Spring 2024
May 3rd, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Dootika Vats (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)
Title: Efficient Multivariate Initial Sequence Estimator in MCMC
April 19, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Bharath Sriperumbudur (Penn State University)
Title: Spectral Regularized Kernel Hypothesis Tests
April 12, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Lixin Shen (Math Department, Syracus University)
Title: Computing Proximity Operators of Scale and Signed Permutation Invariant Functions
April 5, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
Title: The Mathematics of Solitaire
April 5, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
Title: Adding numbers and shuffling cards
March 29, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Michael Pokojovy (Old Dominion University)
Title: Univariate Fast Initial Response Statistical Process Control with Taut Strings
February 9, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Mona Merling (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: Higher scissors congruence invariants for manifolds
Fall 2023
December 1st, 2023
Speaker: Konstantin Tikhomirov (Carnegie Mellon University)
Title: Invertibility of inhomogeneous random matrices
November 17, 2023
Speaker: Alexander Litvak (University of Alberta, Edmonton)
Title: Singularity of random Bernoulli matrices
October 27, 2023
Speaker: Allan Greenleaf (University of Rochester)
Title: Thick Families of Configurations in Thin Sets
October 13, 2023
Speaker: Kateryna Tatarko (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Title: A Steiner formula in the L_p Brunn Minkowski theory
Spring 2023
April 19, 2023
Title: Associativity, Commutativity and Units: a Higher-dimensional ballet
Speaker: Dr. Eugenia Cheng (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
April 14, 2023
Title: Tensor-Norm Approaches to Low-Rank Matrix Recovery by Convex Program
Speaker: Kiryung Lee (Ohio State University)
February 24, 2023
Title: Random Spherical Polytopes
Speaker: Florian Besau (Vienna Technical University)
Fall 2022
December 9, 2022
Title: A general theory of coexistence for ecological communities
Speaker: Dr. Alexandru Henning, Texas A&M University
November 4, 2022
Title: Direct and inverse problems for elastic dislocations in geophysics
Speaker: Anna Mazzucato, Penn State (Host: Erkki Somersalo)
October 10, 2022
Title: What does this pathway do? Identifying control ensembles for decision-making and other
downstream effects
Speaker: Jonathan Rubin, University of Pittsburgh (Host: Peter Thomas)
October 7, 2022
Title: Scaling and Scalability: Accelerating Ill-conditioned Low-rank Estimation via Scaled Gradient Descent
Speaker: Yuejie Chi, Carnegie Melon University (Host: Weihong Guo)
Spring 2022
February 11, 2022
Title: My STEM journey and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Speaker: Amy Prager (Hale Health)
February 18, 2022
Speaker: Anna Zemlyanova (Kansas State University)
Title: Fracture mechanics at nanoscale
March 18, 2022
Speaker: Ning Wei (Purdue University)
Title: Ephaptic coupling, circadian clock and relations to ventricular arrhythmia.
March 25, 2022
Speaker: Ethan Levien (Dartmouth University)
Title: Adaptive evolution of microbial physiology: the role of non-genetic variability
April 1, 2022
Title:
Speaker: Daniel Solow (CWRU)
April 8, 2022
Title: TBA
Speaker: Prasad Tetali (Carnegie Mellon)
April 15, 2022
Title: Isoperimetric Multi-Bubble Problems – Old and New
Speaker: Emanuel Milman (Technion, Israel)
Fall 2021
October 22. 2021
Title: A Scale Invariant Approach for Signal and Image Recovery
Speaker: Yifei Lou, University of Texas at Dallas
November 5, 2021
Title: The Bergman Reproducing Kernel and the Asymptotic Properties of Polynomials Orthogonal over Planar Domains
Speaker: Erwin Mina Diaz, University of Mississippi
November 12, 2021
Title: Revealing the simplicity of high-dimensional objects via pathwise stochastic analysis.
