Mathematics and Statistics

Past Colloquium Schedules

Spring Semester 2023

Date	Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Tuesday, Feb. 7	11:05 am - 11:50 am	8-241	Dr. Rashmi Singh, Role of structure of equations in identifying students’ conception of equivalence.
Tuesday, Feb. 14	11:05 am - 11:50 am	8-241	Dr. Hyunkyoung Yoon, Arizona State University, Meanings for Slope Matter in K-12 and COVID-19.
Thursday, Feb. 16	11:05 am - 11:50 am	5-262	Dr. Tenchita Alzaga Elizondo, Portland State University, Incorporating Inquiry-Oriented Instruction in Proof-Based Courses.
Wednesday, March 8	1:05 pm - 1:50 pm	4-1-314	Dr. Jimmy Risk, Cal Poly Pomona, Genetic Algorithm Applications of Gaussian Process Kernels toward Mortality Surface Inference.
Wednesday, March 22	1:05 pm - 1:50 pm	4-1-314	Dr. Weitao Chen, UC Riverside, Multiscale Modeling to Understand Mechanisms of the Robustness of Stem Cell Mantenance.
Wednesday, April 12	1:25 pm - 2:10 pm	4-1-314	Dr. Karamatou Yacoubou Djima, Wellesley College, Extracting Autism's Biomarkers in Placenta Using Multiscale Methods.
Wednesday, April 26	1:05 pm - 1:50 pm	4-1-314	Dr. Roberto Soto, CS Fullerton, Peg Solitaire on graphs and in multiple colors.
Friday, May 5	12:00 pm - 1:20 pm	3-1616	Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Joseph Teran, UC Davis, Math and the Movies: Modern Scientific Computing Applications.

Fall Semester 2022

Date	Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Wednesday, Sep. 14	1:05 pm - 1:50 pm	4-2-314	Dr. John Rock , Cal Poly Pomona, Parsing convergence with arbitrarily close and thresholds.
Wednesday, Sep. 28	1:05 pm - 1:50 pm	4-2-314	Student talks: Maya Kasfy , Cal Poly Pomona, History, Overview, and Connections between Real Analysis and Probability Theory. Seth Ricarte & Ryan Aniceto , Cal Poly Pomona, “How is it obvious? I really don’t see it”: Experiences of Mathematical Microaggressions in the Classroom.
Wednesday, Oct. 12	1:05 pm - 1:50 pm	4-1-314	Dr. Peter Kagey, Harvey Mudd College, Spinning switches on a wreath product.
Wednesday, Oct. 26	1:05 pm - 1:50 pm	4-1-314	Dr. Jose Mijares-Palacios, CSU Los Angeles, Ramsey property of simplicial complexes and the nerve of a cover.
Wednesday, Nov. 9	1:05 pm - 1:50 pm	4-1-314	Dr. He Jiang, Cal Poly Pomona, Fitting Multi-Modal Densities by Dynamic Programming.
Monday, Nov. 28	12:05 pm - 12:50 pm	4-1-314	Dr. Gail Tang, University of La Verne, Mathematical Creativity, Affect, and Identity.
Thursday, Dec. 1	11:05 am - 11:50 am	8-241	Jihye Hwang, Michigan State University, One Multilingual International Student’s Experiences in Her Mathematics Learning: Narrative of Jia.
Thursday, Dec. 8	11:05 am - 11:50 am	4-1-314	Nina Bailey, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Research Talk: Critical Statistical Literacy Habits of Mind.
Friday, Dec. 9	11:05 am - 11:50 am	4-1-314	Dr. Kaitlyn Serbin, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Prospective Teachers’ Unified Understandings of the Structure of Additive, Multiplicative, and Compositional Identities.

