speaker: Clifton Garrison, Logan Nott, and Phillip Waitkevich, Friday January 20th at 1:00pm, CMC 109

2022

Discrete Painlevé Equations and Orthogonal Polynomials

Speaker: Professor Anton Dzhamay (University of Northern Colorado), Friday, November 4th at 12:00pm, NES 102

Around a Theorem of Pólya

Speaker: Louis Arenas, Friday, October 28th at 12:00pm, NES 102

An Introduction to Sub-Riemannian Geometry

Speaker: Professor Thomas Bieske, Friday, October 7th at 12:00pm, NES 102

An Introduction to Noncommutative Geometry

Speaker: Nathan Hayford, Friday, September 23rd at 12:00pm, NES 102

Algebraic Curves Over Finite Fields: Theory and Applications

Speaker: Vincenzo Pallozzi Lavorante, Friday, September 16th at 12:00pm, NES 102

Digraph Homology to study DNA Rearrangement

Speaker: Lina Fajardo Gomez, Friday, September 9th at 12:00pm, NES 102

The Heilbronn Triangle Problem: History and Recent Developments

Speaker: Eion Mulrenin, Friday, September 2nd at 12:00pm, NES 102

Differentiation in real topological vector spaces

Speaker: Bryce Virgin, Friday, April 15th at 2:00pm on Zoom

Extremal Graph Theory and the Problem of Zarankiewicz

Speaker: Eion Mulrenin, Friday, April 1st, at 12:30pm on Zoom

Introductory Lectures on Quantum Field Theory

Speaker: Razvan Teodorescu, Friday, March 4th, on Zoom

Statistical Mechanics and the Tutte Polynomial

Speaker: Nathan Hayford, Friday, January 28th, on Zoom

2021

An Introduction to Coding Theory

Speaker: Austin Dukes, Friday, December 3rd at 2pm, on Zoom

A Brief Introduction to Lamplighter Groups and Diestel-Leader Graphs

Speaker: Austin Gaffglione, Friday, November 12th at 2pm, on Zoom

Enhanced diffusivity and skewness of a diffusing tracer in the presence of an oscillating wall

Speaker: Lingyun Ding (University of North Carolina), Friday, November 5th at 2pm, on Zoom

Covid-19 Spreading: An Eigenvalue Viewpoint

Speaker: Haowei (Alice) Chen, Friday, October 29th at 2pm, on Zoom

Zeros of Harmonic Polynomials and Related Applications

Speaker: Azizah Alrajhi, Friday, October 22nd at 2pm, on Zoom

The Continuum Limit of Theta Functions

Speaker: Fudong Wang (UCF), Friday, October 15th at 2pm, on Zoom

Introduction to Ito Calculus

Speaker: Nathan Hayford, Friday, October 8th, on Zoom

Martingales and Stopping Times

Speaker: Zachary Forrest, Friday, September 24th, on Zoom

Drifting through random walks and Brownian motions

Speaker: Nathan Hayford, Friday, September 17th at 2:00pm, on Zoom

Introduction to Probability Theory

Speaker: Louis Arenas, Friday, September 3rd 2pm, on Zoom

The trifecta of Hilbert spaces on the unit disc

Speaker: Himanshu Singh

The Essentials of Viscosity Solutions in $R^n$

Speaker: Zachary Forrest

A short Introduction to the Theta Functions

Speaker: Fudong Wang

Weyl's law and hearing the area of a drum

Speaker: Louis Arenas

Prodsimplicial and p-path complexes on directed graphs

Speaker: Lina Fajardo Gomez Date/Time: Wednesday, January 20th, 2020

2020

Strong Asymptotics of Planar Orthogonal Polynomials: Gaussian Weight Perturbed by Point Charges

Speaker:Meng Yang (University of Copenhagen) on Friday, November 13th, 11:00am-12:00pm on Zoom

Fractional Calculus Approach for Flow Model in Porous Media

Speaker: Haowei Chen

On solving the Dirichlet problem

Speaker: Louis Arenas, scheduled at 11:00 pm, Friday, October 23rd, 2020 on Zoom

A Survey of Equilibrium in the Plane

Speaker: Nathan Hayford, Friday 11 am, 4th September, on Zoom

Asymptotic Methods in Analysis

Speaker: Fudong Wang on August 27th, on Zoom

Primes of the Form $p = x^2 + ny^2$

Speaker: Louis Arenas, scheduled at Thursday, August 6th 2:00pm on Zoom

Introduction to Matroids

Speaker: Lina Fajardo Gomez, scheduled at Thursday, July 30th, 2:00 PM on Zoom

Doing research as a student: tips and tricks

Speaker: Giacomo Micheli, scheduled at 2:00 pm, Thursday, July 23rd, 2020 on Zoom

A Gentle Introduction to Infinite-Dimensional Lie Algebras

Speaker: Nathan Hayford, scheduled at 2:00 pm, July 9th on Zoom

The Nevanlinna-Pick Interpolation Problem

Speaker: John Kyei, Thursday, July 2nd 2:00pm on Zoom

Stochastic Games for PDE

Speaker: Zachary Forrest, scheduled at 2:00 pm, Thursday, June 25th, 2020 on Zoom

A Brief Introduction to Differential Geometry and Minimal Surfaces

Speaker: Hayden Hunter, scheduled at Thursday, June 18, 2:00pm on Zoom

An Elementary Introduction to Fredholm Determinants

Speaker: Fudong Wang, scheduled at 2:00 pm, Thursday, June 11, 2020 on zoom

Quantum invariants of framed links from cohomology of self-distributive structures

Speaker: Emanuele Zappala, scheduled at 2:00pm, Thursday, June 4, 2020 @ zoom

Darboux Transformation and Soliton Equations

Speaker:Yehui Huang (North China Electric Power University), scheduled at Thursday, February 20, 2020.

The Calderón Problem

Speaker: Lina Fajardo Gomez.

Variation Problem and How to Solve It

Speaker: Nathan Hayford.

Lorentz Group

Speaker: Louis Arenas.

Riemann Hilbert Problem

Speaker: Fudong Wang.