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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS SEMINARS and COLLOQUIA

 

 Below is a complete list of all seminars and colloquiums in the Department of Mathematics. 

Please click on the Field of Study to view abstracts and other information.

 

 

 

 

 

FIELD OF  STUDY

SPEAKERS and TITLES

 

ANALYSIS

  

Analysis Seminar

Date: February 19, 2013

Professor Stanislaw Szarek

Department of Mathematics

Case Western Reserve University

Title:The Bernoulli Conjecture (background and introduction)

Analysis Seminar

Date: February 26, 2013

Professor Stanislaw Szarek

Department of Mathematics

Case Western Reserve University

Title:The Bernoulli Conjecture (background and introduction) II

Special Talk-PhD Defense

Date: March 27, 2013

Justin JENKINSON,

Graduate Student

Department of Mathematics

Case Western Reserve University

Title: Convex Geometric Connections to information Theory

Analysis Seminar

Date: March 26, 2013

Professor Stanislaw Szarek

Department of Mathematics

Case Western Reserve University

Title:The Bernoulli Conjecture (background and introduction) III

Analysis Seminar

Date: April 16, 2013

Professor Dennis  Amelunxen

Department of Mathematics

Cornell University

Title:Phase Transitions in Convex Geometry and Optimization

 

APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Special Talk-PhD Defense

Date: March 1, 2013

Debra F. MCGIVNEY, Graduate Student

Department of Mathematics

Case Western Reserve University

Title: Statistical Preconditioning and Quantitative Imaging for Electrical Impedance Tomography

Special Talk-PhD Defense

Date: March 4, 2013

Jing QIN, Graduate Student

Department of Mathematics

Case Western Reserve University

Title: Prior Information Guided Image Processing and Compressive Sensing

Special Talk-PhD Defense

Date: March 6, 2013

Laura HOMA, Graduate Student

Department of Mathematics

Case Western Reserve University

Title: Bayesian Methods for Source Separation in Magnetoencephalography

 Special Talk-PhD Defense

Date: March 8, 2013

Taina Tuulia IMMONEN,

Graduate Student

Department of Mathematics

Case Western Reserve University

Title: Computational Models of Ex Vivo HIV-1 Dynamics and Fitness Across Scales

 

 

COLLOQUIA

Special Colloquium

Date: May 2, 2013

Professor Jenny Brynjarsdottir

Department of Statistical Sciences

Duke University

Title:Learning aboutphysical parameters: The importance of model discrepancy

Special Colloquium

Date: May 3 2013

Professor YanDonghui

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

University of Missouri, Kansas City

Title:Statistical Methods for Tissue Images: Algorithmic Scoring, Data Contamination, and Blessings of Dimensionality

Special Colloquium

Date: May 7, 2013

Professor Ick Hoon Jin

Department of Biostatistics

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Title:A Bayesian Hierarchical Spatial Model for Dental Caries Assessment using Non-gussian Markov Random Fields

 

 

 

 

UNDERGRAD

COLLOQUIA

Undergraduate Colloquium

Date: January 30, 2013

Professor Alethea Barbaro

Department of Mathematics

Case Western Reserve University

Title: Modeling gang rivalry formation in Los Angeles

Undergraduate Colloquium

Date: March 20, 2013

Professor Joel  Langer

Department of Mathematics

Case Western Reserve University

Title: A Short History of Length

Undergraduate Colloquium

Date: April 3, 2013

Professor Wojbor Woyczynski

Department of Statistics

Case Western Reserve University

Title:Fractional Calculus for Random Fractals

Undergraduate Colloquium

Date: April1 17, 2013

Professor Betsy Stovall

Department of Mathematics

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title:Some Surprising Issues Relating to Curvature

 

 

GEOMETRY/

TOPOLOGY

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMAGING 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LIFE SCIENCES

Mathematical Life Sciences Seminar

Date: January 25, 2013

Professor Todd Young

Department of Mathematics

Ohio University

Title:An informal discussion of nonlinear dynamical systems, heteroclinic channels, and neural modeling

Mathematical Life Sciences Seminar

Date: February 18, 2013

Professor Partha  Srinivasan

Department of Mathematics

Cleveland State University

Title:Mathematical models of honey bee nest-site selection process

Mathematical Life Sciences Seminar

Date: February 25, 2013

Professor Jozsi  Jalics

Department of Mathematics

Youngstown State University

Title:The Effects of Tachykinin Receptor Activation on Neuronal Activity in Prefrontal Cortex

Mathematical Life Sciences Seminar

Date: March 4, 2013

Professor David Koslicki 

Mathematical Biosciences Institute

Ohio State University

Title: Quikr: a Method for Rapid Reconstruction of Bacterial Communities via Compressive Sensing

 Mathematical Life Sciences Seminar

Date: April 15, 2013

Professor Henry Abarbanel

Department of Mathematics

University of California, San Diego

Title: Building Nervous Systems from the Bottom Up

 Mathematical Life Sciences Seminar

Date: April 22, 2013

Professor Michael Schwemmer

Department of Mathematics

Ohio State University

Title: The effects of Dendritic Properties on the Dynamics of Oscillatory Neurons

 

 

 

SPECIAL TALKS

Senior Capstone Talk

Date: March 7, 2013

Steven Maire - CWRU B.S./M.S. Program

Title: Elliptic Curve Cryptography's Implementation into RF Communication

 

Senior Capstone Presentations

Date: May 1, 2013

Kevin McKenna

Title: Comparative study into the differences in High School Math Educatiions with a focus on Geometry.

Charles Clum

Title: Simple Complex Lie Algebras.

Zach Floro

Title: The Collatz Problem