Colloquium

Fall 2016 Colloquia

Unless otherwise noted, the colloquium will be held on Fridays @ 2:00 pm in JO 4.614.

If you have questions about the colloquium please contact Dr. Vishwanath Ramakrishna.

Archive of talks from previous semesters

Date/Room/Host	Speaker/Institution	Title/Abstract
Apr 28th 3-4pm FO 2.702	Eric Rawdon University of St. Thomas	Knotting in open chains, closed chains, and proteins
Apr 28th	Nozer Singpurwalla City University of Hong Kong	Distinguished Colloquium Subjective Probability: Its Content, Axioms, and Acrobatics
Apr 21st	Baofeng Feng University of Texas at Rio Grande	An integrable model for light propagation in ultra-short pulse regime
Apr 14th 3-4pm FO 2.702	Amanda Hering Baylor University	Mixture of Regression Models for Large Spatial Data Sets
Apr 14th 3-4pm FO 2.702	M. Vidyasagar FRS Cecil & Ida Green Chair in Systems Biology Science The University of Texas at Dallas	Distinguished Colloquium Matrix Completion and Partial Realization via Compressed Sensing
Apr 14th	Philip E. Cheng Institute of Statistical Science Academia Sinica	A Geometric Approach to Modeling Categorical Variables With Applications to Medical Research
Apr 7th	Leonid Kalachev Mathematical Sciences University of Montana	Modeling In Vitro Local Drug Delivery (A View on the Role of Mathematical Biology Programs in the New Educational Environment)
Mar 31st 3-4pm FO 2.702	Sy Han (Steven) Chiou Biostatistics Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health	Permutation tests for general dependent truncation
Mar 31st	Svetlozar (Zari) T. Rachev College of Business, Stony Brook University Director of the Center for Finance, Stony Brook University	Risk management, Modeling Volatile Markets and Forecasting Market Crashes
Mar 24th 3-4pm FO 2.702	Yingbo Li SMU	Bayesian Minimal Description Lengths for Multiple Changepoint Detection
Mar 24th	George Hagedorn Virginia Tech	Numerical Computation of Semiclassical Dynamics in Several Space Dimensions
Wed Mar 8th 3pm FO 2.702	Carlos Arreche NSF Alliance Postdoctoral Fellow North Carolina State University	Galois Theories for Functional Equations
Mar 3rd	Vakhtang Putkaradze Mathematics/Chemical Engineering University of Alberta	Exact geometric approach to the dynamics of tubes conveying fluid
Feb 24th 3pm FO 2.702	Cecilia Mondaini Department of Mathematics Texas A&M University	Analysis of a feedback-control based data assimilation algorithm
Feb 24th	Vasilisa Shramchenko Département de Mathématiques Universite de Sherbrooke	What quantum mechanics knows about moduli spaces of algebraic curves
Feb 23rd 11:30-1 ECSN 2.120	Margot Gerritsen Director, Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering Senior Associate Dean for Education Initiatives, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences Associate Professor of Energy Resources Engineering Stanford University	Distinguished Colloquium UTD/SMU SIAM Student Chapter Distinguished Lecture 11:30-12:00, Informal session: “Survival skills for students” 12:00-1:00, Research Talk: Fun numerical problems in subsurface flow modeling
Feb 17th	Anton Dzhamay University of Northern Colorado	The Beautiful Geometry of Discrete Painlevé Equations
Feb 15th 3pm FO 2.702	Nathan Williams Department of Mathematics University of California, Santa Barbara	Sweeping Up Zeta
Feb 10th 3pm FO 2.702	Abhishek Kaul Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences	Estimation and Inference in High Dimensional Error‐in‐Variables Models and an Application to Microbiome Data
Feb 10th	Vladimir Dragovic The University of Texas at Dallas	Algebraic Geometry and the Schlesinger systems: from Poncelet to Painleve VI and beyond
Jan 27th 2pm JO 4.614	Shuai Chen Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin – Madison	Semiparametric Accelerated Failure Time Models with Missing Covariates Under Censoring-Ignorable Missingness at Random Mechanism
Jan 25th 3pm SLC 1.202	Kuang-Yao Lee Department of Biostatistics Yale School of Public Health	On additive conditional independence for high-dimensional statistical analysis
Jan 20th 2pm JO 4.614	Michael B. Sohn Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania	Statistical Methods in Microbiome Study
Wed Jan 18th 3pm SLC 1.202	Miles Wheeler Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University	Solitary water waves
Jan 13th 3pm FO 2.702	Sunyoung Shin Department of Statistics, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics University of Wisconsin Madison	Annotation Regression for Genome-Wide Association Studies
Jan 13th	Leonid Fridman Department of Control Engineering and Robotics National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico	Sliding Mode Controllers: stages of evolution
Wed, Jan 11th 3pm SLC 1.202	Theodore Molla University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Factors in graphs
Dec 2 3pm JO 3.516	Yuan Yuan Mathematics and Statistics Memorial University, St. John’s, CANADA	Effect of Time Delays in an HIV Virotherapy Model with Nonlinear Incidence
Dec 2 2pm FN 2.102	Dimitri Volchenkov Bielefield University, Germany	An introduction to Probability Models of Social Structure and Evolution
Oct 26 3-4pm FO 2.702	J. A. Cuminato Institute of Mathematics and Computer Sciences University of Sao Paulo	Center for Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry–CEPID-CeMEAI
Oct 21	A K Desai Mathematics Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India	Topological Characterizations of Some Known Spaces and Their Applications
Oct 14	J.H. Przytycki Mathematics The George Washington University	Plucking polynomial: Motivated by and applied to knot theory, q-polynomial invariant of rooted trees
Oct 7	Goong Chen Mathematics Dept and IQSE Texas A&M University	Computation, Simulation and Visualization of Pulverizing Aircraft Mountain Crashes
Sep 30	Francois Baccelli Simons Chair Mathematics and Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Texas at Austin	Dynamics on Random Networks
Sep 23	Alain Bensoussan Jindal School of Management UT Dallas	Introduction to Backward stochastic differential equations and parabolic P.D.E. in the whole space
Sep 16	Maria Umlauft Ulm University	Rank-based permutation approaches for nonparametric factorial designs