This Colloquia Archive includes a complete list of all Department of Mathematical Sciences colloquia titles, abstracts and speakers going back to 1997.
Submissions from 2015
Math Department Awards Ceremony, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Montana
The Significance of Applied Mathematics and Statistics in Data Science Driven Corporations, Alex Philp
Factors Considered by Elementary Teachers When Modifying Mathematical Tasks to Support or Extend Children’s Mathematical Thinking, Mike Fredenberg
Cross-disciplinary training: A vehicle for research collaboration and STEM education promotion, Lia Harrington
Beyond rise over run! Learning slope in a cascade of artifacts, Fredercik Peck
Equivalence criteria in the safety evaluation of a genetically modified crop, Christopher I. Vahl
Set membership with two bit probes, Jaikumar Radhakrishnan
Using numerical optimization techniques for sampling in statistical inverse problems, John M. Bardsley
Mobile Educational Technology and the Mathematics Classroom, Grant Swicegood
Submissions from 2014
A Longitudinal Study of Students' Reasoning About Variation in Distributions in an Introductory College Statistics Course, Rachel Chaphalkar
Some Mathematical Models in Neuroscience Applications, Denis M. Shchepakin
A mechanism of mode locking in slow-fast delayed systems, Dr. Dmitry Rachinskiy
Regularity of the Bergman Projection on Finite Type and Infinite Type Domains, Andy Raich
Ma-Kap-Pii: Historical Trauma Perceptions from Diverse Cultures, Lydia Silva
Distance between chaotic trajectories by fractal dimension concepts, Heikki Haario
An Introduction to Research in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, John Bardsley, Brian Steele, and Ke Wu
An Introduction to Research in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Jen Kacmarcik, Emily Stone, Eric Chesebro, and Cory Palmer
Update and Discussion regarding Electronic & IT Accessibility Activities, Janet Sedgley and Lucy France
Partitioning edge-2-colored graphs into monochromatic paths and cycles, Dániel Gerbner and Alfréd Rényi
MINERVA: Small Planets from Small Telescopes, Nate McCrady
The Bayesian Approach to Inverse Problems, Andrew Stuart
Diophantine approximation: automatic numbers and their generalisations, Michael Coons
Digraphs and Homomorphisms: Cores, Colorings, and Constructions, Michael Severino
The Impact of ‘Tipi Geometry’, A Lesson Combining Elementary Geometry Concepts and Blackfeet Tipi Building, on Preservice K-8 Teachers, Elizabeth Lask
Progress on the 123-Conjecture, Cody Fouts
Mathematics Anxiety and the Nontraditional Student, Jack Lelko
The Character Table of PGL(2,q), Daisy Matthews
A short construction of highly chromatic digraphs without short cycles, Michael Severino
Number Theory in Several Complex Variables, Dusty Grundmeyer
Investigating and Assessing Student Interest in a Math Seminar Class, Adam Clinch
Minerva: Big Exoplanet Science with Small Telescopes, Nate McCrady
Some Questions on Hex, Ryan B. Hayward
Bayesian Estimator Assessment Methods for Minimizing Costs in Multivariate Driving Performance Studies, Clark Kogan
Students' Reasoning about Variation, Rachel Chaphalkar
Statistical Tests for Regularization in Ill-posed Inverse Problems, Dr. Jodi Mead
Turán numbers for forests, Cory Palmer
Submissions from 2013
Abstracted Primal-Dual Affine Programming, Tien Chih
Physics based interpolation techniques, Jesse Johnson
Linear Preserver Problems and Algebraic Groups, Hernando Bermudez
Modeling Cognitive Performance under Sleep Restriction, Clark Kogan
Guided Reinvention: The Case for Technology in the Mathematics Education Classroom, Matt Roscoe
Large-deviations limits for non-equilibrium Markov processes, path entropies, and applications, D. Eric Smith
Mathematical Modeling and Computational Methods for Breast Tomosynthesis Image Reconstruction, Jim Nagy
Math for Fun and (Small) Profit: An Eclectic Tour of Prize Problems in Mathematics, Katherine St. John
Son of Dog & Pony Show*, Ke Wu, Cory Palmer, and Kelly McKinnie
Dog & Pony Show*, Emily Stone, Jennifer Halfpap, Matt Roscoe, and Eric Chesebro
“Hamilton-Stable Edge-Labellings of Graphs”, Takehiko Yamaguchi
"Abstract Primal-Dual Affine Programming", Tien Chih
