Casey Pinckney will be speaking in the colloquium for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics on Wednesday, April 6 at 3:15 p.m. in Barrows Hall, Hill Auditorium. Pinckney's talk will be on […]
Franziska Peterson will be speaking in the colloquium for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics on Wednesday, April 13 at 3 p.m. in the Hill Auditorium of Barrows Hall. Her talk is titled "Reasoning with Data: Research on Students’ Data Explorations": Students need to develop a unique set of data literacy and reasoning skills to work with real-world […]
For their next colloquium on Nov. 16, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics will feature Dr. Aden Forrow, an assistant professor in the department. Dr. Farrow's talk is titled "An Introduction to Likelihood-free Inference" and will address some of the algorithmic development challenges that come with modern statistical inference. The event will take place in Hill Auditorium at […]
For their next colloquium on Nov. 30, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics will feature Dr. Tim Browning from IST Austria. His talk is titled "Polynomials over ℤ and ℚ: […]
For their next colloquium on December 7, the Department of Mathematics and Statistics will feature assistant professor Brandon Hanson, who will deliver a talk on "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Polynomials in the Mathematical Sciences." […]
The upcoming colloquium for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, taking place on Feb. 22 from 3–4:15 PM in Hill Auditorium at Barrows hall, will feature assistant professor of mathematic Jane Wang. Her talk will be on "The Illumination Problem," which asks the following: given a room with mirrors for walls, can we always place a single […]
The next colloquium for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics is set to take place on March 8, featuring assistant professor Gilbert Moss. His talk will be on "Fermat's last theorem, L-functions, and the Langlands program." It will involve surveying some of the tools and techniques used in the proof of Fermat's last theorem, including elliptic curves, L-functions, […]
Grammy Award-winning composer Kenneth Fuchs and Douglas Dreishpoon, Director of the Helen Frankenthaler Catalogue Raisonne, explore the composer's inspiration for works including Star Gazing: After Three Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, […]
The next colloquium for the Department of Mathematics and Statistics is set to take place on March 22, featuring Chris Stith from the University of Michigan. The talk is titled "Trapped Surface Formation in General Relativity". Trapped surfaces are a central topic of study in mathematical general relativity. Penrose's incompleteness theorem (1965) ties the concept of a […]
Giovanna Guidoboni, professor and dean of the College of Engineering, will be speaking in the colloquium. Her talk will be on "Mathematical and computational properties of differential equations for fluid flows in deformable domains." For more information on the colloquium, click here.