Speaker: Ronen Eldan, Princeton University
November 19, 2021
Title: Accurate Mathematical Tool for the Phase Control of Biological Oscillators
Speaker: Alberto Perez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Fall 2020
November 20, 2020
Title: The Joys of Random Projections
Speaker: Christopher Thaele, Ruhr University Bochum-Germany
Spring 2020
February 21, 2020
Title: Geometric Valuation Theory
Speaker: Monica Ludwig, Vienna Technical University
February 28, 2020
Title: Graph Representation of Gaussian Fields
Speaker: Daniel Sanz-Alonso, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
Fall 2019
September 27, 2019
Title: Invertibility of Inhomogenuous Heavy-Tailed Matrices
Speaker: Galyna Livshyts, Georgia Institute of Technology
October 11, 2019
Title: An Orthogonal Polynomials Approach to Poncelet’s Theorem, Numerical Range, Blaschke Products, and Beyond…
Speaker: Andrei Martinez, Finkelshtein, Professor, Department of Mathematics (Baylor University)
November 8, 2019
Title: SIMPATY: A New Adaptive Tool for Structure Design
Speaker: Simona Perotto (Polytechnic University of Milan)
November 15, 2019
Title: Mathematical Modeling of Bleb-Based Chemotaxis in Dictyostelium Discoideum
Speaker: Emmanuel Asante-Asamani (Hunter College)
November 22, 2019
Title: Algebraic K-Theory for 2-Categories
Speaker: Niles Johnson, Associate Professor (Ohio State University, Newark)
December 6, 2019
Title: Simultaneous Rational Approximation
Speaker: Ulises Fidalgo, Lecturer (CWRU, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Spring 2019
Friday April 19, 2019
Title: A Regularized Stokeslet Approach to the Motion and Behavior of Microscopic Swimmers
Speaker: Alexander Hoover, Assistant Professor, University of Akron
Friday February 15, 2019
Title: Space and Time Scaling Exponents on Fractals and Compact Metric Spaces
Speaker: John Dever, Bowling Green State University
Friday February 8, 2019
Title: Uniform Volume Doubling for Compact Lie Groups
Speaker: Professor Nate Eldredge, University of Northern Colorado
Friday January 25, 2019
Title: Valuations on Convex Sets and Integral Geometry
Speaker: Semyon Alesker, Tel Aviv University
Fall 2018
Friday November 9, 2018 Title: Weyl’s Principle, Valuations, and Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds Speaker: Dimitry Faifman, University of Toronto |
Friday October 5, 2018 Title: Linear Algebra as a Natural Language for Special Relativity and its Paradoxes Speaker: Dr. John Depillis, University of California Riverside, Department of Mathematics |
Friday September 21, 2018 Title: Regularizing a Parameter Estimating Problem Using Monotonicity and Convexity Constraints Speaker: Sam Subbey, Institute of Marine Research and Cornell University |
Friday September 7, 2018 Title: Kirchoff Graphs: Existence, Construction, and Uniformity Speaker: Professor Joseph Dr. Fehribach, WPI Mathematical Sciences |
Spring 2018
Friday February 2, 2018 Title: Robust Electrical Impedance Tomography Imaging with D-Bar Methods Speaker: Dr. Sarah J. Hamilton, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Marquette University, Milwaukee WI. |
Friday February 23, 2018 Title: Mathematical Oncology: Cancer Modelling from the Bottom Up Speaker: Professor Philip Gerlee, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden |
Friday March 2, 2018 Title: Effective Stochastic Dynamics and Self-Consistent Spectra for Large Networks Speaker: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Lindner, Bernstein Center for Computational Neurosciences & Department of Physics, Humboldt University (Berlin) |
Friday March 23, 2018 Title: How Focused Flexibility Maximizes the Thrust Production of Flapping Wings Speaker:Nick Moore, Florida State University, Department of Mathematics |
Friday April 6, 2018 Title: Geometry of Spaces of Polygons and Curves Speaker: Professor Tom Needham |
