Colloquium Archive
2024-2025
Diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds
Terrin Warren
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, October 4, 2024
11:10am-12:00pm
180-113
Coloring Outside the Lines: The Many Applications of Graph Coloring>
Nick Crawford
CU Boulder
Friday, October 11, 2024
11:10am-12:00pm
180-113
Rigid Bodies, Geodesics and the Dancing T-handle
Gabriel Martins
CSU Sacramento
Friday, October 18, 2024
11:10am-12:00pm
180-113
Skateboard Tricks and Topological Flips
Gabriel Martins
CSU Sacramento
Friday, October 18, 2024
4:10pm-5:00pm
38-204
Mathematics of AI safety: The power of convexity in a highly nonconvex world
Brendon Anderson
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, November 1, 2024
11:10am-12:00pm
180-113
Jacobi’s Four Square Theorem: A case study on how advanced mathematics can be used to answer simple sounding questions
Matthew Krauel
CSU Sacramento
Friday, November 8, 2024
11:10am-12:00pm
180-113
Vertex Operator Algebras: An Intersection of Algebra, Number Theory, and Physics
Matthew Krauel
CSU Sacramento
Friday, October 18, 2024
4:10pm-5:00pm
38-204
Algebraic Vision: A Gentle Introduction
Jesse Loucks-Tavitas
CSU Sacramento
Friday, November 15, 2024
4:10pm-5:00pm
38-204
Ribbonness and symplectic geometry
Joseph Breen
University of Iowa
Friday, November 22, 2024
11:10am-12:00pm
180-113
Figure skating, hovercrafts, and contact topology
Joseph Breen
University of Iowa
Friday, November 22, 2024
4:10pm-5:00pm
38-204
Playing Billiards with π
Sean Gasiorek
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, March 14, 2025
11:10am-12:00pm
180-112
Sines, cosines, and Mars, oh my!
Ryan Tully-Doyle
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, April 11, 2025
4:10pm-5:00pm
180-102
Bifurcations in contact topology
Austin Christian
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, April 11, 2025
11:10am-12:00pm
38-221
The contact cut graph and a Weinstein L-invariant
Angela Wu
Bucknell University
Friday, May 30, 2025
11:10am-12:00pm
38-121
How to draw four dimensional shapes when you can only draw in two dimensions
Angela Wu
Bucknell University
Friday, May 30, 2025
4:10pm-5:00pm
38-227
2023-2024
Into the 4th Dimension Edgewise
Roger House
Friday, May 31, 2024
4:10pm-5:00pm
180-112
Modeling and estimating anisotropic point-sources in the wave equation
Mario Bencomo
California State University, Fresno
Friday, May 17, 2024
11:10am-12:00pm
180-112
Introduction to inverse problems with examples and research applications
Mario Bencomo
California State University, Fresno
Friday, May 17, 2024
4:10pm-5:00pm
180-112
How to knot, and unknot, a Klein bottle
Patrick Orson
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, May 3, 2024
11:10am-12:00pm
180-112
Self-similarity in the Kepler-Heisenberg problem
Corey Shanbrom
California State University, Sacramento
Friday, April 19, 2024
11:10am-12:00pm
Building 180, Room 112
Where do Kepler's laws hold?