“Peripherally-Multiplicative Spectral Preservers between Function Algebras”, Jeffrey Johnson
Spectrally Arbitrary Zero Nonzero Patterns, Timothy Melvin
“Computational Methods for Support Vector Machine Classification and Large-Scale Kalman Filtering”, Marylesa Howard
A Principal Function Problem — Finding a meromorphic function with a given boundary behavior or singularity, Mikihiro Hayashi
On the multiplier algebra of certain locally m-convex algebras, Lourdes Palacios
Incorporating Academic Service Learning Projects and Model-Eliciting Activities into Introduction to Statistics, Rachel Chaphalkar
On Banach Algebras of Bounded Continuous Functions with Values in a Banach Algebra, Hugo Arizmendi
"Giving a MOOC – a Survival Guide", Keith Devlin
The game of Cops and Robbers, William Kinnersley
On the tree packing conjecture, Cory T. Palmer
An Exploration of Ordered Rings, Tien Chih
Boundaries in Functional Analysis, Jeff Johnson
Relative Likelihood Comparisons: Heuristics, Biases and Fallacies, Egan J. Chernoff
Non-Beatles’ perspectives on non-Edmonds graphs, Mark Kayll
Submissions from 2012
Inverse and Ill-posed Problems in Banach Lattices: Theory and Applications in Ice Sheet Bed Elevation Measurements, Yuri Korolev
Cancelled, Iman Chahine
An approach to cellular-based modeling of brain microcircuits, Frances K. Skinner
Virtual Mentoring: A Novice Teacher's Use of Twitter, Hilary Risser
The Support Vector Machine as a Supervised Classification Technique, Marylesa Howard
The Fundamental Morphism Theorem in the Categories of Graphs, Demitri Plessas
The Traveling Philosopher and Avoiding Szemerédi's Regularity Lemma, Tyler Seacrest
Physics Experiments and Abstract Harmonic Analysis: A Generalized Peano Kernel Theorem for Estimating Errors in Laser Interferometry, Aaron Luttman
Model Development, Uncertainty Quantification and Control Design for Nonlinear Smart Material Systems, Ralph C. Smith
Uncertainty quantification of large models: parameters of weather and climate models, Heikki Haario
Using Numerical Methods for Sampling in Inverse Problems, John Bardsley
"Contribution of Greenland Ice Sheet to Sea Level Rise Delayed by Meltwater Storage in Firn", Joel Harper
Surjective isometries between function spaces, Professor Takeshi Miura
Isometries on groups and its applications, Professor Osamu Hatori
“Nontraditional Positional Games: New methods and boards for playing Tic-Tac-Toe”, Mary J. Riegel
Analysis of a Competing Yeast Model in Continuous Environments, Nick McClure
“Inference for High-Dimensional Doubly Multivariate Data under General Conditions”, John Z. Hossler
High-Dimensional Inferential Procedures under General Conditions, John Hossler
Understanding the Autologistic Model, Jordan Earl Purdy
Nontraditional Positional Games: New methods and boards for playing Tic-Tac-Toe, Mary Jennifer Riegel
A mathematical model of human sleep and insomnia, Michael Rempe
Optimization of Bayesian Data Reduction Algorithm within Parallel Processing Environment for Real-Time Analytics on Extreme Data Volumes: A Cast Study, Alex Philip Ph.D.
Is Creativity a Tautological Construct? (Postponed), Bharath Sriraman
Co-examining the Development of Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching and Conceptions About Mathematics Teaching and Learning, Rachael M. Welder
Teaching Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching, Matt Roscoe
New Proofs of Old Geometry Theorems, Bill Derrick
A Novel Approach to Automated Algorithm Design, Frank Stomp
Submissions from 2011
Informing Instruction and Instructional Design: A Framework for Student Thinking about Matrix Multiplication, Christine Larson
Investigating curriculum effectiveness: Results from a curriculum comparison study in secondary mathematics, Óscar Chávez
Estimating survival of dormant plants using mark-recapture methods, Martha Ellis
A New Procedure for Estimating Mutation Rates, Nick McClure
From perfect numbers to modern primality tests, Dr. Pedro Berrizbeitia
Engineering (Design) for Science Inquiry, Dr. Anne Kern
Short course in Mathematica, Craig Bauling
Looking at Spacings to Assess Streakiness, Dr. James Albert
On-Base Percentage — the Moneyball Statistic, Dr. James Albert
Mathematics changed my life, Dr. William Yslas Vélez