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 …
Measuring Combinatorial Complexity via Regularity Lemmas Prof. Caroline Terry Associate Professor University of Illinois-Chicago Many tools have been developed in combinatorics to study global structure in finite graphs. One such tool is called SzemerĂ©di’s regularity lemma, which gives a structural …
Cytokine Shield Formation in Tumor Growth by Blocking Chemotactic Migration of T Cells in Response to CXCL12 from Senescent Tumor Cells Prof. Yangjin Kim Professor Brown University Cellular senescence can induce dual effects (promotion or inhibition) on cancer progression. While …
Measures of Maximal Entropy on Coded Shift Spaces: Uniqueness and Computability Prof. Christian Wolf Executive Officer and Professor CUNY Graduate Center and City College In this talk, we present results about the uniqueness and computability of measures of maximal …
Recent Advances in Nonlocal Dielectric Continuum Models for Predicting Protein and Ion Channel Electrostatics Dr. Dexuan Xie Professor University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The calculation of electrostatics for proteins and ion channels is a fundamental challenge in structural biology, computational biochemistry, biophysics, …
A Function Space View of Neural Networks Prof. Greg Ongie Assistant Professor Marquette University Many mathematical analyses of deep learning focus on how neural network (NN) parameters evolve during training. A complementary perspective is to view NN training as fitting …