Corey Shanbrom
California State University, Sacramento
Friday, April 19, 2024
4:10pm-5:00pm
Building 180, Room 112
The Secret Principle
Eric Brussel
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Open House
Friday, April 12, 2024
3:10pm-4:00pm
Building 192, Room 106
Homotopy equivalent 4-manifolds
Mark Powell
University of Glasgow
Friday, June 2, 2023
11:10am-12:00pm
Building 180, Room 102
How mathematics allows you to shop online safely
Jim Brown
Occidental College
Friday, May 19, 2023
4:10pm-5:00pm
Building 180, Room 112
Max-Intersection Completeness of Neural Codes and the Neural Ideal
Alexander Ruys de Perez
Georgia Tech
Friday, May 12, 2023
11:10am-12:00pm
Building 180, Room 102
Reduction-based strategies for optimal control of dispersive waves
Jimmie Adriazola
University of California, Santa Barbara
Friday, May 5, 2023
4:10pm-5:00pm
Building 180, Room 112
2019-2020
Dispersive PDEs with nonzero boundary conditions
Dionyssios Mantzavinos
Department of Mathematics
University of Kansas
Friday, February 28, 2020
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Stuck in Traffic
Richard Sowers
Department of Mathematics & Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
University of Illinois
Friday, January 24, 2020
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Predicting Climate and its Change: Global Climate Modeling and Applications of using Satellite measurements
Dr. Jui-Lin Li
Scientist, Earth Sciences Section
Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
California Institute of Technology
Friday, November 22, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Frost Undergraduate Research Talk
"Image Processing Under Noise: Metric Behavior and Multiscale Techniques for Registration and Segmentation" presented by Brady Berg, Conor Carroll, Weston Grewe, Brian Knight, and Tuyen Pham
Department Mathematics
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, November 15, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Estimating the prime counting function
Jesse Elliott
Department Mathematics
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, November 8, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Algebraic Design of Experiments
Elena Dimitrova
Associate Professor
Mathematics
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, November 1, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Deflated Continuation: A bifurcation analysis tool for Nonlinear Complex Dynamical Systems
Efstathios (Stathis) Charalampidis
Assistant Professor
Mathematics
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, October 25, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Approximation on the Cantor set and other related fractals
Demi Allen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Mathematics
University of Manchester
Monday, October 14, 2019
11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Building 33, Room 457
Tropical statistics on tree spaces
Ruriko Yoshida
Associate Professor of Statistics
Naval Postgraduate School
Friday, October 11, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
On the interplay of functional analysis and operator theory
Yunied Puig de Dios
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of California, Riverside
Friday, October 4, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Asymptotics: the unified transform, a new approach to the Lindelof Hypothesis, and the ultra-relativistic limit of the Minkowskian approximation of general relativity
Athanassios S. Fokas
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge
Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Practice
University of Southern California
Friday, September 27, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
The Climate Crisis: challenges and solutions
Erin Pearse
Mathematics Department
California Polytechnic State University
Friday, September 20, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 52, Room E27
2018-2019
On Charleson Measures
Ruhan Zhao
Department of Mathematics
College at Brockport, State University of New York
Friday, May 31, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Frost Undergraduate Research in Mathematics
"Curves, Conics, and Cryptography, Oh My!"presented by Joel Pion and Ryan Zesch
"The Value of Advanced Analytics in Major League Baseball" presented by Donald Kent
"Glacial Cycles and the 100 Kiloyear Problem" presented by Raymart Ballesteros, Tobias Iven, and Brian Knight
Mathematics Department
California Polytechnic State University
Friday, May 17, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Roots: Of Fibonacci Polynomials, General Farey Recursive Functions and a Life in Mathematics
Kelly McKinnie
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Montana
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
12:10-1:00 p.m.
Building 38, Room 202
Using instructional analytics to move from inquiry-based to equitable instruction
Daniel L. Reinholz
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
San Diego State University
Friday, May 10, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Introduction to Deep Neural Networks
Mor Katz
Safety Team at OpenAl
San Francisco, CA
Friday, May 3, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Frost Undergraduate Research in Math Education
"Analogical Reasoning in Abstract Algebra" presented by Chad Collins, Surabhi Agrawal, and Julissa Magana
"Readability in the Context of Introductory Proofs" presented by Shannon Cardoza and Tommy Giang
"Group Effectiveness and Questioning Processes in an IBL Math Classroom" presented by Joelle Saute and Kathryn Voltmer
Mathematics Department
California Polytechnic State University
Friday, March 8, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 202
Virtual properties of arithmetic hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Michelle Chu
Department of Mathematics
UC Santa Barbara
Friday, February 22, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 202
What can you do with a master of science degree in mathematics from Cal Poly?
Chris Agh, Ph.D.
Senior Analyst
Toyon Research Corporation
Steven Foster
Lecturer
Mathematics Department
University of Arizona
Jason Kastner, Ph.D.
Assistant Division Manager
Mechanical Systems Engineering, Fabrication, and Test Division
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Elsa Medina, Ph.D.
