Kirk Main, Let’s Talk IT: HPC Cluster
The High Powered Computing Cluster is a great resource available to all Mathematics staff, faculty, and graduate students. Unfortunately, it is underutilized due to the fairly technical use standards. In…
Events
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AWM Ice Cream Social / Welcome Back
SAS 4104Undergrads Union Grads Meeting
The UUG program provides free mentoring for undergraduates in the math program here at NC State. We will hold several seminars and panels throughout the semester on subjects such as…
Cynthia Vinzant, NC State, Solving Cubics with Paper and Turtles
SAS 2102What is the mathematics behind origami? What can be achieved by just folding paper? We'll talk about the beautiful geometry underlying these questions and more, including a classical algorithm for…
Applying for Graduate Research Fellowships
Speaker: Seth Sullivant This presentation will explain the ins and outs of applying for graduate research fellowships, with special emphasis on the NSF graduate research fellowship.
Corey Jones, Ohio State University, Vanishing of categorical obstructions for permutation orbifolds
Modular tensor categories are rich mathematical structures. They are important in the study of 2D conformal field theory, arising as categories of modules for rational vertex operator algebras. The orbifold construction A-> A^{G} …
Sherry Gong, UCLA, On the Kronheimer-Mrowka concordance invariant
We will talk about Kronheimer and Mrowka’s knot concordance invariant, $s^\sharp$. We compute the invariant for various knots. Our computations reveal some unexpected phenomena, including that $s^\sharp$ differs from Rasmussen's…
AWM Brown Bag Lunch
SAS 3281Tea and Cookies
SAS 4104Differential Equations and Nonlinear Analysis Seminar: Kazufumi Ito, NC State, Optimal control of sate constrained PDEs system with Spars controls
In this talk we discuss a point-wise state constraint problem for a general class of PDEs optimal control problems and sparsity optimization. We use the penalty formulation and derive the necessary…
Mette Olufsen, NC State, How mathematical techniques can be used to better understand cardiovascular dynamics in health and disease
SAS 2102Dating back to the 1600s modeling has been used to study cardiovascular dynamics enabling scientist to answer essential questions. In fact, todays knowledge that the cardiovascular system is circulating was…
Jonathan Campbell, Duke University, The Scissors Congruence Problem and the Algebraic K-theory of the Complex Numbers
In this talk I'll explain a surprising relationship between the objects in the title. Two n-dimensional polytopes, $P$, $Q$ are said to be scissors congruent if one can cut $P$…
Tea and Cookies
SAS 4104Differential Equations and Nonlinear Analysis Seminar: Yulong Lu, Duke University, Understanding and accelerating statistical sampling algorithms: a PDE perspective
A fundamental problem in Bayesian inference and statistical machine learning is to efficiently sample from probability distributions. Standard Markov chain Monte Carlo methods could be prohibitively expensive due to various complexities of…
Ricky Liu, NC State, RSKy Business
SAS 2102The Robinson-Schensted-Knuth (RSK) correspondence is an important combinatorial bijection that associates to any permutation a pair of objects called standard Young tableaux. We will describe this correspondence in detail and…
Pratik Misra, NC State, Bounds on the expected size of the maximum agreement subtree
Rooted binary trees are used in evolutionary biology to represent the evolution of a set of species where the leaves denote the existing species and the internal nodes denote the…
Jean-Pierre Fouque, University of California Santa Barbara, Stochastic Games with Delay: a Toy Model
Park Shops 200Motivated by modeling borrowing and lending between banks, we start by illustrating systemic risk with a toy model of diffusions processes coupled through their drifts. We then show that such…
Meet the Staff
All of the math department staff relevant for graduate students will be here to tell you what they do and answer your pressing questions.