Friday April 13, 2018 Title: Critical Points of Random Polynomials Speaker: Sean O’Rourke, University of Colorado Boulder |
Wednesday April 18, 2018 *4:00pm Title: Rank Driven Dynamics Speaker: Peter Veerman, Portland State University |
Friday April 27, 2018 Title: Cutoff with Window for the Random to Random Shuffle Speaker: Megan M. Bernstein |
Fall 2017
Friday, October 6, 2017 Title: Foundations of probability – failure of philosophy as a descriptive science Speaker: Krzysztof Burdzy (Professor, University of Washington at Seattle) |
Friday, November 3, 2017 Title: Bayesian Filtering for Periodic, Time-Varying Parameter Estimation Speaker: Andrea Arnold (Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute) |
Friday, November 10, 2017 Title: Flexible Models for Gaussian Processes with Applications to Correlated Data Speaker: Sujit Ghosh (Professor, North Carolina State University) |
Spring 2017
Friday, January 27, 2017 Title: Smoothness of heat kernel measures on abstract Wiener groups Speaker: Tai Melcher (Associate Professor, University of Virginia) |
Friday, February 10, 2017 Title: Subcritical transition and stability in the 3D Navier-Stokes equations at high Reynolds number Speaker: Jacob Bedrossian (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland) |
Friday, February 24, 2017 Title: Integral geometry of the complex projective space Speaker: Andreas Bernig (Professor, Goethe Universität Frankfurt) |
Friday, March 3, 2017 Title: What does the average eigenvalue know about geometry, physics, or the complexity of a graph? Speaker: Evans M. Harrell (Professor Emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology) |
Friday, March 24, 2017 Title: Cell-based modelling of epithelial tissue dynamics Speaker: Alexander Fletcher (Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Sheffield) |
Friday, March 31, 2017 Title: Solution uncertainty quantification for differential equations Speaker: Oksana Chkrebtii (Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University) |
Friday, April 7, 2017 Title: Martingales and a generalization Speaker: Christian Gromoll (Associate Professor, University of Virginia) |
MBI National Mathematical Biology Colloquium Wednesday, April 12, 2017 Title: Cell Physiology – Making Diffusion Your Friend Speaker: Jim Keener (Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, University of Utah) |
Friday, April 14, 2017 Title: Tales of Random Projections Speaker: Kavita Ramanan (Professor, Brown University) |
Institute for the Science of Origins Lecture Monday, May 1, 2017 Miller Room, Rockefeller Hall (Room 221) Title: Molecular Communication and the Origins of Biological Information Processing Speaker: Andrew Eckford (Associate Professor, York University) |
Fall 2016
Friday, September 30, 2016 Title: Universality laws for randomized dimension reduction Speaker: Joel Tropp (Professor, California Institute of Technology) Hosted by Mark Meckes |
Friday, October 14, 2016 Title: ARock: an Asynchronous Parallel Algorithmic Framework Speaker: Ming Yan (Assistant Professor, Michigan State University) Hosted by Weihong Guo |
Friday, October 21, 2016 Title: The World’s Largest Man-Made Disaster: Locating Deepwater Horizon Submerged Oil Spill in Ocean Water Using k-means Clustering Speaker: Tanujit Dey (Associate Research Staff, Cleveland Clinic Foundation) Hosted by Wojbor Woyczynski |
Friday, November 11, 2016 Title: A computational scheme to predict dynamics in Internet of Things systems Speaker: Salvatore Cuomo (Assistant Professor, University of Naples Federico II) Hosted by Daniela Calvetti |
Friday, November 18, 2016 Title: Stochastic topology and inference Speaker: Sayan Mukherjee (Professor, Duke University) Hosted by Elizabeth Meckes |
Friday, December 2, 2016 Title: Understanding the evolution of resistance: a comprehensive and integrated mathematical and experimental research program Speaker: Jacob Scott (Staff Researcher, Cleveland Clinic Foundation) Hosted by David Gurarie |
