Events

The Department of Mathematics sponsors a regular colloquium that hosts several talks by external speakers every year and a general faculty seminar for talks by faculty and students. Seminars are listed below after the colloquia.

Mathematics Colloquium

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Recent Mathematics Colloquium Talks

Date Topic Speaker
Apr 24, 2024 Arboreal Galois groups: Introduction

Dr. Robert Benedetto,
Amherst College 
Apr 17, 2024 Thicket density

Dr. Siddharth Bhaskar,
James Madison University
Apr 3, 2024 Finite element exterior calculus in four-dimensional space

Dr. David Williams, 
Penn State University
Apr 3, 2024 Finite-dimensional reduction of dissipative PDEs

Dr. Yanqiu Guo,
Florida International University
Mar 29, 2024 Patterns, algorithms, and your friends

Dr. Emily Ecans, 
Brigham Young University
Mar 8, 2024 Finite expression method: A symbolic approach for scientific machine learning

Dr. Haizhao Yang,
University of Maryland 
Feb 14, 2024 Biostatistics: Applications of statistics in biomedicine and public health

Dr. Ming T. Tan,
Georgetown Medical Center
Apr 7, 2023 Improving business insurance loss models by leveraging InsurTech innovation

Dr. Emiliano A. Valdez,
University of Connecticut
Mar 10, 2023 Federal funding to improve STEM education research and practice

Dr. Asli Sezen-Barrie,
NSF
Feb 3, 2023 Squirming through biological fluids

Dr. Ebru Demir,
Lehigh University

Seminar Meetings

The Mathematics Seminar is the venue where Towson faculty and students report on their research activities. In addition several research groups have research seminars in their respective research areas:

  • ASRM Seminar (coordinated by Min Ji):
    Meets on Fridays at 10 am
  • Number Theory Seminar (coordinated by A. Kumchev and N. McNew):
    Meets on Tuesdays at 5 pm in YR 320.

Recent and Upcoming Seminars

  • November 21, 2024: Number Theory Seminar.
    Alexander Kalogirou, from the University of South Carolina, will give a talk on Disjoint covering systems. The talk will take place (virtually) in Zoom at 4:30 - 5:30 pm.

    Abstract: It was established fairly early in the history of covering systems that no disjoint coverings of the integers exist when all the moduli are required to be distinct. In recent work with Michael Filaseta, we prove a related old conjecture of Erdos and Selfridge that claims that that the sum of the reciprocals of the moduli in a distinct covering system, is bounded away from 1, if the minimum modulus is at least 5. We conclude with further motivation of an open question pertaining to infinite covering systems. 
  • November 15, 2024: ASRM Speaker Series. 
    Shelby Cimino, ASA, gave a talk on Actuarial modeling: An overview.
  • September 10, 2024: Number Theory Seminar.
    Dr. Edinah Gnang, Johns Hopkins University, gave a talk on All trees on n edges decompose the complete bipartite graph Kn,n.
  • August 20, 2024: Number Theory Seminar.
    Dr. Harald Helfgott, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, gave a talk on Expansion, divisibility and parity.

Recent Mathematics Seminar & Sabbatical Talks

  • On Oct 16, 2024, Dr. Min Deng presented a sabbatical lecture on Bayesian Inference for the Loss Models via Mixture Priors. 
  • On September 30, 2024, Dr. Melike Kara Atas presented a sabbatical lecture on Improving Pre-Service Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching Fraction Concepts. 
  • On April 21, 2024, Dr. Nathan McNew presented a sabbatical lecture on The Middle Prime Factor of Integers.
  • On April 15, 2024, Ms. Lily Glushakow-Smith gave a seminar on Developmental Math: Is Our Approach Serving the Aspirations of Underprepared Students?
  • On March 25, 2024, Dr. Daniel Freese gave a seminar on Periodic Minimal Surfaces from Gluing Helicoids.
  • On March 11, 2024, Dr. Miriam Parnes gave a seminar on Indivisibility for Classes of Graphs.
  • On December 1, 2023, Dr. Ming Tomayko presented a sabbatical lecture on Designing Interdisciplinary Lessons to Inform and Inspire the Next Generation of Environmental Stewards.
  • On November 17, 2023, Dr. Tatyana Sorokina gave a seminar on Intrinsic Supersmoothness of Piecewise Multivariate Functions.
  • On May 5, 2023, Dr. Sergiy Borodachov presented a sabbatical lecture on Orthogonal Polynomials and Potentials of Spherical Designs.  
  • On November 4, 2022, Dr. Tatyana Sorokina presented a sabbatical lecture on Bernstein-Bezier Techniques.