Events

Algebra/Topology Seminar – Patricia Cahn (Smith College)

346 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Title: Colored Tri-Plane Diagrams and the Slice-Ribbon Problem Abstract: We study dihedral branched covers of the four-dimensional sphere, where the branching set is a surface with one singularity modeled on the cone on a knot K.   We construct examples of these covers using colored tri-plane diagrams, which are triples of tangles that can be used

Pi Mu Epsilon – Patricia Cahn (Smith College)

302 Gordon Palmer Hall

Title: Stranger Strings Abstract: How can we describe all spaces of a given dimension? We'll start by describing 2-dimensional spaces, which look like donuts with any number of holes. Then we'll learn how to describe 3-dimensional spaces, by using knots to build portals in our familiar 3-dimensional space R^3.

GREX 2018

302 Gordon Palmer Hall

Research Talks by Math Faculty Shan Zhao Bulent Tosun Stavros Belbas Mojdeh Rasoulzadeh Kabe Moen

Association of Women in Mathematics – Presentation by Kabe Moen

302 Gordon Palmer Hall

UA's AWM Student Chapter At this meeting, we will have free food for everyone, a detailed list of events for the semester, and a presentation by Dr. Kabe Moen on how to give great presentations! Also, WE NEED OFFICERS for the 2018-2019 Executive Board for UA's AWM Chapter. You may let us know if you are interested at this meeting or via

Applied Math Seminar – Volodymyr Melnykov (University of Alabama)

228 Gordon Palmer Hall Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Speaker: Prof. Volodymyr Melnykov, Department of Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science, UA Title: On the role of transformations in finite mixture modeling and model-based clustering Abstract: The role of transformations in modeling data groups is investigated. First, situations with known finite sets of possible transformations are considered. Such transformations can occur in the presence

Analysis Seminar – David Cruz-Uribe (University of Alabama)

227 Gordon Palmer Hall 505 Hackberry Lane, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Title:  Poincare inequalities and Neumann problems for the p-Laplacian Abstract:  I will discuss my recent work with Scott Rodney on the following equivalence:  the existence of solutions to a degenerate p-Laplacian equation and the existence of a weighted (p,p) Poincare inequality.   Our results are in the context of degenerate Sobolev spaces, where the degeneracy is

Applied Math Seminar – Xuan He (University of Alabama)

228 Gordon Palmer Hall Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Title: Euler's elastica based models and algorithms in image processing Abstract: Elastica regularizers have been studied in recent years by the image processing community. In this talk, we will first discuss and compare properties of segmentation models with  L^1 and L^2 Elastica regularizers by using a  novel augmented Lagrangian method based algorithm that captures curvature

MATLAB Seminars

205 Gorgas Hall

Join us in a set of seminars on Machine Learning and Deep Learning organized by University Libraries and MathWorks, Inc. Registration is recommended. http://goo.gl/HtkdLV ; walk-ins are welcome. Session One, 9 - 11:30 a.m. Data Analytics with MATLAB Using Data Analytics to turn large volumes of complex data into actionable information can help you improve engineering design and