Spring 2016
Friday, January 26, 2016 3-4 p.m. Title: Non-Asymptotic Approach in Random Matrix Theory Speaker: Mark Rudelson (Professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor) Hosted by Elisabeth Werner |
Friday, February 12, 2016 3-4 p.m. Title: Uncertainty Principle for Discrete Schrödinger Evolution Speaker: Yurii Lyubarskii (Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Hosted by David Gurarie |
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Undergraduate Colloquium 3-4 p.m. Title: Combinatorial Trigonometry (and a method to DIE for) Speaker: Arthur T. Benjamin (Smallwood Family Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College) Hosted by Chris Butler |
Wednesdsay, March 23, 2016 Joint Colloquium/QLSS 4:30 p.m. Title: Better Living Through Control: With Applications to Neural and Cardiac Systems Speaker: Jeff Moehlis (Professor, University of California- Santa Barbara) Hosted by Peter Thomas |
Friday, March 25, 2016 3-4 p.m. Title: Distance Spectra Speaker: Leslie Hogben (Professor of Mathematics, Iowa State University and American Institute of Mathematics) Hosted by Elisabeth Werner |
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 Joint Colloquium/Analysis & Probability Seminar 3-4 p.m. Title: Fractional Pearson Diffusion Speaker: Nikolai N. Leonenko (Professor, Cardiff University) Sponsored by Wojbor Woyczynski |
Friday, April 8, 2016 3-4 p.m. Title: Solving Fredholm Integrals from Incomplete Measurements Speaker: Wojtek Czaja (Professor, University of Maryland, College Park) Sponsored by Julia Dobrosotskaya |
Friday, April 22, 2016 3-4 p.m. Title: Exact MCMC Using Approximations and Bernoulli Factories Speaker: Radu Herbei (Associate Professor of Statistics, The Ohio State University) Hosted by Jenný Brynjarsdóttir |
Fall 2015
Friday, September 18, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: Determining the Maximum Number of Moves Needed to Solve Rubik’s Cube Speaker: Morley Davidson (Associate Professor, Kent State University) |
Friday, October 9, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: Uncertainty Quantification for NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 Mission Speaker: Amy Braverman (Principal Statistician, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology) Hosted by Jenný Brynjarsdóttir |
Friday, October 16, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: Mechanisms of Elastic Enhancement and Hindrance for Finite-Length Undulatory Swimmers in Viscoelastic Fluids Speaker: Robert Guy (Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis) Hosted by Wanda Strychalski |
Friday, October 30, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: Numerical Simulation of Cortical Spreading Depression on Individual Brain Geometries Speaker: Luca Gerardo-Giorda (Research Line Leader, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics) Hosted by Daniela Calvetti |
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: Rigidity of the Chain Rule and Nearly Submultiplicative Functions Speaker: Hermann König (Professor, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) Hosted by Elisabeth Werner |
Joint Colloquium/Mathematical Life Sciences Seminar (MLSS) Monday, November 9, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: Stochastic and deterministic models of biochemical reaction networks Speaker: David Anderson (Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin) Hosted by Peter Thomas |
Friday, November 13, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: Function Reconstruction from Non-uniform Fourier Data Speaker: Guohui Song (Assistant Professor, Clarkson University) Hosted by Weihong Guo |
Friday, November 20, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: Repaying the Debt to Our Masters: Steinhaus and Feller (and, yes, Michelson) Volumes Speaker: Wojbor Woyczynski (Professor, Case Western Reserve University) |
