Title: Packing lines, minimizing energy, and applications to communications Speaker: Josiah Park, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University Abstract: Structured geometric point sets play important roles in coding theory, mathematical biology, computational chemistry, wireless communications, compressed sensing, and 'big data' applications due to their often desirable statistical properties for measurement and transmission. Best packings of […]
Title: Shape Optimization: Old and New Speaker: Edouard Oudet, LJK, Université Grenoble Alpes Abstract: We first introduce what is shape Optimization and the most classical problems of the field like the isoperimetric problem, the study of minimal surfaces, the characterization of irrigation networks, etc. In a second step we focus on a more recent question related […]
Title: Decision Problems in Low-Dimensional Topology Speaker: Kate Petersen, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, CSU, University of Minnesota Duluth Abstract: Due to Perelman’s proof of the Geometrization conjecture every closed 3-manifold can […]
Speaker: Jack Wesley, Department of Mathematics, UC Davis
Title: No-arbitrage Pricing in a Market for Position on a Multilane Freeway Speaker: Henry Schellhorn, Department of Mathematics, Claremont Graduate University Abstract: We introduce a trading mechanism allowing cars to […]
Title: Building trustworthy data-driven epidemiological models: Application to the COVID-19 outbreak in New York City Speaker: Joan Ponce, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State University Abstract: Epidemiological models can provide the dynamic evolution of a pandemic but they are based on many assumptions and parameters that have to be adjusted over the time the pandemic lasts. […]
Title: The mathematics of neural networks: recent advances, thoughts, and the path forward Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Belkin, Department of Mathematics, University of California San Diego Abstract: The recent remarkable practical […]
Title: Quantum chromatic numbers of products of quantum graphs Speaker: Rolando De Santiago, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University Abstract: Quantum graphs are an operator space generalization of classical graphs that […]
Title: Mathematical model for HIV-1 infection with stem cell and immune-therapy Speaker: Noufe Aljahdaly, Department of Mathematics, King Abdulaziz University / CGU Abstract: The AIDS is a chronic disease. Its […]
Title: Watch your step: Modeling on Time Scales Speaker: Raegan Higgins, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Texas Tech University Abstract: Generally, differential and difference equations are used in the mathematical […]
Title: Sometimes Pi Equals 4 Speaker: Cornelia van Cott, Department of Mathematics, University of San Francisco Abstract: Most of your mathematical life, you've known that pi is a number somewhere between […]
Title: How Many Cards Can Avoid a SET? Speaker: Mohamed Omar, Department of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College Abstract: SET is a popular real-time card game where players search for special triples of cards […]
