University of Oklahoma
Mathematics Department
Graduate Student Seminar
The
Graduate Student Seminar
meets in room PHSC 1105 on Mondays at 5:30 pm. For more information about the seminar, contact
Ore Adekoya
.
Spring 2017 Talks
1/23
Dr. Nikola Petrov
Will an angry dog bite you? An informal introduction to Catastrophe Theory
1/30
Dr.Leonard Rubin
Inverse Sequences in Topology
2/06
James Broda
Support Vector Machines and Fixed Points
2/13
Dr. Roi Docampo
Total Positivity
2/20
Dr.Shihshu Walter Wei
Amazing Calculus where Differential Geometry, Differential Equations, Differential Topology, Geometric Analysis, and Physics are Spoken
2/27
Dr. Alan Roche
Representations and rationality
3/06
Dr. Tomasz Przebinda
Symmetries of Platonic solids
3/27
Dr. Max Forester
Scissors congruence and Hilbert's third problem
4/03
Alok Shukla
Some Interesting Connections!
4/10
Dr. Kimball Martin & Carolyn Mead-Harvey
Research Methods in Mathematics
4/17
Dr. Jonathan Kujawa
Origami Numbers
4/24
Dr. Jing Tao
A natural construction of the Real Numbers
Fall 2016 Talks
8/29
Dr. Krishnan Shankar
Zero Knowledge Proofs
9/12
Dr. Ralf Schmidt
What is Number Theory?
9/19
Sabrina DuFran
OU Career Services visit
9/26
Dr. Christian Remling
Bound States
10/3
Dr. Alexander Grigo
Some interesting facts about numbers and volume
10/10
Dr. John Albert
Some basic analysis inequalities which arise in mathematical physics
10/17
Dr. Milos Savic
Body, Mind, and Soul of Mathematics: Three Investigations into the Creative Process of Proving
10/24
Dr. Jonathan Epstein
The Principle of Least Action
11/7
Joint seminar with OU Math Club
11/14
Jieru Zhu
Complex Reflection Groups
11/21
Benjiman Tharp
Diagram Algebras in Representation theory
11/28
Dr. Lee Kennard
Vector Fields on Spheres
Spring 2016 Talks
1/25
Dr. Milos Savic
Explicitly Valuing Mathematical Creativity in Proof-Based Courses
2/8
Dr. Darren Ong
An Easy Introduction to Self-Adjoint Operators on Hilbert Spaces and Their Tole in Quantum Mechanics.
2/22
Dr. Alexander Grigo
Fundamental Aspects of Probability Theory
3/7
Dr. Christian Remling
Kolmogorov Complexity
3/28
Dr. Jeffrey Meyer
The Farey Sequence: A Tour Through Mathematics
4/4
Dr. Alan Roche
The Burnside ring of a finite group
4/11
Dr. Andy Miller
Grid triangles and the modular group
4/18
Dr. Michael jablonski
4/25
Dr. Noel Brady
5/2
Sabrina DuFran
Visit from Career Services!
Fall 2015 Talks
8/24
Dr. Christian Remling,
Dr. John Albert
Know more about our graduate programs
8/31
Dr. Andy Miller,
Christine Tinsley
What's new in the math center?
9/14
Dr. Krishnan Shankar
How does Bitcoin work? An informal description of the Bitcoin protocol
9/21
Srividya Balaji
Connections between Indian classical music and Mathematics
9/28
Dr. Ying Wang
The art of numerical algorithms
10/5
Dr. Keri Kornelson
Frames and Applications
10/12
Dr. Kimball Martin
The arithmetic of quadratic and cubic forms
10/19
Dr. Angela Pasquale
Introduction to spherical functions
11/02
Dr. Shihshu Walter Wei
The Unity of Mathematics - geometric, analytic and harmonic perspectives and recent research advances
11/09
Dr. Tomasz Przebinda
Random walks, card shuffling and Representation Theory.
11/16
Dr. Jonathan Kujawa
A very brief introduction to categorification
11/30
Dr. Nikola Petrov
Johann Bernoulli’s brachistochrone challenge and the birth of Calculus of Variations
Spring 2015 Talks
1/26
Dr. Alan Roche
Counting Derangements
2/2
Dr. Paul Goodey
Unexpected phenomena in high dimensions - an antidote to linear algebra
3/2
Dr. Jeffrey Meyer
The Story of the Figure-Eight Knot: A journey through hyperbolic geometry, algebraic number theory, and beyond.
