Colloquium AY 16-17
Unless otherwise noted, the colloquium will be held on Fridays @ 2:00 pm in JO 4.614.
If you have questions about the colloquium please contact Dr. Vishwanath Ramakrishna.
Archive of talks from previous semesters
| Date/Room/Host | Speaker/Institution | Title/Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| April 28 3-4 p.m. FO 2.702 | Eric Rawdon University of St. Thomas | Knotting in open chains, closed chains, and proteins |
| April 28 | Nozer Singpurwalla City University of Hong Kong | Distinguished Colloquium
Subjective Probability: Its Content, Axioms, and Acrobatics |
| April 21 | Baofeng Feng University of Texas at Rio Grande | An integrable model for light propagation in ultra-short pulse regime |
| April 14 3-4 p.m. FO 2.702 | Amanda Hering Baylor University | Mixture of Regression Models for Large Spatial Data Sets |
| April 14 3-4 p.m. FO 2.702 | M. Vidyasagar FRS Cecil & Ida Green Chair in Systems Biology Science The University of Texas at Dallas | Distinguished Colloquium Matrix Completion and Partial Realization via Compressed Sensing |
| April 14 | Philip E. Cheng Institute of Statistical Science Academia Sinica | A Geometric Approach to Modeling Categorical Variables With Applications to Medical Research |
| April 7 | Leonid Kalachev Mathematical Sciences University of Montana | Modeling In Vitro Local Drug Delivery (A View on the Role of Mathematical Biology Programs in the New Educational Environment) |
| March 31 3-4 p.m. FO 2.702 | Sy Han (Steven) Chiou Biostatistics Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | Permutation tests for general dependent truncation |
| March 31 | Svetlozar (Zari) T. Rachev College of Business, Director of the Center for Finance, | Risk management, Modeling Volatile Markets and Forecasting Market Crashes |
| March 24 3-4 p.m. FO 2.702 | Yingbo Li SMU | Bayesian Minimal Description Lengths for Multiple Changepoint Detection |
| March 24 | George Hagedorn
Virginia Tech | Numerical Computation of Semiclassical Dynamics in Several Space Dimensions |
| March 8
3 p.m. FO 2.702 | Carlos Arreche
NSF Alliance Postdoctoral Fellow North Carolina State University | Galois Theories for Functional Equations |
| March 3 | Vakhtang Putkaradze
Mathematics/Chemical Engineering University of Alberta | Exact geometric approach to the dynamics of tubes conveying fluid |
| Feb. 24
3 p.m. FO 2.702 | Cecilia Mondaini
Department of Mathematics Texas A&M University | Analysis of a feedback-control based data assimilation algorithm |
| Feb. 24 | Vasilisa Shramchenko
Département de Mathématiques Universite de Sherbrooke | What quantum mechanics knows about moduli spaces of algebraic curves |
| Feb. 23
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. ECSN 2.120 | Margot Gerritsen
Director, Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering Senior Associate Dean for Education Initiatives, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences Associate Professor of Energy Resources Engineering Stanford University | Distinguished Colloquium
UTD/SMU SIAM Student Chapter Distinguished Lecture 11:30-12:00, Informal session: “Survival skills for students” 12:00-1:00, Research Talk: Fun numerical problems in subsurface flow modeling |
| Feb. 17 | Anton Dzhamay
University of Northern Colorado | The Beautiful Geometry of Discrete Painlevé Equations |
| Feb. 15
3 p.m. FO 2.702 | Nathan Williams
Department of Mathematics University of California, Santa Barbara | Sweeping Up Zeta |
| Feb. 10
3 p.m. FO 2.702 | Abhishek Kaul
Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences | Estimation and Inference in High Dimensional Error‐in‐Variables Models and an Application to Microbiome Data |
| Feb. 10 | Vladimir Dragovic
The University of Texas at Dallas | Algebraic Geometry and the Schlesinger systems: from Poncelet to Painleve VI and beyond |
| Jan. 27
2 p.m. JO 4.614 | Shuai Chen Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin – Madison | Semiparametric Accelerated Failure Time Models with Missing Covariates Under Censoring-Ignorable Missingness at Random Mechanism |
| Jan. 25
3 p.m. SLC 1.202 | Kuang-Yao Lee Department of Biostatistics Yale School of Public Health | On additive conditional independence for high-dimensional statistical analysis |
| Jan. 20
2 p.m. JO 4.614 | Michael B. Sohn
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania | Statistical Methods in Microbiome Study |
| Jan. 18
3 p.m. SLC 1.202 | Miles Wheeler
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University | Solitary water waves |
| Jan. 13
3 p.m. FO 2.702 | Sunyoung Shin Department of Statistics, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin Madison | Annotation Regression for Genome-Wide Association Studies |
| Jan. 13 | Leonid Fridman Department of Control Engineering and Robotics National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico | Sliding Mode Controllers: stages of evolution |
| Jan. 11
3 p.m. SLC 1.202 | Theodore Molla
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Factors in graphs |
| Dec. 2
3 p.m. JO 3.516 | Yuan Yuan
Mathematics and Statistics Memorial University, St. John’s, CANADA | Effect of Time Delays in an HIV Virotherapy Model with Nonlinear Incidence |
| Dec. 2
2 p.m. FN 2.102 | Dimitri Volchenkov
Bielefield University, Germany | An introduction to Probability Models of Social Structure and Evolution |
| Oct. 26
3-4 p.m. FO 2.702 | J. A. Cuminato
Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences University of Sao Paulo | Center for Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry–CEPID-CeMEAI |
| Oct. 21 | A K Desai
Mathematics Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India | Topological Characterizations of Some Known Spaces and Their Applications |
| Oct. 14 | J.H. Przytycki
Mathematics The George Washington University | Plucking polynomial: Motivated by and applied to knot theory, q-polynomial invariant of rooted trees |
| Oct. 7 | Goong Chen
Mathematics Dept and IQSE Texas A&M University | Computation, Simulation and Visualization of Pulverizing Aircraft Mountain Crashes |
| Sept. 30 | Francois Baccelli
Simons Chair Mathematics and Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Texas at Austin | Dynamics on Random Networks |
| Sept. 23 | Alain Bensoussan
Jindal School of Management UT Dallas | Introduction to Backward stochastic differential equations and parabolic P.D.E. in the whole space |
| Sept. 16 | Maria Umlauft
Ulm University | Rank-based permutation approaches for nonparametric factorial designs |