Graduate Student Seminar
The Graduate Student Seminar normally meets in PHSC 1105 on Mondays at 5:30pm.
At the end of the seminar there is usually free pizza!
For more information about the seminar, contact
Lucas Yong.
Spring 2026
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February 2
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Jeremiah Isu
University of Oklahoma | The Geometry of Qubit States |
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February 9
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Ying Wang & Greg Muller
University of Oklahoma | How to write proposals and how are proposals reviewed? |
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February 16
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Alan Roche
University of Oklahoma | Hilbert's Tenth Problem |
Fall 2025
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September 8
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Meijun Zhu
University of Oklahoma | What is sqrt -15? (Or why complex numbers?) |
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September 15
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Nathan Dalaklis
University of Oklahoma | Variants of the Devil’s Stairs: Okamoto’s functions and their derivatives with respect to the parameter. |
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September 22
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Nathan Dalaklis
University of Oklahoma | So Much Dust: Smirnov’s Cantor Sets and their dimensions. |
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September 29
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Rob M. Merrell
University of Oklahoma | Groups as Geometric Objects |
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October 6
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Juan Manuel Lorenzo Naveiro
University of Oklahoma | Polar Actions and Symmetric Spaces |
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October 20
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Max Forester
University of Oklahoma | The Smith Conjecture |
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October 27
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Tomasz Przebinda
University of Oklahoma | The Character of a Weil Representation |
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November 3
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Kimball Martin & Amanda Schilling
University of Oklahoma | Research Methods in Mathematics |
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November 10
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Murad Ozaydin
University of Oklahoma | Magnitude and Path Homology |
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November 17
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Deborah Moore-Russo
University of Oklahoma | Preparing for a Career in Post-Secondary Education |
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December 1
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Allen Wu
University of Oklahoma | Introduction to Mathematical Fluid Dynamics |
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December 8
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Lucas Smith
University of Oklahoma | An Introduction to Category Theory |
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Spring 2025
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January 27
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Ying Wang, Bayram Saparov, and Max Forester
University of Oklahoma | How to write proposals and how are proposals reviewed? |
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February 3
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Tomasz Przebinda
University of Oklahoma | The Quantum Fourier Transform |
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February 10
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Murad Ozaydin
University of Oklahoma | Leavitt Path Algebras, Categorically Speaking |
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March 31
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Sepideh Stewart
University of Oklahoma | The Nature and Structure of Linear Algebra Proofs |
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April 9
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Stephen Terry
University of Michigan | Math in Economics |
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April 28
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Nirjal Sapkota
University of Oklahoma | Delay Differential Equations POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE! |
Fall 2024
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September 23
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Ameya Pitale
University of Oklahoma | Fermat's Last Theorem |
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September 30
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Alejandro Chávez-Domínguez
University of Oklahoma | A gentle introduction to uncertainty principles |
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October 7
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Michael Jablonski
University of Oklahoma | Models in Riemannian Geometry at the interface with algebra |
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October 21
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Ying Wang
University of Oklahoma | The art of numerical algorithms |
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October 28
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Greg Muller
University of Oklahoma | Separating good cluster algebras from bad ones |
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November 4
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Miroslav Kramar
University of Oklahoma | Detecting shadowing events in turbulent flows |
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November 11
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Boris Apanasov
University of Oklahoma | Dynamics and geometric structures |
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November 18
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Anuradha Ekanayake
University of Oklahoma | Low volume hyperbolic 3-manifolds |
Spring 2024
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January 29
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Michael Jablonski
University of Oklahoma | Manifolds with a lot of symmetry |
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February 12
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Kimball Martin & Amanda Schilling
University of Oklahoma | Research methods in mathematics |
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February 26
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Nicholas Miller
University of Oklahoma | The dynamics of quadratic forms |
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March 4
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Victor Bailey
