Colloquium Series

Fall 2024 Talks

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


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

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

Fall 2022

Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 11:00 am, Location: STM 326 and via Zoom
Data Integration in Public Health Research
Takumi Saegusa
University of Maryland


Friday, September 30th, 2022 @ 11:00 am, Location: STM 111 and via Zoom

On rolling of manifolds
Irina Markina
University of Bergen

Friday, October 28th, 2022 @ 11:00 am, Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
Emergent behavior in collective dynamics
Eitan Tadmor
University of Maryland

Friday, November 4th, 2022 @ 11:00 am, Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
“Efficient checking of diagram commutativity”
Richard Hammack
Virginia Commonwealth University

Friday, November 11th, 2022 @ 11:00 am, Location: STM 111 and via Zoom
Equivariant machine learning
Soledad Villar
Johns Hopkins University

Friday, November 18th, 2022 @ 11:00 am, Location: Virtual via Zoom
“Group Invariant Scattering on Graphs, Manifolds, and Other Measure Spaces”
Michael Perlmutter
University of California, Los Angeles

Spring 2022

Friday, January 14th, 2022 @ 11:00 am, via Zoom
Multiscale invariant statistical models for signal synthesis
Matthew Hirn
Michigan State University

Friday, March 25th, 2022 @ 11:00 am, location St. Mary’s Hall 110 & via Zoom
To Flutter or Not: The Mathematical Theory of Aeroelasticity
Justin Webster
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Friday, April 1st, 2022 @ 11:00 am, location St. Mary’s Hall 110 & via Zoom
Diagonals of Operators in Finite And Infinite Dimensions
John Jasper
South Dakota State University

Friday, April 8th, 2022 @ 3:00 pm, via Zoom
Symmetric Line Packings
Joey Iverson
Iowa State University

Friday, April 22nd, 2022 @ 11:00 am, location St. Mary’s Hall 110 & via Zoom
How Much of A Computer Does One Need to Do Arithmetic
Alexander Shibakov
Tennessee Tech University

Fall 2021

Friday, September 10th, 2021 @ 11:00 am, St. Mary’s Hall 110 and via Zoom
Bayesian Poisson model with spatiotemporal structure of mortality projection of multi-population
Zhen Liu
Georgetown University

Friday, October 8th, 2021 @ 11:00 am, In-person and via Zoom
Modeling complex organisms: from the auto-organization of coral shape to macroeconomic environmental justice
Paul Valcke
Georgetown Environmental Justice Program

Friday, October 15th, 2021 @ 11:00 am, In-person and via Zoom
Independent Component and Vector Analyses for Explainable Detection of Misinformation During High-Impact Events
Zois Boukouvalas
American University

Friday, October 29th, 2021 @ 11:00 am, In-person and via Zoom
Structured variable selection with continuous shrinkage priors
Marie Denis
CIRAD, UMR AGAP Institut, France & Georgetown University

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 @ 2:00 pm, In-person and via Zoom
Leveraging Big Data in Large-Scale Assessments with Sequence and Text mining
Qiwei He
Educational Testing Site

Friday, November 5th, 2021 @ 11:00 am, In-person and via Zoom
Equivariant Algebraic Structures
Peter Bonventre
Georgetown University

Friday, November 12th, 2021 @ 11:00 am, In-person and via Zoom
Mathematics of Deep Neural Network: A View from Variational Analysis
Ashkan Mohammadi
Georgetown University

Friday, November 19th, 2021 @ 11:00 am, via Zoom
Unifications of dualities in mathematics from a harmonic viewpoint, its yesterday and today
Shihshu Wei
University of Oklahoma

Spring 2021

Friday, March 12th, 2021 @ 11:00 am, VIA ZOOM
Extracting and modeling digital biomarkers from personal wearable devices
Vadim Zipunnikov
Johns Hopkins University

Friday, March 26th, 2021 @ 3:00 pm, VIA ZOOM
Stable group invariant signal representations
Jameson Cahill
UNC Wilmington

Friday, April 9th, 2021 @ 11:00 pm, VIA ZOOM
Swarming dynamics: From Nature to Theory to Robotics
Ira Schwartz
US Naval Research Laboratory