Joint Colloquium/Mathematical Life Sciences Seminar Monday, November 23, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: TBA Speaker: Marie-Therese Wolfram (Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics) Hosted by Alethea Barbaro |
Spring 2015
Friday, January 23, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: Microscale Propulsion in Engineering and Biology Speaker: Henry Fu (University of Nevada at Reno) |
Friday, February 20, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: Umbral Moonshine Speaker: Miranda C. N. Cheng (University of Amsterdam) |
WHIG Seminar- Center for Global Heath and Diseases, CWRU Medical School Friday, March 20, 2015 9-10 a.m. in Biomedical Research Building 433 Title: Needle in the Haystack: Combining Intravital Imaging and Mathematical Modeling to Understand How Vaccine-Induced T Cells Find Malaria-Infected Cells in the Murine Livers Speaker: Vitaly V. Ganusov (University of Tennessee) |
Friday, March 20, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: Using Mathematical Modeling to Understand Kinetics of Lymphocyte Migration in the Whole Organism Speaker: Vitaly V. Ganusov (University of Tennessee) |
Friday, March 27, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: Graphical and Network Models in Bioinformatics Speaker: Sujay Datta (University of Akron) |
Friday, April 3, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: Channel Capacity of Biological Signal Transduction Systems Speaker: Peter Thomas (Case Western Reserve University) |
Friday, April 10, 2015 3-4 p.m. Title: From the Jones Polynomial to Khovanov Homotopy Speaker: Robert Lipschitz (Columbia University) |
Monday, April 13, 2015 3:15-4:15 p.m. Title: Data-Driven Modeling of Living Fluids Speaker: M. Gregory Forest (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
Friday, April 17, 2015 3:00-4:00 p.m. Title: Most Probably Intersecting Families of Subsets Speaker: Gyula Katona (Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary) |
Fall 2014
Friday, Sep. 19, 2014 3-4 p.m. Title: How to Find Funding Opportunities for Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, & Statistics Speaker: Margaret Roudebush, MNO (Case Western Reserve University) |
Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 3-4 p.m. Title: Compressed sensing, RIP, and the null space property Speaker: Xuemei Chen (University of Missouri) |
Special Colloquium Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 3:30 p.m. Title: Stochastic Modeling of Darwinian Evolution in a Chemostat Speaker: Sylvie Méléard (École polytechnique) |
Friday, Oct. 31, 2014 3-4 p.m. Title: The Magnitude of Metric Spaces Speaker: Mark Meckes (Case Western Reserve University) |
Special Colloquium Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014 2:45 p.m. Title: Averaging multivariate functions Speaker: Manfred Denker (Penn State University) |
Friday, Nov. 14, 2014 3:00-3:50 p.m. Title: Dimension-Reduced Modeling of Spatio-Temporal Processes Speaker: Jenný Brynjarsdóttir (Case Western Reserve University) |
Spring 2014
Jan. 17, 2014 3-4 p.m. Title: Bayesian inversion with Gaussian stochastic difference equations Speaker: Lassi Roininen (Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory/University of Oulu, Finland) |
Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 3-4 p.m. Title: Linear Theory for Filtering NonLinear Multiscale Systems with Model Error Speaker: John Harlim (Penn State) |
SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM Monday, February 17, 2014 4:15-5:15 p.m. Title: Bayesian uncertainty quantification in large scale spatial inverse problems Speaker: Anirban Mondal (Texas A & M University) |
SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:15-5:15 p.m. Title: Ensemble Subsampling for Imbalanced Multivariate Two-Sample Tests Speaker: Lisha Chen (Yale University) |