Professor
Mathematics Department
Cal Poly State University
Kristin O'Bannon
Executive Marketing Manager
Campaign Strategist, Inclusive Access
Pearson
Nora Wheeler
Mathematics Instructor
Santa Rosa Junior College
Friday, January 18, 2019
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 38, Room 135
Frost Undergraduate Research Talks
"Flat Portions on the Numerical Range of a 4 x 4 Nilpotent Matrix" presented by Mackenzie Cox, Weston Grewe and Grace Hochrein
"Unitary Equivalence for Tensor Products of Linear Operators" presented by Chase Peak and Jordan Rowley
"Recognizing Overlapping Handwritten Digits using Neural Networks" presented by Grant Bernosky, Cameron Fredrickson, Timothy Royston, and Alexa White
Mathematics Department
California Polytechnic State University
Friday, November 30, 2018
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
An energy study of solitary-wave solutions for the Extended Regularized Long-Wave equation
Sanja Pantić
Department of Mathematics
California Polytechnic State University
Friday, November 9, 2018
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Linear Preserves - From Multiplier Sequences to Sector Preserves and Beyond
Tamás Forgács
Department of Mathematics
Cal State, Fresno
Friday, November 2, 2018
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Mathematical Models in Error-Prone Data Regimes
Mario Banuelos
Department of Mathematics
Cal State, Fresno
Friday, October 26, 2018
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
2017-2018
Exploring the Behavior of Forced Dynamical Systems in Conceptual Models of the Earth's Climate
Dave Camp
Math Department
Cal Poly
Friday, June 1, 2018
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Simple Complex Geometry
Morgan Sherman
Math Department
Cal Poly
Friday, May 25, 2018
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Student Research Talks
"Algorithmic Predictor of Strawberry Variety Characteristics Through Machine" by Eleni Pateras
"Models, Sets, and Independence Results in Set Theory" by Michael Hehmann
"Game Theory and Jury Selection" by Stephanie Ray
Math Department
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, May 18, 2018
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Musings on Periodicity and Aperiodicity
May Mei
Math Department
Denison University
Friday, May 11, 2018
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Geometric Oscillations and the Lattice/Nonlattice Dichotomy
Friday, May 4, 2018
11:10 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 213
RIP: Row Integration by Parts
Friday, May 4, 2018
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
John A. Rock
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Cal Poly, Pomona
dd=0 and Related Issues
Goro Kato
Math Department
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, April 27, 2018
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Frost and STAR Student Research Talks
"Accessing Environmental Trends of the California Drought" by Nick Rubio
"Continuity of Entropy for Lorenz Maps" by Zoe Cooperband, Jordan Rowley, and Matt West
Math Department
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, March 9, 2018
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Introduction to the Numerical Range of a Matrix
Linda Patton
Math Department
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, March 2, 2018
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Topological Entropy of Biparametric Skew Tent Maps
Gabriella Keszthelyi
Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Friday, February 16, 2018
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Regularity Properties for Definable Sets of Reals, Infinite Games and Large Cardinals
Mitch Rudominer
Senior Software Engineer
Google
Friday, February 9, 2018
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 202
Frost Undergraduate Research Talks
Chad Collins, Cruz Godar, and Sam Lindboom will present "Duality of Tropical Conics"
Julia Gladding, Nicole Linman, and Lindsay Nolte will present "Algebraic Thinking in Elementary Grades"
Codi Barnett will present "Composition Operators with Polynomial Preimage Growth"
Mathematics Department
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, December 1, 2017
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 202
What is Culturally Responsive Mathematics Teaching and Why Does it Matter?
