Mathematics and Statistics

Colloquium Schedule

Math and Stats Colloquium will be in person for this academic year. However, some of the talks will also be accessible via Zoom. All the information for each session, including Zoom ID and password when it corresponds, will be emailed to the CPP math community a few days before the talk. If you are interested in presenting at the Colloquium or being added to the Colloquium mailing list to receive regular invitations, please contact any committee member: Prof. He Jiang Prof. Fernando Lopez-Garcia , or Prof. Hubertus von Bremen.

Spring Semester 2024

Date Time  Location Speaker and Title
Monday, 
Feb. 5
1:05 pm -
1:50 pm
Zoom Dr. Elizabeth Field, University of Utah, From geometry and topology to algebra and back again.
Thursday, 
Feb. 8
12:05 pm -
12:50 pm
1-309 Dr. Juliette Bruce, Brown University, Syzygies Beyond Projective Space.
Monday, 
Feb. 12
1:05 pm -
1:50 pm
5-125 Dr. Peter Kagey, Harvey Mudd College, Mathematical Art and Recreation.
Tuesday, 
Feb. 13
12:05 pm -
12:50 pm
1-309 Dr. Ryan Moruzzi Jr., California State University East Bay, A variation of zero forcing: leaky positive semidefinite forcing.
Thursday,
Feb. 15
12:05 pm -
12:50 pm
1-309 Dr. Emily Heath, Iowa State University, Generalized Ramsey Theory.
Tuesday,
March 12
12:05 pm -
12:50 pm
3-1637 Dr. Ryan Szypowski, Cal Poly Pomona, Animating Analysis with Manim.
Wednesday, 
March 20
1:05 pm -
1:50 pm
4-2-314 Dr. Francesca Bernardi, Worcester Polytechnic University, Small-Scale Fluid Dynamics: From Microfluidics to Microfiltration.
Wednesday, 
April 10
1:05 pm -
1:50 pm
4-2-314 Dr. Berit Givens & Dr. Jennifer Switkes, Cal Poly Pomona, TBA.
Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Barbara Margolius, Cleveland State University, TBA.

Fall Semester 2023

Date Time  Location Speaker and Title
Wednesday, 
Sep. 13
1:05 pm -
1:50 pm
4-2-314 Student talks:
Michael Thompson, Cal Poly Pomona, An exploratory analysis of Los Angeles police traffic stops.
Diana Morales, Cal Poly Pomona, Waves of Vision: mmWave Radar for Near-Surface observations of environmental processesslides
Wednesday, 
Sep. 27
1:05 pm -
1:50 pm
4-2-314 Dr. Eric Kawaguchi, University of Southern California, Probability-scale residuals for event time data.
Wednesday, 
Oct. 11
1:05 pm -
1:50 pm
4-2-314 Dr. Emer Lopera, Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Manizales, Applications of the degree theory and mountain pass lemma to s-fractional p-Laplacian problems. slides
Thursday, 
Oct. 26
12:05 pm -
12:50 pm
4-1-314 Dr. Kyle Colangelo, Amazon, Working in tech: experiences from an Amazon economist.
Thursday,
Nov. 2
12:05 pm -
12:30 pm
3-1623 Dr. Jess Hagman, Colorado State University, Supporting Equity Through Coordination in Calculus: Balancing Fairness with Justiceslides
Wednesday,
Nov. 8
1:05 pm -
1:50 pm
4-2-314 Juan Salinas, University of Washington,  Moduli spaces in geometryslides
Thursday, 
Nov. 16
12:05 pm -
12:50 pm
8-249 Dr. Hyunkyoung Yoon, Cal Poly Pomona, Students' use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for proving mathematical statements.
Monday, 
Nov. 20
12:05 pm -
12:50 pm
4-2-314 Dr. Ryan Alvarado, Amherst College, The Game of Cycles: What we know and where we can go from here.

 

Past Colloquium Schedules