Mathematics Graduate Seminar - Spring 2022

The seminar is scheduled from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm on Thursday afternoon in Bruner Hall 308. 

 

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE/Abstract
January 20	Dr. Yung-Way Liu	Mathematical Modeling of Image Formation by Two Mirrors
January 27	No Seminar
February 3	Alizza Schremp	Coefficients of the Characteristic Polynomial
Feruary 10	Amy Chambers	Results Concerning Positive Elements of C*-Algebras - In this talk we will define what is meant by a positive element of a C*-algebra and will discuss some basic results concerning such elements. Results concerning positive elements form the building blocks of proofs of some very important theorems in Operator Theory, including the GNS Representation Theorem. Definitions of Hilbert spaces, C*-algebras, and B(H) will be included.
February 17	Dr. Motoya Machida	Is Finance Mathematics? An Introduction to Stochastic Processes - In 1905 Albert Einstein published his celebrated study of Brownian motion. Predated Einstein's work by five years, the thesis introducing the first mathematical model of Brownian motion was presented by Louis Bachelier who used it to develop the theory for stock options in finance. Modern mathematical finance flourished in 1970's when Fischer Black, Robert Merton and Myron Scholes developed a pioneering formula for option pricing. I encourage you to watch the documentary "The Midas Formula” (https://vimeo.com/244903345 ) in advance. It is a very good introduction to a little known history of mathematical finance, including the interviews with successful traders and academics who rely on intuition as well as mathematical models. Modern treatise of options, hedged positions, and portfolio strategy is all described in terms of stochastic differential equations. Thus, the part of this talk can be viewed as an introduction to stochastic processes.  We give a demonstration for which you need to install R from https://cran.r-project.org/. A code file “BS.R” can be downloaded at https://vps63.heliohost.us/e-math/BS.R. Then start R, and open the code “BS.R” from the menu [File]->[Source R code...].
February 24	Benjamin Vannozzi	Nonstandard Analysis and Differential Forms
March 3	Patrick Bartol	Probability Space and Measure
March 10	Sydney Clere	An Introduction to Wavelets and Multiresolution Analysis - In this talk we will cover some of the basics of wavelets, specifically the Haar wavelet. We will also look at a specific example of the wavelet decomposition of a piecewise defined function. This area of math has applications in digital signal processing.
March 17		No Seminar - Spring Break
March 24	Angus Bryant	Cooperative Games and the Characteristic Function
March 31	David Rowin	TBA
April 7	Jeremy Carew	TBA
April 14	No School	No School
April 21	Isaac Gyasi	TBA
FALL 2021 Graduate Seminars
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE/Abstract
August 26	Dr. Damian Kubiak	A (very) brief introduction to Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrencies (Part 1)
September 2	No Seminar
September 9	Dr. Michael Allen	An Introduction to Neural Networks, Part 1
September 16	Dr. David Smith	1:30-2:00 Part 1 - Reproducibel Research and R Markdown - Research is reproducible if independent researchers can take sufficient information and procedures and recreate the same findings and conclusions.  This talk will outline on why researchers should produce such works and suggest tools to produce reproducible results.  An example workflow will be highlighted along with the features in R Markdown that can be used to practice integrated documentation of research.
September 23	Dr. David Smith	1:30-2:00 Part 2 - Reproducibel Research and R Markdown
September 30	Dr.  Amy Chambers	Intro to Graph C*-Algebras and Desingularization - In this talk, I will introduce some basics of the study of Graph C*-algebras, giving introductory definitions and examples. We will then talk briefly about the process of Drinen-Tomforde desingularization and how it is used to extend known graph algebra results.
October 14	Dr. Michael Allen	An Introduction to Neural Networks, Part 2
October 21	Dr. Damian Kubiak	A (very) brief introduction to Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrencies (Part 2)
October 28
November 4	Dr. Motoya Machida	TBA
November 11	Dr. Padmini Veerapen	Twists of Certain Noncommutative Algebras Over a Field
November 18