University of Oklahoma | Dynamical Sampling and Operator Representations of Frames |
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March 11
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Miloš Savić
University of Oklahoma | RUME: I know it’s cool, but what else is it? |
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March 25
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Allen Wu
University of Oklahoma | Bertrand’s Theorem and Periodicity of the Solar System |
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April 15
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Jing Tao
University of Oklahoma | Introduction to polygonal billiards |
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April 22
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Ying Wang and Bayram Saparov
University of Oklahoma | How to write proposals and how are proposals reviewed? |
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April 29
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Gary Moon
University of Oklahoma | The Water Waves Problem - An Overview |
Fall 2023
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August 21
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Nikola Petrov
University of Oklahoma | Calculus of variations – what it is about and how it came to be |
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August 28
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Angela Pasquale
Université de Lorraine | Fourier analysis: the back and forth between concrete and abstract |
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September 11
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Alejandro Chávez-Domínguez
University of Oklahoma | From classical to quantum: building a dictionary |
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September 18
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Jonathan Kujawa
University of Oklahoma | 2D TQFTs |
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September 25
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Greg Muller
University of Oklahoma | Markov numbers and a Conjecture Older than Sliced Bread |
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October 2
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Keri Kornelson
University of Oklahoma | Frames and space-time samples |
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October 9
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
James Broda
Washington and Lee University | The mathematics of fair division |
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October 23
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Miroslav Kramar
University of Oklahoma | Introduction to Neural Networks |
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November 6
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Luke Dechow
University of Oklahoma | 73: Numerology, Number Theory, and Beyond |
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November 13
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Mario Morán Cañón
University of Oklahoma | Arc space from scratch |
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November 20
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Ryan Gueli
University of Oklahoma | A day in the life of an Operations Research Analyst |
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December 4
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Alan Roche
University of Oklahoma | Fun with Finite Flags |
Spring 2023
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January 23
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Jonathan Kujawa
University of Oklahoma | Linear Algebra in Pictures |
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February 6
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Greg Muller
University of Oklahoma | Knots, skein relations, and skein algebras |
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February 13
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Emily Gunawan
University of Oklahoma | Using permutations to model waves, quiver representations, and other mathematical objects |
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February 20
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Max Forester
University of Oklahoma | The topology of lines |
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February 27
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Jing Tao
University of Oklahoma | Bad arithmetics and good approximations of pi |
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March 6
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Deborah Moore-Russo
University of Oklahoma | Preparing for a Career in Academia |
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March 20
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Gary Moon
University of Oklahoma | Elliptic Free Boundary Problems: Phase Transition, Minimal Surfaces and Beyond |
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March 27
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Keri Kornelson
University of Oklahoma | Being a reflective teacher |
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April 3
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Samuel Lin
University of Oklahoma | Geometric structures and the Laplace spectrum |
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April 10
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dustin Gaskins and Ryan Reynolds
University of Oklahoma | What We Wish We Knew |
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April 17
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Justin Malestein
University of Oklahoma | Combinatorics of Rigid Structures |
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April 24
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Peter Patzt
University of Oklahoma | Kissing number and perfect forms |
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May 1
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Joshua Pankau
University of Oklahoma | The Curve Complex |
Fall 2022
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August 29
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Milos Savić
University of Oklahoma | RUME: What is it, and why should you care? |
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September 12
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Michael Jablonski
University of Oklahoma | What is a homogeneous Einstein manifold? |
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September 26
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Wenwen Li
University of Oklahoma | Finding topology in a factory |
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October 10
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Greg Muller
University of Oklahoma | What is... a cluster algebra? |
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October 31
