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 […]

Number Theory Lab meets every Tuesday. Contact Jamie Juul to be added to the mailing list.  

Our postdoc seminar series is back in swing, with Evan Camrud leading off with his talk, "A Story of Two Hypo-s: Hypocoercivity and Hypoellipticity for Two Degenerate Stochastic Dynamics."