SJSU Math/Stats Colloquium, Fall 2017-2018 Department of Mathematics and Statistics San José State University

Unless otherwise indicated, on colloquium days (Wednesdays unless otherwise noted):

• Tea will be held at 2:30pm in MacQuarrie Hall 331B.
• Colloquium will be held from 3-4pm in MacQuarrie Hall 320.

Date	Speaker	Title (click links for abstracts)
Wed Aug 30	SPECIAL EVENT	Welcome to the major in math/stats at SJSU
Wed Sep 06	Special EO 1110 dept meeting
Wed Sep 13	Graduate school workshop
Mon Sep 18	Dept meeting	Special guest: Joanne Wright, Faculty Affairs, on scheduling
Wed Sep 20	Deanna Needell, UCLA (visiting MSRI)	Simple Classification using Binary Data
Fri Sep 22	Dept meeting CANCELLED
Wed Sep 27	Abel Rodriguez, UC Santa Cruz	Spherical Factor Analysis for Binary Data: A Look at the Conservative Revolt in the House
Mon Oct 02	Dept meeting
Wed Oct 04	Tatiana Shubin, SJSU	The Alliance of Indigenous Math Circles
Wed Oct 11	Jordan Schettler, SJSU	The Riemann Zeta Function and Non-Standard Analysis
Mon Oct 16	Dept meeting
Wed Oct 18	Josephine Yu, Georgia Tech (visiting MSRI)	Solving polynomial equations
Wed Oct 25	Jesus Oliver, CSU East Bay	The Wave Equation on Black Hole Spacetimes
Wed Nov 01	Robin Wilson, Cal Poly Pomona (visiting Pomona College)	Symmetries of spatial embeddings of the Heawood graph
Wed Nov 08	Francis Su, Harvey Mudd College (visiting MSRI)	Combinatorial Fixed Point Theorems
Wed Nov 15	Dongwook Lee, UC Santa Cruz	New High-order Methods Using Gaussian Processes for CFD
Wed Nov 22	NO COLLOQUIUM	Happy Thanksgiving!
Wed Nov 29	Chi-Kwong Li, College of William and Mary	Matrix Problems in Quantum Information Science
Wed Dec 06	Rekha R. Thomas, U. Washington (visiting MSRI)	Algebraic Vision

See here for more about the SJSU Math/Stats Colloquium.

Useful links:

• Directions to SJSU. For transit directions, use the Google maps link there, or contact the colloquium organizer.
• SJSU campus map. Math/Stats Dept is in MacQuarrie Hall (MQH), SW quadrant of campus.
• Interactive SJSU campus map. Click the Parking button to see parking garages; recommended parking garage is 7th St @ San Salvador. Select the building "MacQuarrie Hall" to see Math/Stats Dept.
• Guide to parking at SJSU
• SJSU Math/Stats Colloquium Fall 2016-2017
• SJSU Math/Stats Colloquium Spring 2017-2018
• SJSU Math/Stats