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Mathematics Colloquium Archive
The following are the Mathematics Colloquia from previous semesters.
Spring 2020
Note: Most of the Colloquia were cancelled due to COVID-19.
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| January 31, 2020 |
Radar Topics with Quantitative Examples |
Tim Rambach, Retiree from Raytheon |
Fall 2019
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| November 22, 2019 |
Region Coverage from a Satellite ... (Insight into Industrial Mathematics) |
Dr. Gary Green, retired from Aerospace Corporation |
| November 19, 2019* |
Learning turbulence from deep learning |
Dr. Alessandro Corbetta, Eindhoven University of Technology |
| November 15, 2019 |
Bayesian Sparse Functional Principal Components Analysis Models Dynamic Temporal Changes in Longitudinal Microbiome Studies |
Lingjing Jiang, UC San Diego |
| November 8, 2019 |
Applications of Mathematics in Telecommunications |
Dr. Shabnam Sodagari, CSU Long Beach |
| November 1, 2019 |
Energy Stable Semi-Implicit Schemes for Allen-Cahn-Ohta-Kawasaki Model in Binary/Ternary System |
Dr. Yanxiang Zhao, George Washington University |
| October 25, 2019 |
On the interplay of functional analysis and operator theory |
Dr. Yunied Puig de Dios, UC Riverside |
| October 11, 2019 |
Property/Casualty Insurance Loss Reserving Methods |
Janet Duncan, UC Santa Barbara |
| October 4, 2019 |
Impacts of Cellular Heterogeneity on Hair Follicle Growth Dynamics |
Dr. Qixuan Wang, UC Riverside |
| September 27, 2019 |
Modeling Colony Pattern Formation under Differential Adhesion and Cell Proliferation |
Dr. Jiajia Dong, Bucknell University |
Summer 2019
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| June 3, 2019 |
Pseudocompact spaces -- Various Characterizations |
Dr. Sudip Kumar Acharyya, University of Calcutta, India |
Spring 2019
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| May 3, 2019 |
The Teichmüller TQFT |
Dr. Jørgen Ellegaard Anderson, Aarhus University, Denmark |
| April 19, 2019 |
Chemical Reactions and Diffusions |
Dr. Peyam Tabrizian, UC Irvine |
| April 12, 2019 |
Free-boundary Minimal Surfaces in the 3-ball with Connected Boundary |
Dr. David Wiygul, CSU Long Beach |
| March 8, 2019 |
Expanding Competence: Uncovering the Possibilities of Children’s Mathematical Thinking |
Dr. Nick Johnson, UCLA |
Fall 2018
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| October 19, 2018 |
Mathematical Models of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Reservoirs |
Dr. Naveen Vaidya, CSU San Diego |
| October 12, 2018 |
Fibonacci and Lucas Analogues of Binomial Coefficients and What They Count |
Dr. Curtis Bennett, CSU Long Beach |
Summer 2018
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| June 14, 2018 |
Characterizing pseudocompact spaces in terms of C-type intermediate rings |
Sudip Kumar Acharyya, University of Calcutta, India |
| June 8, 2018 |
Abundance of nonisomorphic intermediate rings of continuous functions |
Sudip Kumar Acharyya, University of Calcutta, India |
Spring 2018
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| April 27, 2018 |
Study Gene Regulatory Networks Using Boolean Models |
Dr. Yi-Ming Zou, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| April 20, 2018 |
New Ranking Measures and Algorithms for Expanding Robust Group Decision-Making Frameworks |
Dr. Adolfo Escobedo, Arizona State University |
| April 18, 2018 |
Geometric Recursion |
Dr. Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark |
| April 13, 2018 |
CNSM Munch N' Learn. Students Speak: What Professors Should Know |
Students, CSU Long Beach |
| April 6, 2018 |
Finitely Additive Invariant Set Functions and Paradoxical Decompositions, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Axiom of Choice |
