Graduate Student Seminar (GSS)
2019 Fall: Click this link for the updated schedule
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 09/14, "Graduate Students Benefits Orientation"
2017 Spring
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 02/03, Professor Vaughn Climenhaga
- 02/17, Professor Alan Haynes
- 03/03, Professor Ilya Timofeyev
2016 Fall
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 09/02, Professor Andrew Török , Introduction to Computing Resources for New Graduate Students
- 09/16, Professor Ilya Timofeyev, Career Planning and Department Policy for Selecting your Advisor and Demonstrating Sufficient Progress Towards Completing Your Ph.D. Dissertation
- 09/30, Professor Yuliya Gorb, Modeling, Simulation and Asymptotic Analysis of High Contrast Materials
- 10/14, Professor Arnold Reusken, Modeling and Simulation of Incompressible Flows with Moving Interfaces
- 10/28, Professor Alexander Mamonov, Nonlinear Acoustic Imaging via Reduced Order Model Backprojection
- 11/18, Professor Krešimir Josić, Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Synthetic Microbial Collectives
2016 Spring
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 01/22, Professor Andrew Török , Computing training for new TA. (Location: 651G)
- 01/22, Professor Boris Muha, The Fluid-Structure Interaction: Analysis, Numerics and Applications
- 02/05, Professor Alexander Mamonov, Nonlinear Acoustic Imaging Via Reduced Order Model Backprojection
- 04/01, Professor Maxim Olshanskii, Unfitted Finite Element Methods
- 04/15, Professor Demetrio Labate
2015 Fall
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 08/28, Professor Andrew Török , Computing training for new TA.
- 10/09, Professor Mary Flagg, Cultivating Professional Success (Location: AH 104)
- 10/16, Professor Bernhard Bodmann, Near-Optimal Frames Without Magic
- 10/23, Professor Mehrdad Kalantar, Groups in the Noncommutative World
- 11/06, Professor David Blecher, (Title-TBA)
- 11/20, Professor William Ott, Synthetic Biology: A Mathematician's Tale
2015 Spring
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 01/23, Professor Ilya Timofeyev, Roles of Graduate Students. (Location: Room 651G)
- 01/30, Professor Andrew Török , Computing training for new TA. (Location: Room 651G)
- 02/20, Professor Jingmei Qiu, High order numerical methods for hyperbolic problems and applications.
- 03/06, Professor Wenjiang Fu, Some Mysterious and Yet Open Problems in Statistics and Their Applications
2014 Fall
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 08/29, Professor Ilya Timofeyev, Roles of Graduate Students.
- 09/05, Professor Andrew Török , computing training for new TA.
- 09/12, Professor Robert Azencott, Estimation of joint SDE models for Stock Prices and Volatilities: Impact of modeling errors on Option Pricing.
- 09/19, Professor Manos Papadakis, Neuroscience Imaging from the Perspective of an Analyst.
- 10/24, Professor Hongkun Zhang, Chaotic Billiards and Their Applications.
- 10/31, Professor Yuri Kuznetsov, Heterogeneous discretizations for diffusion equations.
- 11/19, Professor Mark Tomforde, The Mad Veterinarian Puzzle
2014 Spring
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 01/31, Professor Edward Kao, Financial Math Introduction and FMO Program.
- 02/21, Professor Ilya Timofeyev, Traffic Modeling: From Microscopic to Effective PDE Models.
- 03/28, Professor Suncica Canic, Mathematical Heart Valve Replacement
2013 Fall
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 08/30, Professor Ilya Timofeyev, Roles of Graduate Students.
- 09/06, Professor Andrew Torok , computing training for new TA.
- 10/04, Professor Giles Auchmuty, Research areas and US Jobs for Mathematics graduates.
- 11/01, Professor David Blecher, Noncommutative topology and prescribing behaviour of noncommutative functions on noncommutative subsets.
2013 Spring
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 02/15, Professor Yuliya Gorb
- 03/01, Professor Zachary Kilpatrick
- 04/05, Professor Min Ru, It is as easy as abc
- 04/19, Professor Matthew Nicol
2012 Fall
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 08/31, Professor Andrew Török , computing training for new TA.
