Colloquia
The School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences has scheduled the following talks for the academic year 2022-2023. Click on the speaker's abstract to obtain a .pdf file containing additional information on the talk. Please check back a day before the scheduled event to determine if any changes have occurred. All talks take place online in Zoom and, occasionally, on campus. For further information or for special accommodations, contact Dr. Alexey Glazyrin via email at alexey.glazyrin@utrgv.edu.
Academic Year 2022-2023
Friday, November 11, 2022
4:00-5:00 PM CT
Revisiting the Classical Least-Squares Formulation for Computational Learning and Inversion || [slides] || [video]
Dr. Kui Ren, Columbia University
Friday, October 28, 2022
4:00-5:00 PM CT
On the Interplay between Approximation Theory, Inverse Problems, and Non-smooth Solitons || [slides] || [video]
Dr. Jacek Szmigielski, University of Saskatchewan
Monday, September 19, 2022
3:00-4:00 PM CT
Statistics meets CSI: The Critical Role of Statistics in Evaluating Forensic Evidence
Dr. Karen Kafadar, University of Virginia
Thursday, September 15, 2022
3:00-4:00 PM CT
Branch Decompositions: Linear-Time Graph Algorithms and Where to Find Them
Dr. William Christian, National Security Agency
Friday, September 9, 2022
4:00-5:00 PM CT
The Derivative NLS System and its Solution with the Help of the Marchenko Method || [slides]
Dr. Tuncay Aktosun, University of Texas at Arlington
Academic Year 2021-2022
Friday, April 29, 2022
4:00-5:00 PM CT
Two nonlocal problems: Equations in infinitely many derivatives and the Cauchy problem for the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili hierarchy || [slides]
Dr. Enrique Reyes, Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Friday, April 22, 2022
12:00-1:00 PM CT
Partial Differential Equations of Mixed Type: Analysis and Connections || [video]
Dr. Gui-Qiang G. Chen, University of Oxford
Friday, April 8, 2022
4:00-5:00 pm CT
d-Methods in Complex Analysis || [video] || [slides]
Dr. Emil J. Straube, Texas A&M University
Friday April 1, 2022
9:00 - 10:00 AM CT
Asymptotic gap distributions of the Gaussian unitary and Jacobi unitary ensembles || [video]
Dr. Yang Chen, University of Macau
Friday, March 25, 2022
4:00-5:00 pm CT
On Nevanlinna and algebraic hyperbolicity || [video] || [slides]
Dr. Min Ru, University of Houston
Monday, November 8, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Graphical Models of Pandemic || [video] || [slides]
Dr. Michael Chertkov, University of Arizona
Academic Year 2020-2021
Friday, March 19, 2021
11:30am - 1 PM CST
Learning from COVID-19 Data on Transmission, Health Outcomes, Interventions and Vaccination [watch presentation]
Dr. Xihong Lin, Dept of Biostatistics and Department of Statistics, Harvard University
Friday, February 26, 2021
1:30 – 2:30 PM CST
The Riemann Zeta Function and Quantum Mechanics [watch presentation]
Wolfgang Schleck, Institute of Quantum Physics, University of Ulm, Germany & German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Quantum Technologies
Monday, December 14, 2020
2:00 – 3:00 PM CST
Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic using mathematical & statistical modeling tools
Dr. Gerardo Chowell, School of Public Health, Georgia State University
Friday, November 24, 2020
3:00 – 4:00 PM CST
Stellar Rotation E_ects on the Stellar Wind
Dr. Bhimsen Shivamoggi, Department of Mathematics, University of Central Florida
Friday, October 23, 2020
1:30 – 2:30 PM CST
Long-time asymptotics for nonlinear integrable PDEs
Dr. Jonatan Lenells, Department of Mathematics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Friday, September 25, 2020
2:00 –3:00 PM CST
Convex Bodies All Whose Hyperplane Sections are “Equal”
Dr. Luis Montejano, Institute of Mathematics National, Autonomous University of Mexico
Academic Year 2018-2019
Monday, April 8, 2019
12:15- 1:30 pm, EMAGC 1.410/ BLHSB 1.312
Manifolds with Special Holonomy [Abstract]
Dr. Sema Salur, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester
Friday, March 29, 2019
1:00pm--2:00pm, EMAGC 1.302/BLHSB 1.312
A trust-region direct constrained optimization method for solving the Kohn-Sham equations [Abstract]
Juan Meza, Director of NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences
Monday, March 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, EMAGC 1.402 / BLHSB 1.312
Minimal Triangulations for 3-manifolds [Abstract]
William Jaco, Department of Mathematics Oklahoma State University
Friday, March 1, 2019
4:00pm - 5:00pm, BLHSB 1.312 and ESCNE 1.603
Exploiting wave transport in classical and quantum open systems [Abstract]
Hamidreza Ramezani, Department of Physics, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Friday, November 2, 2018
4:00pm-5:00pm, EMAGC 1.302 and BLHSB 1.312
Gelfand-Tsetlin modules of Lie algebras [Abstract]
Dimitar Grantcharov, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington
Friday, September 21, 2018
4:00pm--5:00pm, EMAGC 1.410
Barndoff-Nielsen and Shephard model with various applications to finance. [Abstract]
Idranil SenGupta, North Dakota State University
Academic Year 2017-2018
Friday August 10, 2018
2:00 pm--3:00 pm, EMAGC 3.502 (Edinburg) / BLHSB 1.312 (Brownsville)
