Schedule

Seminar and Colloquium Schedules

Analysis/PDE Seminar

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
Monday, September 11, 2023	11am - 12pm	Atwater Kent 219	Nicole Buczkowski, WPI	Comparing and Contrasting Two Nonlocal Biharmonic Operators
Monday, September 25, 2023	11am - 12pm	Atwater Kent 219	Giovanna Citti, Università di Bologna	Regularity of solution of sub-Riemannian type operators
Friday November 3, 2023	11am - 12pm	HA209 (joint with Colloquium)	Gianni Dal Maso, SISSA	New results on homogenisation of free discontinuity problems
Monday, December 4, 2023	11am-12pm	Virtual, via Zoom	Dr. Burkovska, Oakridge National Labs	TBA

 

Applied Math Seminar

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
Thursday, October 26, 2023	11am - 12pm	Unity Hall 405	Sergey Makaroff, WPI	Charge-Based Brain Modeling Engine with Boundary Element Fast Multipole Method
Thursday, November 9, 2023	11am - 12pm	Unity Hall 405	Derek Drumm, WPI	Drag Minimization in a Viscous Fluid Using Derivative Free Optimization
Thursday, November 16, 2023	11am - 12pm	Unity Hall 405	Dane Johnson, WPI	Adaptive Biological Transport Networks
Thursday, December 7, 2023	11am - 12pm	Unity Hall 405	Abiy Tasissa, Tufts University	Local sparse coding on a Delaunay triangulation: structured sensing and stability analysis using distance geometry

Colloquium

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
Friday, September 8, 2023	11am - 12pm	HA 209, Forkey Conf. Rm	Dana Ferranti, WPI	Simulating bodies immersed in viscous flows: new developments in the Method of Regularized Stokeslets (MRS)
Friday, September 15, 2023	11am - 12pm	HA 209, Forkey Conf. Rm	Yonatan Ashenafi, WPI	Stochastic Models Describing Microorganism Motion, with a Focus on the Emergence and Behavior of Collectives
Friday, September 29, 2023	11am - 12pm	Virtual: via Zoom 938 8407 5985	Xueyu Zhu, University of Iowa	Efficient Bayesian Physics Informed Neural Networks for Inverse Problems via Ensemble Kalman Inversion
Friday, October 6, 2023	11am - 12pm	HA 209, Forkey Conf. Rm	Ralihe Raul Villagran, WPI	On some algebraic invariant of graphs: from their sandpile groups to determinantal ideals
Friday, October 13, 2023	11am - 12pm	HA 209, Forkey Conf. Rm	Robert D. Poodiack, Norwich University	Applications of Squigonometry to Areas and Volumes
Friday, October 27, 2023	11am - 12pm	HA 209, Forkey Conf. Rm	Haonan Wang, Colorado State University	Statistical modeling of complex data with applications
Friday, November 17, 2023	11am - 12pm	Unity Hall 520	Elizabeth Newman, Emory University	Training Made Easy: Harnessing Structure and Curvature Information to Train Neural Networks Efficiently
Friday, December 1, 2023	11am - 12pm	Innovation Studio 203	Matthew Hancock, PhD, Veryst Engineering, LLC (Needham, MA)	Multiphysics Simulation in Microfluidic Device Development
Friday, December 8, 2023  Joint with Physics Department	11am - 12pm	Innovation Studio 203	Andrew Prentice, Monash University	The Modern Laplacian Theory for the Formation of our Solar System - 50 years on!

 

 

 

Financial Mathematics Seminar

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
Monday, September 25, 2023	2-3pm	Olin Hall 223	Jaehyuk Choi, Peking University HSBC Business School	Simulation schemes for the Heston model with Poisson conditioning
Monday, October 30, 2023	10-11am	Unity Hall 405	Shane Gao, WPI	Investing in Mutual Funds: Exploiting the Cross-sectional Predictability in Fund Performance
Monday, November 13, 2023	10-11am	Unity Hall 405	Qi Feng, Florida State University	Signature and Deep Learning Methods for Path-Dependent Problems in Finance
Monday, November 20, 2023	10-11am	Unity Hall 405	Xiao Shen, University of Utah	Random growth models and the KPZ universality
Friday, December 1, 2023	2-2:50pm	Salisbury Labs 402	Michael Ludkovski, University of California, Santa Barbara	Statistical Surrogates in Quantitative Finance: from Learning the Greeks to Adaptive Robust Stochastic Control
Friday, December 11, 2023	10-11am	Unity Hall 405	Yonatan Ashenafi, WPI	TBA

