Fall 2024

October 10

Joint talk on Atomization and the Euler Characteristic

Brendan Christensen (Mechanical & Industrial Engineering Dept., MSU): "A Geometric and Topological Analysis of Atomization from Large-Scale Simulations"

Alex McCleary (Computer Science Dept., MSU):  Application of the Weighted Euler Characteristic Transform in Atomization Simulations'

October 3

Dr. Jarek Kwapisz (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences): "Mathematical aspects of multi-mode non-coherent communications and measurement"

September 26

Dr. Ross P. Carlson (Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Center for Biolfilm Engineering, MSU): "Geometry, Linear Optimization, and Systems Biology’s Search for the Rules of Life"

September 12

Derek Jollie and Alec Fluer (Department of Mathematical Sciences, MSU): "Multi-Modal Scientific Foundation Models and Sampling Multiplex Networks"

September 5

Dr. Doris Voina (AI Institute in Dynamic Systems, University of Washington): "Deep Generative Modeling for Identification of Noisy, Non-Stationary Dynamical Systems"

 

Spring 2024

April 25

Dr. Francis Motta (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University): "Population Synchrony with Applications to Plasmodium Dynamics"

April 18

Dr. Quirine Krol (MSU Magnetic Resonance Laboratory): "Modeling Effective Water Vapor Transport and Subsequent Coarsening in Snow: A Rigorous Upscaling Approach"

April 11

Elizabeth Andreas (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU): "Adversarial Decision and Process Modeling and Complexity Analysis - with Imperfect Decision-Making Intelligence"

April 4

Dr. Alex McCleary (MSU School of Computing): "Galois Connections in Persistent Homology"

March 28

Dr. Amitabha Bose (Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology): "Understanding entrainment of circadian oscillator models using one-dimensional maps"

March 21

Elizabeth Andreas (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU), PhD Defense: "Quantifying Robustness of the Gap Gene Network"

March 7

Dr. Lori Ray (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU): "Quantifying Transport in the Brain"

February 29

Dr. Christian Stratton (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU): "Clustering and ordination of sagebrush steppe communities in Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve"

February 22

Dr. Stephanie McCalla (Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering, MSU): "Rational Design of Nucleic Acid Assays"

February 8

Dr. Al Parker (Center for Biofilm Engineering & Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Statistical considerations when using presence/absence assays in microbiology"

February 1

Dr. Abigail Hickok (Dept. of Mathematics, Columbia):  "Applications of TDA to Spatial Data"

January 25

Dr. Tomas Gedeon (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Biology problems that I think about"

 

Fall 2023

November 30th

Dr. Siwei He (Dept. of Civil Engineering, MSU):  "Some Mathematical Challenges in Snow Hydrology"

November 16th

Dr. Anastasia Bizyaeva (AI Institute in Dynamic Systems, Univ. of Washington):  "Model Reduction of Nonlinear Feedback Systems by Data-Informed Balancing"

November 2nd

Dr. Julian Fox (Dept. of Chemical Engineering, MSU):  "Exploring the Physics of Atomization Processes using Computational Fluid Dynamics"

October 26th

Dr. Joseph D. Seymour (Chemical and Biological Engineering and Center for Biofilm Engineering, MSU):  "Physical Mechanism of Alginate Gel Capillary Structure Formation from Phase Separation Scaling Laws"

October 19th

Dr. Zilong Song (Math and Statistics Dept., Utah State University):  "Ion Transport Systems in Biological Structures"

October 12th

Dr. Mario Bencomo (Dept. of Mathematics, CSU-Fresno):  "Inverse Problems and an Application in Seismic Imaging"

October 5th

Dr. Joseph Shaw (Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Director of the Optical Technology Center, MSU):  "Measuring Without Touching:  Optical Remote Sensing Systems for Studying the Natural Environment"

September 28th

Jacob Munson (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Uncertainity Estimation in Recommender Systems for Enhanced Top-N Recommendations"

September 21st

Drs. Bree Cummins, John Smith, Tianyu Zhang and Dominique Zosso (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Math Faculty Flash Talks"

September 7th

Dr. Tomas Gedeon (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Combinatorial Structure of Continuous Dynamics in Gene Regulatory Networks"

 

Spring 2023

April 20

Therese Azevedo (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "The Impact of Mentorship"

April 13

Dr. Tianyu Zhang (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Modeling Complex Outcomes of Antibiotic Therapy against a Polymicrobial Infection"

April 6

Jacob Munson (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Some Collaborative Filtering Approaches for Grade Analysis"

March 30

Elizabeth Andreas (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Measuring Robustness of the Gap Gene Network"

March 23

Dr. Tomas Gedeon (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Oscillator Death in Coupled Biochemical Oscillators"

