The annual Tour de Pi(e) will take place on Monday, March 14th, 2022 and includes three stops featuring three premier pie makers in Fort Collins. Join us on this wonky math day as we wind through town for 10ish miles, enjoying the perfect ratio of pie and beverage along the way. Your registration will include one savory […]

Do you have questions about: - Becoming a K-12 math teacher? - The teacher job application? - Interviewing for a teaching position? - What it's like being a first-year teacher? Come hear answers from local, practicing math teachers at Educ8's next meeting! Pizza will be provided :) Educ8 is the new Math Education Club at […]

General itinerary for Thursday, March 24, 2022 7:15 - 9:45 - Hike in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains 10:00 - 10:30 – Introduction to the CSU math Graduate Program – Weber 223 10:30 - 11:00 – Department Welcome – Weber front lawn 11:00 - 12:00 - Greenslopes - Speedslopes Edition – J.V.K. Wagar 133 […]

This week we are happy to have Fenglong You speaking from the University of Oslo. Relative quantum cohomology under birational transformations  I will talk about how relative quantum cohomology, defined by Tseng-You and Fan-Wu-You, varies under birational transformations. Relation with FJRW theory and extremal transitions of absolute Gromov--Witten theory will also be discussed. https://zoom.us/j/7481354483 (Meeting ID: […]

Title:  Resource Allocation Optimization for Space Domain Awareness and Synthetic Aperture Radar Advisor:  Dr. Margaret Cheney Committee:  Dr. Jennifer Mueller, Dr. Patrick Shipman, Dr. Chandra Venkatachalam Resource allocation problems are concerned with assigning resources to tasks in a manner that optimizes the goals of that application. The applications we will consider include Space Domain Awareness […]

Danny Perez, from Los Alamos National Laboratory, will be speaking about long-time atomistic simulations and the mathematical ideas underpinning some approaches to such simulations. Atomic-scale simulations of materials using molecular dynamics (MD) are a cornerstone of computational materials science. These simulations can provide powerful insights into the mechanisms by which materials evolve and respond to external […]

Title:  Molecular Configurations and Persistence: Branched alkanes and additive energies Advisor:  Dr. Henry Adams Committee:  Dr. Jeff Achter, Dr. Patrick Shipman, Dr. Anders Fremstad Energy landscapes are high-dimensional functions that encapsulate how certain molecular properties affect the energy of a molecule. Chemists use disconnectivity graphs to find transition paths, the lowest amount of energy needed […]

General itinerary Tuesday, March 29, 2022 All meetings will be held on Zoom. Time Zone: (GMT-7:00) Mountain Time (US and Canada) 9:00 am – 10:15 am - Virtual Game 10:30 am – 11:00 am - Introduction to the CSU math Graduate Program 11:15 am – 12:00 pm - Greenslopes - Speedslopes Edition 12:15 pm – […]

Title: Determining synchronization of certain classes of primitive groups of affine type Advisor:  Dr. Alexander Hulpke Committee:  Dr. Maria Gillespie, Dr. Henry Adams, Dr. Norman Buchanan The class of permutation groups includes 2-homogeneous groups, synchronizing groups, and primitive groups. Moreover, 2-homogeneous implies synchronizing, and synchronizing in turn implies primitivity. A complete classification of synchronizing groups […]