Dr. Adam D. Richardson, CSU Long Beach |
| March 16, 2018 |
How to Predict the Fate of Schrodinger's Cat |
Dr. Jim Stein, CSU Long Beach |
| February 23, 2018 |
Expansion Dynamics of Bacterial Populations |
Dr. Jonas Cremer, UC San Diego |
| February 16, 2018 |
RNA secondary structures enumeration and prediction and their relation to moduli spaces |
Dr. Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark |
| February 9, 2018 |
Interpolation of Manifold-Valued Functions |
Dr. Evan Gawlik, UC San Diego |
| February 2, 2018 |
Discrete Means: generalizing a theorem of Kolmogorov and social choice |
Dr. Curtis Bennet, CSU Long Beach |
Fall 2017
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| December 1, 2017 |
Minimization of inhomogeneous biharmonic eigenvalue problems |
Dr. Chiu-yen Kao, Claremont McKenna College |
| November 3, 2017 |
Distribution of Descents in Matchings |
Dr. Gene Kim, USC |
| October 27, 2017 |
From Arrow's Social Choice Theorem to the compelling "dark matter" mystery |
Dr. Donald Saari, UC Irvine |
| October 20, 2017 |
Shooting from singularity to singularity and a semilinear Laplace-Beltrami equation |
Dr. Alfonso Castro, Harvey Mudd College |
| October 6, 2017 |
Mathematical Structures: Up Close and Afar |
Dr. Stacy Musgrave, Cal Poly Pomona |
| September 22, 2017 |
From Macro to Micro and Back: Complexity, Simplicity and Optimality of Bacterial Cells |
Dr. Matteo Mori, UC San Diego |
Spring 2017
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| June 8, 2017 |
Relation between z-ideal and z^0-ideals in intermediate ring of continuous functions |
Dr. Sudip Acharyya, University of Calcutta, India |
| June 6, 2017 |
Some new results on real valued continuous functions on a space X whose support lie on ideals of closed sets in X |
Dr. Sudip Acharyya, University of Calcutta, India |
| May 5, 2017 |
Proof Comprehension at the Undergraduate Level: An Exploratory Study |
Dr. Eyob Demeke, CSU Los Angeles |
| April 14, 2017 |
Spectra of compact composition operators on bounded symmetric domains |
Dr. Dana Clahane, Fullerton College |
| March 17, 2017 |
Using Visual Art, Crafts and Music to Demonstrate Mathematics |
Dr. Benjamin Dyhr, Metropolitan State University |
Fall 2016
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| December 2, 2016 |
Non-Locality, Contextuality, and Topology |
Dr. Kohei Kishida, University of Oxford |
| November 18, 2016 |
Outer Space and the Outer Automorphism Group of the Free Group |
Dr. Catherine Pfaff, UC Santa Barbara |
| November 10, 2016 |
The Remarkable History of Exponents and Logarithms |
Dr. Bob Stein, CSU San Benardino |
| October 28, 2016 |
Simulating Space: Role of Advanced Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification in JPL Missions |
Dr. Lee Peterson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| October 21, 2016 |
Data Science, Data Services, a Sabbatical Reflection |
Dr. Khue Duong, CSU Long Beach |
| October 11, 2016 |
Lipschitz metric for a nonlinear wave equation |
Dr. Geng Chen, University of Kansas |
| September 23, 2016 |
JPL Robotics |
Dr. Gabriel Udomkesmalee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| September 2, 2016 |
Nuclear Engineering for Everyone |
Dr. Minh N. Tran, UC Davis |
Spring 2016
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| May 6, 2016 |
Clots or not? Mathematics making the invisible visible |
Dr. Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College |
| April 29, 2016 |
Generalized Wronskians and linear dependence of formal power series |
Dr. Wai Yan Pong, CSU Dominguez Hills |
| April 22, 2016 |
A Relational Category of Formal Contexts |
Dr. M. Andrew Moshier, Chapman University |