Spring Semester 2022

Date	Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Tuesday, Feb. 1	12:05 pm- 12-50 pm	zoom	Special Colloquium: Dr. Xin Wang , Miami University (Oxford Ohio), Spatial Heterogeneity Automatic Detection and Estimation.
Friday, Feb. 4	1:05 pm- 1:50 pm	zoom	Special Colloquium: Dr. Duke Chowdhury , Johns Hopkins University, Functional Analysis Under Nonlinear Constraints for Robust Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications to the Sciences.
Tuesday, Feb. 8	12:05 pm- 12:50 pm	zoom	Special Colloquium: He Jiang, Ph.D. candidate , UC San Diego, Estimating the Background Component in a Two-Component Mixture Models.
Wednesday, Feb. 23	1:05 pm-1:50 pm	zoom	Student talks: Marie Pitre , Simon Fraser University, The relationship between technological self-efficacy and mathematical self-efficacy in online learning . Jimmy Morentin , Cal Poly Pomona, The Reconfigurations of Metric Bases .
Wednesday, March 9	1:05 pm- 1:50 pm	zoom	Dr. Haydee Lindo, Harvey Mudd College, Trace Ideals and Endomorphism Rings.
Wednesday, March 23	1:05 pm- 1:50 pm	zoom	Dr. Charles Wilkes, San Diego State University, Unpacking Signaling Messages and Methods Through Teacher Practice in the Context of Critical Moments .
Wednesday, April 13	1:05 pm- 1:50 pm	zoom	Dr. Malena Espanol, Arizona State University, Re-Imaging the World with Linear Algebra.
Thursday, April 28	12:05 pm- 12:50 pm	zoom	Dr. Zair Ibragimov, CSU Fullerton, Gromov hyperbolicity of relative metrics.
Friday, May 6	2:00 pm- 3:50 pm	zoom	Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Federico Ardila , San Francisco State University, Polyhedra that know calculus.

Fall Semester 2021

Date	Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Wednesday, Sep. 8	1:05 pm-1:50 pm	zoom	Student Talks: Ronald Lencevičius, Cal Poly Pomona, Methods and Algorithms of Automatic Speech Recognition . Len White, Cal Poly Pomona, Knot: A Math Talk
Wednesday, Sep. 22	1:05 pm-1:50 pm	zoom	Student Talks: Nikita Campos, Cal Poly Pomona, Grobner Bases and Buchberger’s Criterion. Diana Morales, Cal Poly Pomona, Algae under attack: Mathematical modeling of temporal population dynamics between biofuel-relevant microalgae and predatory bacteria.
Wednesday, Oct. 6	1:05 pm-1:50 pm	zoom	Dr. Berit Givens, Cal Poly Pomona, From Fibonacci numbers to polynomials, integrals, and vector spaces.
Wednesday, Oct. 20	1:05 pm-1:50 pm	zoom	Dr. Anthony Muro Villa III, UC Riverside, "I failed on that one": (Re)thinking what is needed for student mathematical access and competencies.
Wednesday, Oct. 27	1:05 pm-1:50 pm	zoom	Dr. Alvin Moon, University of Copenhagen, The mathematics of quantum spin systems.
Wednesday, Nov. 10	1:05 pm-1:50 pm	zoom	Dr. Juliette Bruce, UC Berkeley, Combinatorial Cones & the Moduli Space of Abelian Surfaces.
Monday, Nov. 22	1:05 pm-1:50 pm	zoom	Dr. Kristin Kurianski, CSU Fullerton, Motivated by rogue ocean waves: Theoretical results for the Dysthe equation.

Spring Semester 2021

Date	Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Wednesday, Feb. 10	1:05PM-1:50PM	zoom	Dr. Rhonda D. Fitzgerald, Norfolk State University, Creating Interactive Classrooms Using the Flipped Model with Supplemental Instruction: Flipped Again by COVID.
Wednesday, Feb. 24	1:05PM-1:50PM	zoom	Dr. Andrea Arauza Rivera, CSU East Bay, The Monsters Lurking Between Dimensions n and n+1.
Wednesday, March 10	1:05PM-1:50PM	zoom	Dr. Nathan Alexander ( Morehouse College) & Jalil Cooper, Mathematical Models in the Sociological Imagination: Notes on the Racial Contract.
Wednesday, March 24	1:05PM-1:50PM	zoom	Dr. Marissa Kawehi Loving, Georgia Tech, Symmetries of Surfaces.
Monday, April 5	1:05PM-1:50PM	zoom	Dr. Dandrielle Lewis, High Point University, Undergraduate Research Projects in Finite Group Theory .
Wednesday, April 14	1:05PM-1:50PM	zoom	Dr. Kagba Suaray, CSU Long Beach, Rethinking Objectives for the Statistical Analysis of Student Performance Data in First Year GE Quantitative Reasoning Courses.
Thursday, April 29	12:00PM-1:45PM	zoom	Dr. Luis Leyva (d istinguished speaker), Vanderbilt University, “It seems like they purposefully try to make as many kids drop”: Characterizing logics and mechanisms of racial-gendered inequality in undergraduate calculus instruction as a white, patriarchal space.