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Hitesh Gakhar
University of Oklahoma | What is topology and how is it used in data science? |
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November 7
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Tomasz Przebinda
University of Oklahoma | A "calculus-free" proof of the Poincaré Lemma |
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November 21
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Philip Bretz, Alejandro Chávez-Domínguez, Max Forester, Emily Gunawan, and Jonathan Kujawa
University of Oklahoma | Panel: Things I wish I knew in grad school |
Fall 2020
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September 28
5:30pm (CDT) Zoom |
Paul Regier & Milos Savic
| Teaching-Oriented Research & Career Panel |
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September 28
5:30pm (CDT) Zoom |
Paul Regier & Milos Savic
| Teaching-Oriented Research & Career Panel |
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October 5
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Brandon Lindley
Daniel H. Wagner Associates | From Academia to Industry |
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October 5
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Brandon Lindley
Daniel H. Wagner Associates | From Academia to Industry |
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October 12
5:30pm (CDT) Zoom |
Wes Honeycutt and Amanda Schilling
University of Oklahoma Libraries | LaTeX vector graphics workshop |
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October 12
5:30pm (CDT) Zoom |
Wes Honeycutt and Amanda Schilling, University of Oklahoma Libraries
University of Oklahoma Libraries | LaTeX vector graphics workshop |
Spring 2020
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February 3
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Miroslav Kramar
| Understanding nonlinear dynamics form data |
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February 10
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Milos Savic
| A conversation with Dr. Savic |
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February 17
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Greg Muller
| Broken lines and theta functions |
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March 23
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Amanda Schilling and Wes Honeycutt
University of Oklahoma Libraries | LaTeX Workshop: creating graphics with TikZ |
Fall 2019
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August 19
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
| Introduction to the Graduate Student Seminar |
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August 26
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Noel Brady and Michael Jablonski
University of Oklahoma | Town Hall Meeting |
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September 9
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
John Stewart, Assistant Director of the Office of Digital Learning
University of Oklahoma | Building a Digital Presence |
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September 16
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Keri Kornelson, Deborah Moore-Russo, and Daniel White
University of Oklahoma | Advice for Academic Job Search: Part 1 - Teaching-Oriented Jobs |
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September 25
3:00pm (CDT) PHSC 424 |
Dr. Sherri Irvin & Dr. Rodney Bates
University of Oklahoma | Resources at OU: What to do when you don’t know what to do? |
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September 30
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Ricardo Mendes, Andrew Swift, and Deborah Moore-Russo
| Advice for an Academic Job Search - Part 2: Research Jobs |
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October 7
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Debra Boles
| Industry Job Search Resources: Part 1 - OU's HandShake platform |
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October 21
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Debra Boles
| Industry Job Search Resources: Part 1 - LinkedIn |
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October 28
5:30pm (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Michael Ashby (Chemistry) and Liz Karr (Microbiology)
| How to build effective academic relationships |
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November 4
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Boris Apanasov
| Geometric structures on manifolds, rigidity/flexibility and Teichmuller spaces |
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November 11
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Michael Jablonski
| Homogeneous spaces and distinguished geometries |
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November 18
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Murad Ozaydin
| Scissors Congruence |
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December 2
5:30pm (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Ashwini Bhat
| Borel ideals and a generalization |
Spring 2019
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January 28
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Ersin Suer
Galatasaray University | An invitation to the class number problem |
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February 4
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Ralf Schmidt
University of Oklahoma | An example for modularity |
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February 25
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Justin Malestein
University of Oklahoma | The classification of mapping classes of surfaces |
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March 4
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Pengfei Zhang
University of Oklahoma | Dynamical billiards |
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March 11
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Jonathan Epstein
University of Oklahoma | Ancient Astronomy and Modern Mathematics |
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April 1
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Nikola Petrov
University of Oklahoma | The curious early history of Calculus of Variations |
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April 8
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Jonathan Kujawa
University of Oklahoma | Topology=Algebra, sometimes. |
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April 15
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Keri Kornelson
University of Oklahoma | Phase and norm retrieval in finite-dimensional space. |
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April 29
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Sepideh Stewart, Nicholas Davidson, Jordan Wiebe, Dania Sheaib, Benjamin Stucky.
