Mathematics Colloquia

Winter 2025

The presentations are in person and/or via Zoom. Please see flyer for most accurate information.

Please email the organizer if you wish to be added to the colloquium mailing list and receive invitations for future talks.

Date	Location	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
01/22/25	CB 2048	Federico Ardila		San Francisco State University
02/03/25	CB 2048	Rebecca Stockbridge		Target

Fall 2024

The presentations are in person and/or via Zoom. Please see flyer for most accurate information.

Organizer: Tian An Wong

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Date	Location	Speaker	Affiliation
09/09/24	CB 2048	Bill Mance	Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
09/23/24	Zoom	Kirkamol Muandet	CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security
10/07/24	CB 2048	Michael Boehnke	University of Michigan School of Public Health
10/21/24	CB 2048	Alperen ��̈��	University of Texas at San Antonio
10/31/24	CB 2048	Ilya Rahkovsky	Pinpoint Predictive
11/18/24	CB 2048	Jialiang Zou	University of Michigan
12/4/24	CB 2048	Amina Ebrahim	United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research

Past semesters

Winter 2024

The presentations are in person and/or via Zoom. Please see flyer for most accurate information.

Organizer: Tian An Wong

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation
04/29/2024	Kirkamol Muandet	CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
03/25/2024	Pam Miao Gu	University of Michigan
03/11/2024	Michael Dabkowski	��-Dearborn

Fall 2023

Wednesdays, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm in person and/or via Zoom. Times may vary. Please see flyer for most accurate information.

Organizer: Tian An Wong

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation
10/03/2023	Bill Mance	Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
10/13/2023	Niklas Hellmer	Dioscuri Centre in Topological Data Analysis, Instytut Matematyczny, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)
11/15/2023	Joe Starr	University of Iowa

Winter 2023

Wednesdays, 2:00 pm -3:00 pm via Zoom.

*Times may vary. Please see flyer for most accurate information.

Organizer: Tian An Wong

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Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
4/05/2023	Jorge Mello		Oakland University
3/22/2023	Alireza Mohammadi		University of Michigan - Dearborn

Fall 2022

Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15pm via Zoom

*Times may vary. Please see flyer for most accurate information.

Organizer: Tian An Wong

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Date	Speaker	Affiliation
11/30/2022	Brandon Hutchison	University of Michigan - Dearborn
11/16/2022	Ben Hansen	��-Ann Arbor, Department of Statistics
10/26/2022	Emilee Gootee	University of Michigan - Dearborn
10/05/2022	Timothy Batt	University of Michigan - Dearborn

Winter 2022

Organizer: Tian An Wong

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Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
02/02/2022	Yen Ting Lin		Los Alamos National Laboratory
02/09/2022	Thomas Weighill		UNC Greensboro
03/09/2022	Mark Fredrickson		��-Ann Arbor
03/16/2022	Michelle Feng		Caltech
03/30/2022	Ismar Volic		Wellesley College
04/20/2022	Joshua Postel	A Farewell to the Bias-Variance Tradeoff? An Overview of the Theory of Overparameterized Machine Learning	Ford Motor Company

Fall 2020

Organizer: Hyejin Kim

Wednesdays, 3:00-4:00pm via Zoom

*Times may vary. Please see flyer for most accurate information.

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
11/6/2020	Tian An Wong	""	University of Michigan-Dearborn

Fall 2019

Organizer: Hyejin Kim

Wednesdays, 3:15-4:15pm in CB 2070*

*Times may vary. Please see flyer for most accurate information.

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
9/25/19	Michael Perlmutter	The scattering transform, a wavelet-based neural network	Michigan State University
10/09/19	Matthew D. Johnston	The Building Blocks of Life : Modeling Biochemical Reaction Systems	Lawrence Technological University
10/23/19	Mohit Bansil	Spectral Theory of Kohn Laplacians on Spheres	Michigan State University
11/6/19	Bruce Pell	Ecological Stoichiometry Meets Lotka–Volterra: A Data Based Mathematical Model	Lawrence Technological University

Fall 2018

Organizer: Hyejin Kim

Wednesdays, 3:30-4:30pm in CB 2070*

*Times may vary. Please see flyer for most accurate information.

