Colloquium Series

Fall 2025 Talks (forthcoming)



Spring 2025

Friday, January 17th, 2025 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 107 and via Zoom
“An Optimal Control Framework for Maxwell’s Equations”
Michael Pokojovy
Old Dominion University

Friday, February 14th, 2025 @ 11:00 am Location: STM G-40 and via Zoom
“Optimal shielding of gravity and Einstein’s field equations”
Philippe LeFloch
Sorbonne, CNRS

Friday, February 21st, 2025 @ 11:00 am Location: STM G-40 and via Zoom
“Quantitative Approaches to Social Justice: Race and the Criminal Legal System”
Chad Topaz
QSIDE Institute and Williams College

Friday, February 28th, 2025 @ 11:00 am Location: STM G-40 and via Zoom
“A structurally informed data assimilation approach for discontinuous state variables”
Tongtong Li
UMBC

Friday, March 21st, 2025 @ 11:00 am Location: STM G-40 and via Zoom
“Optimization and Digital Twins”
Harbir Antil
George Mason University

Friday, March 28th, 2025 @ 11:00 am Location: STM G-40 and via Zoom
“Stability and Periodicity in PDE Systems”
Justin Webster
University of Maryland, Baltimore Conty

Friday, April 4th, 2025 @ 11:00 am Location: STM G-40 and via Zoom
“Relaxed sufficient conditions for strong discrete maximum principles in finite element solutions of linear and semilinear elliptic equations”
Andrei Draganescu
UMBC

Friday, April 11th, 2025 @ 11:00 am Location: STM G-40 and via Zoom
“Probabilistic Forecasts of International Migration Flows”
Nathan Welch
MITRE Corporation

Fall 2024

Friday, August 30th, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 326 and via Zoom
“The influence of convection in the existence of wavefronts for biased movements of mixed populations”
Andrea Corli
University of Ferrara, Italy

Friday, September 13th, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“A Variational Approach for Modeling High-dimensional Spatial Generalized Linear Mixed Models”
Ben Seiyon Lee
George Mason University

Friday, September 20th, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“Pushed and pulled fronts in parabolic PDEs”
Matthew Holzer
George Mason University

Friday, October 4th, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“Can We Protect Time Series Data While Maintaining Accurate Forecasts”
Matthew Schneider
Drexel University

Friday, October 11th, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“Row Construction and Production Matrices for Double Riordan Arrays”
Dennis Davenport
Howard University

Friday, October 25th, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“Models for multivariate count data”
Frederic Mortier
CIRAD, Forests and Societies Unit

Friday, November 1st, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“Adaptive Preconditioned Gradient Descent with Energy”
Hailiang Liu
Iowa State University

Friday, November 8th, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“Fully sequential monitoring in clinical trials”
Dong-Yun Kim
George Mason University

Friday, November 15th, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“The stability-compactness method and qualitative properties of nonlinear elliptic PDEs”
Henri Berestycki
University of Maryland, EHESS Paris

Friday, November 22nd, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“On the Calderón-Zygmund theory of singular integrals”
Cody Stockdale
Clemson University

Thursday, December 5th, 2024 @ 12:30 pm
Location: STM G-40 and via Zoom
“Mathematical Analysis of Novel Advanced Materials: Epitaxy and Quantum Dots, Wetting and Dewetting”
Irene Fonseca
Carnegie Mellon University

Spring 2024

Friday, February 2nd, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 126 and via Zoom
“Rigidity for the mass-critical nonlinear Schrondinger equation revisited”
Benjamin Dodson
Johns Hopkins University

Friday, February 16th, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 126 and via Zoom
“Statistical methods to integrate surveillance into routine data sources in low and middle income countries”
Bethany Hedt-Gauthier
Harvard Medical School

Friday, February 16th, 2024 @ 2:00 pm Location: STM 326 and via Zoom
“Gravitational Landau Damping”
Matthew Schrecker
University of Bath

