End Sums of Manifolds Jack Calcut Oberlin College Associate Professor of Mathematics “End summing is the analogue for open manifolds of the boundary sum operation. Though it has been used in several applications since the 1980s, it is less well... Read More
Modeling Cancer Treatment with Oncolytic Viruses Combined with Dendritic Cell Injections Dr. Joanna Wares University of Richmond Associate Professor of Mathematics “Oncolytic viruses kill tumor cells by selectively replicating inside of them until they lyse. Recently, OVs have been enhanced... Read More
Genera of Knots in the Complex Projective Plane Mr. Jake Pichelmeyer Kansas State University PhD Student (ABD) “Let K be a knot and M be a smooth, closed four-dimensional manifold. The M-genus of K (plural: genera) is the least genus... Read More
Bestvina-Brady Groups with Polynomial Dehn Functions Dr. Yu-Chan Chang University of Wisconsin-Madison Visiting Assistant Professor “Bestvina–Brady groups are subgroups of right-angled Artin groups, and they satisfy quartic Dehn functions. There are examples of Bestvina–Brady groups whose Dehn functions are linear,... Read More
Gini Shortfall: A Coherent Risk Measure Dr. Ricardas Zitikis Western University Professor of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences “For quite some time, the value-at-risk (VaR) was an appealing risk measure, and even an industry and regulatory standard for calculating risk capital... Read More
Residual Finiteness of Certain Three Generator Artin Groups Dr. Kasia Jankiewicz University of Chicago L.E. Dickson Instructor “Despite the simple looking presentation much is unknown about Artin groups. However, some questions can be answered in suitable classes of Artin groups.... Read More
Translation-like Actions of Nilpotent Groups Dr. Mark Pengitore Ohio State University Zassenhaus Assistant Professor “Whyte introduced translation-like actions of groups which as a geometric generalization of subgroup containment. He then proved a geometric reformulation of the von Neumann conjecture by... Read More
How Do Calculators Calculate? Dr. Bruce Haven Edwards University of Florida Professor of Mathematics “What happens when you press the sine key on your calculator? How does the calculator quickly produce the values of trigonometric functions? You might be surprised... Read More
More Examples of Pseudo-Collars on High-Dimensional Manifolds Dr. Jeffrey Rolland Milwaukee School of Engineering Adjunct Instructor of Mathematics “Whyte introduced translation-like actions of groups which as a geometric generalization of subgroup containment. He then proved a geometric reformulation of the... Read More
Data Science at FedEx Ms. Angela Kao University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Data Scientist for FedEx Ground “This talk will be about transitioning from academic preparation in the atmospheric sciences to professional work in data science.”
