Fall 2019 - Spring 2020
October 4, 2019
Yury Gryazin, Idaho State University
Parallel FFT-type preconditioning for Krylov subspace iterative algorithms
October 11, 2019
Dr. Xiu Ye, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Finite element methods with discontinuous approximations
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Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
September 13, 2018
Dave Auckly, Kansas State University
Navajo Nation Math Circles
September 14, 2018
Dave Auckly, Kansas State University
Badly Wrinkled Shirts
September 28, 2018
Cathy Kriloff, Idaho State University
Traversing Symmetric Graphs
October 12, 2018
James Sochacki, James Madison University
Sensitivity in Dynamical Systems
October 26, 2018
Nand Sharma, Idaho State University
Generating Functions and Moduli spaces of pointed curves
November 9, 2018
Patrick Rault, University of Nebraska - Omaha
A Mathematical Story: A Discrete Analogue of a Complex Problem
March 29, 2019
Wend Werner, University of Muenster, Germany
Title: Voting, Ranking, and the Curl
Fall 2017- Spring 2018
October 27th, 2017
Andrejs Treibergs
Compatibility Conditions for Linear and Nonlinear Elastic Materials and Their Discrete Approximations
November 3rd, 2017
Bennett Palmer, Idaho State University
Willmore Surfaces
December 1st, 2017
Russell Wahl, Idaho State University
Why Have Mathematical Foundations? Some Remarks on the Philosophy of Mathematics.
January 16th, 2018
Dr. Yuri Nikolayevsky, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, La Trobe University
Graph drawings with crossings: thrackles, musquashes and others
February 23rd, 2018
Dr. Jia Zhao, Utah State University
The Story of Computational Mathematics Research: Its Development, Challenges and Opportunities
April 6th, 2018
Professor Charles Conley, University of North Texas
Continuants, Pfaffians, cross-ratios, and Lagrangian polygons
April 20th, 2018
Todd Fisher, Brigham Young University - Provo
Does God Play Dice?
Fall 2016 - Spring 2017
March 3, 2017
Dmytro Yeroshkin, Visiting Assistant Professor, Idaho State University
On a Certain Cooperative Hat Game
November 11, 2016
Jason Williford, Associate Professor, University of Wyoming
Graphs, Spectra and their Connections
October 13, 2016
Evelyn Lamb, Professor, University of Utah
Evelyn Lamb - Visualizing Hyperbolic Geometry
October 14, 2016
Jon Chaika, Professor, University of Utah
Jon Chaika - Flows on Flat Surfaces
Fall 2015 - Spring 2016
November 20, 2015
Michael Jablonski, Professor, University of Oklahoma
Geometric Invariant Theory meets Riemannian Geometry
October 23, 2015
DeWayne Derryberry, Professor, Idaho State University
Akaike's Information Criteria and Bayesian Information Criteria: Superficial similarities and fundamental differences
March 7, 2016
Tak Kwong Wong, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Recent Development of the Energy Methods for Thin Layer Equations
March 11, 2016
Xiao Xia Xie, Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology
Persistence criteria for the nonlocal niche model and applications
Fall 2014 - Spring 2015
March 13, 2015
Jorge H. Lira, Professor, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Brazil & Stanford University
Maximum principle and minimal graphs in Riemannian manifolds
March 17, 2015
Young Ju Lee, Assistant Professor, Texas State University
Non-local Three Species Model for Wormlike Micellar Fluids
October 24, 2014
Rob Van Kirk, Professor, Humboldt State University
A Dynamical Systems Approach to Time Series Analysis
October 10, 2014
Robert Fisher, Professor and Department Chair, Idaho State University
Successive Apollonian Circles, a New Proof of the Similarity Fixed Point Theorem, and the Symmedians of a Triangle
Fall 2013 - Spring 2014
April 25, 2014
Cathy Kriloff, Professor, Idaho State University
Spectra of Cayley graphs of complex reflection groups
April 11, 2014
Chenxu He, Professor, University of Oklahoma
Einstein manifolds, gradient shrinking Ricci solitons and linear stability
January 17, 2014
Megan Kerr, Professor, Wellesley College
Einstein solvmanifolds of negative Ricci curvature: new examples
November 15, 2013
Dave Witte Morris, Professor, University of Lethbridge, Canada
What is a Superrigid Subgroup?
Fall 2012 - Spring 2013
April 19, 2013
Professor DeWayne Derryberry, Doug Walker, Damon Herrera, and Garrett Castle, Idaho State University
April 5, 2013
Oscar Perdomo, Professor, Central Connecticut University
Embedded constant mean curvature hypersurfaces on spheres
February 22, 2013
Bennett Palmer, Professor, Idaho State University
December 7, 2012
Briana Foster-Greenwood, Visiting Assistant Professor, Idaho State University
November 2, 2012
Floyd Williams, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
October 26, 2012
Boris Hanin, Doctoral Student, Northwestern University
September 12, 2012
Dennis Stowe, Professor, Idaho State University
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