| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Oct. 29 | Grant Lakeland (EIU) |
Systoles of hyperbolic surfaces via graph theory |
| Dec. 3 | Andrew Mertz (EIU) | Capturing Flags for Fun and Profit |
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mar. 12 | Kurt Heckman (President, vCalc LLC) |
Department of Energy's Missions for America |
| Apr. 1 | William Worden (Rice Univ.) | Hyperbolic 3-manifolds and polyhedral decompositions |
| Apr. 2 | Nickolas Castro (Univ. of Arkansas) |
Making Sense of smooth 4-manifolds via lower dimensions |
| Apr. 5 | Amanda Welch (College of the Holy Cross) |
Integer Partitions |
| Apr. 9 | Liem Nguyen (Louisiana State University |
Weil sum, Helleseth Conjectures, and Applications |
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Nov. 20 | Chad Kelterborn (UNC - Chapel Hill) |
Machine Learning: How to train programs to recognize data? |
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Feb. 7 | Bogdan Petrenko (EIU) | On the Rate of Convergence of Our Methods of Gradient Descent |
| May 1 | Andrew Schwartz (SEMO) | Zero Forcing Sets in H-matchable graphs and a few other infinite classes of graphs |
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 25 | Gregory Galperin (EIU) | Two Remarkable Constructions in Hyperbolic Plane and Their Justification in the Klein Model |
| Feb. 8 | Ghaith Husari (UNC Charlotte) | TTP Mining Fom The Unstructured Text of Cyber Threat Intelligence |
| Feb. 11 | Abdul Moh’d (EIU) | Using Data Science to Create Solutions for Industry & Tools for Natural Language Processing and Social Media Analysis |
| Feb. 13 | Yi Li (UT Dallas) | Social Network Analysis - Algorithmic Foundation and Practical Uses |
| Feb. 22 | Peter Andrews (EIU) | How A Chebyshev Polynomial Can Save Your Picture |
| Mar. 22 | Andrew Parrish (EIU) | From Khinchine's Conjecture to Erdös' Similarity Conjecture |
| Apr. 12 | Kamleh Parwani (EIU) | Pathological Foliations of the square |
| Apr. 19 | Seth Yeakel | Billiards with Pockets: Some structural observations |
| Apr. 19 | Joseph Melberg | An Examination of Database Solutions |
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 7 | Bogdan Petrenko (EIU) | Some Conjectural Properties of Coefficients of Cyclotomic Polynomials |
| Sept. 14 | Charles Delman (EIU) | An Informal Primer on the Alexander Polynomial |
| Sept. 21 | Peter Andrews (EIU) | A Proof of Morley’s Theorem Using Complex Analytic Geometry |
| Oct. 1 (Mon) | Konstantin Slutsky (nuTonomy) | Autonomous vehicles in a nutshell |
| Oct. 5 | Grant Lakeland (EIU) | An introduction to the Cheeger constant |
| Oct. 26 | Gregory Galperin (EIU) | Non-Convex Polyhedra inscribed in a sphere, and a New Intriguing 4-dimensional Polytope |
| Nov. 2 | Gregory Galperin (EIU) | Projections of Lines in Hyperbolic Geometry |
| Nov. 8 | Benson Farb (UC) | Perry Lecture: The Power of X (held in the Doudna Fine Arts Center @ 6:00) |
| Nov. 9 | Benson Farb (UC) | Perry Lecture: Braids, Polynomials, and Hilbert's 13th Problem |
| Nov. 30 | Amin Bahmanian (ISU) | Fair Detachments of Hypergraphs |
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 28 | Rick Anderson (EIU) & Peter Wiles (EIU) | Changing Fourth Graders' Discourse on Parallelograms |
| Feb. 9 | Claire Merriman (UIUC) | Coding geodesic flows and various continued fractions |
| Feb. 23 | Anush Tserunyan (UIUC) | Orbit equivalence, cost, and decompositions |
| Mar. 2 | Gloriana Gonzalez (UIUC) | Hybridity in Mathematics Teacher Professional Development |
