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
LAVA Talk on Mathematics Education with Paige Ioppolo (VC '14), Trevor Day School Friday October 27, 2023 at 3PM Rocky 310 About Paige: Paige graduated from Vassar in 2014. While at Vassar she majored in math and pursued her teaching … 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
LAVA Talk on Biostatistics & Epidemiology (graduate school and industry) with Philani Mpofu (VC '12), Flatiron Health Friday, November 3, 2023 at 3PM Rocky 310 About Philani: Philani Mpofu received his BA in Mathematics and Economics from Vassar College and … 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
Curious about pursuing graduate studies in applied math, pure math, or statistics but not sure what that entails or requires? Join us on Thursday, November 9th at 4pm in Rocky 200 for an information session on the what, why, and how … 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
Data Science & Society (DSS) Colloquium Talk Rob Williams, Data Scientist Remote Sensing at Bayer Crop Science Friday November 10, 2023 at 5PM New England 206 Title: Data Science for Plants For the full DSS Colloquium Series Schedule, visit: https://pages.vassar.edu/dss/colloquium-series-schedule/
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