Encouraging Student Interest in STEM in Elementary, Middle and High School Classrooms Mr. Bart Adrian Senior Lecturer in Atmospheric Science & Mathematics / STEM Outreach Specialist University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Atmospheric science provides excellent opportunities for encouraging student interest in all... Read More
Games, Winning, and Nimbers Mr. John Museus PhD Student University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee The Nimbers are a particularly peculiar Field which arises naturally when studying the winning strategies of Impartial Games. In this talk, we will give a brief... Read More
Combinatorial Resolutions of Monomial Ideals Dr. Selvi Kara Assistant Professor of Mathematics Bryn Mawr College One of the central problems in commutative algebra concerns understanding the structure of an ideal in a polynomial ring. Abstractly, an ideal’s structure can be... Read More
Sandpile Group For Cones Over Trees Dorian Smith PhD Student University of Minnesota Twin Cities The sandpile group $K(G)$ of a graph $G$ is a finite abelian group, isomorphic to the cokernel of the reduced graph Laplacian of $G.$ We... Read More
A Mechanochemical Model of Cell Migration in Confined Environments Dr. Emmanuel Asante-Asamani Assistant Professor of Mathematics Clarkson University Eukaryotic cells can move in confined environments by using pressure driven protrusions of their cell membrane, a motility mechanism known as blebbing.... Read More
On the Lucky and Displacement Statistics of Stirling Permutations Dorian Smith PhD Student University of Minnesota Twin Cities Stirling permutations are parking functions. We investigate two parking function statistics in the context of these objects: lucky cars and displacement. Among... Read More
The Dynamical view of Free-by-Cyclic Groups Dr. Jean Pierre Mutanguha Instructor Princeton Free-by-cyclic groups can be defined as mapping tori of free group automorphisms. I will discuss various dynamical properties of automorphisms that turn out to be group invariants of... Read More
A Primer on the Mathematics of Artificial Neural Networks Daniel Quigley PhD Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Artificial neural networks (ANNs, or, simply, neural networks) are ubiquitous, not least of all in the context of modern machine learning. This presentation is... Read More
Experimental Methods in Combinatorics Dr. Jay Pantone Assistant Professor of Mathematics Marquette University What number comes next in the sequence 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, ... ? How about 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... ? Or maybe... Read More