This Colloquia Archive includes a complete list of all Department of Mathematical Sciences colloquia titles, abstracts and speakers going back to 1997.
Submissions from 2024
Culture Relevant Curriculum in Math Education, Shurong Li
Building a Galactic Scale Gravitational Wave Detector, Deborah Good
An Aspirational Approach to the Mathematical Preparation of Teachers, Liz Arnold
A Simple Bayesian Approach To Detecting Changepoints Across Multiple Samples, Michael Wojnowicz
Neuromodulation of Hippocampal Microcircuits: Some Modeling and A Little Math, Emily Stone
Comparison of Enumeration and Sampling Methods in Creating Montana’s 2nd Congressional District, Kelly L. McKinnie
Farey Recursive Functions for Hyperbolic Dehn Filling, José Martinez
A Gentle and Brief Introduction to Lp-Operator Algebras, Ellen Weld
Decomposing Flow Networks for DNA Sequencing, Lucia Williams
Active Learning in College Algebra, College Trig and Precalc: A Demonstration, Regina P. Souza
Ramsey-Turán Results, Van Magnan
An algebraic approach to scaling limits of up-down chains, Kelvin Rivera-Lopez
Proper Rainbow Saturation Numbers, Anna Halfpap
Multivariate Information Theory: Difficulties and Recent Progress, Ryan James
Submissions from 2023
Examining Metamorphic Testing with Requirements Knowledge in Practical Settings, Zedong Peng
A generalization of diversity for intersecting families, Ryan Wood
Matching data from multiple experiments to a genetic network model, Breschine Cummins
Counting number fields, Allechar Serrano Lopez
Network Traffic Classification Using Deep Learning Neural Networks, Qian Mao
Generalized Voronoi Diagrams and Lie Sphere Geometry, Tracy Payne
Exotic number bases with application to combinatorics, Tyler Seacrest
Circle Actions and Stratifications, Benjamin Moldstad
A simple modification to the classical SIR model to estimate the proportion of under-reported infections using case studies in flu and COVID-19, Leonid Kalachev
Template Arrays and Two-Dimensional Recurrence Relations, Jordan Broussard
Zeros of Complex-Valued Harmonic Functions, Jennifer Brooks
Using Kronholm's Ideal to Compute Bredon Cohomology, Eric Hogle
Longitudinal Data Regression Analysis Using Semiparametric Modelling, Abdulla Al Mamun
Bringing the outside in: Building with and strengthening community-based problem-solving practices in math classrooms, Frederick Peck
A resolution to Landis' conjecture in the plane, Blair Davey
An introduction to RNAseq, Claire Seibold
Motivating Generalized Extremal Problems, Anna Halfpap
Modeling Covid-19 in Montana, Ian Derickson
Classifying Invariants of k-Graph C*-Algebras, Joey Lippert
Submissions from 2022
What is Deficit Discourse in (Undergraduate) Mathematics Education and What Can We Do About It?, Aditya Adiredja
Deep Learning the Properties of Metamaterials, Jordan M. Malof
The Hochschild Cohomology of Roe Type Algebras, Matt Lorentz
Math Metaphors: A Window into Students' Mathematical Experiences, Megan Wickstrom
Legislative Redistricting in Montana, Kelly L. McKinnie and Dave Patterson
Wearable Sensor Development For Health Monitoring & Personalized Medicine, Anh Nguyen
The finiteness conjecture for skein modules, Sam Gunningham
A comparison of spatio-temporal patterns in seasonal flu and COVID 19 in a rural US state, Emily Stone
Political Geometries: Graphs, Geometry, and Gerrymandering, Daryl Deford
Regular Ideals, Ideal intersections, and quotients, Jonathan Brown
Randomly Perturbed Graphs And Rainbow Connectivity, John Finlay
Close Enough! How to (Probably) Calculate the Chromatic Number, JD Nir
Cohomology related to commuting k-tuples of local homeomorphisms, Judith Packer
Department of Mathematical Sciences Awards Ceremony, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Montana
Math Education Graduate Student Research Projects, Math Education Graduate Students, University of Montana
Rainbow Connectivity of Randomly Perturbed Graphs, John Finlay
An Introduction to Computational Complexity Via Games, Jon Lenchner
Presentation by Racheal Kenney, Racheal Kenney
Black Bears in México: Outliers, Local Knowledge, and Management, Diana Crider
