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This week we are very happy to have Luca Battistella (University of Heidelberg). The talk will be in person, 3pm, in Weber 201. Lunch with the speaker (subsidized for grad students) will happen around 12noon - meet in the lobby if interested. Title: Logarithmic and orbifold Gromov-Witten invariants Abstract: Logarithmic Gromov-Witten theory can be thought […]

Scientific software ecosystems and communities: Why we need them and how each of us can help them thrive Software is a cornerstone of long-term collaboration and scientific progress, but software complexity is increasing due to disruptive changes in computer architectures and the challenges of next-generation science. Thus, the high-performance computing (HPC) community has the unique […]

Mathematics faculty and graduate students are invited to attend the PhD Preliminary Examination of Justin O’Connor. Advisor:  Dr. Wolfgang Bangerth Committee:  Dr. Patrick Shipman, Dr. James Liu, Dr. Christopher Weinberger Topology Optimization asks what shape is best to perform some task governed by a partial differential equation (PDE). This has many far-reaching applications related to […]

Let X be a smooth variety or orbifold and let Z be a complete intersection in X defined by a section of a vector bundle E over X. Originally proposed by Givental, quantum Serre duality refers to a precise relationship between the Gromov-Witten invariants of Z and those of the dual vector bundle E^\vee. In […]

The next QSIDE colloquium (https://qsideinstitute.org/events/qside-colloquium/) is Thursday March 10, at 2pm Mountain (=4pm Eastern). The virtual talk will consist of around 40 minutes of presentation by the speaker and 20 minutes of Q+A from both panel and general participants. After the talk, there will be a 30 minute tea time conversation you are welcome to […]

Title:  Robust Optimization-based Solvers and Smooth Reformulations for 3D Contact Contact is ubiquitous and often unavoidable, and yet modeling contacting systems continues to stretch the limits of available computational tools. In part, this is due to the unique hurdles posed by contact problems. Several intricately intertwined physical and geometric factors make contact computations hard, especially […]

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 […]

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:  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 […]

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 […]

Sonia Kovalevsky Women in Math Day is an opportunity for high school students and their teachers to join the CSU Mathematics Department in celebrating women in mathematics! CSU’s inaugural SK Day occurred on March 12, 2020. Our first year had over 150 young women register! We explored topology, cryptography, game theory, and got to hear […]

Mathematics faculty and graduate students are invited to attend the PhD Defense of Scott Ziegler. Date: Thursday, March 31, 2022 Time: 4:00 p.m. Location: Weber 015 You may also attend by Zoom. To Join visit: https://zoom.us/j/93212703154?pwd=cHAwb05QNHVGaWc0OTBOVG1SMG9yUT09 Meeting ID: 932 1270 3154 Passcode: 952733 Advisor:  Dr. Jennifer Mueller Committee:  Dr. Margaret Cheney, Dr. Wolfgang Bangerth, Dr. […]

Mathematics faculty and graduate students are invited to attend the MS defense of Mats Johnson. Date: Friday, April 1, 2022 Time: 2:00 p.m. Location: Weber 015 You may also attend by Zoom: Join Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/92533923388?pwd=OEhBY2lBUVh1WlBUcWh5YlF5eWgydz09 Meeting ID: 925 3392 3388 Passcode: 691259 Advisor: Dr. David Aristoff Committee: Dr. Olivier Pinaud, Dr. Margaret Cheney, Dr. […]