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 […]

Take a break from Finals studying by playing some lawn games (Kubb, Spikeball, etc.) and petting friendly doggos! spring23awmposter

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 […]

Celebrating math major graduates

Mathematics faculty and graduate students are invited to attend the PhD Defense of Brenden Balch. You may also attend on Zoom Advisor:  Dr. Patrick Shipman Committee:  Dr. Chris Peterson, Dr. Clayton Shonkwiler, Dr. Richard Bradley, Dr. Hua Chen Title:  Notes on pattern formation Abstract:   We discuss two topics from pattern formation. The first part investigates […]

Advisor:  Dr. Jess Hagman Committee:  Dr. Rick Miranda, Dr. Liz Arnold, Dr. Gaye DiGregorio, Dr. Vincent Basile Title:  Exploring the Situated Motives of Undergraduate Mathematics Education Stakeholders for Enhancing Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Abstract:  As attention toward equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in undergraduate mathematics education increases, it is prudent to critically investigate how such […]

A former CSU student, Tucker Manton, who obtained a PhD in physics at Arizona State University and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University, is coming through town and agreed to give a special talk for mathematicians about his research. Title and Abstract: "Lie groups, symmetry breaking, and particle physics"   This talk, given […]

Mathematics faculty and graduate students are invited to attend the PhD Preliminary Examination of Mats Johnson. Advisor:  Dr. David Aristoff Committee:  Dr. Olivier Pinaud, Dr. Margaret Cheney, Dr. Diego Krapf Title:  Arbitrarily accurate, nonparametric coarse-graining with Markov renewal processes and the Mori-Zwanzig formalism Abstract:  Stochastic dynamics are increasingly common in scientific pursuits, though fraught with […]

To join us for dinner after the talks, please RSVP here by Thursday, August 24 for reservation count. Getting to the roots: From X-ray crystallography to factoring polynomials Bernhard Bodmann University of Houston This talk concerns a problem in non-linear signal reconstruction which has a long history, unsolved problems and many modern applications: signal recovery […]

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