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation	Flyer
4/17/19	Michael Bolt	Complex exponents and Escher's Print Gallery	Calvin College	Bolt, Michael 4/17/19
4/10/19	Jun Kitagawa	An optimal transport problem with storage fees	Michigan State University	Kitagawa, Jun 4/10/19
4/2/19	Hyokyoung Hong	Feature selection with survival outcome data	Michigan State University	Hong, Hyokyoung 4/2/19
3/29/19	Carl Lee	An overview of methods for generating statistical distributions in the recent decades	Central Michigan University	Lee, Carl 3/29/19
3/25/19	Florian Bossmann	Seismic imaging, shifted low rank apporximation and irregular grids	Harbin Institute of Technology	Bossmann, Florian 3/25/19
3/22/19	Nada Sissouno	Real world ptychography: A direct solver	Technical University of Munich & Helmholtz Center Munich	Sissouno, Nada 3/22/19
3/20/19	Amy Shell-Gellasch	Mathematical Devices at the Smithsonian: An Insiders View	Eastern Michigan University	Shell-Gellasch, Amy 3/20/19
11/28/18	Tamas Horvath	Time-dependent problems on evolving domains-Space-Time Finite Element Methods	Oakland University	Horvath, Tamas 11/28/18
11/14/18	Theren Williams	An Alternative to Classical Survival Analysis	University of Michigan-Dearborn	Williams, Theren 11/14/18
11/7/18	Theresa Scarnati	High Order Regularization Techniques for Synthetic Aperture Radar Applications	Air Force Research Laboratory	Scarnati, Theresa 11/7/18
9/26/18	Steve Kahn	Calculus and MLK	Wayne State University	Kahn, Steve 9/26/18

Fall 2017

Organizer: Alan Wiggins

Wednesdays, 3:00-4:00pm in CB 2048*

*Times may vary. Please see flyer for most accurate information

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
9/13/17	Rayan Saab	Near-Optimal Quantization and Encoding Under Various Measurement Models	UCSD
10/11/17	Craig Jackson	Braids, Biology, and the Binomial Theorem	Ohio Wesleyen
10/18/17	��-Dearborn REU Participants		Various

Winter 2017

Organizer: Alan Wiggins

Wednesdays, 3:00-4:00pm in CB 2062*

*Times may vary. Please see flyer for most accurate information

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
4/4/17 3/27/17 3/24/17 3/15/17	Zeytuncu, Yunus Benjamin, Art Hayes, Ben Schwab, Russell	"Rearrangements of Divergent Fourier Series: "Mathemagician" "Metric Approximations of Wreath Products" "Coin Flipping and Random Walks to Understand Partial Differential Equations"	University of Michigan- Dearborn Harvey Mudd College Vanderbilt University Michigan State University
3/8/17	Hubbard, Diana	"Mutants: Enemies of the Knot Invaiant"	University of Michigan
1/18/17	Meyer, Elaine	"Deep Blue Data"	University of Michigan-Dearborn
1/11/17	Flapan, Erica	"Intrinsic Properties of Graphs Embedded in R^3"	Pomona College

Fall 2016

Organizer: Alan Wiggins

Wednesdays, 3:00-4:00pm in CB 2070*
*Times may vary please see flyer for most accurate information

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation

12/8/16	Postel, Josh	"Visualizing Electricity Data"	University of Michigan-Dearborn
11/21/16	Vaidya, Naveen	“Modeling HIV Dynamics Within a Host”	University of Missouri-Kansas City
11/16/16	Clifford, John	"Numerical Range of Composition Operators"	University of Michigan-Dearborn
11/9/16	Postel, Josh	"Statistical Exploration of Leukemia Mortality Data"	University of Michigan-Dearborn
10/31/16	Sims, John	"SquareRoots A Quilted Manifesto"	JohnSimsProjects
10/19/16	Harrington, Phil	“The Missing Riemann Mapping Theorem in Several Complex Variables”	University of Arkansas
9/28/16	Wiggins, Alan	“Calculus with Infinitesimals"	University of Michigan-Dearborn
9/21/16	Wiggins, Alan	"Hyperreal Numbers."	University of Michigan-Dearborn

Winter 2016

Organizer: Hyejin Kim

Wednesdays, 3:00-4:00pm in CB 2070*
*Times may vary please see flyer for most accurate information

