Seminars Spring 2024


Seminars Spring 2024: 7/8-7/12/2024
  July 8-July 12, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Monday, 7/811:00amFinal Oral Examination for the Ph.D. Degree
On Properties of Algebraic Structures Related to Simplicial Complexes
Ritika Nair
Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/98552175145
Passcode: 2024
Zoom and 454 Snow

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 6/3-6/7/2024
  June 3-June 7, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Thursday, 6/610:00amComprehensive Oral Examination for the Ph.D. Degree
On Properties of Algebraic Structures Related to Simplicial Complexes
Ritika Nair
Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/98503510992 
Passcode: 2024
Zoom

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 5/20-5/24/2024
  May 20-May 24, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Tuesday, 5/211:00pmFinal Oral Examination for the Ph.D. Degree
F-Invariants of Certain Power Series
Trevor Arrigoni
Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/91399837688
Passcode: 2024
401 Snow and Zoom

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 4/29-5/3/2024
  April 29-May 3 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Monday, 4/2911:00amFinal Oral Examination for the M.A. Degree
A Molecular Beam Epitaxy Model on the Half-Line
Magzhan Biyar
306 Snow
 1:00pmFinal Oral Examination for the Ph.D. Degree
On the Full Ericksen-Leslie Model of Nematic Liquid Crystals
Majed Eida M Sofiani
306 Snow
Thursday, 5/21:30pmFinal Oral Examination for the Ph.D. Degree
Local Cohomology of Subspace Arrangements and Simplicial Homology
Abraham Pascoe
Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/92082220569 
Passcode: 2024
Zoom
Friday, 5/311:00amFinal Oral Examination for the Ph.D. Degree
Conditional Limit Theorems for the KPZ Fixed Point with a Large Height
Ray Zhang
Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/5504431223
no passcode needed
302 Snow and Zoom

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 4/22-4/26/2024
  April 22-April 26, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Tuesday, 4/2312:00pmFinal Oral Examination for the Ph.D. Degree
Homological and Combinatorial Properties of $\mathfrak{m}$-Primary Monomial Ideals
John Portin
Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/93549333239 
Passcode: 2024
Zoom
 4:00pmAWM Student Chapter and SIAM Student Chapter Meeting
Two-point Function of KPZ
Sefika Kuzgun, University of Rochester
Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/9555938246
Passcode: 056731
Zoom
Wednesday, 4/2411:00amFinal Oral Examination for the Ph.D. Degree
Matroid Base Polytopes of Lattice Path Matroids & Ehrhart
Theory

Dania Morales
Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/99577641789 
Passcode: 2024
Zoom
 1:00pmDifferential Equations, Dynamical Systems & Geometric Analysis Seminar
Optimal Control of Moving Sets
Maria Teresa Chiri, Queen's University, Canada
306 Snow
 2:00pmComputational & Applied Math Seminar
Global Solution and Singularity Formation for the Supersonic Expanding Wave of Compressible Euler Equations with Radial Symmetry
Yannan Shen 
306 Snow
Thursday, 4/252:00pmOral Presentation for Department Honors
On the Inverse Galois Problem
Kashif Khan
306 Snow
 4:00pmSmith Colloquium
Quantum Lefschetz via Logarithmic Gauged Linear Sigma Models
Qile Chen, Boston College
306 Snow
Friday, 4/263:00pmCombinatorics Seminar
Schubert Varieties and Sphericality 
Reuven Hodges
306 Snow

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 4/15-4/19/2024
  April 15-April 19, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Wednesday, 4/171:00pmDifferential Equations, Dynamical Systems & Geometric Analysis Seminar 
Water Waves: Theory, Computation and Applications
Dimitrios Mitsotakis, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Zoom link:  https://kansas.zoom.us/j/92315870651
Passcode: 0000
Zoom
 2:00pmComputational & Applied Math Seminar
Solutions of a Class of Riccati Inequalities
Hongguo Xu
306 Snow
Thursday, 4/184:00pmSmith Colloquium
Spectral Theory of Soliton Gases for Integrable Equations: Some Basic Facts and Recent Developments
Alexander Tovbis, University of Central Florida
306 Snow

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 4/8-4/12/2024
  April 8-April 12, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Tuesday, 4/94:00pmSmith Colloquium
Moduli of Boundary Polarized Calabi-Yau Pairs
Dori Bejleri, University of Maryland
301 Snow
Wednesday, 4/101:00pmDifferential Equations, Dynamical Systems & Geometric Analysis Seminar 
From Nonlinear Optics to Ultra-Cold Atomic Physics and Rogue Waves: Adventures in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Stathis Charalampidis, California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo
306 Snow
Thursday, 4/113:00pmSmith Colloquium
Moduli of K3 Surfaces, Wall-Crossing and the Hassett-Keel Program
Kenneth Ascher,  University of California, Irvine
306 Snow
 4:00pmSmith Colloquium
Variable Target Scalable Particle Filter
Ning (Patricia) Ning, Texas A&M University 
306 Snow

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 4/1-4/5/2024
  April 1-April 5, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Wednesday, 4/31:00pmDifferential Equations, Dynamical Systems & Geometric Analysis Seminar 
Extreme Superposition: Models for Large-Amplitude Rogue Waves
Deniz Bilman, University of Cincinnati
Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/92315870651
Passcode: 0000
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 2:00pmComputational & Applied Math Seminar
Sampling From High-Dimensional, Multimodal Distributions Using Automatically Tuned, Tempered Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Joonha Park
306 Snow
Friday, 4/511:00amStudent Algebra Seminar
Toric Varieties and Zariski-Nagata Type Theorems
Jordan Barrett, University of Nebraska
456 Snow
 12:00pmGSO Seminar
What is a Category?
Ryan Hunter
256 Snow
 3:00pmCombinatorics Seminar
Defective Parking Functions and the Symmetric Group
Aaron Ortiz
306 Snow