Fall Semester 2020

Date	Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Wednesday, Sep. 9	1:05PM-1:50PM	Zoom	Andrew Aguilar, Cal Poly Pomona, " Topological Properties of Almost Abelian Lie Groups and Homogeneous Spaces ," and Vanessa Hernandez, Cal Poly Pomona, " A look at students’ experiences in a co-requisite statistics course at a community college. "
Wednesday, Sep. 23	1:05PM-1:50PM	Zoom	Hakeem Frank, Cal Poly Pomona, " Gaussian Process Models for Computer Vision ," and Bella Guan, Cal Poly Pomona, " Introduction to Gaussian Processes for Regression . "
Wednesday, Oct. 7	1:05PM-1:50PM	Zoom	Kenji Kozai, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology , " Knotting and linking of DNA, polymers, and random graph embeddings. "
Wednesday, Oct. 21	1:05PM-1:50PM	Zoom	Manuchehr Aminian, Cal Poly Pomona, " An introduction to passive tracers ".
Wednesday, Nov. 4	1:05PM-1:50PM	Zoom	Erika Ward, Jacksonville University, " Geometry of Gerrymandering: Why Redistricting is so Difficult and How Mathematics Can Help ."
Monday, Nov. 23	1:05PM-1:50PM	Zoom	Mechie Nkengla, Data Products LLC, " An Odyssey from Mathematics to Data Science ."

Spring Semester 2020

Date	Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Thursday, Feb. 27	12:05PM-12:50PM	8-249	Special Colloquium: Giacomo Capodaglio, Ph.D. , Florida State University, " Modeling and simulation of nonlocal diffusion and structural mechanics" (PDF)
Tuesday, March 3	12:05PM-12:50PM	8-249	Special Colloquium: Jolene Britton, Ph.D. candidate , University of California, Riverside, " Numerical and Optimization Methods for Balance Laws & Fidelity Weighted Transfer Learning" (PDF)
Thursday, March 5	12:05PM-12:50PM	8-249	Special Colloquium: Chong Wang , Ph.D. , McMaster University, " Modeling and Analysis of patterns in multi-constituent systems with long range interaction" (PDF)
Tuesday, March 10	12:05PM-12:50PM	8-249	Special Colloquium: Manuchehr Aminian, Ph.D. , Colorado State University, "Using applied mathematical tools to understand the immune system".
Wednesday, March 11	1:05PM-1:50PM	4-1-314	Dwight Williams, Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas at Arlington, " It looks like calculus: Lie superalgebras acting on polynomials in commut- ing and anti-commuting variables"
Wednesday, March 25	1:05PM-1:50PM	4-1-314	Mike Willis, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. CANCELLED
Wednesday, March 15	1:05PM-1:50PM	4-1-314	Jamie Haddock, Ph.D. , University of California, Los Angeles. CANCELLED
Thursday, April 30	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-2870	Distinguished Lecture: Prof. Joseph Teran , University of California, Los Angeles. CANCELLED
Thursday, May 7	12:05PM-12:50PM	Zoom-webinar	Natalie Gasca, Ph.D. student, University of Washington, "How to participate in 2020 SACNAS (The National Diversity in STEM Conference) " ( Video)