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation

5/16/16	Mir, Nordine	"On the analytic regularity of CR maps of positive codimension"	Texas A&M University-Qatar
4/14/16	Kung, David	"Harmonious Equations: A Mathematical Exploration of Music"	St. Mary's College of Maryland
4/13/16	Hristova, Yulia	TBA	University of Michigan-Dearborn
4/6/16	Radosevich, Mark	“Twists and Turns: An Introduction to the Mapping Class Group”	University of Michigan-Dearborn
3/31/16	Remski, Joan	" Efficiency and Accuracy in Moving Mesh Systems with Large Gradients"	University of Michigan-Dearborn
3/24/16	Kumar, Rohini	“Small–time asymptotics for fast mean–reverting stochastic volatility models”	Wayne State University
3/17/16	Dabkowski, Michael	“On the Asymptotic Stability of a Diffusive Carr-Penrose Equation”	Lawrence Technological University
3/10/16	Remski, Joan	" Efficiency and Accuracy in Moving Mesh Systems with Large Gradients"	University of Michigan-Dearborn

Fall 2015

Organizer: Alan Wiggins

Wednesdays, 3:00-4:00pm in CB 2070*
*Times may vary please see flyer for most accurate information

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
11/11/15	Zeytuncu, Yunus	"Analysis on the Intersection of Pseudoconvex Domains"	University of Michigan-Dearborn
10/28/15	Wiggins, Alan	"Problems That Perturb"	University of Michigan-Dearborn
10/14/15	Rubenstein, Rheta	"Professional Readiness Exam' for Michigan Teachers: Information and Concerns"	University of Michigan-Dearborn
9/30/15	Wiggins, Alan	"Quantum Groups"	University of Michigan-Dearborn

Winter 2015

Organizer: Alan Wiggins

Wednesdays, 3:00-4:00pm in CB 2070*
*Times may vary please see flyer for most accurate information

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
4/15/15	Sendova, Tsvetanka	Projective Geometry and the Numerical Range of a Matrix	Michigan State University
4/08/15	Viswanathan, Aditya	Block-Circulant Constructions for Robust and Efficient Phase Retrieval	Michigan State University
4/02/15	Yildiz, Hakan	Decision Models for Logistics Management	Michigan State University
3/19/15	Mance, Bill	Different flavors of normal numbers	University of North Texas
3/18/15	Yildirim, Handan	On Slant Geometry	Istanbul University & Michigan State University
3/16/15	Celik, Mehmet	Imaginary Numbers	University of North Texas-Dallas
3/13/15	Kang, Hye-Won	Stochastic modeling of biochemical networks	University Maryland-Baltimore
3/13/15	Powell, Alexander	Consistent Reconstruction and Randomize Recovery Algorithms	Vanderbilt University
3/12/15	Powell, Alexander	Algorithms for analog-to-digital conversion	Vanderbilt University
3/03/15	Aydin, Noah	The Legacy of Medieval Islamic Math and Science: A Few Examples	Kenyon College
2/18/15	Clifford, John	The Numerical Range of a Composition Operator	University of Michigan-Dearborn
1/28/15	Cameron, Jan	Bimodules in regular inclusions of von Neumann algebras	Vassar College

Fall 2014

Organizer: Alan Wiggins

Wednesdays, 3:00-4:00pm in CB 2070*
*Times may vary please see flyer for most accurate information

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
09/17/2014	Wiggins, Alan	The Invariant Subspace Problem	University of Michigan-Dearborn
10/1/2014	Massey, Frank	Convolutions of Gamma Distributions	University of Michigan-Dearborn
10/10/2014	Steinhauer, Dustin	Inverse Problems with Internal Data	Texas A&M University
11/12/2014	Abdallah, Mohamad	Fault-Hamiltonian Connectivity of 2-tree-generated Networks	Oakland University

Winter 2014

Organizer: Alan Wiggins

Wednesdays, 3:00-4:00pm in CB 2046*
*Times may vary please see flyer for most accurate information

