Studying Successful Doctoral Students from Underrepresented Groups Dr. Sarah Sword Principal Research Scientist Education Development Center, Inc. In this talk, we will share early findings from an NSF study of 75 doctoral students and recent PhDs in mathematics from underrepresented …
The Impact of Ephaptic Coupling and Ionic Electrodiffusion on Arrhythmogenesis in the Heart Ning Wei Assistant Professor Purdue University Cardiac myocytes synchronize through electrical signaling to contract heart muscles, facilitated by gap junctions (GJs) in the intercalated disc (ID). GJs …
Symmetries and Diagram Algebras Dr. Alexander Wilson Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics Oberlin College In this talk I will introduce you to the world of symmetric group representations through diagram algebras, which trace their origin to the Temperley-Lieb algebra with …
Embeddings: The Language of AI Mr. Mike Clutterbuck Lead Data Scientist Wantable Inc. Embeddings are a core concept in machine learning that help AI understand and organize complex data. They take things like words, images, or user behavior and turn …
Infinitesimal Spaces of Quasiregular Mappings Prof. Alastair Fletcher Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of Undergraduate Studies Northern Illinois University How can we differentiate functions which are not differentiable? In the context of quasiregular mappings, a generalization of holomorphic functions …
Some Things We Do and Don't Know About Knots Dr. Jason DeBlois Associate Professor University of Pittsburgh In this talk, “knot” will mean a circle embedded in three-dimensional space. These have been formally studied since the late 19th century. More …
How you think on a function defined on 0,1,…,N-1? Prof. Shamgar Gurevich Professor of Mathematics University of Wisconsin-Madison Between thousand to million times per day, your cellphone calculates the Fourier Transform (FT) of certain functions defined on 0,1,…,N-1, with N …
Quads, Finite Geometry, and Sidon Sets Dr. Lauren Rose Associate Professor of Mathematics Bard College Quads is a SET-like card game, produced by the AWM under the name “EvenQuads”. The cards can be represented as points in $\mathbb{Z}_2^6$​, where a …
Polynomial-time Computability of the Julia Set for Polynomial Skew Products of Two Complex Variables Dr. Suzanne Boyd Associate Professor University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Ingrained in the modern study of dynamical systems is the use of computer experiments for revelation and illustration. …
Agent-based Modeling of Dysregulated Cell Signaling and the Tumor-Immune Landscape Predicts New Possibilities for Combination Therapy Dr. Trachette Jackson Professor of Mathematics and Associate Vice President for Research - Strategic Partnerships and Inclusive Excellence University of Michigan Mathematical models, specifically …