SJSU Math/Stats Online Colloquium, Fall 2020-2021

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

San José State University

All colloquia will be held via Zoom; please email tim.hsu@sjsu.edu for Zoom link. Unless otherwise indicated, on colloquium days (Wednesdays unless otherwise noted):

Date Speaker Title (click links for abstracts)
Wed Aug 26 SPECIAL EVENT Welcome to the major in math/stats at SJSU
Wed Sep 02 SPECIAL EVENT Graduate school workshop
Wed Sep 09 James Tanton (on YouTube) Explode Your Mind with Exploding Dots
Wed Sep 16 Tyler Jarvis, Brigham Young Univ. Teaching a computer to solve problems: root finding, optimization, and machine learning
Wed Sep 23 Daniel Ladiges, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Accurate solutions of the Boltzmann equation for nanoscale transport phenomena
Wed Sep 30 Jesse Geneson, SJSU Metric dimension of graphs
Wed Oct 07 Lucas Esclapez, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab A numerical strategy for low-Mach number simulation of flame/electric fields interactions
Wed Oct 14 Natalie Hobson, Sonoma State Univ. You Decide! How the math behind our voting systems swings the election
Wed Oct 21 Robert Lund, UC Santa Cruz Multiple Changepoint Detection in Climatology
Wed Oct 28 Erica Flapan, Pomona College An introduction to spatial graph theory
Wed Nov 04 NO COLLOQUIUM
Wed Nov 11 VETERANS DAY NO COLLOQUIUM
Wed Nov 18 Alejandro Garcia, SJSU Physics Algorithm Refinement: A 20 Year Retrospective
Wed Nov 25 THANKSGIVING BREAK NO COLLOQUIUM
Wed Dec 02 Stephanie Salomone, U. Portland This We Believe: Personal and Mathematical Axiomatic Systems

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