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
04/10/2014	DeBacker, Stephen	Harmonic Analysis on Reductive P-adic Groups	University of Michigan
03/12/2014	Mance, William	Normal Numbers	University of North Texas
03/11/2014	Smith, Roger	Bimodules in Crossed Products	Texas A&M University
03/05/2014	Ghosh, Shamindra	Affine Representations of Planar Algebras, II	Indian Statistical Institute
03/04/2014	Das, Paramita	Affine Representations of Planar Algebras, I	Indian Statistical Institute
01/29/2014	Agarwal, Mahesh	Are Elliptic Curves Related to Ellipses?	University of Michigan-Dearborn

Fall 2013

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
11/19/2013	Kim, Hyejin	Features of Fast Living : On the weak selection for longevity in degenerate birth death processes	Michigan State University
11/13/2013	Causley, Matthew	Numerical Methods for Addressing Multiple Scales in Plasma Simulations	Michigan State University
11/06/2013	Iwen, Mark	Group Testing: From Syphilis to Sparse Fourier Transforms	Michigan State University
10/30/2013	Fiore, Tom	Commutativity in Hindemiths Fugue in E	University of Michigan-Dearborn
10/23/2013	Fiore, Tom	Transformations, the Torus, and Beethoven	University of Michigan-Dearborn
10/9/2013	Agarwal, Mahesh	Inscribed Ellipses in Convex Polygons and Marden's Theorem	University of Michigan-Dearborn
10/2/2013	Wiggins, Alan	Sofic Groups and Entropy for Dynamical Systems, II	University of Michigan-Dearborn
09/25/2013	Wiggins, Alan	Sofic Groups and Entropy for Dynamical Systems, I	University of Michigan-Dearborn
09/18/2013	Zeytuncu, Yunus	Tangent to a Math Circle	University of Michigan-Dearborn

Winter 2013

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
04/17/2013	Li, Hengguang	Introduction to Multigrid Methods	Wayne State University
04/10/2013	Remski, Joan	10 Things I Love About Sage	University of Michigan-Dearborn
04/04/2013	Cesmelioglu, Aycil	A Nonconforming Finite Element Method for an Acoustic Fluid-Structure Interaction Problem	Oakland University
03/27/2013	Macany, Montaha	Teaching Online using MyMathLab	University of Michigan-Dearborn
03/26/2013	Bannon, Jon	Correspondences of Finite von Neumann Algebras and Joinings of Measurable Dynamical Systems	Siena College
03/13/2013	Cameron, Jan	Kadison-Kastler Stability for Operator Algebras	Vassar College
02/20/2013	Remski, Joan	Spectral Methods Applications with a Balanced Moving Mesh	University of Michigan-Dearborn
02/13/2013 02/06/2013	Wiggins, Alan Wiggins, Alan	Statistical Mechanics and the Temperley-Lieb Algebras Statistical Mechanics and the Temperley-Lieb Algebras	University of Michigan-Dearborn University of Michigan-Dearborn

01/30/2013	Agarwal, Mahesh	p-adic Numbers	University of Michigan-Dearborn

Fall 2012

Date	Speaker	Title	Affiliation
12/07/2012	Penneys, Dave	Planar Algebra	University of Toronto
11/14/2012	Kleski, Craig	An Introduction to Non- commutative Convexity	University of Virginia
11/07/2012	Agarwal, Mahesh	What are Modular Forms?	University of Michigan-Dearborn
10/24/2012	Clifford, John	My Favorite Operator is Composition	University of Michigan-Dearborn
10/17/2012	Natarajan, Nattu	The Gregory Series of Pi	University of Michigan-Dearborn
10/10/2012	Agarwal, Mahesh	The ABC Conjecture	University of Michigan-Dearborn
10/03/2012	Lavrov, Nikolay	The Dirac Delta Function	University of Michigan-Dearborn
09/24/2012	Wiggins, Alan	Kadison's Similarity Problem, Part II	University of Michigan-Dearborn
09/19/2012	Wiggins, Alan	Kadison's Similarity Problem, Part I	University of Michigan-Dearborn

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Dearborn, MI 48128

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Monday: 8:00 am-5:00 pm

Tuesday: 8:00 am-5:00 pm

Wednesday: 8:00 am-5:00 pm

Thursday: 8:00 am-5:00 pm

Friday: 8:00 am-5:00 pm

Saturday: Closed

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