Title: Enumerative geometry and the Shapiro--Shapiro ConjectureAbstract:In three dimensions, how many lines pass through four given lines? This question comes from classical enumerative geometry over the complex numbers (Schubert calculus); nowadays, it and many similar problems are well understood, in part due to the theory of moduli spaces. Over the real numbers, however, most such […]

Our next seminar will be this Thursday, April 20, at 3:00 PM in Weber 201.  Our speaker is Tobias Rossmann who is visiting from the University of Galway. There will also be a seminar lunch at noon.  If you are interested in joining please meet in the lobby a few minutes before 12. Title: Tame […]

danielvargas-rosario.abstract Mathematics faculty and graduate students are invited to attend the PhDDefense of Daniel Vargas-Rosario. Date:  Tuesday, April 25, 2023Time: 10:00 a.m.Join ZoomMeeting:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84700179503?pwd=Z0x5QWIxTzZaSjdkcDZIUlowNWttQT09Meeting ID: 847 0017 9503Passcode: 288209Advisor:  Dr. Henry Adams Committee:  Dr. Jeanne Duflot,Dr. Alexander Hulpke,Dr. Joel BaconTitle: Persistent Homology of Products and Gromov-Hausdorff Distances Between Hypercubes and Spheres Abstract: See Attached  

 Inquiry-Based Learning Special Interest Group of the Mathematical Association of America (IBL SIGMAA) Workshop Series is continuing for the spring semester! We are excited to have Aditiya Adiredja presenting Responding to Students' "Mistakes": An Anti-Deficit Perspective with IBL Thursday, April 27th at 2pm (EDT). The workshop will be roughly 45 minutes in length followed by time for questions and […]

Advisor: Dr. Jess HagmanCommittee:  Dr. Hortensia Soto , Dr. Liz Arnold, Dr. David MostTitle: Exploring women of color’s expressions of mathematical identity:The role of institutional resources and mathematical valuesAbstract: There is a persistent and growing global call to examine,challenge, and transform exclusionary structures and systems withinmathematics education (Laursen & Austin, 2020; Thomas & Drake, 2016;Wagner […]

We are excited to announce that the University of Colorado, Boulder andColorado State University, Fort Collins will be hosting Front RangeNumber Theory Day on April 29, 2023, at University of Colorado inBoulder. The goal of the FRNTD is to provide a venue for faculty,graduate students, and undergraduates on the Front Range who areinterested in number […]

Advisor:  Dr. Chris Peterson Co-Advisor:Dr. Clayton ShonkwilerCommittee:  Dr. Renzo Cavalieri, Dr. Michael Kirby, Dr Louis-Noel PouchetTitle: Visualising geodesics along a GrassmannianAbstract: A Grassman is a set of points where each point represents avector space of the same dimension within a larger space. For instance,within the set of real vector spaces, Gr(2,4) is the set of2-dimensional […]

Title: Nanoscale Pattern Formation Produced by Ion Bombardment of Solid Surfaces Abstract: Bombarding a solid surface with a broad ion beam can produce a remarkable variety of nanoscale patterns.  Oblique-incidence bombardment, for example, can lead to the formation of surface ripples with wavelengths as short as 10 nanometers. The anisotropic Kuramoto-Sivashinsky (AKS) equation has traditionally been used […]

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Speaker: Jeremy Booher, University of FloridaTitle: Towers of Curves, Motivic Class Groups, and EquicharacteristicL-FunctionsAbstract:  For a prime p, let K_n form a Z_p-tower of function fieldscorresponding to smooth projective curves C_n over a perfect field ofcharacteristic p. The genus is a well-understood invariant ofalgebraic curves, and the genus of C_n depends on n in a […]

Advisor:  Dr. Michael Kirby Co-Advisor:Dr. Margaret Cheney Committee:  Dr. Chris Peterson, Dr Nathaniel Blanchard Title: The Geometry and Topology of Learning Abstract: The /manifold hypothesis/ refers to the conjecture that high-dimensional data have low intrinsic dimension, meaning they can be expressed (without loss of information) with fewer parameters than the number of basis vectors that […]

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