Fall Semester 2019

Date	Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Wednesday, Sep. 4	1:05PM-1:50PM	4-1-314	Student talks: Evelyn Guerra, Cal Poly Pomona, " The impact of temperature dependent sex determination on the population dynamics of Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas)" , and Scott West, Cal Poly Pomona, " Modeling the Adaptive Immune Response to Chronic Hepatitis B " (PDF)
Wednesday, Sep. 18	1:05PM-1:50PM	4-1-314	Eric Kawaguchi, Ph.D., USC's biostatistics and epidemiology department, " A Fast and Scalable Implementation Method for Competing Risks Data " (PDF)
Wednesday, Oct. 2	1:05PM-1:50PM	4-1-314	Prof. Sharona Krinsky, California State University Los Angeles, " Mastery-Based Grading: What Mathematicians Have Been Searching for in a Grading System " (PDF)
Wednesday, Oct. 16	1:05PM-1:50PM	4-1-314	Prof. Rolando de Santiago, University of California, Los Angeles, " Classification of group von Neumann Algebras" (PDF)
Tuesday, Oct. 29	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-1616	Prof. Ellie Dannenberg, Pomona College, " An Introduction to Circle Packing" (PDF)
Tuesday, Nov. 5	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-1616	Prof. Milos Savic, University of Oklahoma, " Mathematical Creativity – A Way for Teachers and Students to Feel Empowered* "* (PDF)
Wednesday, Nov. 13	1:05PM-1:50PM	4-1-314	Prof. Lily Silverstein, Cal Poly Pomona, " An Introduction to Computational Complexity in Algebraic Geometry" (PDF)
Tuesday, Nov. 19	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-1616	Victoria Bhavsar, Ph.D., Director of the Faculty Center for Professional Development and the eLearning team, Cal Poly Pomona, “Transparency” as a strategy to improve student persistence in problem solving (PDF)
Tuesday, Nov. 26	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-1616	Prof. Ryan Szypowski, Cal Poly Pomona, " Harmony in Higher-Dimensions ."

Spring Semester 2019

Date	Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Tuesday, Feb. 5	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-1616	Prof. Alissa Crans, Loyola Marymount University, " Curious Quandles" (PDF) - Special Colloquium
Thursday, Feb. 7	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-1616	Prof. Roberto Pelayo, University of Hawai'i at Hilo, " Factorization in Numerical Monoids and Quasi-polynomial Growth" (PDF) - Special Colloquium
Tuesday, Feb. 12	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-1616	Dr. Rebecca Patrias, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, " A tour of symmetric functions and tableau combinatorics" (PDF) - Special Colloquium
Thursday, Feb. 14	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-1616	Lily Silverstein, University of California Davis, " Probabilistic and Statistical Methods in Computational Algebra" (PDF) - Special Colloquium
Wednesday, Feb 27	1:05PM-1:50PM	8-249	Dr. Yunied Puig de Dios, UC Riverside, " Kriz's Theorem via Dynamics of Linear Operators " (PDF)
Wednesday, March 13	1:05PM-1:50PM	8-249	Prof. Arlo Caine, Cal Poly Pomona, " Text Recognition with Computational Topology and Geometry " (PDF)
Wednesday, March 27	1:05PM-1:50PM	8-249	Dr. Timmy Ma, Dartmouth College, " Mathematical Models of Learning from an Inconsistent Source " (PDF)
Wednesday, April 17	1:05PM-1:50PM	8-249	Prof. Jessica Jaynes, CSU Fullerton, " Using Design of Experiments to Determine Consumer Preferences with applications to Health Science " (PDF)
Thursday, April 25	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-1616	Aaron Gaut, Jet Propulsion Lab, " Modeling and Simulation of Robotics Systems " (PDF)
Thursday, May 2	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-2870	Distinguished Lecture: Prof. Pat Thompson, Arizona State University, " A report of Developing and Investigating a Rigorous Approach to Conceptual Calculus (DIRACC)" (PDF) Buffet lunch reception 11:30-12:00 for faculty, staff, and students outside 3-2870

