Welcome to The Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium Series, where curiosity, rigor, and innovation intersect.
Each semester, this series brings together leading researchers, visiting scholars, faculty, and students to examine cutting-edge work in mathematics and statistics. Talks span theory, computation, modeling, data analysis, and applications that address real-world challenges across science, policy, industry, and beyond.
If you join us, you’ll gain exposure to new ideas, forge connections with experts, and expand your intellectual horizon. Whether you’re building a research agenda, refining your thesis topic, or simply looking for new inspiration, the Colloquium provides a stage for discovery, collaboration, and growth.
Fall 2026 Talks
All Colloquium Talks start at 11:00 am and are held in St. Mary’s Hall 107 and via Zoom, unless otherwise noted.
Friday Aug 28th, 2026 (STM 107)
“Equivariant stability of vortices in Manton’s Chern-Simons-Schrödinger system on the hyperbolic plane.”
Oussama Landoulsi
Georgetown University
Friday Sept 11th, 2026 (STM 107)
“Hybrid Encoder-Decoder Statistical-AI Models for Complex Structured Object Data”
Jeffrey Morris, PhD
Perelman School of Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania
Friday Sept 18th, 2026 (STM 111)
“A simple approach to stability of traveling waves”
Chris Henderson
University of Maryland
Friday Sept 25th, 2026 (STM 107)
“Hilbert’s Sixth Problem”
C. David Levermore
University of Maryland
Friday Oct 2nd, 2026 (STM 107)
“Lloyd’s K-Means Clustering Algorithm is Frank-Wolfe in Disguise”
Michael Pokojovy
Old Dominion University
Thursday Oct 8th, 2026 (STM 326)
“The steady Sasaki-Ricci soliton on a Heisenberg manifold”
Shu-cheng Chang
Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences (SIMIS)
Friday Oct 9th, 2026 (STM 107)
“When Optimal Transportation Meets PDE-Based Inverse Problems”
Yunan Yang
Cornell University
Friday Oct 23rd, 2026 (STM 107)
TBD
Eric Grinberg
UMass Boston
Friday Oct 30th, 2026 (STM 107)
“A mathematical perspective on Transformers”
Borjan Geshkovski
Inria, Sorbonne
Friday Nov 6th, 2026 (STM 107)
TBD
Lei Wu
Lehigh University
Friday Nov 20th, 2026 (STM 107)
“From Posts to Narratives: Multimodal Learning for Misinformation Detection”
Ahmad Mousavi
American University