Graduate Student Colloquium: Soft Open This is our first Math Graduate Student Colloquium. We will be hanging out, eating snacks, and getting back into the swing of semester life. Please, join us and get a feel of what to expect... Read More
Community of Practice: Introduction to Transparency in Learning and Teaching What is the core purpose of the assignments, tasks, and learning opportunities in our courses? Better yet, what do our students think is the primary purpose? In this workshop we... Read More
The Impact of Ephaptic Coupling and Ionic Electrodiffusion on Arrhythmogenesis in the Heart Ning Wei Assistant Professor Purdue University Cardiac myocytes synchronize through electrical signaling to contract heart muscles, facilitated by gap junctions (GJs) in the intercalated disc (ID). GJs... Read More
Finite Elements for Mathematicians Liam Jemison PhD Graduate Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee We will discuss the finite element method, a powerful approach for numerically solving differential equations. We will introduce the weak formulation of a differential equation from the functional... Read More
Symmetries and Diagram Algebras Dr. Alexander Wilson Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics Oberlin College In this talk I will introduce you to the world of symmetric group representations through diagram algebras, which trace their origin to the Temperley-Lieb algebra with... Read More
Community of Practice: Supporting Students in Math (SupportU) Have you interacted with a student that you were especially concerned about, but you didn’t quite know what to say, who to tell, or what to do? Perhaps the student confided in... Read More
Embeddings: The Language of AI Mr. Mike Clutterbuck Lead Data Scientist Wantable Inc. Embeddings are a core concept in machine learning that help AI understand and organize complex data. They take things like words, images, or user behavior and turn... Read More
Kostant's Formula and Parking Functions: Combinatorial Explorations Kimberly Harry University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee We let L(λ) denote the irreducible highest weight representation of the classical simple Lie algebra g with highest weight λ. Kostant’s weight multiplicity formula gives a way to... Read More
Fractal Geometry and Non-Integer Dimensions Matt McClinton PhD Graduate Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Popularized in the 1980s, fractals have become something of a household name. These fractal sets often demonstrate peculiar topological properties. One such property is the notion of... Read More
Infinitesimal Spaces of Quasiregular Mappings Prof. Alastair Fletcher Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of Undergraduate Studies Northern Illinois University How can we differentiate functions which are not differentiable? In the context of quasiregular mappings, a generalization of holomorphic functions... Read More