 

 

 

Discrete Mathematics Seminar

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
Monday, September 18, 2023	3:00-3:50pm	Unity Hall 405	Mason DiCicco, WPI	Intro to nearest neighbor complexity
Monday, September 25, 2023	3:00-3:50pm	Unity Hall 405	Ralihe Villagran, WPI	Determinantal ideals and sandpile groups of graphs
Monday, October 2, 2023	3:00-3:50pm	Unity Hall 405	Harmony Zhan, WPI	The second largest eigenvalue of a tree
Monday, October 9, 2023	3:00 - 3:50pm	Unity Hall 405	Guillermo Nunez Ponasso, WPI	The asymptotic existence of Butson-type Hadamard matrices
Monday, October 30, 2023	3:00 - 3:50pm	Salisbury Labs 407	Herman Servatius, WPI	Rigidity and movability of configurations in the projective plane
Monday, November 27, 2023	3:00 - 3:50 pm	Salisbury Labs 407	Mason DiCicco, WPI	Threshold circuit lower bounds from communication complexity

 

 

 

Statistics Seminar

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
Thursday, September 21, 2023	11am-12pm	Zoom	Mai Dao, Wichita State University	Bayesian inference in quantile regression models for macroeconomic stress testing
Thursday, October 5, 2023	11am-12pm	Zoom	Wiranthe Herath, Drake University	Reduced-rank envelope vector autoregressive model
Thursday, October 26, 2023	11am - 12pm	Hybrid: Fuller Labs 320 & Zoom ID: 99064789615	Shuaichuan Feng, WPI Student	Methodology Development in the Target Prioritization Engine
Thursday, November 9, 2023	11am - 12pm	Fuller Labs 320	Jianing Wang, Mass General Hospital, Biostatistics Center and Harvard Medical School	A spatial capture-recapture approach for estimating opioid use disorder prevalence in small areas using linked health administrative data
Thursday, November 16, 2023	11am- 12pm	Zoom	Zhuanzhuan Ma, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	Sparse Bayesian Variable Selection in High Dimensional Regression

Numerical Methods Seminar

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Title
Monday, October 2, 2023	11am-12pm	Atwater Kent 219	Siavash Jafarzadeh, Lehigh University	Reliable data-driven models for engineering design
Monday, October 9, 2023	11am- 12pm	Atwater Kent 219	Juntao Huang, Texas Tech University	Structure-preserving moment models for the radiative transport and free surface flows
Wednesady, November 1, 2023	11am-12pm	Virtual: via Zoom 929 6655 1992	Yulong Lu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	Machine learning meets PDEs
Monday, November 13, 2023	11am-12pm	Olin Hall 218	Sebastian Aland, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Germany	Droplets on soft substrates and biomembranes - Numerical simulation of soft wetting
Monday, November 27, 2023	11am - 12pm	Virtual: via Zoom 929 6655 1992	Jiahua Jiang, University of Birmingham	Hybrid Projection Methods for Solution Decomposition in Large-scale Bayesian Inverse Problems
Monday, December 4, 2023	11am - 12pm	Olin Hall 218	John Lowengrub, University of California, Irvine	TBA