Friday, April 16th, 2021 @ 11:00 pm, VIA ZOOM
Distributional data analysis via quantile functions and its application
to modelling digital biomarkers of gait in Alzheimer’s Disease

Rahul Ghosal
Johns Hopkins University

Fall 2020

Friday, September 11th, 2020 @ 10:00 am, VIA ZOOM
Low Complexity Models in Data Analysis
Emily King
Colorado State University

Spring 2020

Friday, April 24th, 2020 @ 10:30 am, VIA ZOOM
PDEs in Evolution of Dispersal
Adrian Lam
Ohio State University

Friday, March 20th, 2020 @ 10:30 am, VIA ZOOM
Security and Privacy for Distributed Optimization and Learning
Nitin Vaidya
Georgetown University

Friday, February 21st, 2020 @ 3:00 pm, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Transport and other Lagrangian transforms for signal processing and machine learning
Gustavo Rhode
University of Virginia

Friday, February 7, 2020 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Bayesian and Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Decision-Making
Alec Koppel
U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Friday, January 31st, 2020 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall
Generalizations of the cubic non-linear Schrödinger equation  for Bosonic systems
Matei Machedon
University of Maryland

Friday, January 17th, 2020 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 111
A Brief Introduction to Multiple Imputation Analysis and Some Ideas about Imputation Diagnostics
Yulei He
The Center for Disease Control

Fall 2019

Friday, November 22nd, 2019 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Lagrangian chaos, almost-sure exponential mixing, and passive scalar turbulence in the Batchelor regime
Dr. Jacob Bedrossian
University of Maryland

Friday, November 15th, 2019 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 124
Learning interaction kernels in agent-based systems
Dr. Sui Tang
Johns Hopkins University

Friday, November 8th, 2019 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Unions of Bases for Unions of Intervals
Dr. David Walnut
George Mason University

Friday, October 25th, 2019 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall
Designing Surveys to Account for Non-Ignorable Non- Response
Dr. Michael Bailey
Georgetown University

Friday, October 11th, 2019 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 124
A Mathematical Model of Temperature Effects on Human Sleep Regulation
Dr. Shelby Wilson
University of Maryland

Friday, October 4th, 2019 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Prediction and Estimation of Diabetes with a Mathematical Model
Dr. Joon Ha
Laboratory of Biological Modeling, NIDDK, NIH

Spring 2019

Friday, April 5th, 2019 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Variational Analysis: What Is It About?
Boris Mordukhovich
Wayne State University

Friday, March 15th, 2019 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Bayesian variable selection for linear model with dynamic coefficients
Benjamin Heuclin
IMAG, University of Montpellier, France

Thursday, February 21st, 2019 @ 3:00 pm, St, Mary’s Hall 326
Label-aware dimensionality reduction by semidefinite programming
Dustin Mixon
The Ohio State University

Monday, February 4, 2019 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
An Optimal Sobolev Inequality for L1
Daniel Spector
National Chiao Tung University

Fall 2018

Friday, November 16th, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Frames and some algebraic forays
John J. Benedetto
University of Maryland, College Park

Friday, November 9th, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 110
The van Dommelen and Shen singularity for Prandtl
Fei Wang
University of Maryland, Mathematics Department

Friday, November 2nd, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
The Role of Body Mass Index at Diagnosis on Black-White Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Survival: A Density Regression Mediation Approach
Katrina Devick
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Friday, October 26th, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
“Statistics of Ambiguous Rotations”
Richard Arnold
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (Currently visiting the School of Decision Sciences, George Washington University)

Friday, October 19th, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 110
Designing cancer immunotherapy trials with random treatment time-lag effect
Zhenzhen Xu, Ph.D.
The US Food and Drug Administration

Friday, October 12th, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Propensity Score Methods for Merging Observational and Experimental Datasets
Evan Rosenman
Stanford University

Friday, September 28th, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Sampling and Tomography in Euclidean and non-Euclidean Spaces
Stephen Casey
American University

Friday, September 14th, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Well-posedness, Regularity, and Global Dynamics of a Mean Field Model of Electroencephalographic Activity in the Neocortex
Farshad Shirani
Georgetown University

Spring 2018

Friday, April 27th, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Radu Balan
University of Maryland, College Park

