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 |
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Apr 7, 2023 | Improving business insurance loss models by leveraging InsurTech innovation |
Dr. Emiliano A. Valdez, |
Mar 10, 2023 | Federal funding to improve STEM education research and practice | |
Feb 3, 2023 | Squirming through biological fluids |
Dr. Ebru Demir, |
May 20, 2022 | Valuation and optimal surrender policy for reverse mortgage guarantees | Dr. Junsen Tang, University of St. Thomas |
Apr 15, 2022 | The mathematics of how HIV/AIDS defeats the immune system and how to defeat the virus | Dr. Cameron Browne, University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
Apr 8, 2022 | Numerical methods for solving polynomial systems | Dr. Dan Bates, US Naval Academy |
Mar 4, 2022 | The topological symmetry groups of the Heawood graph | Dr. Robin Wilson, Cal Poly Pomona |
Oct 29, 2021 | The value of a pension buyout: An employee (retiree) perspective | Dr. Tianxiang Shi, Temple University |
Oct 15, 2021 | Learning nonlinear operators using deep neural networks for diverse applications | Dr. Lu Lu, University of Pennsylvania |
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 Fridays at 2 pm in YR 216.
Recent and Upcoming Seminars
- Oct 20, 2023: Number Theory Seminar.
Angel Kumchev will speak on Small values of real quadratic forms.
Recent Mathematics Seminar & Sabbatical Talks
- 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.
- On May 6, 2022, Dr. Leonid Stern presented a sabbatical lecture on the Distribution of norm groups of algebraic number fields.
- On April 29, 2022, Dr. Yunwei Cui presented a sabbatical lecture on the Estimation of a semi-parametric trend model: Theory and practice.
- On June 8, 2021, Dr. Min Ji presented a sabbatical lecture on Modeling mortality dependence: An application of dynamical vine copula.
- On May 14, 2021, Dr. Angel Kumchev presented a sabbatical lecture on Recent results in discrete harmonic analysis.