This Colloquia Archive includes a complete list of all Department of Mathematical Sciences colloquia titles, abstracts and speakers going back to 1997.
Submissions from 2020
Autoregression Modeling of the American Stock Market, Andrey Sarantsev
Submissions from 2019
Coarse Geometry and Inverse Semigroups, Diego Martinez
Almost Commuting Matrices, Jeff Boersema
Undirected graphs and their C*-algebras, David Pask
Semivariogram Methods for Modeling Whittle-Matérn Priors in Bayesian Inverse Problems, Rick Brown
A Survey of Cryptology: From World War II to the Present Day, Chris Waters
Algebra Instruction at Community Colleges: Investigating the relationship with student outcomes, Vilma Mesa
Small Percolating Sets, Neal Bushaw
Inferring Holocene precipitation in west central Greenland using the Unscented Transform, Jake Downs
Inverse methods for material quantification using neutron and X-ray radiography, Andrew Gilbert
On the Structure of Linearizations for Rational Approximations of Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems, Maria C. Quintana
A Skew Product Model for Hybrid Dynamical Systems, Kimberly Ayers
An Introduction to Extremal Problems for Forests in Graphs and Hypergraphs, Omid Khormali
Designer Multistep Methods, Michelle Ghrist
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Reflections on mathematics education and equity considerations, Marta Civil
An Introduction to the Local Pivotal Method and Variance Approximation Approaches, Ted Owen
“Distinguishing two notions of unique colorability for digraphs”, Esmaeil Parsa
Homotopy in the Category of Graphs, Tien Chih
The Mathematics of Shuffling Cards, Wend Werner
Nonlinear eigenvalue problems, a challenge for modern eigenvalue methods, Javier Perez-Alvaro
Generalizing a Real-Analysis Exam Problem: A Potpourri of Functional Analysis, Probability, and Topology, Leonard Huang
Mentoring STEM Women Faculty, Makini Beck
The use of computer softwares and mathematics achievements of 8th grade students in Puerto Rico: using NAEP 2015 restricted data, Ricela Feliciano-Semidei
Searching for closed essential surfaces in knot complements, Charles Katerba
Relationships Between Undergraduate Students' Engagement and Understanding, Derek Williams
Influenza-type illnesses and air pollutants of particulate matter < 2.5μm (PM2.5): an application of Archetypal Analysis to identify spatiotemporal structure, Ellie Bayat Mokhtari
Can you hear the shape of a 3-manifold?, Dave Futer
Submissions from 2018
Spectrally Arbitrary Patterns, Jillian Glassett
Improved D-bar Reconstructions of Human Ventilation from Electrical Impedance Tomography Data, Melody Alsaker
Recent Problems in Hypergraph Saturation, Sean English
Manifold Methods for Averaging Subspaces, Justin Marks
Homotopy in the Category of Graphs, Tien Chih
KK-theory in geometry and physics, Bram Mesland
The Steiner problem, and it's variations, Enrique Alvarado
The Bellman function technique in harmonic analysis, Henry Riely
Information Processing in Hippocampal Interneuron Synapses, Ellie Bayat Mokhtari
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Extension Theory: Large Scale vs Small Scale, Atish Mitra
Kummer subspaces of generic abelian crossed products (And other things I learned during a PhD here), Nhan Nguyen
Teacher Learning in a Professional Learning Community (PLC) in The Netherlands, Saskia van Boven
Algebraic composition with more than two ingredients, Wend Werner
Yes, Even You Can Bend It Like Beckham, Dr. Edray H. Goins
The classification of C*-algebras, Zhuang Niu
Computational Challenges of Inverse Problems, Matthias Chung
Localization results for indefinite eigenvalue problems, Vanni Noferini
Analytic functions, harmonic functions, and minimal surfaces, Michael Dorff
Understanding Conditional Probability with the Monty Hall Problem, Ricela Feliciano-Semidei
Submissions from 2017
On subgraphs of 2k-cycle-free graphs, Abhishek Methuku
Inverse Approximation of Groupoids, Kyle Austin
