This Thursday's Fragment seminar speaker will be our own Clayton Shonkwiler, speaking on Frames, Geometric Invariant Theory, and Optimization.

Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University Paper Folding: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation The unfolding of a ladybird's wings, the trapping mechanism used by a flytrap, the design of self-deployable space […]

Advisor:  Dr. Jennifer Committee:  Dr. Margaret Cheney, Dr. Patrick Shipman, Dr. Marlis Rezende Title: An Inverse Problem and Multi-Compartment Lung Model for the Estimation of Lung Airway Resistance throughout the […]

Advisor: Dr. Jeff Achter Committee:  Dr. Rachel Pries, Dr. Jamie Juul, Dr. Indrajit Ray Title: Explicit and quantitative results for abelian varieties over finite fields Abstract: Given an elliptic curve […]

Title: Time Integration Methods and Software for Scientific Simulations Abstract: Time-dependent systems are at the heart of numerous scientific applications requiring simulation.  While single rate, fixed step size time integration […]

Polytopes count (introductory talk) Aram Bingham Colorado School of Mines We'll see how many problems in combinatorics can be converted to the problem of counting integral points inside appropriate polytopes. […]

Expander graphs arising from finite groups Martin Kassabov Cornell University Informally, expander graphs are  graphs which can not be easily disconnected.  In the case of bounded degree, this property is […]

TITLE: The Kuramoto model and Synchronization ABSTRACT: Synchronization occurs in many natural and technological systems, from cardiac pacemaker cells to coupled lasers. In the synchronized state, the individual cells or […]

Advisor:  Dr. Jeff Achter Committee:  Dr. Rachel Pries, Dr. Alexander Hulpke, Dr. Maria Gillespie, Dr. Shrideep Pallickara Title: Counting the Size of an Isogeny Class of Drinfeld Modules over Finite […]

Advisor:  Dr. Rachel Pries Committee:  Dr. Jeff Achter, Dr. Mark Shoemaker, Dr. Maria Rugenstein Title: Relative oriented class groups of quadratic extensions Abstract: Perhaps the most beautiful development in the […]

Advisor:  Dr. Margaret CheneyCo-Advisor:Dr. Raghu Raj Committee:  Dr. Emily King, Dr. Mahmood Azimi-Sadjadi Title: Deep Compound Gaussian Prior for Linear Inverse Problems Abstract: Linear inverse problems are common in a […]