University of Oklahoma | A panel on job search and professional development. |
Fall 2018
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August 27
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Michael Jablonski
University of Oklahoma | Welcome back |
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September 10
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Amanda Schilling and Sarah Pugachev
University of Oklahoma | How the University Libraries can help you be a successful graduate student, TA, and researcher. |
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September 17
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Lucy Lifschitz
University of Oklahoma | Apollonian circle packings |
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September 24
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Murad Özaydin
University of Oklahoma | Complexity of Classification |
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October 1
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Alexander Grigo
University of Oklahoma | Some aspects of non-smooth change of coordinates. |
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October 8
5:30 PM (CDT) Nielsen Hall 270 |
Chi-Wang Shu
Brown University | Mathematics in Scientific Computing |
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October 15
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Mahesh Sunkula, Jordan Wiebe, Elizabeth Pacheco, Manami Roy
University of Oklahoma | A panel discussion on math graduate student life at OU |
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October 29
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Allen Wu
University of Oklahoma | Euler equations and stellar structure |
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November 5
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Kimball Martin
University of Oklahoma | Galois, meet number theory. Hello! |
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November 12
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Noel Brady and Michael Jablonski
University of Oklahoma | Meeting with Chair and Graduate Director |
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November 19
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Shevaun Young and James Miller
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), University of Oklahoma | Internship and job opportunities for the graduate students at ISS |
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December 3
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Greg Muller
University of Oklahoma | Linear recurrence relations with periodic solutions |
Spring 2018
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January 22
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Fizban Yang
University of Oklahoma | Arnold's cat map |
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January 29
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Deborah Moore-Russo
University of Oklahoma | Preparing for a Career in Academia |
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February 5
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Sean Crowell
University of Oklahoma | Applied Mathematics Research Opportunities in Satellite Remote Sensing and Carbon Cycle Dynamics |
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February 12
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Michael Jablonski
University of Oklahoma | Getting to know the new grad director |
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February 19
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Alan Roche
University of Oklahoma | Levels of fields. |
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February 26
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Jonathan Cohen
University of Oklahoma | The Hasse-Minkowski Theorem and the Local-Global Principle |
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March 5
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Christian Remling
University of Oklahoma | Carleman’s method |
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March 12
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Tomasz Przebinda
University of Oklahoma | The Lorenz group in Einstein's Special Relativity |
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March 26
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Jing Tao
University of Oklahoma | Isoperimetric inequality in the plane |
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April 2
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Milos Savic
University of Oklahoma | How to empower students through teaching for mathematical creativity: Past, present, and future research |
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April 9
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Ying Wang
University of Oklahoma | An Ad Hoc Image Annotation Engine: An Application of machine learning |
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April 16
5:30 PM (CDT) Dick Bell Courtroom, College of Law, 300 Timberdell Road |
Dr. Moon Duchin
Tufts University | Mathematical Interventions in Gerrymandering |
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April 23
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Nikola Petrov
University of Oklahoma | Complex analysis and two-dimensional hydrodynamics |
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April 30
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Angela Pasquale
Université de Lorraine | A short introduction to causal symmetric spaces |
Fall 2017
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September 8
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Michael Jablonski
| Homogeneous spaces in geometry |
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September 11
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Michael Jablonski
University of Oklahoma | Homogeneous spaces in geometry. |
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September 18
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Lucy Lifschitz
University of Oklahoma | Groups that do and groups that do not act on the real line. |
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October 2
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Keri Kornelson
University of Oklahoma | Frames and “Dynamical” Sampling |
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October 16
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Murad Ozaydin
University of Oklahoma | Evolution of the Idea of a Galois Connection |
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October 23
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Ben Stucky
University of Oklahoma | Attacking (and being rebuffed by) the Hadwiger-Nelson problem |
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November 6
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Ralf Schmidt
University of Oklahoma | The Paramodular Conjecture. |
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November 13
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Katy Powers
University of Oklahoma | Outreach for the Behavior Intervention Presentation |
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November 20
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Jonathan Merlini
University of Oklahoma | Elliptic Curve Cryptography |
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November 27
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Lee Kennard
University of Oklahoma | Displaying Euler’s formula |
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December 4
