Colloquia and seminars

Colloquia talks are scheduled from 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. on Thursday each week. Talks will be held either in-person (in PE 104) or virtually (via Zoom). Speakers give 50-minute presentations on various mathematical and statistical topics.

Spring 2023 Colloquium schedule
Date Title Presenter Mode
2/2/2023 The Schwarz alternating method as a means for concurrent multi-scale coupling of conventional and data-driven models Irina Tezaur, Sandia National Laboratories Zoom
4/6/2023 An invitation to discrete homotopy theory Chris Kapulkin, University of Western Ontario & MSRI PE 104
4/13/2023 Comparison of the upper bounds for the extreme points of the polytopes of line-stochastic tensors Fuzhen Zhang, Nova Southeastern University PE 104
4/27/2023 TBA Zhijian Wu, UNLV TBA

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.

Algebraic & Geometric Topology Seminar

The Algebraic & Geometric Topology Seminar will be held in a hybrid mode this semester on Fridays from 1:00-2:00pm. In-person talks will take place in DMSC 315 and virtual talks will take place in Zoom.

Spring 2023 Algebraic & Geometric Topology Seminar schedule
Date Title Presenter Mode
2/17/2023 A unified Casson-Lin invariant for the real forms of SL(2) Nathan Dunfield, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign DMSC 315
2/24/2023 Constrainahedra and the Fukaya category of Lagrangian torus fibrations Nate Bottman, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany Zoom
4/7/2023 Cubical setting for discrete homotopy theory Daniel Carranza, Johns Hopkins University & MSRI TBA
4/21/2023 TBA TBA TBA
5/5/2023 TBA Rok Gregoric, University of Texas, Austin TBA

C*-Algebras Seminar

The C*-Algebras Seminar will be held in a hybrid mode this semester on Tuesdays from 12-1:00pm. In-person talks will take place in DMSC 315 and virtual talks will take place in Zoom.

Spring 2023 C*-Algebras Seminar schedule
Date Title Presenter Mode
TBA TBA TBA TBA

Matrix Seminar

The Matrix Seminar will be held in a virtual mode via Zoom this semester bi-weekly on Fridays from 4:00-4:50pm. 

Spring 2023 Matrix Seminar schedule
Date Title Presenter Mode
2/3/2023 Linear preservers between matrices over an arbitrary field Ngai-Ching Wong, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan Zoom
2/17/2023 Wasserstein mean and Karcher mean of positive definite operator Vatsalkumar N. Mer, Chungbuk National University, South Korea Zoom
3/3/2023 On maximal weight problem for some classes of matrix-valued Caratheodory functions Yongjian Hu and Xuzhou Zhan, Beijing Normal University, China Zoom
3/31/2023 Trace functions in quantum information theory Tran Hoang Anh, National University of Singapore Zoom
4/14/2023 Eigenvalue and Singular Value Inequalities via Extreme Principles Fuzhen Zhang, Nova Southeastern University Zoom
4/28/2023 TBA Wasin So, San Jose State University Zoom

Nevada Statistics Seminar

The Nevada Statistics Seminar will be held bi-weekly via Zoom on Fridays from 11:30 am-12:30 pm.

Spring 2023 Nevada Statistics Seminar schedule
Date Title Presenter Mode
2/3/2023 The Greenwood statistic, stochastic dominance, clustering and heavy tails Ania Panorska, University of Nevada, Reno Zoom
2/17/2023 The Classical Laplace Distribution: Fundamental Properties, Extensions, and Applications Tomasz J. Kozubowski, University of Nevada, Reno Zoom
3/3/2023 Relative Performance of the Fundamental and Market Portfolios Hayden Brown, University of Nevada, Reno Zoom
3/17/2023 From slash distributions to generalized convolutions Marek Arendarczyk, University of Wroclaw, Poland Zoom
3/31/2023 TBA TBA Zoom
4/14/2023 TBA TBA Zoom
4/28/2023 TBA TBA Zoom
5/12/2023 TBA TBA Zoom