Partitioning the Natural Numbers with Fibonacci-like Sequences Levi Montee Graduate Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Famously seen in the displacement of seeds in a sunflower, the branching of tree limbs or enumerating results in a variety of combinatorics problems, the Fibonacci …
Parking Completions and Volumes of Polytopes Kimberly Hadaway Graduate Student Iowa State University Parking functions correspond with preferences of n cars which enter sequentially to park on a one-way street where (1) each car parks in the first available spot …
The Axiom of Choice and Non-Lebesgue Measurable Sets Jillian Cervantes Graduate Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee In this expository talk, we explore an interesting connection between the axiom of choice and the existence of non-Lebesgue measurable subsets of \mathbb{R}. We state …
Representation Theory Through Parking Functions This talk is about parking spaces. No, not the kind in a grocery store parking lot, rather a kind of space that appears when you want to study the symmetries of a set of combinatorial …
This event will still take place on 01/30/2026 from 12:30 - 1:30 pm in EMS E495 The first graduate student colloquium this semester features our Chair, Dr. Pamela Harris. This will be an informal conversation between the department chair and …
An Introduction to Boundaries of Groups A key idea in the field of geometric group theory is to study geometric and topological objects associated with groups. Boundaries of groups are examples of such objects. In this talk we will look …
Life After the PhD, Alumni Career Panel Join us for a discussion with distinguished alumni as they share their experiences transitioning from graduate school to academic careers. Pizza will be provided! Topics include: Academic job market Postdocs and faculty positions …
An Introduction to Boundaries of Groups We introduce a generalization of parking functions in which cars are limited in their movement backwards and forwards by two nonnegative integer parameters k and â„“, respectively. In this setting, there are n spots …
Agentic Implementations of Modern Applications We’ll be hearing from Kolin Konjura, a Senior Solutions Engineer at Microsoft with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from 51ÁÔÆæ and a Master’s Degree in Mathematics. He will discuss how modern agentic systems are being implemented across industry applications, highlighting opportunities …
The Beautiful Interplay of Rotation Groups in Three Dimensions We'll explore the connections between the rotation Lie groups (SU(n) and SO(n)) in two and three dimensions. In doing so, we'll prove a remarkable theorem about the way that SU(2) and …