SIAM Seminar: PNNL Info Session
SAS 4201PNNL will have an info session here on Wednesday (Oct 19) at 4:30-5:30 pm in SAS 4201 and via zoom. Free food will be provided. You will learn about the types…
PNNL will have an info session here on Wednesday (Oct 19) at 4:30-5:30 pm in SAS 4201 and via zoom. Free food will be provided. You will learn about the types…
If you're handed an unshuffled deck of cards, you'll likely attempt to do a so-called perfect shuffle. A perfect shuffle splits a deck of cards into two equal stacks and…
It is time again to prepare for the VTRMC -- The Virginia Tech Regional Mathematics Contest, which is sponsored by the Mathematics Department at Virginia Tech. The contest began in 1979 and has grown to the point where over 100 schools…
Ed Witten's papers in 1988 drew out the connection between Jones Polynomials of Knots and Chern-Simons theory of 3-dimensional TQFT. Following his work, Reshetikhin and Turaev formulated invariants of 3-manifolds…
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a non-invasive imaging modality that requires recovering the initial data of the wave equation from certain measurements of the solution outside the object. In the standard…
A free boundary minimal surface (FBMS) in a given three-dimensional Riemannian manifold is a critical point of the area functional with respect to variations that constrain its boundary to the…
Speaker’s webpage: https://users.wfu.edu/masonsk/ Location: Jointly in person and virtually on Zoom. SAS 2225 for in-person participation. The Zoom link is sent out to the Algebra and Combinatorics mailing list, please…
During the preparation of a foundational chapter on manifolds of mappings for a book on geometric continuum mechanics I found out that the following object behaves surprisingly well as source…
This session's talks: - Ian Bunner: TeX-hacking for creating instructional materials - Ashley Tharp: Scaffolding - Stepan Paul: Double integrals without volume - Nathan Reading: How WebAssign lies to students…
In this talk, we begin by introducing the audience to some fundamentals of differential geometry of surfaces in ℝ3, focusing on curvature and the adequately named first and second fundamental forms. We…
Zombies are popularly presented in media as resulting from an infectious outbreak. Various modeling assumptions for zombification as an infectious disease are discussed. Populations during the outbreak are then modeled…
Advisor Medhin, contact for Zoom access.
A major challenge in the study of dynamical systems is that of model discovery: turning data into reduced order models that are not just predictive, but provide insight into the…
Categorification is a method that has many emanations hence eludes a precise definition. Therefore, we will discuss categorification through several examples of categorifying polynomials arising from different fields of mathematics, including…
In this talk, I will first present a very simple quantitative form of the Young-Fenchel inequality. I will then discuss some applications: a short proof of the Brøndsted-Rockafellar in Hilbert…
During this presentation we will discuss the topics like how to find interesting conferences in your field, how to apply for funding, what you should prepare before the conference, what…
Marginal independence models have been commonly studied in the context of graphical models, where we use a graph to convey the different marginal independence relations between random variables. However, there…
For social networks, nodes encode social entities, such as people, twitter accounts, etc., while edges encode relationship or events between entities. Opinion dynamics model opinion evolution as dynamical processes on…
Let Σ be a closed surface (i.e. a 2-dimensional Riemannian manifold) satisfying the following condition: the first eigenvalue of the elliptic operator -Δ+βK is nonnegative, where K is the Gauss…