On Kostant's partition function Dr. Pamela Harris Associate Professor of Mathematics Williams College In this talk we recall that Kostant’s partition function counts the number of ways to represent a particular weight (vector) as a nonnegative integral sum of positive... Read More
An Introduction to Algebraic Statistics Dr. Luis David Garcia Puente Professor of Math and Computer Science Colorado College Algebraic statistics is an interdisciplinary field that uses tools from computational algebra, algebraic geometry, and combinatorics to address problems in statistics and... Read More
Coxeter Groups are Biautomatic Dr. Piotr Pryztycki Professor of Mathematics McGill University Coxeter groups are groups generated by involutions s_i, with the relations of form (s_is_j)^m=id. For each Coxeter group, we will be discussing a particular system of “voracious” paths... Read More
Mathematical challenges in triggered drug delivery: getting the right dose to the right place at the right time. Dr. Ami Radunskaya Professor of Mathematics Pomona College The brain tissue is protected by the blood-brain barrier: a wall of tightly-packed cells... Read More
On quantum and stochastic confinement Dr. Irina Nenciu Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science University of Illinois Chicago Our goal in this talk is to explore the broad question of confinement of particles to spatial domains. The first part... Read More
Synchronization and Aggregation Dr. Tilmann Glimm Professor of Mathematics Western Washington University The phenomenon of spontaneous synchronization in networks of interacting oscillators ('clocks') has fascinated mathematical modelers since the 1980s. Examples include flashing of fireflies, synchronous firing of neurons, or... Read More
Ropes, fractions, and moduli spaces Dr. Nick Salter Assistant Professor of Mathematics University of Notre Dame This will be a discussion of the only actually cool math magic trick that I know of - John Conway’s tangle trick. Even schoolchildren... Read More
From sphere packings to extremal problems on hyperbolic surfaces Dr. Maxine Fortier Bourque Professor of Mathematics Université de Montréal What proportion of space can be occupied by balls of radius 1 that do not overlap? How many such balls can... Read More
A variation of zero forcing: leaky forcing Dr. Ryan Moruzzi Jr Assistant Professor of Mathematics California State University, East Bay Zero forcing on a graph is an iterative graph coloring process where, starting with an initial set of blue vertices,... Read More