- 09/07, Professor Garret Etgen, Roles of Graduate Students.
- 09/21, Professor Maxim Olshanskiy
- 09/28, Professor Vern Paulsen
- 10/05, Professor Vaughn Climenhaga
- 10/19, Professor Krešimir Josić
- 11/02, Professor Bernhard Bodmann, Phase recognition: From X-ray crystallography to factoring polynomials.
2012 Spring
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 2/07, Professor Mark Tomforde, Having a Grand Project: Advice for Graduate Students
- 2/17, Professor Tom Mrowka (MIT), 5:00-6:00 pm, room: 232 PGH, Instantons and their impact on low dimensional topology.
- 2/24, Professor Jingmei Qiu, Discontinuous Galerkin methods and their super convergence.
- (download presentation) - 3/23, Professor William Ott, TBA
- 4/13, Professor Demetrio Labate, Computed Tomography and the Shearlet Representation
2011 Fall
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 08/26, Professor Andrew Török , computing training for new TA.
- 09/02, Professor Garret Etgen, Roles of Graduate Students.
- 09/09, Rebecca Chen, Spatio-temporal calcium smoothing in dendritic trees.
- 09/16, Professor Daniel Onofrei, A confluence of ideas in multiscale analysis and inverse problems for the manipulation of acoustic and electromagnetic fields.
- 10/14, Professor David Blecher, Matrices and the nature of mathematical discovery.
- 10/21, Professor Annalisa Quaini, The Coanda Effect for Incompressible Fluids.
- 11/11, Professor Roland Glowinski, TBA
2011 Spring
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 02/25 Professor Manos Papadakis, A tale of two problems.
- 03/04 Professor Ilya Timofeyev, Stochastic Modeling and Coarse-Grained Closures.
- 04/08 Jose Lopez, Writing MEX files for MATLAB.
- 04/22 Professor Matthew Nicol, TBA.
2010 Fall
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 08/27, Professor Andrew Török, computing training for new TA.
- 09/03, Professor Garret Etgen, Roles of Graduate Students.
- 09/10, Robert Rosenbaum, Vasudha Sehgal, Helen Elwood and Rebecca Chen, on using the
department's compute servers - 09/17, Kidist Zeleke, 10 Weeks at Singularity University (sharing experiences)
- 10/01, Anando Sen, Tomographic reconstruction from highly collimated CT data
- 10/08, Professor Vern Paulsen
- 10/22, Professor Min Ru, The geometry of doughnuts
- 11/05, Professor Kresimir Josic, Stochastic processes in neuroscience and synthetic biology
- 12/03, Emery Conrad, Mathematical Adventures in the Financial Industry - How to Have Fun After Grad School
2010 Spring
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 02/19, Prof. Azencott
- 04/02, Prof. Gordon Heier, Introduction to complex geometry
- 04/09, Prof. M. Perepelitsa
- 02/23, Prof. M. Perepelitsa, Hyperbolic regularization in conservation laws
2009 Fall
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 08/28, Prof. Andrew Török, computing training for new TA.
- 09/04, Prof. G. Etgen, Roles of Graduate Students.
- 09/18, Prof. Vern Paulse, The Kadison-Singer Problem and Fourier Frames
- 09/25, Sonia Sharma, Operator spaces with an ideal structure
- 10/09, Prof. Bernhard Bodmann, From Quantum Communications to Equiangular Tight Frames
- 10/23, Prof. Dmitri Kuzmin, Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics
- 11/06, Prof. Prof. William Ott and Chinmaya Gupta, Dynamical Systems: A probabilistic viewpoint.
- 11/20, Robert Rosenbaum, Using simplified stochastic models to understand how correlations propagate in neuronal networks
- 12/04, TBA
2009 Spring
(Talks will be on Friday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., usually in Room 646A; if not, it will be announced below)
- 02/13, Prof. Azencott, Importance Sampling" Optimized by Large Deviations Theory
- 04/10, Prof. Alexandre Caboussat, From Least Squares to Monge-Ampère
- 04/17, Prof. Labate, Harmonic Analysis and Geometric Image Representation
- 05/01, Prof. Emmanuel Candes (California Institute of Technology), L1-magic