Friday, February 23rd, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 126 and via Zoom
“Advancing Surgical Planning and Monitoring of Fetal Brain and Heart Development: Integrating Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Computational Fluid Dynamics and Artificial Intelligence”
Mehdi Hedjazi Moghari
University of Colorado and Children’s Hospital Colorado

Friday, March 15th, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 126 and via Zoom
“Modeling, analysis and simulation of coupled multiscale phenomena in the Arctic soils”
Malgorzata Peszynska
Oregon State University

Friday, March 22nd, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 126 and via Zoom
“Hyperbolic systems of balance laws with stiff source”
Constantine M. Dafermos
Brown University

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 326 and via Zoom
“From a free boundary problem model of cancer”
Yongzhi Steve Xu
University of Louisville

Friday, April 5th, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 126 and via Zoom
“Irreversible features of 2d perfect fluids”
Theodore Drivas
Stony Brook University

Friday, April 12th, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 126 and via Zoom
“Monge Ampere equation and unique continuation for differential inclusions.”
Guido De Phillippis
Courant Institute of Mathematics, New York University

Friday, April 18th, 2024 @ 3:00 pm Location: via Zoom
“Polygons, Carrots, and Monsters – Oh My! Re-Imagining the Teaching of Mathematical Definitions”
Marta Kobiela
McGill University

Friday, April 19th, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 126 via Zoom
“Area minimizing currents: singularities and tangent cones”
Anna Skorobogatova
Princeton University

Friday, May 10th, 2024 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 326 via Zoom
“Calder\’on-Zygmund decomposition, Hardy spaces associated with operators and weak type estimates”
Xuan Duong
Macquarie University

Fall 2023

Thursday, August 31st, 2023 @ 11:15 am Location: STM 326 and via Zoom
“Singular integrals and the related function spaces”
Ji Li
Macquarie University

Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 326 and via Zoom
“On a boundary unique continuation for elliptic operators”
Shiferaw Berhanu
The University of Maryland, College Park

Friday, October 13th, 2023 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“Strichartz estimates for wave and Maxwell equations”
Roland Schnaubelt
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Friday, October 20th, 2023 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“On the complexity of finding tensor ranks”
Mohsen Aliabadi
University of California, San Diego

Friday, October 27th, 2023 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“Functional data methods for wearable device data”
Jeff Goldsmith
Columbia University

Thursday, November 9th, 2023 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 326 and via Zoom
“Polynomials and algebra in convex analysis and PDE”
Chiara Meroni
Harvard University

Friday, November 10th, 2023 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“CR GEOMETRY AND ANALYSIS”
Howard Jacobowitz
Rutgers University

Friday, November 17th, 2023 @ 11:00 am Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“A proof of the Kotzig–Ringel–Rosa Conjecture and related topics”
Edinah Koffi Gnang
Johns Hopkins University

Spring 2023

Friday, January 27th, 2023 @ 11:00 am, Location: STM 326 and via Zoom
“On Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Flight Stability of Objects, Tissue Engineering, and Droplets”
Pejman Sanaei
Georgia State University

Friday, February 10th, 2023 @ 11:00 am, Location: STM 110 and via Zoom

“Fault-Tolerant Distributed Consensus”
Nitin Vaidya
Georgetown University

Friday, February 24th, 2023 @ 2:00 pm, Location: STM 326 and via Zoom
“A Priori Estimates in Complex Geometry”
Duong Phong
Columbia University

Friday, March 24th, 2023 @ 11:00 am, Location: STM 110 and via Zoom
“The Odds of Justice”
Mary Gray
American University

Friday, March 31st, 2023 @ 11:00 am, Location: STM 326 and via Zoom
“Curvature and Harmonic Analysis on Compact Manifolds”
Chris Sogge
Johns Hopkins University

Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 11:00 am, Location: STM 110 and via Zoom
“Differential and Difference Dimension Polynomials”
Alexander Levin
Catholic University of America

Friday, April 21st, 2023 @ 11:00 am, Location: STM 326 and via Zoom
“Singularities in Fluids”
Tristan Buckmaster
University of Maryland