Friday, April 13th, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Jeff Gill
American University

Friday, April 6th, 2018 @ 10:30 am,  St. Mary’s Hall 110
Lorena Bociu
North Carolina State University

Friday, March 23rd, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Survey of the Theory of Automorphism Groups of Domains
Steven Krantz
Washington University in St. Louis

Friday, March 16th, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 110
Theoretically exact solution of the inverse source problem with spatially and temporally reduced data
Leonid Kunyansky
University of Arizona

Friday, March 2nd, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Discrete Directional Gabor Frames
Wojciech Czaja
University of Maryland, College Park

Friday, February 23rd, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Uniqueness of inverse boundary value problem for dynamical anisotropic elasticity systems
Gen Nakumara
University of Hokkaido

Friday, February 9th, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
An Optimal Mean-Reversion Trading Rule under a Markov Chain Model
Jingzhi Tie
University of Georgia

Friday, January 19th, 2018 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Broader generative models that produce synthetic data useful for assessing multivariate time series methods innovation: retooling for subtle sleep effects on metabolic health
Kenneth Wilkins
NIH

Fall 2017

Friday, November 17th, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Mathematical models for the propagation of the cane toad
Nils Caillerie
Georgetown University

Friday, November 10th, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s Hall 326
A Bayesian Hierarchical Model to Estimate Associations Between Air Pollution and Cause-specific Cardiorespiratory Emergency Department Visits
Jenna R. Krall
George Mason University

Friday, November 3rd, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Integrals of Eigenfunctions over Curves in Surfaces of Nonpositive Curvature 
Emmet Wyman
Johns Hopkins University

Friday, October 27th, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Marginal Structural Models to Estimate the Effects of Time-Varying Treatments on Clustered Outcomes in the Presence of Interference
Alisa Stephens-Shields
University of Pennsylvania

Friday, September 22nd, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s Hall G-40
Bayesian Estimation Under Informative Sampling
Terrance D. Savitsky
US Bureau of Labor Statistics

Friday, September 15, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Topological filters and their application to signal processing
Michael Robinson
American University

Friday, September 8, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Acoustic Propagation in a Random Saturated Medium: The Biphasic Case
Robert Gilbert
University of Delaware

Spring 2017

Friday, April 21, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
Modeling spatial covariance using the limiting distribution of spatiotemporal processes.
Ephraim Hanks
Penn State Statistics Department

Friday, March 31, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
Spatial Multiresolution Analysis of the Effect of PM2.5 on Birth Weights
Joseph Antonelli, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Friday, March 24, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
High-Dimensional Inference of Ordinal Data with Medical Applications
Feiran Jiao
Office of Biostatistics, Center of Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Friday, March 17, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
Count time series: dealing with overdispersion, zero-inflation and under-reported data.
Pedro (Pere) Puig
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Friday, March 3, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
Function spaces in harmonic analysis
Illia M. Karabash
Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics of NAS of Ukraine

Friday, February 24, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
Function spaces in harmonic analysis
Galia Dafni
Concordia University

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
New bounds for equiangular lines and spherical two-distance sets
Wei-Hsuan Yu
Michigan State University

Friday, February 10, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
Canonical Metrics and Partial Differential Equations in Complex Geometry
Duong Phong
Columbia University

Friday, February 3, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
A Bayesian high-dimensional couple-based latent risk model for infertility
Zhen Chen
NIH/NICHD

Thursday, January 26, 2017 @ 2:00 pm, St. Mary Hall 124
Fast Numerical Methods for Challenging Inverse Problems and Applications
Maryam Yashtini
Georgia Institute of Technology

Monday, January 23, 2017 @ 3:30 pm, St. Mary Hall 111
Optimal investment to minimize the probability of drawdown
Bahman Angoshtari
University of Michigan

Tuesday, January 17, 2017 @ 9:30 am, St. Mary Hall 126
Nonlinear PDE; from theory to applications
Mostafa Fazly
University of Alberta

Friday, January 13, 2017 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
Discovering Relationships Across Disparate Data Modalities
Joshua Vogelstein
Johns Hopkins University

Thursday, January 12, 2017 @ 2:00 pm, St. Mary Hall 111
Sparsity-Inducing Methods for Nonlinear Differential Equations
Giang Tran
The University of Texas at Austin