Fall Semester 2018

Date	Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Wednesday, Aug. 29	1:05PM-1:50PM	8-210	Student Talks: Giao (Selena) Bui, Cal Poly Pomona, " An application of the Discrete Hardy Inequality" (PDF), and Joshua Silva, Cal Poly Pomona, " Cohomology of quadratic Poisson structures on R^3 and their foliations" (PDF)
Monday, Sept. 10	1:05PM-1:50PM	8-249	Prof. Roummel Marcia, UC Merced (Applied Mathematics), " Linear Algebra and the Mathematics of Imaging" (PDF)
Wednesday, Sept. 26	1:05PM-1:50PM	8-249	Prof. Cristina Runnalls, Cal Poly Pomona (Mathematics Education), " When math isn't universal: teaching with linguistic diversity in mind" (PDF)
Wednesday, Oct. 10	1:05PM-1:50PM	8-249	Prof. Cathy Kriloff, Idaho State University (Mathematics) " Traversing Symmetric Graphs" (PDF)
Tuesday, Oct. 23	12:05PM-12:50PM	8-249	Prof. Cynthia Flores, CSU Channel Islands (Mathematics), " Going in Depth: From defining Lebesgue Spaces to control of dispersive KdV-like equations" (PDF)
Wednesday, Nov. 7	1:05PM-1:50PM	8-249	Dr. Kim Ayers, Pomona College " A Skew-product Flow Model for Hybrid Dynamical Systems" (PDF)
Monday, Nov. 19	1:05PM-1:50PM	8-249	Prof. Anne Cawley, Cal Poly Pomona (Mathematics Education) " Reading between the lines: decomposing the practice of explaining a procedure " (PDF)
Thursday, Dec. 6	12:05PM-12:50PM	8-249	Prof. Emily Cilli-Turner, University of La Verne (Mathematics Education) " Reshaping Mathematical Identity by Valuing Creativity in Calculus" (PDF)

Spring Quarter 2018

Date	Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Mar. 28	1:05PM-1:50PM	3-1616	Dr. Melinda Lanius, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, " Ice cream geometry: a mathematical activity and coloring book" (PDF)
Apr. 12	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-1616	Prof. Berit Givens, Cal Poly Pomona, " An exploration of triangular-square numbers" (PDF)
Apr. 18	1:05PM-1:50PM	3-1616	Prof. Lilian Metlitzky and & Prof. Greisy Winicki-Landman, Cal Poly Pomona, " Rethinking Mathematics and its Teaching" (PDF)
May 2	12:05PM-12:50PM	8-250	Prof. Ian Duncan, UC Santa Barbara (Actuarial Mathematics) " Changing Health Care: How can we harness the power of predictive analytics for patients, providers, and payers?" (PDF)
May 9	1:05PM-1:50PM	3-1616	Prof. Robin Wilson, Cal Poly Pomona, " Symmetries of the Heawood graph and its spatial embeddings" (PDF)
May 16	1:05PM-1:50PM	3-1616	Prof. Eyob Demeke, CSULA (Mathematics Education) " Proof comprehension: A case study of Abstract Algebra students" (PDF)
May 24	12:05PM-12:50PM, reception prior 11:30AM-12:00PM	3-2870	2018 Distinguished Lecture Prof. Deanna Needell, UCLA, (Applied Mathematics) " Simple classification from binary data" (PDF)

Winter Quarter 2018

Date	Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Jan. 23	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-1616	Cristina Runnalls, University of Iowa, " Language, Math, and High School: Multilevel Comparisons of the ELL and non-ELL Student Experience" (PDF)
Jan. 30	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-1616	Raymond LaRochelle, San Diego State University, " Secondary Teachers' Professional Noticing of Students' Mathematical Thinking" (PDF)
Jan. 31	11:05AM-11:50AM	4-2-314	Prof. Shawnda Smith, CSU Bakersfield, " Minding the Gap: A Comparison between Pre-service and Practicing High School Teachers Geometry Teaching Knowledge" (PDF)
Feb. 1	12:05PM-12:50PM	3-1616	Anne Cawley, University of Michigan, "' I've gotten over being stuck not knowing': The Classroom Experiences and Mathematical Identities of Latinx Students in Developmental Mathematics " (PDF)
Feb. 21	1:05PM-1:50PM	3-1623	Prof. Arlo Caine, Cal Poly Pomona, " Sensitivity of Geometric Structures" (PDF)
Mar. 7	1:05PM-1:50PM	3-1623	Xander Henderson, UC Riverside, " Quantifying Fractality: An Introduction to the Distance Zeta Function" (PDF)