| April 8, 2016 |
Hearing the Shapes of Surfaces of Revolution |
Dr. Thomas Murphy, CSU Fullerton |
| March 4, 2016 |
Liberal Arts Math |
Dr. Jim Stein, CSU Long Beach |
| February 19, 2016 |
Geometry in the Dark Ages: Games of Shadows and Lights |
Dr. Bogdan Suceava, CSU Fullerton |
Fall 2015
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| November 13, 2015 |
Part I: Collaborative Filtering and the Yelp Dataset
Part II: Python Introduction |
Students, CSU Long Beach |
| October 30, 2015 |
Two Applications of the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves |
Dr. Jasbir Chahal, Brigham Young University |
| October 23, 2015 |
Compact manifolds with integral bounds on the negative part of Ricci curvature and the Kato class |
Dr. Christian Rose, Technische Universität Chemnitz |
| October 16, 2015 |
From Residuated Lattices to Boolean Algebras with Operators |
Dr. Peter Jipsen, Chapman University |
| October 9, 2015 |
Energy driven pattern formation in thin fluid layers: The good, the bad and the beautiful |
Dr. Andrew J. Bernoff, Harvey Mudd College |
| September 11, 2015 |
Numerical Simulation of Solvent Stokes Flow and Solute-Solvent Interface Dynamics |
Dr. Hui Sun, UC San Diego |
Spring 2015
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| May 15, 2015 |
Old and New Approximations for Bessel Functions |
Dr. Mark Dunster, CSU San Diego |
| April 24, 2015 |
Alternating Volume, a Hyperbolic Invariant of Knots |
Heidi Furlong and Leslie Rodriguez, CSU Long Beach |
| April 17, 2015 |
Analysis of 2+1 Diffusive-Dispersive PDE Arising in River Braiding |
Dr. Charis Tsikkou, West Virginia University |
| March 27, 2015 |
Graph Representatives of Positroid Strata |
Dr. Michaela (Puck) Rombach, UCLA |
| March 13, 2015 |
Can one hear the shape of a drum?---An Introduction to spectral theory in math physics |
Dr. Shiwen Zhang, UC Irvine |
| March 6, 2015 |
Crimes with Undergraduates |
Dr. Scott McCalla, Montana State University |
| February 27, 2015 |
Mathematica 10 & Wolfram Alpha Pro |
Paul Fish, Wolfram Technologies in Education and Research |
| February 20, 2015 |
The Differential Geometry of the Maxwell Equations |
Dr. Casey Kelleher, UC Irvine |
Fall 2014
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| December 5, 2014 |
A Nonlinear Model for Tumor Growth: Global in time weak solutions |
Dr. Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland |
|
| November 14, 2014 |
Dynamics of a soccer ball |
Dr. Scott Crass, CSU Long Beach |
| November 7, 2014 |
Secure Computation and its Applications |
Dr. Mehrdad Aliasgari, CSU Long Beach |
| October 17, 2014 |
How Wide is a 3-Manifold? |
Dr. Diane Hoffoss, University of San Diego |
| October 10, 2014 |
Variational image segmentation with dynamic artifact detection and bias correction |
Dr. Dominique Zosso, UCLA |
| October 3, 2014 |
Topic Point Processes |
Dr. Blake Hunter, Claremont McKenna College |
| September 26, 2014 |
Knots, Fiber Surfaces, and the Building Blocks of Life |
Dr. Matt Rathbun, CSU Fresno |
| September 19, 2014 |
Geotagging One Hundred Million Twitter Accounts with Total Variation Minimization |
Dr. Ryan Compton, HRL Laboratories |
| September 12, 2014 |
An invitation to Floer homology |
Dr. Ko Honda, UCLA |
Spring 2014
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| May 9, 2014 |
Topological symmetry groups |
Dr. Erica Flapan, Pomona College |
| May 2, 2014 |
Recent results on axially symmetric Navier-Stokes equations |
Dr. Qi Zhang, UC Riverside |
| April 17, 2014 |
Geometric Methods for Graph Partitioning |
Dr. Braxton Osting, UCLA |
| February 28, 2014 |
The Sound of Symmetry |
Dr. Zhiqin Lu, UC Irvine |
Fall 2013
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| December 6, 2013 |