Fall 2016

Friday, November 11, 2016 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
Causal inference for the Millennium Villages Project
Shira Mitchell
Columbia University

Friday, November 4, 2016 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
Mathematics of Photoacoustic Tomography
Linh Nguyen
University of Idaho

Friday, October 28, 2016 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
The rigorous derivation of focusing NLS from quantum many-body evolutions
Xuwen Chen
University of Rochester

Friday, October 21, 2016 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
Inverse Problem Modeling of Physical Phenomena
Nicolas Valdivia
United States Naval Research Laboratory

Friday, September 30, 2016 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 326
An Introduction to the HRT Conjecture
Kasso Okoudjou
Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland

Friday, September 23, 2016 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary Hall 126
Flipping Calculus: Increasing Student Engagement and Success
Mako Haruta, Fei Xue, and Jean McGivney-Burelle
Mathematics Department, University of Hartford

Thursday, September 1, 2016 @ 3:45 pm, St. Mary’s 326
On quaternion Cauchy-Szegeo operator and related boundary value problem
Irina Markina
Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen, Norway

Spring 2016

Friday, April 29, 2016 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Bayesian Modeling of Complex, High-dimensional Data­­––the Functional Mixed Model Framework
Professor Hongxiao Zhu
Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech

Friday, April 22, 2016 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Traveling wave solutions for models of collective movements with degenerate diffusivities
Andrea Corli
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara, Italy

Friday, April 15, 2016 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
What does mathematical notation mean, and how can it be taught? A view from linguistic anthropology
Daniel Ginsberg
Georgetown University

Friday, March 18, 2016 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Dynamic Model-Based Methods to Test for Biosimilarity
Sujit K. Ghosh
NC State University and Deputy Director, SAMSI

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 @ 11:00 am, St. Mary’s 326
Estimates on the number of zeros of the Dirichlet series
Professor Bao Qin Li
Florida International University

Tuesday, March 15, 2016 @ 11:00 am, St. Mary’s 326
The interplay between theory and computation in the study of 3D Euler equations.
Professor Tom Hou
Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology

Friday, March 4, 2016 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
The long and short of duration.
Yigao Liang
Director of financial modeling at Fannie Mae

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 @ 11:00 am, St. Mary’s 326
Estimates of Dirichlet Eigenvalues for Degenerate Elliptic Operators
Professor Hua Chen
Wuhan University, China

Friday, February 19, 2016 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
A General Framework for High-Dimensional Inference and Multiple Testing
Yang Ning
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University

Friday, February 12, 2016 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Analyzing large-scale data: Taxi tipping behavior in New York City
Taylor Arnold
Senior Scientist, AT&T Labs Research / Lecturer, Department of Statistics, Yale University

Thursday, February 11, 2016 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Ordinal probit wavelet-based functional models for eQTL analysis
Mark Meyer
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Bucknell University

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 @ 10:00 am, St. Mary’s 326
On the Free Surface Motion of Low-Mach Number Heat-Conducting Flows
Tao Luo
City University of Hong Kong

Fall 2015

Friday, December 4, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Newton-Okounkov bodies in geometry and representation theory
Chris Manon
George Mason University

Friday, November 20, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
On mechanical models for tumor growth
Konstantina Trivisa
University of Maryland, College Park

Friday, November 6, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Two geometric boundaries inhibitory systems and the impact of the domain boundary 
Xiaofeng Ren
George Washington University

Friday, October 30, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Quasi and p-Adic Limit Cycles and Applications [Almost and p-Adic  Almost Periodicity]
Toni Bourama
Virginia State University

Friday, October 16, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Modeling the Energy Future
Jim Case

Friday, October 9, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Number Theory and Maps of the Interval
Erblin Mehmetaj
Georgetown University

Friday, September 25, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Multiple Multivariate Time Series Models
S. Yaser Samadi
Southern Illinois University  Carbondale

Friday, September 18, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Some Methods for Approximating Discrete Probability Distributions
Professor Andrew Swift
University of Nebraska, Omaha

Friday, September 11, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Stochastic Problems in Fluid Dynamics
Professor Dehua Wang
University of Pittsburgh