Fall Quarter 2017

Date	Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Oct. 4	1:05PM-1:50PM	3-1637	Dr. Bianca Thompson, Harvey Mudd College, " An accessible guide to uniform bounds of twists " (PDF)
Oct. 18	1:05PM-1:50PM	3-1637	Prof. Nicholas Brubaker, CSU Fullerton, " Understanding interfaces and their application in modern technology " (PDF)
Nov. 1	1:05PM-1:50PM	3-1637	Prof. James Risk, Cal Poly Pomona, " Gaussian process models for mortality and improvement factors " (PDF)
Nov. 15	1:05PM-1:50PM	3-1637	Prof. Fernando Lopez-Garcia, Cal Poly Pomona, " Poincar é type inequalities" (PDF)
Nov. 16	1:05PM-1:50PM	3-1-314	Dr. John Flaig, Applied Technology, " Multivariate neural network modeling " (PDF) CANCELLED
Nov. 29	1:05PM-1:50PM	3-1637	Prof. Mitsuo Kobayashi, Cal Poly Pomona, " Problems Encountered at a Sabbatical " (PDF)

Spring Quarter 2017

Date	Time	Location	Speaker and Title
April 6	12:00PM-1:00PM	3-1639	Ivan Ventura, Cal Poly Pomona, " Can You Hear the Shape of a Radial Schr\"odinger Operator? " (PDF)
April 12	1:00PM-1:50PM	3-2643	Tim Hsu, San Jose State University, " How I Flip Calculus " (PDF)
April 20	12:00PM-1:00PM	3-1616	Brandon Coya, University of California, Riverside, " Graphs and Circuits " (PDF)
April 24	2:00PM-2:50PM	8-4	Dr. Danielle O'Donnol, Indiana University, " Unknotting θ-graphs and DNA Replication" (PDF)
April 27	12:00PM-12:50PM	3-1623	Dr. Silvia Saccone, Case Western Reserve, " Are Decompositions of a Module Unique?" (PDF)
May 1	2:00PM-2:50PM	8-4	Dr. Tyler Kloefkorn, University of Arizona, " The Intersection of Homological Algebra and Numerical Methods: Finite Element Exterior Calculus " (PDF)
May 2	12:00PM-12:50PM	3-1623	Dr. Wiktor Mogilski, Binghamton University, " L^2-cohomology: Fun & Conjectures Abound " (PDF)
May 3	1:00PM-2:00PM	3-2643	Dr. Jillian Cannons, Cal Poly Pomona, Mathematics and Statistics, " Searching for Treasure: An Information Theoretic Linear Programming Approach " (PDF)
May 11	12:00PM-1:00PM	3-1616	Dr. Bill Zahner, San Diego State University, " Student's Linguistic Diversity in Mathematics Classrooms " (PDF)
May 24	1:00PM-1:50PM	3-1616	Dr. Fernando Lopez-Garcia, UC Riverside, " Decomposition of Functions and Solutions " (PDF)

Winter Quarter 2017

Date and Time	Location	Speaker and Title
January 17, Tuesday, 12:05PM-12:55PM	3-1637	Stats Search: Dr. Hayley Belli, Northwestern University, " Sensing with Whiskers: From Geometry and Mechanics to the Statistics of the Array" (PDF)
January 23, Monday, 3:00PM-4:00PM	6-113	Stats Search: Dr. Hyunkeun Cho, " Efficient Quantile Marginal Regression for Longitudinal Data with Dropouts " (PDF)
January 24, Tuesday, 12:00PM-1:00PM	3-1637	Stats Search: Dr. Claudia Solis-Lemus, " Statistical Inference from the Tree of Life " (PDF)
January 26, Thursday, 12:05PM-12:50PM	3-1616	Stats Search: Dr. Mandev Gill, " Bayesian Modeling of Evolutionary Dynamics " (PDF)
February 1, Wednesday, 1:00PM-2:00PM	3-2643	Dr. John Flaig, "Multivariate SPC using JMP's ARIMA and Neural Network Modeling Platforms"
February 15, Wednesday, 1:00PM-1:50PM	3-2643	Erik Hieta-Aho, " Introduction to Coding Theory " (PDF)
February 16, Thursday, 12:00PM-1:00PM	3-1616	Dr. Darryl Yong, Harvey Mudd College, " The Power of Geometric Transformations and Symmetries" (PDF)
February 27, Monday, 3:00PM-3:50PM	24-191 (Music Recital hall)	Dr. Dave Kung, St. Mary's College, " Harmonious Equations: An Exploration of Math & Music " (PDF)
March 1, Wednesday, 1:00PM-2:00PM	3-2643	Andrea Arauza, University of California, Riverside, " Harmonic Functions on the Sierpinski Gasket " (PDF)
March 7, Tuesday, 12:00PM-1:00PM	3-1637	Stats Search: Dr. Won Chul Song, Purdue University, " Group Feature Screening via F-test " (PDF)
March 9, Thursday, 12:00PM-1:00PM	3-1637	Stats Search: Dr. Jimmy Risk, UC Santa Barbara, " Gaussian Process Regression for Machine Learning & Statistical Computing "

