Some Unitary Representations of R. Thompson's Groups F and T Vaughan Jones Vanderbilt University Stevenson Distinguished Professor Fields Medal Recipient “Thompson’s groups are groups of piecewise linear homeomorphisms of the  interval and circle where all the non-smooth points are dyadic... Read More

Diffusion Approximations and Optimal Control of Queueing Systems in Heavy-Traffic Ananda Weerasinghe Iowa State University Professor of Mathematics “The method of diffusion approximations provides a powerful tool to analyze complex queueing systems under ``heavy traffic conditions.’’ We first introduce such... Read More

Some Questions in Harmonic Analysis Involving Curvature Betsy Stovall University of Wisconsin-Madison Assistant Professor of Mathematics “We will describe some open and recently solved questions in Harmonic Analysis where curvature plays a crucial role. In particular, we will discuss how... Read More

Wiener's Lemma and Applications Qiyu Sun University of Central Florida Professor of Mathematics “The classical Wiener's lemma states that if f(x) is a function with an absolutely convergent Fourier series, which nowhere vanishes for real arguments, 1/f(x) has an absolutely... Read More

Maximal Subgroups in Direct Products of Groups Dr. Dandrielle Lewis University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Associate Professor of Mathematics “Given a direct product of groups, G and H, and information on the subgroups of G and H, what can one say... Read More

Borsuk-Ulam Type Theorems and Existence of Equilibria in Games with Incomplete Information Stanislaw Spiez Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences “In 1968, R. Aumann, M. Mashler and R. Sterns proved that any undiscounted infinitely repeated two-person zero-sum... Read More

Entropy, Maximum Entropy, and the Maximum Entropy Method Jiu Ding University of Southern Mississippi Professor of Mathematics “We introduce the concepts of Shannon entropy and Boltzmann entropy, and we present Jaynes' maximum entropy principle. Then we apply this principle and... Read More

Divide and Conquer Algorithms for Large Hermitian Eigenvalue Problems Yousef Saad University of Minnesota Distinguished Professor of Computer Science “Divide-and-conquer paradigms can lead to efficient and flexible techniques for solving large Hermitian eigenvalue problems. This talk will discuss how these... Read More

Students’ Understandings of Introductory Calculus Concepts Ms. Caroline Merighi Tufts University PhD Candidate “Introductory calculus is a struggle for many students. Even those who are successful in calculus courses often hold weak understandings of concepts that underlie the procedures they... Read More

Predictive Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocyte Model of Drug-Induced Cardiotoxicity Rosy Joshi-Mukherjee Aurora Research Institute / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Scientist of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells & Cardiomyocyte Biology “Progress in cancer therapeutics has improved survival rates for... Read More