March 9

Dr. Curt Vogel (Former Professor in the Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Network Methods in Computer Vision"

March 2

Dr. Ian Laga (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "A Case-Control Sampling Strategy for Zero-Inflacted Models"

February 23

Elizabeth Andreas (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Measuring Complexity using Markov Chains"

 

Fall 2022

December 8

Dr. Firas Khasawneh (ME Dept, Michigan State University):  "Scoring Surface Patterns Using Persistent Homology with Application to Vibration Striking Treatment"

December 1

Dr. Stephanie Sonner (Dept. of Mathematics, Radboud University, Nijmegen):  "Travelling Waves for Degenerate Reaction Diffusion Systems Modeling Celluloytic Biofilms"

November 17

Dr. John Smith (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Process-based Modeling Approaches to Forest Carbon Prediction"

Video

November 10

Dr. Bo Li (Dept. of Mathematics and Quantitative Biology-PhD Program, UC-San Diego):  "Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Bacterial Colony Growth with Cell-Cell Mechanical Interactions"

November 3

Dr. Bree Cummins (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Simulation Study of Recruitment Techniques in an At-Risk Population for HIV"

October 27

Dr. Scott McCalla (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Tracking Bacterial Growth Using a Nonlocal Interfacial Model"

October 20

Dr. Dominique Zosso (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "From Convex Geometry to Convex Optimization"

October 14

Dr. Meghan Rhodes (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "Modelling and Analyzing the Role of Tissue Mechanics in Glioma Invasion"

September 29

Julian Fox (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  "DSGRN and the Investigation of a Yeast Cell Cycle Pulse Generator"

September 22

Dr. Tomas Gedeon (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU): "Operon Dynamics with State Dependent Transcription and/or Translation Delays"

September 15

Dr. Leo Rebholz (Dept. of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Clemson University): "Anderson acceleration and how it speeds up nonlinear solvers"

September 14

Dr. Rachel Levanger (Fidelity National Financial, Director of Data Science): "A Topical Data Analyst in Industry"

September 1

Dr. Lisa Davis (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU): "An Accurate and Stable Filtered Explicit Scheme for a Linear Hyperbolic Equation Inspired by DNA Transcription Modeling"

Video

 

Spring 2022

May 5

Susan Schrader (Dept. of Petroleum Engineering, MT Tech):  Ph.D. Proposal "A Versatile Model for Fluid Flow in Low Permeability Porous Media"

April 28

Cam Dudiak (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Master's Thesis Defense "Analysis of Dynamic Biological Systems Imagery."

April 27

Amy Jenson (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Master's Thesis Defense "Brine Flow through Subglacial Channels"

April 21

Dr. Fernando Correr (Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology Dept., MSU): Title of Talk "Unravelling Functional Genomics of Plants through Transcriptomics"

Video

April 14

Dominic Bair (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Master's Thesis Defense "DVM:  A Deep Learning Algorithm for Minimizing Functionals"

Video

April 7

Robin Belton (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Ph.D. Defense "Directed Graph Descriptors and Distances for Analyzing Multivariate Time Series Data"

March 31

Dr. Jeff Heys (Chemical and Biological Engineering Dept., MSU):  Title of Talk is "Quantitative Analysis of Transport in the Brain and Implications for Sleep"

March 24

Dr. William Cuello (Dept. of Mathematics, Rutgets University):  Title of Talk is "Widespread Ecological Networks and their Dynamical Signatures (WENDy)"

March 10

Dr. Isaac Klapper (Dept. of Mathematics, Temple Univ):  Title of Talk is "Modeling Microbial Biofilms in Their Environments."

March 10

Sam McCrosson (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Exodromy of Stratified Spaces."

March 3

Dr. Tomas Gedeon (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU): Title of Talk is "Operon Dynamics with State Dependent Transcription and/or Translation Delays."

February 24

Dr. Mark Pernarowski (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU): Title of Talk is "Modeling Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation."

February 17

Dr. Lisa Davis (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU): Title of Talk is "A Filtered Explicit Scheme for Linear Hyperbolic Problems"

February 10

John Oliver (Los Alamos National Lab):  Student Opportunities in 2022:  An XTD-SS Perspective

 

Fall 2021

November 19

Jacob Munson (Individual Interdisciplinary PhD Program, MSU): Title of Talk is "Recommender Systems:  Matrix Factorications & Lessons from the Netflix Prize."

Video

November 16

Catherine Potts (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  PhD Dissertation Defense, "Adapting Archetypal Analysis to Scientific Imaging Applications."