Fall Quarter 2016

Date and Time	Location	Speaker and Title
October 13, Thursday, 12:00PM-1:00PM	Room 3-1616	Dr. Michael Hartglass, University of California, Riverside, "An Introduction to Free Probability"
October 27, Thursday, 12:00PM-1:30PM	Room 4-2-314	Student Colloquium: Ruben Hurtado, Ryan (Hsien-Te) Kao, Pedram O., Ali Oudich, Uyen Nguyen , Cal Poly Pomona, Mathematics and Statistics
November 10, Thursday, 12:00PM-1:00PM	Room	Dr. Briana Foster-Greenwood, Cal Poly Pomona, Mathematics and Statistics, " Adventures in Noncommutative Algebra"

Spring Quarter 2016

Date and Time	Location	Speaker and Title
April 20, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50PM	Room 3-1639	David Nguyen, Cal Poly Pomona, " Basketball Paths and Random Paths in Life"
April 28, Thursday, 12:05pm-12:50pm	Room 3-1639	Prof. Susan Nickerson, San Diego State University, " Promising Interventions for Broadening Participation in STEM "
May 4, Wednesday, 3:05-3:50PM	Room 5-240	Linda Saeta, Claremont High School, " The Discontinuities in the Derivative of Math Education "
May 20, Friday, 4:00-6:00pm	Room 162-1001	Distinguished Lecture: Prof. Hernando Ombao, UC Irvine, " The Contributions of Statistics to Brain Research"
May 25, Wednesday, 1:00pm-1:50pm	Room 3-1639	Hendrik Weyer, Universitat Bremen, Germany, " Laplace Operators in Fractal Geometry - An introduction to analysis on fractals "

Winter Quarter 2016

Date and Time	Location	Speaker and Title
January 13, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50PM	Room 3-1639	Prof. Alex Small, Cal Poly Pomona, Physics and Astronomy, " Seeing the 'Impossible' in biology "
January 27, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50pm	Room 3-1639	Prof. Arlo Caine, Cal Poly Pomona, Mathematics and Statistics, " Cohomology of toric Poisson structures "
February 15, Monday, 1:05-1:50pm	Room 3-1637	Michael Santana, University Illinois Urbana-Champaign, " Characterizing graphs without disjoint chorded cycles"
February 17, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50pm	Room 3-1639	Dr. Briana Foster-Greenwood, Idaho State University, " Symmetry, graphs, and algebras associated to reflection groups"
February 22, Monday, 11:05am-11:50am	Room 3-1639	Dr. Sogol Jahanbekam, University of Colorado Denver, " Some Applications of the Combinatorial Nullstellensatz and Discharging Method"
February 25, Thursday, 12:05pm-12:50pm	Room 3-1637	Dr. Ivan Ventura, Harvey Mudd College, " Solitary Wave Dynamics for Nonlinear Schroedinger Equations with Slowly Varying Potential"
March 3, Thursday, 12:05-12:50PM	Room 3-1637	Dr. Jillian Cannons, Cal Poly Pomona, " Problems in Applied Optimization"

Fall Quarter 2015

Date and Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Oct. 7, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50PM	Room 3-2643	Student Talks: Ruben Yuriar, Mathematics, " The OSU SAMMS Program and Asymptotic Analysis" and Miguel Landeros & Karina Pena, Mathematics, " Irreducible Elements of Leamer Mondoids: and REU Project"
Nov. 4, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50PM	Room 3-2643	Prof. Stacy Musgrave, Cal Poly Pomona, Mathematics and Statistics, " Understanding and Advancing Undergraduate Mathematics Instructors' Mathematical and Pedagogical Content Knowledge"
Nov. 18, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50PM	Room 3-2643	Dr. Ivan Ventura, Harvey Mudd College, Mathematics, " Can you hear the shape of a radial Schroedinger Operator?"
Nov. 19, Thursday, 2:05-2:50PM	Room 3-1637	Dr. John Flaig, FASQ, Managing Director of Applied Technology, Inc., " The New FMEA, an Econometric Approach "
Dec. 2, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50PM	Room 3-2643	Dr. Angel Chavez, Pomona College, Mathematics, " Random Conformal Mappings of the Disk"
Dec. 3, Thursday, 12:05-12:50pm	Room 3-1616	Prof. Stewart Johnson, Williams College, Mathematics, " Non-linear Games on a Grid "