| Mar. 23 | Evgeny Gordon (EIU) | On Teaching Calculus on the Base of Nonstandard Analysis I |
| Apr. 13 | Nathan Dunfield (UIUC) | Fun with finite covers of 3-manifolds: connections between topology, geometry, and arithmetic |
| Apr. 20 | Joseph Melberg and Bogdan Petrenko (EIU) | The Surprising Computational Utility of Implicit Function Theorem |
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 8 | Charles Delman (EIU) | Music of the Dandelin Spheres |
| Sept. 22 | Gregory Galperin (EIU) | Jumping Electrons and Jumping Spheres - First Talk |
| Sept. 29 | Gregory Galperin (EIU) | Jumping Electrons and Jumping Spheres - Second Talk |
| Oct. 6 | Joseph Vandehey (OSU) | Normaility vs. Determinism |
| Oct. 17 | Peter Andrews (EIU) | What If Your Directrix Were a Circle? |
| Oct. 26 | Bruce C. Berndt (UIUC) | Perry Lecture: Ramanujan's Life and Earlier Notebooks |
| Oct. 27 | Bruce C. Berndt (UIUC) | Perry Lecture: Ramanujan's Lost Notebook: History and Content |
| Nov. 3 | Grethe Hystad (PNW) | A Bayesian Approach to Estimating Earth’s Undiscovered, Mineralogical Diversity |
| Nov. 10 | Scott Ahlgren (UIUC) | Partitions, smallest parts, and modular forms |
| Nov. 16 | Jay Tamburrino (EIU) | Some New Planar Fractions (talk will be at 3:00 in OM 3413) |
| Dec. 1 | Alejandra Alvarado (EIU) | The Collatz Conjecture over the Gaussian Integers |
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Feb. 3 | Chris Leininger (UIUC) | Word-hyperbolic surface bundles |
| Feb. 10 | Hal Schenck (UIUC) | Hyperplane Arrangements: Algebra, Combinatorics, Geometry, Topology |
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Feb. 24 |
Gregory Galperin (EIU) | |
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Mar. 3 |
Lars Ott (EIU) | Hamming and BCH error correcting codes |
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Mar. 24 |
Rick Anderson (EIU) & Peter Wiles (EIU) | Geometry Chats |
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Mar. 31 |
Joel Moreira (Northwestern) | Monochromatic sums and products - a brief journey through Ramsey theory |
| Apr. 7 - 9 | Eastern Illinois Integrated Conference in Geometry, Dynamic, and Topology | |
| Apr. 14 | Mark Bell (UIUC) | Manifolds of Dimensions 1, 2, and 3 |
| Apr. 21 | Grant Lakeland (EIU) & Corinne Barnett (EIU) | One-cupsed Hyperbolic Prisms and Reflection Groups |
| Apr. 25 | Andy Janes (EIU) | The Multistep Friendshp Paradox |
| Apr. 25 | Brianna Lytle (EIU) | Using Graph Theory to Establish Bounds on a Game of Sprouts |
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 9 | Charles Delman (EIU) | Foliations and Heegaard-Floer Homology |
| Sept. 16 | Susan Brooks (WIU) | Knots Connected by Wide Ribbons |
| Sept. 29-30 | Paul Schupp (UIUC) | Perry Lecture: Reflections on the Theory of Computability |
| Oct. 7 | Vadim Zharnitsky (UIUC) | Cyclic evasion in the three and four bug problem |
| Oct. 17 | Max Alekseyev (GWU) | Transfer-Matrix Method as a Combinatorial Hammer: Enumeration of Silent Circles, Graph Cycles, and Seating Arrangements |
| Oct. 21 | A.J. Hildebrand (UIUC) | Benford's Law |
| Nov. 4 | Evgeny Gordon (EIU) | What Is Nonstandard Analysis and Why It Can Become the Analysis of the Future |
| Nov. 11 | Andy Parrish (EIU) | Pointwise convergence of ergodic averages and perturbation |
| Dec. 2 | Brianna Lytle (EIU) | The Constrained Art Gallery Theorem |
| Dec. 2 | Andy Janes (EIU) | The LEGO Counting Problem |
| Dec. 7 | Alejandra Alvarado (EIU) | Arithmetic Progressions on Conic Sections |
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