PHD DEFENSE Monday, March 3, 2014 3:30-4:30 p.m. Title: An Invariant Imbedding Approach to Domain Decomposition Speaker: Joseph Volzer (Case Western Reserve University) |
PHD DEFENSE Tuesday, March 4, 2014 4:15 p.m. Title: Divergence and Entropy Inequalities for Log Concave Functions Speaker: Umut Caglar (Case Western Reserve University) |
PHD DEFENSE Friday, March 7, 2014 3:00 p.m. Title: Computational Models of Brain Energy Metabolism at Different Scales Speaker: Yougan Cheng (Case Western Reserve University) |
Monday, March 17, 2014 3:00 p.m. Title: Stochastic Neural Dynamics and Information Processing in the Autistic Brain Speaker: Roberto Fernández Galán |
PHD DEFENSE Thursday, March 20, 2014 4:15 p.m. Title: Sequential Monte Carlo Parameter Estimation for Differential Equations Speaker: Andrea Arnold (Case Western Reserve University) |
Friday, March 21, 2014 4:15 – 5:15 p.m. Title: How To Build the Hydrogel Membrane Oscillator: Mathematical Model of Hydrogel Volume Phase Separation Speaker: Lingxing Yao (Case Western Reserve University) |
PHD DEFENSE Monday, March 24, 2014 3:30 p.m. Title: Piezoelectric Inverse Problems with Resonance Data: A Sequential Monte Carlo Analysis Speaker: Edrissa Gassama (Case Western Reserve University) |
MS THESIS DEFENSE Tuesday, March 25, 2014 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Title: Inverted Binary Edwards Coordinates (Maire Model of an Elliptic Curve) Speaker: Steven Maire (Case Western Reserve University) |
PHD DEFENSE Friday, March 28, 2014 2:30 p.m. Title: Multi-Scale Modeling and Analysis of Options Markets Speaker: Charles Joseph (Case Western Reserve University) |
Friday, March 28, 2014- CANCELLED 4-5 p.m. Title: Stochastic Nucleation and Growth Speaker: Maria D’Orsogna (California State University, Northridge) |
Friday, April 4, 2014 3-4 p.m. Title: TBA Speaker: Eva Marie Strawbridge (James Madison University) |
UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Friday, April 11, 2014 4-5 p.m. Title: A Model for Gang Territoriality Motivated By Graffiti Speaker: Alethea Barbaro (Case Western Reserve University) |
Friday, April 18, 2014 3-4 p.m. Title: The Ginzburg – Landau Functional and Threshold Dynamics on Graphs for Large Data Analysis Speaker: Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA) |
Thursday, April 24, 2014 4-5 p.m. Title: The More, the Merrier: the Blessing of Dimensionality for Learning Large Gaussian Mixtures Speaker: Luis Rademacher (Ohio State University) |
MS THESIS DEFENSE Friday, May 16, 2014 1:00 p.m. Title: An Approach to Graph Isomorphism Using Spanning Trees Generated by Breadth First Search Speaker: Alexey Ilchenko (Case Western Reserve University) |
Fall 2013
Monday, September 16, 2013 (4-5 p.m.) Title: Elliptic hypergeometric integrals Speaker: Eric Rains (California Institute of Technology) |
Friday, September 27, 2013 (10:30-11:20 a.m., Clapp 108) Title: The prime number filtrate or An easy way to find primes (sort of) or The prime distribution revealed (somewhat) Speaker: Frank Ryan (Case Western Reserve University, 1967-1971) |
Friday, October 11, 2013 (3-4 p.m.) Title: Insights into cytoplasmic rheology gained from modeling cellular blebbing Speaker: Wanda Strychalski (Case Western Reserve University) |
Friday, October 24, 2013 (4-5 p.m.) Title: The theory of valuations and what it can do for you! Speaker: Franz Schuster (Vienna University of Technology) |
Friday, November 8, 2013 (3-4 p.m.) Title: Dimension reduction and alleviation of confounding for spatial generalized linear mixed models Speaker: Murali Haran (Penn State) |
Friday, November 22, 2013 (3-4 p.m.) Title: Generalized Linear and Bilinear Mixed-Effects Models for Affiliation Networks Speaker: Kate Calder (The Ohio State University) |
Friday, December 6, 2013 (3-4 p.m.) Title: TBA Speaker: Longhua Zhao (Case Western Reserve University) |