Colloquia and seminars
Colloquia talks are scheduled from 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Thursday most weeks. Talks will be held either in-person (in PE 104) or occasionally virtually (via Zoom). Speakers give 50-minute presentations on various mathematical and statistical topics.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2/13/2025 | Modelling Large vs Small Stocks | Andrey Sarantsev, University of Nevada, Reno | PE 104 |
| 3/20/2025 |
Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in spaces of probability measures and stochastic optimal control of particle systems |
Andrzej Swiech, Georgia Tech | PE 104 |
| 3/27/2025 | No Colloquium (Spring Break) | ||
| 4/3/2025 | Inaugural Ilya Zaliapin Memorial Lecture Potency-weighted goodness-of-fit scores for earthquake forecasting |
Frederic Schoenberg, UCLA | PE 104 |
| 4/10/2025 | Story on multivariate matrix means with a focus on the least squares means | Sejong Kim, Chungbuk National University | PE 104 |
| 4/17/2025 | Curvature Inequalities in the Geometry of Submanifolds | Bogdan Suceava, CSU Fullerton | PE 104 |
| 4/24/2025 | Fractional Processes: Modeling and Simulations | Jiangguo James Liu, Colorado State University | PE 104 |
| 5/1/2025 | Can a Higher Order Markov Chain Be Studied Just as a First Order Chain? | Jianhong Xu, Southern Illinois University | PE 104 |
Seminars
The Department also holds regular seminars in various research areas. Speakers include researchers from outside the department, as well as current faculty and graduate students.
Homological Algebra Seminar
The Homological Algebra Seminar will be held on Fridays from 2:00-3:00pm in DMSC 315.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/31/2025 | Geometric GRT actions and Deligne’s conjecture on Hochschild cochains | Sonja Farr, University of Nevada, Reno | DMSC 315 |
| 2/7/2025 | Some Homotopical Aspects of the Field with One Element | Jonathan Beardsley, University of Nevada, Reno | DMSC 315 |
| 3/28/2025 | No Seminar (Spring Break) | ||
| 4/4/2025 | Boxes and tangles | Lorenzo Riva, Notre Dame | DMSC 315 |
| 4/11/2025 | Introduction to Lie Infinity-Groupoids | Chris Solomon, University of Nevada, Reno | DMSC 315 |
| 4/18/2025 | An introduction to derived differential geometry | Dave Carchedi, George Mason | Zoom |
| 4/25/2025 | K-stability and K-moduli of Fano varieties and conic bundles | Daniel Mallory, Northwestern University | DMSC 315 |
| 5/2/2025 | dg comodules as vector bundles | Chris Rogers, University of Nevada, Reno | DMSC 315 |
Matrix Seminar
The Matrix Seminar will be held in a virtual mode via Zoom bi-weekly on Fridays from 4:15-5:15pm.
| Date | Title | Presenter | Mode |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/31/2025 | Algebraic Description of GLn-Invariant Variety of Pairs of Matrices and Some of Its Subvarieties | Rustam Turdibaev, New Uzbekistan University | Zoom |
| 2/14/2025 |
A Curious Permanent Inequality for Positive Semidefinite Hermitian Matrices |
Vehbi Paksoy, Nova Southeastern University | Zoom |
| 2/28/2025 | Strong Adjacency Preserving Maps on Tensors | Jin Ting Lau, University of Malaya | Zoom |
| 3/14/2025 | On Commutators of Unipotent Matrices of Index 2 | Kenneth Rosa, University of the Philippines Diliman | Zoom |
| 3/28/2025 | No Seminar (Spring Break) | ||
| 4/4/2025 | Remarks on two questions of Bourin for positive semidefinite matrices | Mostafa Hayajneh, Yarmouk University | Zoom |
| 4/18/2025 | Linear Preservers of Sub-defect of Doubly Substochastic Matrices | Selcuk Koyuncu, University of North Georgia | Zoom |
| 5/2/2025 | TBA | Nancy Menzelthe, University of Nevada, Reno | Zoom |