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Ravi Shankar
University of Oklahoma | An introduction to random walks |
Spring 2017
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January 23
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Nikola Petrov
University of Oklahoma | Will an angry dog bite you? An informal introduction to Catastrophe Theory |
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January 30
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Leonard Rubin
University of Oklahoma | Inverse Sequences in Topology |
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February 6
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
James Broda
University of Oklahoma | Support Vector Machines and Fixed Points |
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February 13
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Roi Docampo
University of Oklahoma | Total Positivity |
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February 20
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 108 |
Shihshu Walter Wei
University of Oklahoma | Amazing Calculus where Differential Geometry, Differential Equations, Differential Topology, Geometric Analysis, and Physics are Spoken |
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February 27
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Alan Roche
University of Oklahoma | Representations and rationality. |
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March 6
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Tomasz Przebinda
University of Oklahoma | Symmetries of Platonic solids |
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March 27
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Max Forester
University of Oklahoma | Scissors congruence and Hilbert's third problem |
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April 3
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Alok Shukla
University of Oklahoma | Some Interesting Connections! |
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April 10
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr Kimball Martin & Carolyn Mead-Harvey
University of Oklahoma | Research Methods in Mathematics |
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April 17
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr . Jonathan Kujawa
University of Oklahoma | Origami Numbers |
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April 24
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr Jing Tao
University of Oklahoma | A natural construction of the real numbers |
Fall 2016
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August 29
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Krishnan Shankar, University of Oklahoma
| "Zero Knowledge Proofs" |
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September 12
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Ralf Schmidt
University of Oklahoma | What is Number Theory ? |
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September 19
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Sabrina DuFran
University of Oklahoma | Visit from Career Services |
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September 26
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr Christian Remling
University of Oklahoma | Bound States |
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October 3
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr Alexander Grigo
University of Oklahoma | Some surprising facts about numbers and volume. |
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October 10
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr John Albert
University of Oklahoma | Some basic analysis inequalities which arise in mathematical physics. |
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October 17
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr Milos Savic
University of Oklahoma | Body, Mind, and Soul of Mathematics: Three Investigations into the Creative Process of Proving |
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October 24
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr Jonathan Epstein
University of Oklahoma | The Principle of Least Action |
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November 7
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Sean Crowell, National Weather Center
University of Oklahoma | Opportunities in Applied Mathematics |
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November 14
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Jieru Zhu
University of Oklahoma | Complex Reflection Groups |
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November 21
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Benjiman Tharp
University of Oklahoma | Diagram algebras in representation theory |
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November 28
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr Lee Kennard
University of Oklahoma | Vector fields on spheres |
Spring 2016
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January 25
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Milos Savic
University of Oklahoma | Explicitly Valuing Mathematical Creativity in Proof-Based Courses |
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February 8
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Darren Ong
University of Oklahoma | An easy introduction to self-adjoint operators on Hilbert spaces and their role in quantum mechanics. |
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February 22
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Alexander Grigo
University of Oklahoma | Fundamental Aspects of Probability Theory |
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March 7
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Christian Remling
University of Oklahoma | Kolmogorov complexity |
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March 28
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Jeffrey Meyer
University of Oklahoma | The Farey Sequence: A Tour Through Mathematics |
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April 4
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Alan Roche
University of Oklahoma | The Burnside ring of a finite group. |
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April 11
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Andy Miller
University of Oklahoma | Grid triangles and the modular group |
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April 18
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Michael Jablonski
University of Oklahoma | The strong interplay between the geometry and algebra of Lie groups. |
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April 25
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Noel Brady
University of Oklahoma | An introduction to hyperbolic groups |
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May 2
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Sabrina DuFran, Dr. Jonathan Kujawa
University of Oklahoma | Mo' Money Mo' Problems: A Crash Course + A Visit from Career Services! |
Fall 2015
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August 24
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Christian Remling, Dr. John Albert
University of Oklahoma | Know more about our graduate programs |
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August 31
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Andy Miller, Christine Tinsley
University of Oklahoma | What's new in the math center? |
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August 31
