Graduate Student Colloquium: Math Graduate Student Panel This is our last Math Graduate Student Colloquium of the semester. We will have a panel of senior graduate students happy to discuss our experiences here in 51ÁÔÆæ's math department and answer any …
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 …
Graduate Student Colloquium: Soft Open This is our first Math Graduate Student Colloquium. We will be hanging out, eating snacks, and getting back into the swing of semester life. Please, join us and get a feel of what to expect …
Community of Practice: Introduction to Transparency in Learning and Teaching What is the core purpose of the assignments, tasks, and learning opportunities in our courses? Â Better yet, what do our students think is the primary purpose? Â In this workshop we …
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 …
Finite Elements for Mathematicians Liam Jemison PhD Graduate Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee We will discuss the finite element method, a powerful approach for numerically solving differential equations. We will introduce the weak formulation of a differential equation from the functional …
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 …
Community of Practice: Supporting Students in Math (SupportU) Have you interacted with a student that you were especially concerned about, but you didn’t quite know what to say, who to tell, or what to do? Perhaps the student confided in …
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 …
Kostant's Formula and Parking Functions: Combinatorial Explorations Kimberly Harry University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee We let L(λ) denote the irreducible highest weight representation of the classical simple Lie algebra g with highest weight λ. Kostant’s weight multiplicity formula gives a way to …