3/9
Dr. Rodney Keaton
The Sum of Four Squares
4/13
Dr. Alexander Grigo
Introduction to the work of Martin Hairer
4/20
Dr. Christian Remling
The ten martini problem
4/27
Dr. Jing Tao
Polygons, billiards and dynamics
Fall 2014 Talks
8/18
Dr. Ralf Schmidt
Knowing more about the graduate programs
8/25
Christine Tinsley
Graduate Students and the Math Center
9/8
Dr. Ameya Pitale
Prime Numbers
9/22
Breea Clark
Academic Integrity in the Classroom
10/6
Dr. Milos Savic
Exploration of Undergraduate Students' and Mathematicians' Perspectives on Creativity
10/17
Dr. David E. Rowe
Who was Jakob Steiner and what was his Roman Surface?
10/29
BP, British Multinational Oil and Gas Company
Careers in Integrated Supply and Trading (Joint meeting with Math Club)
11/3
Dr. Kevin Grasse
Regularity of the value function for constrained optimization problems with parameters
11/10
Dr. Tomasz Przebinda
A Few Words On Cryptography, Error Correcting Codes and Wavelets
11/24
Shiyun Tang
Modeling Seasonal Dynamics and Spatial Patterns of Seasonal Influenza at the Global Scale
Spring 2014 Talks
2/10
Chenxu He
Sphere Theorems in Riemannian Geometry
2/17
Tomasz Przebinda
Some mysteries of the unit sphere in \R^3
2/24
Milos Savic
How can we (or should we) assess undergraduate students' creativity?
Fall 2013 Talks
8/26
Dr. Ralf Schmidt, Christine Tinsley, and Dr. Andy Miller
Meet the new graduate director
9/2
No seminar this week!
No seminar this week!
9/9
Jing Tao
Deformation Space of Graphs
9/16
Murad Özaydin
Counting Integer Points in Rational Polyhedra: A Theorem of Popoviciu and Beyond.
9/23
Luis Lomeli
On the Riemann Hypothesis in characteristic p
9/30
Sepideh Stewart
Embodied, Symbolic and Formal Thinking in Linear Algebra
10/7
K.B. Lee
PSL(2,R) geometry and its quotients
10/14
Documentary
The Genuius of Ramanujan
10/21
Sean Crowell
Greenhouse Gas Emissions: an Inverse Problem
10/28
Lucy Lifschitz
Spring 2013 Talks
1/28
Dr. Alexander Grigo
The Strange World of the Infinite
2/11
Dr. Jonathan Kujawa
2D TQFTs
2/18
Bryan Archer
Giving the 3-sphere its due
3/4
Dr. Ameya Pitale
Green-Tao Theorem on Primes in Artithmetic Prgression
3/11
Dr. Paul Goody
Probability and Pi: lies, damn lies and geometric probability
3/25
Dr. Luther White
Modeling Some Mechanical Systems: Spring Fever
4/1
Dr. Sean Paul
introduction to Geometric Invarient Theory
4/8
Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan
Data Mining vs. Data Assimilation
4/15
Jordan Wiebe
Websites & Design
4/22
Dr. Sarah Marsh
What do you want to be when you "grow up"? An exploration of a position at a (small) liberal arts university.
Fall 2012 Talks
8/27
Dr. Ralf Schmidt, Christine Tinsley
Meet the new graduate director
9/10
Dr. Alan Roche
Some Extremal Problems for Finite Sets
9/24
Dr. Leonard Rubin
Dimension Theory in Modern Times
10/8
Houssein El Turkey
Presenting Schur Superalgebras
10/22
Dr. Michael Jablonski
After almost 40 years, is the Alekseevsky Conjecture about to be proven?
11/5
Panel Discussion
How to be a Good Graduate Student / How to get a Job
11/19
Dr. Kim Milton (Physics Dept.)
Casmir Energies of Volumes with Planer Boundries
12/3
Dr. Max Forester
Topology of Flat Surfaces