Colloquium Talk Professor Joe Kraisler, Amherst College Thursday October 26, 2023 at 3PM Rocky 300 Title: Topological Insulators and the SSH Model Abstract: Electronic band theory was one of the early 20th century achievements of quantum mechanics and placed solids … Continue reading
Colloquium Talk Professor Karen Parshall, University of Virginia Thursday November 2nd, 2023 at 3PM Rocky 300 Title: Growing Research-Level Mathematics in 1930s America: An Historical Paradox Abstract: World War I had marked a break in business as usual within the American … Continue reading
Colloquium Talk Katherine Brumberg, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School Monday November 6, 2023 at 4PM Rocky 312 Title: Optimal Stratification to Address Selection Bias in Observational Studies Abstract: Randomized controlled trials are the gold standard for determining a treatment effect. … Continue reading
Colloquium Talk Hung Tong, The University of Alabama Friday November 10, 2023 at 4PM Rocky 312 Title: Robust and Flexible Model-Based Clustering for Incomplete Data Abstract: Model-based clustering is an important class of cluster analysis that aims to produce smaller … Continue reading
Colloquium Talk Shaoyang Ning, Williams College Monday November 13, 2023 at 4PM Rocky 312 Title: Using Google search data for localized flu tracking Abstract: Big data from the Internet has great potential to track social and economic events at multiple … Continue reading
Title: The Mathematics of Tilings Abstract: Imagine we are hired to tile an infinitely large bathroom floor. What tile shapes could we use? We will use math to explore and refine this question to make sure that our client is … Continue reading
Colloquium Talk Robin Belton, Smith College Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 1PM Rocky 312 Title: Adaptive Algorithms in Geometric and Topological Visualization Abstract: Geometry and Topology have been increasingly used to visualize and summarize the "shape" of data. Mapper is … Continue reading
The Magic of Tableaux: Exploring the Wonders of Algebraic Combinatorics Anna Pun CUNY Baruch College Tuesday, April 9th 3pm Rocky 312 Tableaux are one of the most fundamental and versatile objects in algebraic combinatorics, as they can encode and connect … Continue reading
Some Fascinating Characters in Number Theory Are there infinitely many primes of the form n^2+1, where n is an integer? No one knows. In fact, there's no example of any (single variable) polynomial of degree 2 or greater that's been … Continue reading