WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Katherine Moore Wake Forest University Thursday, April 23rd, 2020 11am Virtual Colloquium via Zoom Meeting details are available via Google Calendar Abstract: Although clustering into groups (with implied relationships between and within groups) is a crucial component of human experience, there…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Lynne Yengulalp Wake Forest University Thursday, April 9th, 2020 11am Virtual Colloquium via Zoom Meeting details are available via Google Calendar Abstract: In this talk, I will give an introduction to cardinality of infinite sets including a discussion of countability, uncountability,…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Kaitlin Hill Wake Forest University Thursday, April 2nd, 2020 11am Virtual Colloquium via Zoom Meeting details will be available in department newsletter Abstract: A system of differential equations is said to ‘tip’ when the state makes a sudden, and possibly extreme,…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents David Kline Ohio State University Tuesday, November 14th, 2019 11am Carswell Hall, Room 101 Abstract: Opioid misuse is a national epidemic and a significant public health issue due to its high prevalence of associated morbidity and mortality. Ohio has been hit…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Sneha Jadhav Wake Forest University Tuesday, November 7th, 2019 11am Carswell Hall, Room 101 Abstract: Measurement error is an important problem that has not been very well studied in the context of Functional Data Analysis. To the best of our knowledge,…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Veronica Ciocanel The Ohio State University Thursday, October 31st, 2019 11am Carswell Hall, Room 101 Abstract: Ring channels are structures made of linked protein polymers (filaments) that are important in development, wound healing, and cell division. In the reproductive system of…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Yan Zhang Davidson College Tuesday, October 15th, 2019 11am Carswell Hall, Room 101 Abstract: We present a general formula describing the joint distribution of two permutation statistics—the peak number and the descent number—over any set of permutations whose quasisymmetric generating function…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents John Holmes Wake Forest University Thursday, September 26th, 2019 11am Carswell Hall, Room 101 Abstract: Nonlinear PDEs are difficult to solve explicitly. Therefore, mathematicians are interested in discovering properties about the solutions, by using and developing analytical techniques. The first questions…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Luigi Ferraro Wake Forest University Thursday, September 19th, 2019 11am Carswell Hall, Room 101 Abstract: Group actions are ubiquitous in mathematics. To study an algebraic object it is often useful to understand what groups act on it. A major role in…
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS Presents Nancy Scherich Wake Forest University Thursday, September 12th, 2019 11am Carswell Hall, Room 101 Abstract: Many well known representations of the braid groups are parameterized by a complex parameter, such as the Burau, Jones, and BMW representations. I will give a…