November 4

Dr. Nick Cogan (Dept. of Mathematics, FSU):  Title of Talk is "Multiphase Models: From Biofilms to the Origin of Life"

October 28

Dr. Andrew Hoegh (Dept. of Mathematics, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Statistical Methods for Predicting Zoonotic Spillover."

October 21

Anna Schenfisch (Dept. of Mathematics, MSU):  Title of Talk is "A Faithful Discretization of the Persistent Homology Transform."

October 14

Dr. Tianyu Zhang (Dept. of Mathematics, MSU):  Title of Talk is "PDE-Constrained Generalized Nash Equilibrium Model of Biofilm Community."

October 7

Dr. Tomas Gedeon (Dept. of Mathematics, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Modeling Cellular Metabolism."

September 23

Dr. Breschine Cummins (Dept. of Mathematics, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Discovering Genetic Network Interactions through Iterative Hypothesis Reduction."

September 9

Griffin Smith (Dept. of Mathematics, MSU): Title of Talk is "A PDE Model for Janus Particle Swarming."

September 2

Dr. Elizabeth Burroughs (Dept. of Mathematics, MSU): Title of Talk is "Empathetic Critical Thinking through Modeling."

 

Spring 2021

April 21

Seth Dayutis (Dept. of Mathematics, MSU):  Master's Thesis Presentation:  "A Biofilm Model that Avoids a Tragedy of the Commons."

April 16

Wiliiam Johns (Dept. of Mathematics, MSU):  PhD Thesis Defense, "Minimax Multi-Input AAA Rational Approximations wiith Stable Poles."

April 15

Catherine Potts (Dept. of Mathematics, MSU):  Kopriva Talk, "Archetypal Analysis Applied to Neuronal Cellular Signaling."

Video

April 8

William Johns (Dept. of Mathematics, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Minimax Multi-input AAA Rational Approximations with Stable Poles."

April 8

Elizabeth Andreas (Dept. of Mathematics, MSU):  Masters' Thesis Defense, "Comparing Network Models of Gap Gene Interaction during Drosophila Melanogaster Development."

April 1

Dr. Jesse Berwald (Quantum Engineer, Quantum Computing Inc.):  Title of Talk is "Quantum Computing: A Brief Tour with Mathematical Highlights."

Video

March 25

Elizabeth Andreas (Dept. of Mathematics, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Comparing Network Models of Gap Gene Interaction during Drosophila Melanogaster Development."

March 11

Dr. Mark Petersen (MT Peaks Sponsored Event - Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory):  Title of Talk is "Ocean Modeling in the High Desert."

March 4

Dr. Shane Kepley (Dept. of Mathematics, Rutgers University):  Title of Talk is "Numerical Methods for Studying Equilibria and their Bifurcations in Hill Function Models."

February 25

Dr. Miroslav Kramar (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Oklahoma):  Title of Talk is "Towards Understanding Complex Spatio-Temporal Systems."

February 18

Dr. Malgorzata Peszynska (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Oregon):  Title of Talk is "Hysteresis in conservation laws:  modeling, analysis, and simulation."

February 11

Dr. Aaron Luttman (MT PEAKS Sponsored Event - Senior Technical Advisor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory):  Title of Talk is "Mathematics Research for Security and Science in the US National Laboratories."

February 4

William Duncan (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Equilibria in Networks with Steep Sigmoidal Nonlinearities."

January 25

Gabriel Peyre (CNRS and Ecole Normale):  Title of Talk is "Scaling Optimal Transport for High Dimensional Learning."

Video

 

Fall 2020

November 24 

Robin Belton (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Directed Descriptors of Data."

November 5 

Dr. Hermann Eberl (Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph, Canada):  Title of Talk is "Time Integration of a Highly Degenerate Diuffusion-Reaction System with Gradient Blow-Up and a Small Application to Cross-Talk in Biofilms."

October 29

Dr. Scott McCalla (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU) Title of Talk is "The Effects of Sacred Value Networks within an Evolutionary, Adversarial Game."

October 22

Dr. Tomas Gedeon (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU) Title of Talk is "How to describe, analyze and interrogate dynamics of gene regulatory networks."

October 15

Dr. Dominique Zosso (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU) Title of Talk is "Deep Learning for PDE: Part II (application to PDE)"

Video

October 8

William Johns (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Density of States in Warm Dense Matter"

October 1

Dr. David Millman (School of Computing, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Approximate Nearest neighbors in the Space of Persistence Diagrams"

September 24

Kyle Hickmann (DXCP-8: Verification & Analysis, Los Alamos National Laboratory):  Title of Talk is "Mathematics and simulations of shock and detonation at Los Alamos National Laboratory."