Archived AY 22-23 Seminars

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Seminar/Colloquium
8/31/22	Bill Martin	WPI	Discovering new strongly regular graphs	Discrete Math Seminar
9/2/22	Binan Gu,      Nicole Buczkowski	WPI	Graphical Representation of Membrane Filtration and Stability of solutions to nonlocal models	Colloquium
9/7/22	Cristina Ballantine	College of the Holy Cross	Hooks and contents in partitions	Discrete Math Seminar
9/8/22	Nicole Buczkowski	WPI	More applications of the stability of solutions to nonlocal models with respect to changes in data	Analysis/PDE Seminar
9/8/22	Xiaohui Chen, Zihang Xu	WPI	Comparison and Exploration of Missing Data Handling Methods on Unexpectedly High Missing Rate of 6MWD Endpoint Caused by COVID-19 Pandemic; Data analysis in bank/web data	Statistics Seminar
9/9/22	Nadeesha Jayaweera, Tharindu De Alwis	WPI	Confidence Envelopes for Parametric Model Selection Criteria and Post-Model Selection Inference; Fourier Method on Sufficient Dimension Reduction in Time Series	Colloquium
9/14/22	Adam Wagner	WPI	The largest projective cube-freesubsets of Z_{2^n}	Discrete Math Seminar
9/15/22	Yanzhao Wang	WPI	DODII: Bayesian Dose Optimization Design for Phase II study	Statistics Seminar
9/16/22	Yangyang Wang	University of Iowa	Robustness and homeostasis in biological networks	Colloquium
9/19/22	Pamela Harris	University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee	On Becoming Better Mentors and Advocates in STEM	Colloquium
9/21/22	Guillermo Nunez Ponasso	WPI	Hadamard's maximal determinant problem and generalizations	Discrete Math Seminar
9/22/22	Zhigang Yao	National University of Singapore	Principal sub-manifolds	Statistics Seminar
9/26/22	Jiongmin Yong	University of Central Florida	Turnpike Properties for Stochastic Linear-Quadratic Optimal Control Problems	Financial Math Seminar
9/28/22	Mason DiCicco	WPI	Expected Length of the Longest Common Subsequence	Discrete Math Seminar
10/5/22	Bill Martin	WPI	Synchronization and designs in the symmetric group	Discrete Math Seminar
10/24/22	Kwamie Dunbar	WPI	Evaluating carbon's transition risk on crypto returns via the lens of dynamic asset pricing	Financial Math Seminar
10/25/22	Bill Martin	WPI	Ideals related to strongly regular graphs and equiangular lines	Discrete Math Seminar
10/27/22	Riuji Sato	WPI	Asymptotic analysis of a system of reaction-diffusion equations for modeling gene drives	Analysis/PDE Seminar
10/28/22	Abby Pekoske Fulton, Ernesto Caceres	WPI	Dynamics of DNA knots with excess link and Continuous Penalty Stabilization for divergence-free finite element methods	Colloquium
11/1/22	Sam Tripp	WPI	Grid homology	Discrete Math Seminar
11/1/22	Zhongqiang Zhang	WPI	Radial basis function methods for PDEs with integral fractional Laplacian	Numerical Methods Seminar
11/4/22	Nathan Uricchio and Sixian Jin	WPI	Matroid circuit duality on non-matroidial collections and Time-changed Mean Field Game	Colloquium
11/7/22	Ming Min	University of California, Santa Barbara	Smoothness of directed chain SDEs and its application in machine learning	Financial Math Seminar
11/10/22	Xiaodong Yan	University of Connecticut	Nonlinear Theory for Smectic A Liquid crystals	Analysis/PDE Seminar
11/11/22	Ganggang Xu	University of Miami	Semiparametric Multinomial Logistic Regression for Multivariate Point Pattern Data	Colloquium
11/11/22	Nils-Christian Detering	University of California, Santa Barbara	Pricing options on flow forwards by neural networks in Hilbert space	Financial Math Seminar
11/14/22	Jonathan Chavez-Casillas	University of Rhode Island	Adaptive Optimal Market-Making Strategies with Inventory Liquidation Costs	Financial Math Seminar
11/15/22	Nathan Uricchio	WPI	Applications of Powerset Operators, Especially to Matroids	Discrete Math Seminar
11/15/22	Vladimir Druskin	WPI	Embedding properties of data-driven reduced order models and imaging of SAR data	Numerical Methods Seminar
11/18/22	Lorenzo Ruffoni	Tufts University	An invitation to negative curvature: from Euclidean to hyperbolic geometry, and back	Colloquium
