Fibonacci, Tribonaci, ... , Gibonacci Mr. Mark Carthon III University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student – Teaching Assistant “Everyone knows what the Fibonacci sequence is, but have you heard of the Tribonacci sequence? It turns out that the concept of... 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
Solving the Basel Problem using the Poisson Summation Formula Prayagdeep Parija University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Teaching Assistant “We will introduce expander graphs which are sparse graphs having strong connectivity properties. We discuss some of their properties and... 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
Large Scale Geometry of Surfaces in 3-Manifolds Hoang Nguyen University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Dissertator “A compact, orientable, irreducible 3-manifold M with empty or toroidal boundary is called geometric if its interior admits a geometric structure in the... Read More
A Unified Proof For The Convergence Of Jacobi And Gauss-Seidel Methods Zhen Chao University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Fellow “We introduce a unified proof for the convergence of both the Jacobi and the Gauss–Seidel methods for solving systems... Read More
Braid Groups Alex Heaton University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Dissertator “We will discuss the simplest examples of braid groups and try to figure out how they work.”
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
Hierarchies and Dehn Fillings for Relatively Hyperbolic Cubical Groups Eduard Einstein University of Illinois at Chicago Research Assistant Professor “Wise characterized virtually special cubical groups as groups that admit quasiconvex hierarchies terminating in finite groups. Given a relatively hyperbolic group... Read More
Action Dimension of Simple Complexes of Groups Kevin Schreve University of Chicago NSF Dickson Instructor of Mathematics “The geometric dimension of a discrete group G is the minimal dimension of a model for the classifying space BG. The action dimension... Read More