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Andy Miller, Christine Tinsley
University of Oklahoma | What's new in the math center? |
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September 14
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Krishnan Shankar
University of Oklahoma | How does Bitcoin work? An informal description of the Bitcoin protocol |
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September 21
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Srividya Balaji
University of Oklahoma | Connections between Indian Classical Music and Mathematics |
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September 28
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Ying Wang
University of Oklahoma | The art of numerical algorithms |
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October 5
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Keri Kornelson
University of Oklahoma | Frames and Applications |
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October 12
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Kimball Martin
University of Oklahoma | The arithmetic of quadratic and cubic forms |
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October 19
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Angela Pasquale
Université de Lorraine - Metz | Introduction to the spherical functions |
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November 2
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Shihshu Walter Wei
University of Oklahoma | The Unity of Mathematics - geometric, analytic and harmonic perspectives and recent research advances |
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November 9
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Tomasz Przebinda
University of Oklahoma | Random walks, card shuffling and Representation Theory. |
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November 16
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Jonathan Kujawa
University of Oklahoma | A very brief introduction to categorification |
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November 30
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Nikola Petrov
University of Oklahoma | Johann Bernoulli’s brachistochrone challenge and the birth of Calculus of Variations |
Spring 2015
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January 26
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Alan Roche
| Counting Derangements |
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February 2
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Paul Goodey
| Unexpected phenomena in high dimensions - an antidote to linear algebra |
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February 4
5:15 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Rodney Keaton
| Congruent Numbers, Elliptic Curves, and a Million Dollar Problem |
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February 23
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Jeffrey Meyer
University of Oklahoma | The Story of the Figure-Eight Knot: A journey through hyperbolic geometry, algebraic number theory, and beyond. |
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March 2
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Jeffrey Meyer
University of Oklahoma | The Story of the Figure-Eight Knot: A journey through hyperbolic geometry, algebraic number theory, and beyond. |
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March 2
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Jeffrey Meyer
University of Oklahoma | The Story of the Figure-Eight Knot: A journey through hyperbolic geometry, algebraic number theory, and beyond. |
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March 23
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Rodney Keaton
University of Oklahoma | Sums of Four Squares |
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April 15
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Alexander Grigo
University of Oklahoma | Introduction to the work of Martin Hairer |
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April 20
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Christian Remling
University of Oklahoma | The ten martini problem |
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April 27
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Jing Tao
University of Oklahoma | Polygons, billiards and dynamics |
Fall 2014
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August 18
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Ralf Schmidt
University of Oklahoma | Information about our Graduate Program |
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August 25
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Christine Tinsley
| Graduate Students and the Math Center |
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September 8
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Ameya Pitale
| Prime numbers |
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September 22
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Breea D. Clark (Associate Director of Academic Integrity Programs)
| Academic Integrity in the Classroom |
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September 22
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Breea D. Clark (Associate Director of Academic Integrity Programs)
| Academic Integrity in the Classroom |
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October 6
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Milos Savic
| EXPLORATION OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ AND MATHEMATICIANS’ PERSPECTIVES ON CREATIVITY |
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October 17
4 PM (CDT) PHSC 201 |
Dr. David E. Rowe
| Who was Jakob Steiner and what was his Roman Surface? |
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November 3
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Kevin Grasse
| Regularity of the value function for constrained optimization problems with parameters |
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November 10
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Tomasz Przebinda
| A FEW WORDS ON CRYPTOGRAPHY, ERROR CORRECTING CODES AND WAVELETS |
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November 24
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Shiyun Tang
| Modeling Seasonal Dynamics and Spatial Patterns of Seasonal Influenza at the Global Scale |
Spring 2014
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January 27
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Keri Kornelson
University of Oklahoma | Doing More with Less: Dimension reduction in computer vision |
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February 3
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Documentary Night
| N is a Number: A portrait of Paul Erdos |
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February 10
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Chenxu He
University of Oklahoma | Sphere Theorems in Riemannian Geometry |
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February 17
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Tomasz Przebinda
University of Oklahoma | Some Mysteries Of The Unit Sphere In R^3 |
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February 24
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Milos Savic
University of Oklahoma | How can we (or should we) assess undergraduate students' creativity? |
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March 12
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Michael Anderson