11/22/22	Oleg Karpenkov	University of Liverpool	Geometry of continued fractions	Discrete Math Seminar
11/29/22	Yanlai Chen	UMass Dartmouth	EIM-degradation free RBM via over collection and residual hyper reduction and its application to fluid flow problems and optimal mass transport	Numerical Methods Seminar
12/1/22	Nicholas Chisholm	WPI	A Generalized Lorentz Reflection Theorem	Analysis/PDE Seminar
12/2/22	Joseph Fehribach	WPI	Kirchoff Graph Uniformity	Colloquium
12/5/22	Jiamin Jian	WPI	Convergence of the equilibrium measure for the LQG Mean Field Games with A Common Noise	Financial Math Seminar
12/6/22	Grzegorz Swirszcz	DeepMind	Discovering faster matrix multiplication algorithms with reinforcement learning	Discrete Math Seminar
12/8/22	Ihsan Topaloglu	Virginia Commonwealth University	Set minimizers of attractive-repulsive energies	Analysis/PDE Seminar
12/9/22	Misha Kilmer	Tufts University	PaLEnTIR: a Parametric Level Set-based Approach to Image Reconstruction and Restoration	Colloquium
1/12/23	Qiao Zhuang	WPI	An Immersed Crouzeix-Raviart Finite Element Methods for Navier-Stokes Equations with Moving Interfaces	Numerical Methods Seminar
1/23/23	Brigitte Servatius	WPI	Self-dual maps on the sphere and other compact surfaces	Discrete Math Seminar
2/3/23	Vicky Chuqiao Yang	MIT	Dynamical system models for voting and collective decisions	Colloquium
2/6/23	Bill Martin	WPI	Dispersed graph labellings	Discrete Math Seminar
2/13/23	Martine Ben Amar	Sorbonne University and Ecole Normale Superieure	Morpho-elasticity of living systems by examples: leaves and embryonic C.elegans	Analysis/PDE Seminar
2/13/23	Andre Nachbin	IMPA	Water Waves in Highly Irregular Domains	Colloquium
2/13/23	Brigitte Servatius	WPI	Delta Matroids	Discrete Math Seminar
2/17/23	Nicholas Battista	The College of New Jersey	Paddling and squirming: exploring Tomopteris swimming performance	Colloquium
2/20/23	Neranga Fernando	College of the Holy Cross	Quandles, racks and shelves	Discrete Mathematics Seminar
2/27/23	Lidia Mrad	Mount Holyoke College	Nematic liquid crystals in microfluidic channels	Analysis/PDE Seminar
3/17/23	Jeffrey Hoffstein	Brown University	Some applications of interesting mathematics to cryptography	Colloquium
3/20/23	Philippe LeFloch	Sorbonne University	Shock waves, propagating interfaces, and gravitational singularities	Colloquium
3/22/23	Qi Wang	University of South Carolina	Onsager principle, mathematical modeling, and numerical algorithm design	Colloquium
3/23/23	Adam Wagner	WPI	Open problems in combinatorics	Discrete Math Seminar
3/27/23	Joerg Osterrieder	University of Twente	A tour through Quantitative Finance Research in the Era of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence	Financial Math Seminar
3/30/23	Yanzhi Zhang	Missouri University	Numerical Methods for heterogeneous problems with variable-order fractional Laplacian	Numerical Methods Seminar
3/31/23	Joris Roos	UMass Lowell	Spherical maximal functions and fractal dimensions of dilation sets	Colloquium
4/3/23	Frederick "Forrest" Miller	WPI	Risk Indifference Pricing for American Put Options	Financial Math Seminar
4/6/23	Rongjie Lai	RPI	Learning Manifold-Structured Data using Deep Neural Networks: Theory and Applications	Numerical Methods Seminar
4/6/23	Sebi Cioaba	University of Delaware	A brief tour of spectral graph theory	Colloquium
4/13/23	Bowei Wu	UMass Lowell	A simple and accurate numerical method for singular and near-singular integration	Numerical Methods Seminar
4/14/23	Justin Joque	University of Michigan	Accounting for the Bayesian Revolution	Colloquium
4/20/23	Yanzhao Cao	Auburn University	Analysis and numerical algorithm of a stochastic neural network	Numerical Methods Seminar
4/27/23	Yue Yu	Lehigh University	Learning Neural Operators for Complex Physical System Modeling	Analysis and PDE Seminar
4/28/23	Shuhong Gao	Clemson University	Groebner Bases and Polynomial Systems from Cryptography	Colloquium
5/31/23	Gonzalo Contador	Federico Santa Maria Technical University	A minimum Wasserstein distance approach to discrete p-value combination	Statistics Seminar