Mathematical Sciences Colloquia

Information for: Attendees: All talks to be held in Room 203, Stratton Hall (unless otherwise noted); refreshments in SH108 at 10:30am; all are welcome! Speakers: Please contact us (martin, pocathain) if you need anything or see errors in the information below Faculty: Please contact us (martin, pocathain) to suggest speakers and arrange dates. (See below for availability)

Colloquia are usually held in SH203, which has a good projection system as well as extensive blackboards. (More photos below.)

Schedule of Colloquia in Mathematical Sciences at WPI, September 2016 to April 2017:

A TERM 2016

• 23       August: KT Arasu Wright State University, "Algebraic techniques for constructing sequences with good correlation properties''
•   2 September: Balgobin Nandram, WPI, "Bayesian Logistic Regression for Numerous Small Areas"
•   9 September: no colloquium (external review)
• 16 September: Simone Cassani, WPI, "Blood circulation in the eye: multi-scale modeling and clinical applications"
• 22 September: (THURSDAY!) Anthony Nixon, Lancaster University, "Unique realisations of graphs on surfaces" (11:00-11:50 in Room SL402 - note unusual room and day)
• 23 September: Derek Olson, RPI, "Regularity and locality for point defects in multilattices
  NOTE: The 2016 Conant Lecture will also be held on September 23rd (4:00pm in SL104) Daniel H. Rothman, MIT, will speak on "Earth's Carbon Cycle: A Mathematical Perspective" at 4:00pm in Room 104 Salisbury Labs
• 30 September: Robert Neel, Lehigh University, "Minimal surfaces and associated martingales"
•   7    October: Xiaodan Zhou, WPI, "Discrete game theory and nonlinear partial differential equations"
• 14    October: no colloquium (fall break)
• 21    October: no colloquium (fall break)

B TERM 2016

• 28   October: Uri Shafrir, University of Toronto, "Enhancing Learning Outcomes in STEM with Pedagogy for Conceptual Thinking"
•  4 November: F. Patricia Medina, WPI, "Hybrid Modeling and Analysis of Multicomponent Adsorption with Applications to Coalbed Methane"
• 11 November: Lucia Carichino, WPI, "Multiscale Mathematical Modeling of Ocular Blood Flow and Oxygenation and their Relevance to Glaucoma"
  NOTE: The Harold J. Gay Lecture will also be held on November 11th (4:00pm in Washburn Labs Room 229)
• 18 November: 11:00-noon slot reserved for department
• 18 November: John B. Little College of the Holy Cross, "Continua of central configurations in the Newtonian n-body problem with a negative mass"
  NOTE: Dr. Little's talk will begin at 3:00pm, not the usual 11am, and will be given in SH203
• 25 November: Thanksgiving Break
•  2  December: Moon Duchin Tufts University "Sprawl and other geometric statistics"
•  9  December: Mallikarjunaiah S Muddamallappa, WPI, "On an adaptive finite element approximation of a time discrete phase-field model for dynamic fracture"
  NOTE: The Harold J. Gay Lecture will also be held on December 9th (4:00-6:00pm in Salisbury Labs Room 104). Carlos Kenig (U. Chicago) is our speaker.

C TERM 2017

• 13   January: Noah Daleo, Worcester State University, "Numerical algebraic geometry and the Kuramoto model"
• 20   January: Reserved
• 27   January: Reserved
•   3 February: Mario Bonk UCLA, "Uniformization: past and present"
• 10 February: Reserved
• 17 February: No colloquium
• 24 February: Tullia Dymarz, University of Wisconsin, "Non-rectifiable Delone sets in amenable groups"
•   3     March: Sebastian Cioaba University of Delaware, "A brief tour of spectral graph theory"
• 10     March: no colloquium (spring break)

D TERM 2017

• 17 March: Akil Narayan University of Utah, "Simulation of parameterized differential equations with multi-fidelity models"
• 24 March: Guozhen Lu University of Connecticut "Geometric and functional inequalities and applications to geometry and PDEs"
• 30 March: (THURSDAY!) Chad Topaz Macalester College "Gender representation through a data science lens" (4:00-4:50 in Room HL116 - note unusual room and day)
•   7   April: Fred Daum Raytheon, "Gromov's method for stochastic particle flow nonlinear filters"
• 14   April: Maxim Bichuch, Johns Hopkins University, "Systemic risk: the effect of market confidence"
• 21   April: Ronan Egan University of Rijeka, "Phased unitary Golay pairs and Butson Hadamard matrices"
• 28   April: Emily Evans Brigham Young University, "Force-based models of cell-extracellular interaction"

Abstracts: As abstracts arrive, they will be included here.

Directions, Parking and Accommodations:

Stratton Hall is at the top of the hill on West Street

You can find directions and information about parking at WPI here. Use these links to find a list of local accommodations, and a list of area dining.

What does the room look like?

Most colloquia in SH203 use the computer projection system.

The console in SH203. In addition to a VGA cable to provide video output from laptops, the facility offers a desktop computer with internet access, a DVD player and a document camera.