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | A Bayesian Prediction Model of Severe Intra-ventricular Hemorrhage in Very Pre-Term Infants |
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March 24
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Noel Brady
University of Oklahoma | Right-angled Artin groups |
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March 31
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Kimball Martin
University of Oklahoma | Facts and Fantasies: from Goldbach to Twin Primes |
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April 7
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Amelia Thomas and MSCI Group
MSCI | |
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April 14
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Ying Wang
University of Oklahoma | An introduction to a Fall 2014 Special topic course : Numerical Methods for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws |
Fall 2013
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August 26
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Ralf Schmidt
University of Oklahoma | Some information about our graduate program |
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September 9
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Jing Tao
University of Oklahoma | Deformation space of graphs |
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September 16
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Murad Özaydin
University of Oklahoma | Counting Integer Points in Rational Polyhedra: A Theorem of Popoviciu and Beyond. |
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September 23
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Luis Lomeli
| On the Riemann Hypothesis in characteristic p |
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September 30
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Sepideh Stewart
University of Oklahoma | Embodied, Symbolic and Formal Thinking in Linear Algebra |
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October 7
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
K.B. Lee
University of Oklahoma | PSL(2,R) Geometry and Its Quotients |
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October 14
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
| The Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (Documentary) |
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October 21
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Sean Crowell
University of Oklahoma | Greenhouse Gas Emissions: an Inverse Problem |
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October 28
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Lucy Lifschitz
University of Oklahoma | Introduction to Arithmetic groups and their applications |
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November 4
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Michael Jablonski
University of Oklahoma | TBA |
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November 18
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Susanna Dann
University of Missouri | Beautiful observations about the cube and Euclidean ball in high dimensions |
Spring 2013
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January 28
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Alexander Grigo
University of Oklahoma | The Strange World of the Infinite |
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February 11
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Jon Kujawa
University of Oklahoma | 2D TQFTs |
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February 18
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Bryan Archer
University of Oklahoma | Giving the 3-Sphere its due |
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February 25
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Ameya Pitale
University of Oklahoma | Green-Tao Theorem on Primes in Arithmetic Progression |
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March 4
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Ameya Pitale
University of Oklahoma | Green-Tao Theorem on Primes in Arithmetic Progression |
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March 11
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Paul Goodey
University of Oklahoma | Probability and Pi: lies, damn lies and geometric probability. |
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March 25
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Luther White
University of Oklahoma | Modeling Some Mechanical Systems: Spring Fever |
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April 1
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Sean Paul
University of Wisconsin-Madison | Introduction to Geometric Invariant Theory |
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April 8
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan
University of Oklahoma | Data Mining vs. Data Assimilation |
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April 15
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Jordan Wiebe
University of Oklahoma | Websites & Design |
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April 22
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Sarah Marsh
Oklahoma Baptist University | What do you want to be when you "grow up"? An exploration of a position at a (small) liberal arts university. |
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April 29
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Houssein El Turkey
University of Oklahoma | Algebras |
Fall 2012
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August 27
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr Ralf Schmidt, Christine Tinsley
University of Oklahoma | Meet the New Graduate Director |
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September 10
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Alan Roche
University of Oklahoma | Some Extremal Problems for Finite Sets |
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September 24
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Leonard R. Rubin
| Dimension Theory in Modern Times |
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October 8
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Houssein El Turkey
University of Oklahoma | Presenting Schur Speralgebras |
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October 22
5:30 PM (CDT) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Michael R. Jablonski
University of Oklahoma | After almost 40 years, is the Alekseevsky Conjecture about to be proven? |
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November 5
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Panel: Doctors Kujawa, Schmidt, Tao, and guest speaker Dr. Pasquale
University of Oklahoma and Universite de Lorraine - Metz, France | How to be a Good Graduate Student / How to get a Job |
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November 13
5:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Recruiters from Power Costs, Inc
| Career presentation |
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November 14
5:00 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Recruiters from Power Costs, Inc
| Recruiters from Power Costs, Inc |
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November 19
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Kim Milton
University of Oklahoma | Casimir Energies of Volumes with Planar Boundaries |
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December 3
5:30 PM (CST) PHSC 1105 |
Dr. Max Forester
University of Oklahoma | Topology of Flat Surfaces |