SJSU Math/Stats Colloquium, Spring 2019-2020

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

San José State University

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

Please also note that job talks are subject to last-minute changes.


Date Speaker Title (click links for abstracts)
Fri Jan 24 JOB TALK Topic: Numerical methods, 10:30am
Mon Jan 27 JOB TALK Topic: Applied combinatorics
Tue Jan 28 JOB TALK Topic: Numerical methods
Wed Jan 29 JOB TALK Topic: Applied combinatorics
Tue Feb 04 JOB TALK Topic: Mathematical biology
Wed Feb 05 Abel Rodriguez, UC Santa Cruz Analyzing cognitive social structures (Statistical Seminar of San Francisco Bay Area chapter of American Statistical Association)
Thu Feb 06 JOB TALK Topic: Mathematical biology
Fri Feb 07 JOB TALK Topic: Applied combinatorics
Mon Feb 10 JOB TALK Topic: Quantum computing and optimization
Wed Feb 19 NO COLLOQUIUM
Wed Feb 26 Tadashi Tokieda, Stanford A magic of twisting, pasting, slicing
Wed Mar 04 Cornelia Van Cott, USF Sometimes Pi Equals 4
Wed Mar 11 COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED
Wed Mar 18 Emily Peters, Loyola University (vis. MSRI) Pictures beyond geometry (Zoom link here)
Wed Mar 25 Carol Meyers, Lawrence Livermore National Labs Optimizing the Enterprise: My Career at a National Laboratory (Zoom link here)
Wed Apr 01 NO COLLOQUIUM SPRING BREAK
Wed Apr 08 COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED
Mon Apr 13 SPECIAL EVENT Math/Stats Career Day
Wed Apr 15 COLLOQUIUM CANCELLED
Wed Apr 22 Wes Maciejewski, SJSU Procedural flexibility (email tim.hsu@sjsu.edu for Zoom link)
Wed Apr 29 Martin Weissman, UC Santa Cruz The arithmetic of arithmetic Coxeter groups (email tim.hsu@sjsu.edu for Zoom link; handout for talk)
Wed May 06 Ellen Veomett, St. Mary's College of CA The Mathematician and the Mapmaker: Using Mathematics to Combat Gerrymandering (email tim.hsu@sjsu.edu for Zoom link)
Mon May 11 Julia Plavnik, Indiana U. Bloomington Mathematics of Topological Quantum Computation (email tim.hsu@sjsu.edu for Zoom link)

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