Augmented Birack Homology |
Dr. Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College |
| November 15, 2013 |
A Generalized Left-to-Right (GLR) parser for Tree-Adjoining Grammars (TAG) using Matrices |
Nen Huynh, CSU Long Beach |
| November 8, 2013 |
Involutory Quandles of Knots |
Dr. Jim Hoste, Pitzer College |
| October 25, 2013 |
Categorification and the Alexander polynomial |
Dr. Kristen Hendricks, UCLA |
| October 11, 2013 |
From Soap Films to the Shape of Space |
Dr. David Bachman, Pitzer College |
| October 4, 2013 |
An Illustrated Approach to Special Relativity and Its Paradoxes |
Dr. John dePillis, UC Riverside |
| September 27, 2013 |
Adventures in Noether-Lefschetz Theory II: Base Loci, Singularities, and Class Groups both Geometric and Algebraic (Joint work with Scott Nollet at TCU) |
Dr. John Brevik, CSU Long Beach |
| September 20, 2013 |
Kauffman Brackets on Surfaces |
Dr. Francis Bonahon, USC |
| September 6, 2013 |
Adventures in Noether-Lefschetz Theory I: Curves, Surfaces, and Curves on Surfaces |
Dr. John Brevik, CSU Long Beach |
Spring 2013
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| May 3, 2013 |
A Brief Overview of Financial Mathematics |
Dr. Triet Pham, USC |
| April 19, 2013 |
Using Forcing to Obtain a Model of the Continuum Hypothesis |
Dr. Cynthia Northrup, UC Irvine |
| April 12, 2013 |
Cardiovascular Event Risk Dynamics Over Time in Older Patients on Dialysis: A Generalized Multiple-Index Varying Coefficient Model Approach? |
Dr. Damla Senturk, UCLA |
| March 22, 2013 |
Mathematical Modeling of Language |
Dr. Jacquelyn Rische, UC Irvine |
| February 15, 2013 |
Incidence Algebras |
Dr. Muge Kanuni, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey |
| February 1, 2013 |
Digital Microfluidics via Electrowetting |
Dr. Ali Nadim, Claremont Graduate University |
| January 25, 2013 |
Exploring Ground States and Excited States of Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates |
Dr. I-Liang Chern, National Taiwan University |
Fall 2012
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| December 7, 2012 |
Numerical Modeling of Transport Processes in the Subsurface |
Dr. Antonella Sciortino, CSU Long Beach |
| November 30, 2012 |
Biomedical signal processing for the improvement of health care of patients with brain-related disorders |
Dr. Shadnaz Asgari, CSU Long Beach |
| November 16, 2012 |
Machine learning, Balance cut and Total variation |
Dr. Thomas Laurent, UC Riverside |
| November 9, 2012 |
Statistical Challenges in Molecular Diagnostics |
Dr. Ming Ji, CSU San Diego |
| October 19, 2012 |
Fluids and Boundaries |
Dr. James Kelliher, UC Riverside |
| September 28, 2012 |
A Little Big Problem in Graph Theory |
Dr. Robert Mena, CSU Long Beach |
| September 21, 2012 |
Motion of Fluids in the Presence of a Boundary |
Dr. Gung-Min Gie, UC Riverside |
Spring 2012
| Date |
Title |
Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|
| May 4, 2012 |
Mathematics and Astronomy, Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion |
Dr. Arlo Caine, Cal Poly Pomona |
| April 20, 2012 |
Shape optimization problem involving principal eigenvalue in population dynamics |
Dr. Chiu-Yen Kao, Claremont McKenna College |
| April 13, 2012 |
Helping Ford’s Fleet Customers Reach Their Sustainability Goals Through Optimization |
Dr. Daniel Reich, Ford Motor Co. Research and Advanced Engineering |
| February 24, 2012 |
How to Distinguish a Football from a Basketball Mathematically |
Dr. Jeremy Jankans, UC Irvine |
| February 17, 2012 |
Does a Statement of Whether Order Matters in Counting Problems Affect Students' Strategies? |
Dr. Todd CadwalladerOlsker, CSU Fullerton |
| January 27, 2012 |
Stability theory of polytropic gaseous stars |
Dr. Juhi Jang, UC Riverside |
