Mathematics

Seminars / Colloquia

Spring 2024 Calendar

 

Date                                                                 

Speaker and Title

Monday, January 8 2024,

4-5pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak building, room 1328)

and via Zoom

Speaker: Ray Lai (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

Title: Birational geometry of some Calabi-Yau threefolds / Clifford groups in quantum computing

Read more here.

Wednesday, January 31, 2024,

2:15-3:15pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak building, room 1328)

Speaker:  Siyu Li (UC Riverside)

Title: Energetics and kinetic pathways of virus assembly                          

Read more here.                                

Wednesday, February 14, 2024,

2:15-3:15pm via Zoom

Meeting ID: 870 0701 0708

Passcode: 010987

Speaker:  Jared Whitehead (Brigham Young University)

Title: The 'small' data problem: Using Bayesian inference to estimate parameters of historical earthquakes from anecdotal evidence    

Read more here                           

Wednesday, February 21, 2024,

2:15-3:15pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak building, room 1328)

Speaker:  Edray Goins (Ponoma College)

Title: Quasi-Critical Points of Toroidal Belyi Maps

Read more here.                                 

Wednesday, February 28, 2024,

2:15-3:15pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak building, room 1328)

Speaker:  Raffaele Vardavas (RAND Corporation, Santa Monica)

Title: Time-horizon and cost factors: Unveiling the choices between suppression and mitigation for the next pandemic

Read more here.
 

Wednesday, March 13, 2024,

2:15-3:15pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak building, room 1328)

Speaker:  Adam Lairos (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)

Title: Numbers in the Water: Data Assimilation in Turbulent Fluids


Read more here

Wednesday, March 27, 2024,

2:15-3:15pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak building, room 1328)

Speaker:  Tony Wong (UCLA)

Title: First passage time problems in the spatial searching and binding process of lymphocytes with antigen-presentation cells

Read more here

Wednesday, April 3, 2024,

2:15-3:15pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak building, room 1328)

Speaker:  Behrang Forghani (College of Charleston)

Title: Probabilistic and Geometric Boundaries of Groups

Read more here.

Wednesday, April 17, 2024,

2:15-3:15pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak building, room 1328)

Speaker: Christina J. Edholm (Scripps College)

Title: Mathematical Modeling of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights and Moving Forward

Read more here.

Monday, April 22, 2024,

2:15-3:15pm in Donald E. Bianchi Planetarium

Distinguished Visitor Talk

Speaker: Artem Kotelskiy (Stoney Brook University and Cyber.fund)

Title: The arc of blockchains: coordination, money, and beyond 

Read more here.

Wednesday, April 24, 2024,

2:15-3:15pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak building, room 1328)

Speaker:  Lucas Bottcher (University of Frankfurt, Germany)

Title: Simulation and Control of High-dimensional Dynamical Systems

Read more here.

Thursday, April 25, 2024,

9:30-10:30am, 11-12pm, 2-3pm in JD 1600

(Jacaranda Hall, room 1600)

 

Cryptocurrency Crash Course

Speaker: Artem Kotelskiy (Stoney Brook University and Cyber.fund)

Title: Blockchains' Past, Present, and Future

Read more here.

Wednesday, May 1, 2024,

2:15-3:15pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak building, room 1328)

Speaker: Mohsen Aliabadi (UCSD)

Title: Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, improved

Wednesday, May 8, 2024,

3:30-4:30 in LO 1328 (Live Oak building, room 1328)

Speaker: Daniel Da Silva (CSU Los Angeles)

Title: Smoothing Strichartz Estimates for Parabolic PDEs

Read more here

 

 


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