Spring Quarter 2015

Date and Time	Location	Speaker and Title
April 8, Wednesday, 3:05-3:50PM	Room 3-1637	Dr. Jorge Moreno, Cal Poly Pomona, Physics and Astronomy " Interacting Galaxies in a Multi-scale Hierarchical Universe"
April 22, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50PM	Room 3-1637	Dr. Ray Beaulieu, National Security Agency, Cryptographic Design " Symmetric Key Cryptography "
May 7, Thursday, 12:05-12:50PM	Room 3-1616	Prof. Blake Hunter, Claremont McKenna College, Mathematics " Building Graphs to Analyze Big Data "
May 15, Friday, 4:00-5:30PM	Room 162-1001	Distinguished Lecture: Prof. Art Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College, Mathematics " The Mathematics of Games and Gambling " For off-campus visitors, driving directions to campus and the Visitor Information Booth are available. Parking passes are $6/day and can be purchased from the attendant at the Visitor Information Booth or from any one of the parking permit kiosks located in the parking lots around campus. Parking in Lot C near the base of the CLA tower provides easy access to the lecture hall in the College of Business Administration through the campus Rose Garden.

Winter Quarter 2015

Date and Time	Location	Speaker and Title
January 28, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50PM	Room 3-1623	Dr. John Flaig, Fellow of the American Society for Quality, Distinguished Cal Poly Alumnus, " A conversation with analytics thought leaders " (pdf)
January 28, Wednesday, 2:05-2:50PM	Room 4-1-314	Special Colloquium: Osvaldo Soto, Mathematics Education, " Teacher change in the context of a proof-centered professional development " (pdf)
February 2, Monday, 1:05-1:50PM	Room 3-1623	Special Colloquium: Dr. Chris Yakes, Mathematics Education, " Proportional Reasoning in the Middle Grades: Changes and Challenges with the Common Core" (pdf)
February 5, Thursday, 12:05-12:50PM	Room 3-1616	Special Colloquium: Dr. Stacy Musgrave, Mathematics Education " To get the right answer " (pdf)
February 25, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50PM	Room 3-1639	Dr. Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College, Mathematics " Counting Invariants and Enhancements "
March 11, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50PM	Room 3-1639	Dr. Robin Jeffries, CSU Chico, Mathematics and Statistics " What's the Big deal with Big data? The rising importance of training new Data Scientists"

Fall Quarter 2014

Date and Time	Location	Speaker and Title
Oct. 8, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50PM	Room 3-1639	Student Talks: Grace Lim, Applied Mathematics, " MIT Summer Research Program: Cell Swimming " (pdf) and Aaron Gaut, Computer Science, " Text recognition through computational topology " (pdf)
Oct. 15, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50PM	Room 3-1639	Prof. Em. Daryl J. Daley, Applied Mathematics, University of Melbourne, Australia " Epidemic modelling: measles, dengue fever, ebola... " (pdf)
Oct. 22, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50PM	Room 3-1639	Prof. Adam King, Cal Poly Pomona, Mathematics and Statistics " DNA evidence, conditional probability, and the Texas sharpshooter fallacy" (pdf)
Nov. 10, Monday, 12:30-2:00PM	Room 8-4	Prof. Tommy Dreyfus, Tel Aviv University, School of Education, " How can we know whether it is a proof?" (pdf)
Nov. 19, Wednesday, 3:05-3:50PM	Room 3-2643	Dr. Guillermo Reyes, USC, Mathematics " Degenerate diffusion in heterogeneous porous media with vanishing viscostiy " (pdf)
Dec. 3, Wednesday, 3:05-3:50PM	Room 3-1639	Dr. Mohammed Omar, Harvey Mudd College, Mathematics " When algebraic geometry meets graph theory " (pdf)