Colloquium
Pi Mu Epsilon Talk – Dr. William Velez, University of Arizona
206 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesIn this talk I will describe my career path, how I have handled being the only Chicano in almost any position that I have held, and describe some of my mathematical and public policy work.
Seminar – Hristo Sendov, University of Western Ontario
228 Gordon Palmer Hall Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesEvery Calculus student is familiar with the classical Rolle’s theorem stating that if a real polynomial p satisfies p(−1) = p(1), then it has a critical point in (−1, 1). In 1934, L. Tschakaloff strengthened this result by finding a minimal interval, contained in (−1, 1), that holds a critical point of every real polynomial
Colloquium – Xiaoming Huo, Georgia Institute of Technology
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: Statistically and Numerically Efficient Independence Test The big data is a well-known phenomenon in the modern world. The emerging discipline of data science has inspired a lot of discussion and debate in the scientific research communities, including the mathematical and statistical science community. Contributing to this discussion, in the first part of this talk,
Colloquium – John Etnyre, Georgia Institute of Technology
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTopic: Curvature and contact topology Abstract: Contact geometry is a beautiful subject that has important interactions with topology in dimension three. In this talk I will give a brief introduction to contact geometry and discuss its interactions with Riemannian geometry. In particular I will discuss a contact geometry analog of the famous sphere theorem and
Colloquium – Julie Mitchell (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesABSTRACT flyer - Julie Mitchell
Colloquium – Maria Laura delle Monache (Inria Grenoble – Rhône Alpes)
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTopic: Control of traffic flow: from ramp metering to autonomous vehicles Abstract: In this talk, we will consider different control frameworks for traffic flow. In particular, we will show the evolution of traffic control from classical strategies (for example ramp-metering) to more modern approaches using autonomous vehicles. We will introduce different ways to describe mathematically
Colloquium – Rodrigo Bañuelos, Purdue University
346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesTitle: On the discrete Hilbert transform Abstract: The discrete Hilbert transform, acting on the space of (doubly infinite) sequences, was introduced by David Hilbert at the beginning of the 20th century. It is the discrete analogue of the continuous Hilbert transform acting on functions on the real line (conjugate function in the periodic case).
Colloquium – Kyungyong Lee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Topic: Introduction to cluster algebras Abstract: The theory of cluster algebras is one of the most mathematically well-studied areas in mathematical physics. Since its discovery in 2001, it has been shown that cluster algebras are related to diverse areas of mathematics such as algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, knot theory, total positivity, quiver representations, string theory, statistical
Colloquium – Bo Li, University of California, San Diego
302 Gordon Palmer HallTitle: Predict the Ligand-Receptor Binding/Unbinding Kinetics with the Variational Implicit-Solvent Model and the String Method Abstract: The ligand-receptor binding/unbinding is a complex biophysical process in which water plays a critical role. To understand the fundamental mechanisms of such a process, we have developed a new and efficient approach that combines our level-set variational implicit-solvent model
Colloquium – Loukas Grafakos, University of Missouri
302 Gordon Palmer HallABSTRACT flyer - Loukas Grafakos