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 3/25-3/29/2024
  March 25-March 29, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Monday, 3/2512:00pmComprehensive Oral Examination for the Ph.D. Degree
On Cancellation-Free Antipodes in Hopf Monoids
Mark Denker
401 Snow
Wednesday, 3/271:00pmDifferential Equations, Dynamical Systems & Geometric Analysis Seminar 
From Euler Flows with Friction to Gradient Flows
Athanasios Tzavaras, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/92315870651
Passcode: 0000
Zoom
 2:00pmComputational & Applied Math Seminar
High Dimensional Covariance Estimation: Ad Hoc Tricks and Mathematical Explanations
Matthias Morzfeld, University of California, San Diego 
306 Snow
Thursday, 3/284:00pmSmith Colloquium
When is an Alexandrov Space Smoothable?
Catherine Searle, Wichita State University
306 Snow

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 3/18-3/22/2024
  March 18-March 22, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Tuesday, 3/194:00pmMathematics Distinguished Lecture
Universality in Numerical Computation with Random Data. Case Studies and Analytical Results
Percy Deift, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
120 Snow
Friday, 3/2211:00amStudent Algebra Seminar
An Introduction to Invariant Theory
Christopher Wong
564 Snow
 1:00pmOral Comprehensive Exam
On the Full Ericksen-Leslie Model of Nematic Liquid Crystals
Majed Eida M Sofiani
401 Snow
 3:00pmCombinatorics Seminar
Pattern-Avoiding Polytopes and Cambrian Lattices
JianPing Pan, North Carolina State University
Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/99294714793
Password: 2024
306 Snow

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 3/4-3/8/2024
  March 4-March 8, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Wednesday, 3/62:00pmComputational & Applied Math Seminar
A Penalty Free Weak Galerkin Finite Element Method on Quadrilataral Meshes
Ruishu Wang, Jilin University
306 Snow
Thursday, 3/74:00pmSmith Colloquium
Rayleigh-Taylor Instability and Beyond
Ronghua Pan, Georgia Institute of Technology
306 Snow
Friday, 3/83:00pmCombinatorics Seminar
Degrees of the Stretched Kostka Quasi-Polynomials
Shiliang Gao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Zoom link: https://kansas.zoom.us/j/99519805587
Passcode: 2024
Zoom/306 Snow

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 2/26-3/1/2024
  February 26-March 1, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Wednesday, 2/2810:00 am

Comprehensive Oral Examination for Ph.D.
Limit Theorems of the KPZ Fixed Point Conditioned on a Rare Event
Ray Zhang
https://kansas.zoom.us/j/5504431223
No passcode needed

Zoom
Friday, 3/112:00pmGSO Seminar
GSO Graduate Student Forum
256 Snow
 3:00pmCombinatorics Seminar
The Kernel of the Chromatic Symmetric Function
Jeremy Martin
306 Snow

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 2/19-2/23/2024
  February 19-February 23, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Thursday, 2/224:00pmSmith Colloquium
Compact Moduli of K3 Surfaces and Tropical Spheres with 24 Singular Points
Valery Alexeev, University of Georgia
306 Snow
Friday, 2/2311:00amStudent Algebra Seminar
The Secrets of a Spectral Sequence
Abraham Pascoe
456 Snow
 12:00pmGSO Seminar
Policy Iteration for Markov Decision Processes
Parham Hagshenas
256 Snow

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 2/12-2/16/2024
  February 12-February 16, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Thursday, 2/154:00pmSmith Colloquium
Time-Asymptotic Stability of Generic Riemann Solutions to the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations
Yi Wang, Institute of Applied Mathematics, AMSS, Chinese Academy of Sciences
306 Snow
Friday, 2/1611:00amStudent Algebra Seminar
Local Cohomology and Global Cohomology
Sreehari Suresh Babu
564 Snow
 3:00pmCombinatorics Seminar
Approximate Counting in Algebraic Combinatorics
Reuven Hodges
306 Snow

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 2/5-2/9/2024
  February 5-February 9, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Tuesday, 2/64:00pmAWM & SIAM Student Chapter Meeting
Elections of the Officers for both Chapters & Organizational Discussion
306 Snow
Friday, 2/911:00amStudent Algebra Seminar
Introduction to Local Cohomology
Ryan Hunter
564 Snow
 12:00pmGSO Seminar
Laplacian Eigenvalues of Graphs
Brandon Lee
256 Snow
 3:00pmCombinatorics Seminar
Using Discrete Morse Theory for Matching Complexes
Marge Bayer
306 Snow

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 1/29-2/2/2024
  January 29-February 2, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Thursday, 2/14:00pmFaculty Candidate Talk 3306 Snow
Friday, 2/23:00pmCombinatorics Seminar
Chromatic Symmetric Functions II
Jeremy Martin
306 Snow

 

Seminars Spring 2024: 1/22-1/26/2024
  January 22-January 26, 2024 
DateTimeSeminarLocation
Tuesday, 1/234:00pmFaculty Candidate Talk 1 306 Snow
Wednesday, 1/242:00pmComputational & Applied Math Seminar
Organizational Meeting
306 Snow
Thursday, 1/25 4:00pmFaculty Candidate Talk 2306 Snow
Friday, 1/263:00pmCombinatorics Seminar
Chromatic Symmetric Functions I: Basics and Crew's Conjecture
Jeremy Martin
306 Snow