September 17

Dr. Dominique Zosso (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Deep Learning and PDE: a quick and practical introduction"

Video

September 10

Dr. Lisa Davis (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Continuum and Stochastic Models for Transcription on a Crowded Gene"

September 3

Dr. William Duncan (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU, Duke University):  Title of Talk is "Infinitesimal Homeostasis in Biological Networks"

Spring 2020

March 6

Dr. James Keener (Dept. of Mathematics, University of Utah):  Title of Talk is "The Mathematics of Life:  Making Diffusion Your Friend."

February 27

Dr. Jack Dockery (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU): Title of Talk is "Oscillations Signaling, and Traveling Waves in Biofilms."

February 13

Dr. Tianyu Zhang (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU): Title of Talk is "Data Analysis in Wastewater Treatment"

January 30

William Johns (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Title of Talk is "A Greedy Approach and Some Optimization for Electro-Magnetic Transients Simulation"

Fall 2019

November 21

Catherine Potts (Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Archetypal Analysis: Representation and Meaning"

November 14

Dr. Jia Zhao (Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University):  Title of Talk is "Modeling and Numerical Approximations of Thermodynamically Consistent Systems with Applications in Biological Problems"

November 5

Dr. Bjorn Sandstede (Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University): Title of Talk is "Localized Planar Patterns"

October 24

Dr. Lisa Davis (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Montana Partnership for Broadening Career Pathways for Mathematics and Statistics Students"

October 17

William Johns (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Rational approximations for modeling EM transients in transmission lines"

October 10

Dr. Bree Cummins (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Using Extremal Events to Characterize Noisy Time Series"

October 3

Dr. Braxton Osting (Dept. of Mathematics, University of Utah):  Title of Talk is "Diffusion-generated methods for target-valued maps"

September 19

Dr. Vrushali Bokil (Dept. of Mathematics, Oregon State University):  Title of Talk is "Compatible Discretizations of Maxwell's Equations in Complex Materials"

September 12

Dr. Andrew J. Bernoff (Math Dept., Harvey Mudd College):  Title of Talk is "Agent-Based and Continuous Models of Locust Hopper Brands"

September 5

Dr. Tomas Gedeon (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU):  Title of Talk is "Regulatory network analysis, biopolymerization, micro RNA detection assay and microbial consortia"

Spring 2019:

January 17

Dr. Diane Debinski (Ecology Department, MSU): Title of Talk is "Chasing Down Biodiversity Patterns and Processes"

January 24

Dr. Jack Dockery (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, MSU): Title of Talk is "Signaling and Traveling Waves in Biofilms"

January 31

Dr. Maryam Bahramipanah (Electrical & Computer Engineering, MSU): Title of Talk is "Decentralized Adaptive Model-Based Real-Time Control of Active Distribution Networks Using Energy Storage Systems"

February 7

Dr. David Millman (Computer Science, MSU): Title of Talk is "Some Geometric Problems in Monte Carlo Transport Solvers" 

February 14

Dr. Bradley Whitaker (Electrical & Computer Engineering, MSU): Title of Talk is "Frozen Dictionary Learning for Classification"

February 21

Dr. Eric Sproles (Earth Sciences, MSU): Title of Talk is "Finding the Sweet Spot at the Intersection of Data, Spatial, and Earth Science"

February 28

Dr. Nicholas Borys (Physics, MSU): Title of Talk is "Mining Data to Reveal Hidden Physics in Two-Dimensional Semiconductors at Ultra-Small Length Scales"

March 7

Dr. Yuriko Yano (Ecology, MSU): Title of Talk is "How Does a Warmer Climate Affect Soil Nutrients, and How Would Trees Cope with Such Changes?"

March 14

Dr. Catherine Haase (Ecology, MSU): Title of Talk is "Modeling The Energetic Costs of Disease: A Case Study of the Bioenergetics of White-Nose Syndrome in Western Bats"

March 28

Dr. Anne Lohfink (Physics, MSU): Title of Talk is "Illuminating the Surrounding of Black Holes"

April 4

Nellie Ciesielski (PhD Student, Mathematical Sciences, MSU): Title of Dissertation Defense is "Modeling a Biphasic DNA Amplification Reaction"

April 9

Dr. Faranak Pahlevani (Mathematics Department, Penn State Univ-Abington): Title of Talk is "Energy, Enstrophy and Parameter Sensitivity of the Time Relaxation Model"

April 11

Anthony Gaussoin (PhD Student, Mathematical Sciences, MSU): Title of Dissertation Defense is "Designing Pattern Formation Through Anisotrophy" 

April 25

Dr. Puck Rombach (Mathematics, University of Vermont): Title of Talk is "Role Colorying Graphs in Hereditary Classes"

 

If you are looking for earlier years of seminars, please contact the Mathematical Sciences Department at math@montana.edu and a list can be generated.