Discovering Genetic Network Interactions Through Iterative Hypothesis Reduction, Bree Cummins
Learning as a collective process: Some ideas from the theory of objectification, Luis Radford
Configurations, dimension, and fractal sets, Krystal Taylor
Strengthening the Food System of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara people, Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills
Desmos Activity Builder: Technology for the Promotion of Active Learning, Fredercik Peck and Matt B. Roscoe
Submissions from 2021
Collective Behavior in Locust Swarms from Differential Equations to Data, Jasper Weinburd
Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Social Justice, part 2, Chad Topaz
Positive co-degree problems for 3-graphs, Anna Halfpap
Persistence in Data, Cosheaves, and K-Theory, Ryan Grady
Measuring Water Waves: Using Pressure to Reconstruct Wave Profiles, Katie Oliveras
Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Social Justice, Chad Topaz
Mathematics Research for Security and Science in the US National Laboratories, Aaron Luttman
Classical infectious disease modeling paradigms shifted by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, Leonid Kalachev
Mathematical Discovery of Natural Laws in Biomedical Sciences with Application to Metastasis, Leonid Hanin
K-Theory: Algebraic Topology and Non-commutative Algebraic Topology, Jeff Boersema
Extending Bootstrap Aggregation of Neural Networks for Prediction with an Application to COVID-19 Forecasting, Mohsen Tabibian
The geometric nature of Diophantine equations, Jen Berg
Weighted Neural Networks for Predicting Daily Covid-19 Death Counts, Mohsen Tabibian
Equilibria in Networks with Steep Sigmoidal Nonlinearities, William Duncan
Variance Approximation Approaches For The Local Pivotal Method, Ted Owen
Reducibility of parameter ideals in low powers of the maximal ideal, Katharine Shultis
Cartan subalgebras of non-principal twisted groupoid C*-algebras, Rachael M. Norton
Metric Convergence of Spectral Triples on the Sierpinski Gasket and Other Fractal Curves, Therese-Marie Landry
Communities in Data, Katherine Moore
Translating solitons in Euclidean space, Ling Xiao
Expressing graphs as symmetric differences of cliques of the complete graph, Puck Rombach
Choreography in Nature (towards theory of dancing curves, superintegrability), Alexander Turbiner
Knot Theory and the Fourth Dimension, Patricia Cahn
Markov Partitions: from Decimal Expansions to Nilmanifolds, Jarek Kwapisz
Submissions from 2020
The City of Numbers: Unique Prime Factorization, Manipulative Development and the Big Apple, Matt B. Roscoe
Intersections of Virtual Multistrings, David Freund
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Settler Colonialism in Mathematics, Belin Tsinnajinnie
Topological Data Analysis on Networks – Applications and Scalability issues, Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora
How do you grow an Erdős-Rado sunflower?, Cory Palmer
High dimensional regression with survey design: an application to the association between physical activity and mortality in NHANES, Ekaterina Smirnova
Semivariogram Methods for Modeling Whittle-Matérn Priors in Bayesian Inverse Problems, Rick Brown
A Natural Rank Problem for Homogeneous Polynomials and Connections with the Theory of Functions of Several Complex Variables, Kevin A. Palencia Infante
Proper Mappings Between Balls, Kevin A. Palencia Infante
Using Mixed Methods in Unlocking the Black Box of Classroom Learning (Canceled), Jingjing Sun
Presentation by Pedro Berrizbeitia (Canceled), Pedro Berrizbeitia
N-Graded Filiform Nilpotent Lie Algebras (Canceled), Tracy Payne
Information theoretic-based Biological Network Analysis, Ellie Bayat-Mokhtari
The Space of Persistence Diagrams on n points Coarsely Embeds in Hilbert Space, Atish Mitra
The u-Invariant and Friends, Adam Chapman
Few H copies of F saturated graphs, Juergen Kritschgau
Pure extension property for étale groupoid crossed products, Danny Crytser
Model Discrepancy Updates: Model calibration and uncertainty quantification applied to CT with uncertain view-angles, Nicolai A. B. Riis