Math Department
Applied Math Seminar – Nick Michalowski (New Mexico State University)
This Friday we will have a special seminar, in the sense that the speaker is an analyst who quit his tenure-track job and joined Mathworks, the Matlab company. The speaker, Nick Michalowski, was a former colleague of mine at NMSU, and his office was next to mine. He will talk about his personal experience and offer
AWM Seminar – Nick Michalowski-Longo (MathWorks)
ZoomNick Michalowski-Longo of MathWorks is giving the department talk tomorrow from 11:00 - 12:15 pm. (via Zoom). We would like to encourage you to attend his talk and stay afterwards for the more informal discussion.
AWM Female Faculty Panel
228 Gordon Palmer Hall Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesThe UA Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics is hosting a Female Faculty Panel on Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. in GP 228. The purpose of the panel is to connect with women in the department and give grad students the opportunity to ask questions about working as women in STEM
Algebra/Topology Seminar – Austin Christian (Georgia Tech)
ZoomTitle: Symplectic fillings of lens spaces Abstract: Many contact 3-manifolds arise as boundaries of symplectic 4-manifolds, and we are often interested in the filling problem for a given contact 3-manifold. That is, how many symplectic 4-manifolds have the given contact boundary? This problem has previously been solved for standard contact structures on lens spaces. We use
Applied Math Seminar – Youngjoon Hong (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
ZoomTitle: Deep neural network and numerical analysis - adversarial attack on image and videos Abstract: Deep neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of fields. The exponential growth of machine learning models and the extreme success of deep learning have seen application across a multitude of disciplines. Recent works observe that a class of
Algebra/Topology Seminar – Alberto Cavallo (CIRGET/Renyi Institute)
ZoomTitle: Slice links and smooth 4-manifolds Abstract: We vary the trace embedding lemma in order to prove results about smooth, closed, simply connected 4-manifolds, studying smoothly slice links in them. We focus on homotopy 4-spheres, which are potential counterexamples to the smooth 4-dimensional Poincaré conjecture. In particular, we split them, as for exotic R^4's, in large and
AWM – Christina Glenn – Navigating Academia as a Woman of Color in STEM
228 Gordon Palmer Hall Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesDr. Christina Glenn is a biostatistician and she will talk about her background, give some tips to land a job in academia and present her current research.
Algebra/Topology Seminar – Orsola-Capovilla Searle (UC Davis)
ZoomTitle: Infinitely many Lagrangian Tori in Milnor fibers constructed via Lagrangian Fillings of Legendrian links Abstract: One approach to studying symplectic manifolds with contact boundary is to consider Lagrangian submanifolds with Legendrian boundary; in particular, one can study exact Lagrangian fillings of Legendrian links. There are still many open questions on the spaces of exact Lagrangian fillings
Algebra/Topology Seminar – Johnny Nicholson (Imperial College)
ZoomTitle: The homotopy type of a finite 2-complex with non-minimal Euler characteristic Abstract: Two presentations for a group G which have the same deficiency are called exotic if the corresponding presentation complexes are not homotopy equivalent. The first examples of exotic presentations were found by Dunwoody and Metzler in the 1970s but, owing to the difficulty of
Analysis Seminar – Simon Bortz (University of Alabama)
ZoomTitle: A free boundary problem for the heat equation. Abstract: In his breakthrough result, it was shown by Dahlberg that the L^2 Dirichlet problem for the Laplacian (harmonic functions) is solvable in the region above a Lipschitz graph. Dahlberg did this by showing a local reverse Hölder inequality for the Poisson kernel in such domains.