Representations, wavelets, and spectral triples for k-graphs: an infinite path space approach, Carla Farsi
D-optimal Experimental Design for Bayesian Inverse Problems, Arvind Saibaba
Measuring Level Sets of C^{1,1} Functions, Laramie Paxton
Illumination in Mathematics: An Affective Experience?, Peter Liljedahl
“We want to bring them into what we love”: Exploring Desire in Teacher Education, Ian Parker Renga
Moment-based approximations of algorithms on semirings, Oliver Serang
Analyzing Data on the Microbiome using Linear Models based on Approximate Singular Value Decompositions, Glen Satten
From Hyperbolic to Algebraic Geometry through Character Varieties, Charles Katerba
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Predictive Spatiotemporal Modeling, Andrew Hoegh
Mathematics of Photoacoustic Tomography, Linh Nguyen
The effects of metabolite production cost on cooperation in microbial communities, Diana Schepens
An intro to quantum BV theory, Ryan Grady
Combinatorial polynomials and the geometry of 2-bridge links, Eric B. Chesebro
Systems of parameters and the Cohen-Macaulay property, Katharine Shultis
Infinite Product Representations of Kernel Functions on Fractals, James Tipton
Acquiring Intelligence: Assembling Tomorrow's Data-Driven, AI-Everywhere World, Peter Coffee
Dog & Pony Show: An Introduction to Research in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Fredercik Peck and Emily Stone
Submissions from 2016
From Mass to Force: Finding Value and Direction in Big Data, Peter Coffee
Equation-free techniques for infectious disease data, Josh Proctor
Navajo Math Circles, A film by George Paul Csicsery; Followed by Q&A with Robert M. Klein, Robert M. Klein
A Prisoner Coordination Puzzle and Some Generalizations, Tyler Seacrest
Wearable computing and clinical brain imaging, Ciprian Crainiceanu
Business Analytics Use Cases and a Conversation with the Director of Strategic Business Analysis at Targetbase, Tom Stockburger and Chad Bivins
Reducing rotations to finite data, David Ayala
Q&A with Darrel Choate, Darrel Choate
Essential dimension of generic symbols (and other great things I learned on sabbatical), Kelly L. McKinnie
Escapades in Burn-off Chip-firing on Graphs, Mark Kayll
Linkage of Symbol p-Algebras of Prime Degree, Adam Chapman
The Dynamics of Vector-Borne Relapsing Diseases, Cody Palmer
Point Spread Function Estimation and Uncertainty Quantification, Kevin Joyce
Swarms in bounded domains, Dieter Armbruster
Math Department Awards Ceremony, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Montana
Enhanced Gibbs sampling for an application to X-ray imaging, Kevin Joyce
Native American Mathematics, Robert E. Megginson
Database for Dynamics: a new approach to model gene regulatory networks, Tomas Gedeon
Design Principles for Infusing Active Learning in Undergraduate Calculus, Eric Stade and David Webb
Solving polynomial eigenvalue problems via linearizations is backward stable, Javier Pérez Álvaro
Microbiome: Data Normalization and Comparison of Bacterial Vaginosis Species Composition, Katia Smirnova
Hierarchical group testing for multiple infections, Peijie Hou
Nonparametric Regression Method for Agreement Measure Between an Ordinal Measurement and a Continuous Measurement, AKM Fazlur Rahman
A snapshot of holomorphic dynamics in a neighborhood of a fixed point, Sara Lapan
K-theory and twisted groupoid C*-algebras, Elizabeth A. Gillaspy
Submissions from 2015
Big Data Goes to Work: Liberating Latent Value in a Connected World, Peter Coffee
The Dynamics of Vector-Borne Relapsing Diseases, Cody Palmer
A framework for teaching mathematical modeling in elementary grades, Beth Burroughs and Mary Alice Carlson
The current state and trends of STEM higher education and administration: reflections of the former department chair, Leonid Kalachev
Dimension reduction for Bayesian inference of large-scale systems, Tiangang Cui
Applications of Adjoint Based Assimilation, Jesse Johnson