Spring 2015

Friday, April 24, 2015 @ 2:10 pm, St. Mary’s 326 (first of two speakers)
Regenerative Process Monte Carlo Methods
Ju-Yi Yen
University of Cincinnati

Friday, April 24, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326 (second of two speakers)
Consistent Reconstruction and Randomized Recovery Algorithms
Alexander Powell
Vanderbilt University

Friday, April 17, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Global Smooth Solutions to the Free Boundary Problem of Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Physical Vacuum
Huihui Zeng
Tsinghua University & Harvard

Friday, April 10, 2015 @ 3:15 pm
Modeling the impact of climate change on tropical moist forest dynamics: a hierarchical Bayesian approach
Romain Gaspard
CNRS, Universites Antilles-Guyane

Friday, March 27, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
A New Component-Based Approach Of Regularization For Multivariate Generalized Linear Regression
Catherine Trottier
University of  Montpellier, France

Friday, March 6, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s Hall 326
Spatial graphs as models for molecules
Senja Barthel
Imperial College London

Friday, February 27, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Evaluation of the Bounds of the Critical Strips of the Partial Sums of the Riemann zeta Function
Professor Gaspar Mora

University of Alicante, Spain

Friday, February 20, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Lattice Embeddings of Triangles and Planar Point Sets Using Algebraic Number Theory
Jesse Milzman
Georgetown University

Friday, February 13, 2015 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Modeling Time Series of Counts: A Bayesian Approach
Refik Soyer
The George Washington University

Thursday, January 22, 2015 @ 10:30 am, St. Mary’s 326
Modeling of the resistance to treatments for gastrointestinal stromal tumors
Thierry Colin
Bordeaux INP and INRIA

Thursday, January 22, 2015 @ 11 am, St. Mary’s 326
Effects of Anti-Angiogenesis on Glioblastoma Growth and Migration: Model to Clinical Predictions
Olivier Saut
Institut de Mathematiques de  Bordeaux,  France

Fall 2014

Friday, November 21, 2014 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Hierarchical approaches for integrating various types of genomic datasets
Professor Marie Denis
CIRAD, Harvard School of Public Health, and Georgetown University

Friday, November 14, 2014 @ 315 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Mixing and enhanced dissipation in the inviscid limit of the Navier-Stokes equations near the 2D Couette flow
Professor Jacob Bedrossian
University of Maryland College Park

Friday, October 24, 2014 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
On the commutativity of hypercube diagrams
Professor Paul Kainen
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Georgetown University

Friday, October 17, 2014 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
(λ, k) bi-analytic functions and beyond—Function theoretic methods in elastic-related direct and inverse problems
Professor Yongzhi Xu
Department of Mathematics
University of Louisville

Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Diffusions, Fractional Laplacians and Traveling Waves
Professor Changfeng Gui
University of Connecticut and NSF

Friday, September 26, 2014 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Challenges and Approaches for the Analysis of Longitudinal Discrete Data
Dr. Justine Shults
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Friday, September 5, 2014 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
The Lorenz Equations: Bridge between atmospheric science and dynamical systems
Professor Hans Kaper
Argonne National Laboratories and Georgetown University

Spring 2014

Thursday, April 24, 2014 @ 2 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Title TBD
Professor Zhouping Xin
University of Hong Kong

Friday, April 11, 2014 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Composable Solvers for Multiphysics and Extreme-Scale Computing
Ms. Lois Curfman McInnes, 
Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Senior Computational Scientist 

Friday, April 4, 2014 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Title TBD
Professor Igor Griva
George Mason University

Friday, March 28, 2014 @3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Companion Matices, Jordan Form, and Difference Equations
Professor Dan Kalman 
American University 

Friday, February 7, 2014 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
The Equivalence of Neyman Optimum Allocation for Sampling and Equal Proportions for Apportioning the U.S. House of Representatives
Professor Tommy Wright
U.S. Bureau of the Census
Georgetown University, Department of Mathematics & Statistics

Friday, January 24, 2014 @ 3:15 pm, St. Mary’s 326
Thinking Out of the Sample: Estimation of Small Tail Probabilities in Food Safety and Bio-Surveillance
Professor Benjamin Kedem
University of Maryland College Park, Department of Mathematics and Institute for Systems Research