Modeling Human Airway Swelling by the Deep Power of Fundamental Mathematics [Abstract]
Dr. Kun Gou, Department of Sciences and Mathematics Texas A&M University--San Antonio
Friday, April 20, 2018
3:00pm--4:00pm, EMAGC 1.410/BLHSB 2.312
Learning Math from the prints of M.C. Escher [Abstract]
Joe Romano, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Friday, March 23, 2018
3:00pm-4:00pm, EMAGC 1.410
Communication, Culture, and Work in Mathematics Teaching in Departments of Mathematical Sciences [Abstract]
Dr. Shandy Hauk, Science, Technology, Engineering, WestEd, CA
Friday, March 2. 2018
4:00pm--5:00pm, EMAGC 1.410 / BLHSB 2.312
Explicit solutions to integrable evolution equations [Abstract]
Tuncay Aktosun, University of Texas at Arlington
Friday, February 16, 2018
4:00pm--5:00pm, EMAGC 1.410/BLHSB 2.312
The Sphere Covering Inequality and its applications. [Abstract]
Changfeng Gui, University of Texas San Antonio
Friday, January 12, 2018
11:00am--12:00pm, EMAGC 1.302
Heat kernel estimates on Riemannian manifolds [Abstract]
Alexander Grigor'yan, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Friday, December 1, 2017
12:45pm--13:30pm, EMAGC 1.302
On a reverse space-time nonlocal Sasa-Satsuma equation [Abstract]
Zuo-nong Zhu, School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai JiaoTong University, China
Friday, December 1, 2017
12:00pm--12:45pm, EMAGC 1.302
Multiplicative operators in the spectral problem of integrable systems [Abstract]
Adrian Espinola-Rocha, Universidad Automata Metropolitana, Mexico
Friday, November 10, 2017
3:00pm--4:30pm, EMAGC 1.302
Mathematics of the Soccer Ball: Mathematicians Quest to Minimizing Energy [Abstract]
Peter Dragnev, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Monday, November 6, 2017
12:05pm -- 1:30pm, EMAGC 1.410
Numerical Investigation of Crouzeix's Conjecture [Abstract]
Michael L. Overton, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Academic Year 2016-2017
Friday, April 28, 2017
12:15pm-1:30pm MAGC 1.302
Topology and Combinatorics of Real Toric Manifolds [Abstract]
Suyoung Choi, Ajou University, Korea
Thursday, April 13, 2017
12:15-1:00 pm, BBRHB 1.207 and via WebEX to EMAGC 1.302
Integration of Science and Statistics in Teaching and Research of Stochastic Processes [Abstract]
Wenyaw Chan, University of Texas-Health Science Center at Houston
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
12:15-1:00 pm, EMAGC 1.302 and via WebEX to BBRHB 1.207
Interdisciplinary Collaboration: From a Mathematical Scientist's Perspective [Abstract]
Wenyaw Chan, University of Texas-Health Science Center at Houston
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
12:15 -- 1:00 pm, BBRHB 1.207 and via WebEX to EMAGC 1.302
Persistence Means Being Unafraid of Failures and Rejections: My Views on Teaching and Research [Abstract]
Ravindra Khattree, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University
Monday, April 10, 2017
12:15-1:00 pm, EMAGC 1.302 and via WebEX to BBRHB 1.207
A Dream for Quality Education in Quantitative Sciences: What A School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Should be [Abstract]
Ravindra Khattree, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University
Thursday, March 23, 2017
12:15pm-1:30pm, MAGC 1.402
From nothing to something: nonlinear systems and quantum representation theory [Abstract]
Professor Senyue Lou, School of Natural Sciences, Ningbo University
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
12:15pm-1:00pm, BMAIN 2.112
Build it while you fly it: Teaching and Community Outreach Philosophy [Abstract]
Hani Michel Samawi, Georgia Southern University, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
12:15pm--1:00pm, EMAGC 1.302
Moving forward and expending your Research [Abstract]
Hani Michel Samawi, Georgia Southern University, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health
Thursday, March 9, 2017
12:15pm - 1:30pm, MAGC 1.302
Wave-breaking equations, peakons, and their properties [Abstract]
Stephen Anco, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Brock University, Canada
Friday, February 3, 2017
13:00-14:30, MAGC 1.302
Poncelet polygons, the Painleve VI and the Schlesinger equations [Abstract]
Vladimir Dragovic, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, The University of Texas at Dallas
Friday, December 9, 2016
16:00pm - 17:00pm, MAGC 1.302
Dissipative Solitons in Optical Fiber Systems [Abstract]
Mario F. S. Ferreira, University of Aveiro, Aveiro 3810-193, Portugal
Thursday, November 17, 2016
12:15-13:15, MAGC 1.302
Complex Form of Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics [Abstract]
Dr. Sergei Suslov, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University
Thursday, October 27, 2016
12:15pm-1:15pm, MAGC 1.302
Vector Products and Division Algebras [Abstract]
Jorg Feldvoss, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Alabama
Academic Year 2015-2016
Thursday, November 5, 2015
3:05pm-4:O5pm, MAGC 1.302
Wave models with time-dependent mass and dissipation [Abstract]
Michael Reissig, Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
15:05--16:05, MAGC 1.302
Complex analysis in several variables, CR manifolds, and realizability [Abstract]
Gerardo A. Mendoza, Department of Mathematics, Temple University