Mark Ellis
Professor of Education
California State Univeristy, Fullerton
Friday, November 3, 2017
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 33, Room 286
Undergraduate Colloquium on Composition Operators
Dylan Retsek
Mathematics Department
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Friday, October 27, 2017
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 202
2016-2017
The Geometry of Thales Contours
Stepan Paul
Mathematics Department
UC Santa Barbara
Friday, June 9, 2017
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53 Room 206
Reasoning With Infinite Paradoxes
Rob Ely
Mathematics Department
University of Idaho
Friday, June 2, 2017
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53 Room 206
Can Zombies Do Math? OR Humanism as a Philosophy of Mathematics
Gizem Karaali
Mathematics Department
Pomona College
Friday, May 26, 2017
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53 Room 206
Senior Project Colloquium
Aron Daw, Math and Physics major, graduating Spring 2017
Nolan Schock, Math major and CS minor, graduating Spring 2017
Maria Ramirez, Math major, graduating Spring 2017
Katie Taylor, Math major, graduating Spring 2018
Jeffrey Lee, Math major, graduating Spring 2017
Department of Mathematics
Cal Poly
Friday, May 19, 2017
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 38 Room 135
Functional calculus and determinants of linear operators
Joseph Migler
Department of Mathematics
Ohio State University
Friday, May 12, 2017
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53 Room 206
Symmetries, Outer Space, & the Outer Automorphism Group of the Free Group
Catherine Pfaff
Department of Mathematics
UCSB
Friday, February 24, 2017
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53 Room 201
Tube Formulas of Self-Similar Fractal Sets
Erin Pearse
Department of Mathematics
Cal Poly
Friday, February 17, 2017
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53 Room 201
The Mathematics of Doodling
Rob Easton
Department of Mathematics
Cal Poly
Friday, January 20, 2017
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53 Room 201
Why I Study Symmetric Functions
Anthony Mendes
Department of Mathematics
Cal Poly
Friday, October 7, 2016
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53 Room 213
2015-2016
3D Viscoelastic Anisotropic Seismic Modeling with High-Order Mimetic Finite-Differences
José Castillo
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
San Diego State University
Friday, May 27, 2016
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
The Einstein-Klein-Gordon and Poisson-Schrödinger Systems in Spherical Symmetry and Dark Matter Halos
Andrew Goetz
Department of Mathematics
University of California, Santa Cruz
Friday, May 20, 2016
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Harmonic Map Heat Flows
Casey Kelleher
Department of Mathematics
University of California, Irvine
Friday, May 13, 2016
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Vector-Valued Modular Forms and Periods of Modular Curves
Christopher Marks
Department of Mathematics
Cal State, Chico
Friday, April 29, 2016
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Quasicrystals (Sturmian Subshifts), Jarník Sets and Spectral Metrics
Tony Samuel
Department of Mathematics
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Friday, February 26, 2016
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Zeta Functions and Complex Dimensions of Fractals
John A. Rock
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Cal Poly Pomona
Friday, November 13, 2015
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 213
On the Hausdorff Dimension of Graphs of Generalized Weierstraß functions
Arne Mosbach
Universitat Bremen
Bremen, Germany
Friday, October 2, 2015
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 213
2014-2015
The Features Of Successful College Calculus Programs: An Overview of the CSPCC Project's Main Main Findings
Jessica Ellis
Department of Mathematics
Colorado State University
Thursday, May 14, 2015
11:10-12:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 213
On Uniform Continuity of Real-Valued Functions
Gerald Beer
Department of Mathematics
Cal State, Los Angeles
Friday, May 8, 2015
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Local Analysis Using Spectral Data
Hrushikesh Mhaskar
California Institute of Technology &
Claremont Graduate University
Friday, May 1, 2015
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Can This Polynomial Be Factored?
Gary Brookeld
Department of Mathematics
Cal State, Los Angeles
Friday, April 24, 2015
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
A New Look at a Famous Problem in the Theory of Least Area Surfaces
Anthony Tromba
Mathematics Department
UC Santa Cruz
Friday, April 10, 2015
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 180, Room 107
Generation and Propagation of Stop-and-Go Traffic Oscillations
Martha Shott
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Sonoma State University
Friday, April 3, 2015
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 201
Enumeration Through Partial Bell Polynomials
Michael Weiner
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Penn State, Altoona
Friday, March 13, 2015
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Minkowski Dimension and Minkowski Measurability
Erin Pearse
Department of Mathematics
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Friday, March 6, 2015
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Hilbert Spaces, Composition Operators, and Adjoints, Oh My!
Erin Rizzie
Department of Mathematics
Purdue University
Friday, February 27, 2015
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Elliptic Curves and Rational Hyperbolic Triangles
Jordan Schettler
Department of Mathematics
UC Santa Barbara
Friday, January 23, 2015
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 53, Room 206
Heat Flows and Complex Geometry
Ben Weinkove
Department of Mathematics
Northwestern University
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
4:10-5:00 p.m.
Building 33, Room 287
