Abstract:  We will present the work of the SMALL 2018 Random Matrix Theory group.

A Path Model for Quantum Skew-Symmetric Matrices by Aesha Siddiqui '19, at the Mathematics Colloquium, today, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Mathematics Class of 1960s Speaker: Prof. Taryn Flock, UMass Amherst, "A Few Sharp Inequalities in Harmonic Analysis, Friday, September 28 2018

A New Math/Stat Method in Oncology by David Krane '19, at the Mathematics Colloquium, today 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101.

Variable Selection for Dynamic Citation Networks by Prof. Xizhen Cai, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, October 10, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Some Variations on Factoring: Possible New Formulas for e by Prof. Thomas Garrity, Friday, October 12, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105, Mathematics Faculty Seminar

Cannibalism and Infectious Disease by Alina Shubina '19, Mathematics Colloquium, today, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101.

Regression Methods for Network Indexed Data: Modeling Occurrences of Burglary in Boston, Massachusetts by Elizabeth Upton, Boston University, today 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Statistics Colloquium

New and Old Results in the Classical Theory of Minimal and Constant Mean Curvature Surfaces in Euclidean 3-Space R3 by Prof. William Meeks III, Institute for Advanced Study, Mathematics Faculty Seminar today, Supported by the John and Louise Finnerty Class of 1971 Fund

Accounting for Individual Differences Among Fingerprint Examiners Using Tree-Based Item Response Theory by Amanda Luby, Carnegie Mellon University, at the Statistics Colloquium today, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Quasi-Excellent Rings that are not Excellent and Catenary Rings that are not Universally Catenary by Prof. Susan Loepp, October 26, Mathematics Faculty Seminar

Decomposing Senate Votes by Dustin Ping '19 at the Mathematics Colloquium, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Adjusting for Imperfect Detection in Population Size Prediction by Matthew Higham, Oregon State University, October 31, Statistics Colloquium

Higher Distance Commuting Varieties by Prof. Ralph Morrison, Williams College, at the Mathematics Faculty Seminar, November 2, 1 – 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Accurate, Real-Time Flu Tracking With Internet Search Data by Shaoyang Ning, Harvard University, Statistics Colloquium, Monday, November 5, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Efficient MCMC for Spatial Population Modeling by Prof. Daniel Turek, Statistics Colloquium, November 7, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Combinatorial Interpretations of Lucas Analogues by Prof. Bruce E. Sagan, Michigan State University, Mathematics Class of 1960s Scholar, Friday, November 9, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Ramsey's Theorem: A Belated Halloween Special by Francesca Eluhu '19, Mathematics Colloquium, November 12, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Benford's Law by Jianing Tu '19, Mathematics Colloquium, November 14, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Penalized Regression Methods for Microbiome Compositional Data by Prof. Anna Plantinga, November 14, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Statistics Colloquium

Non-Rigid Rank-One Measures on the Circle by Prof. Cesar Silva, Mathematics Faculty Seminar, November 16

Exploring the Uniqueness of Sudoku Puzzles Through Vertex Coloring by Katherine Blake '19, Mathematics Colloquium, November 19, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Mathematical Underpinnings of Music Applied Through Composition by Alexander Summers '19, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, November 26, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Grover's Quantum Search Algorithm by Stuart Read '19, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, November 28, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

P-Values and Scientific Reproducibility: What's all the Fuss? by Prof. Richard De Veaux, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, November 28, 2018, 1:10-1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Combinatorics of Weight Multiplicities by Prof. Pamela Harris, Mathematics Faculty Seminar, Friday, November 30, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

How to Survive a Josephus Game by David Aribiyi '19, Monday, December 3, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101, Mathematics Colloquium

Urysohn's Lemma by Benjamin Bui '19, Wednesday, December 5, 2018, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101, Mathematics Colloquium

Nowhere Differentiable Continuous Functions by Joshua Gilkenson '19, Monday, December 10, 2018, Mathematics Colloquium, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

The Pythagorean Formula of Baseball by Ryan Taylor '19, Tuesday, December 11, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101, Mathematics Colloquium

Hyperbolicity and Turaev Hyperbolicity of Classical and Virtual Knots by Prof. Colin Adams, Friday, February 1, 2019, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 109, Mathematics Faculty Seminar

Applications of the Class Equation: Sylow's First Theorem and Probability in Group Theory by Alexandre Gueganic '19, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, February 6, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Modeling Genetic Recombination With Poisson Processes by Jesse Ames '19, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, February 6, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Mathematical Modelling of Major League Baseball's Final Offer Arbitration System by Carsten Berger '19, Monday, February 11, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101, Mathematics Colloquium

Exploring the Uniqueness of Sudoku Puzzles Through Vertex Coloring by Katherine Blake '19, Wednesday, February 13, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101, Mathematics Colloquium

Alphabetized Optimality in Experimental Design by Isabelle Ahn '19, Wednesday, February 13, Statistics Colloquium, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

An Elementary Proof of the Unsolvability of Quintic Equations by Roua Agrebi '19, Monday, February 18, Stetson Court Classroom 101, Mathematics Colloquium

Fáry's Theorem by Amy Qiu '19, Wednesday, February 20, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101, Mathematics Colloquium

Methods in Stylometry and Applications: The Beatles and Shakespeare by Zachary Proom '19, Wednesday, February 20, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Statistics Colloquium

Lewy's Example: A Differential Equation Without Solution by Adrian Black '19, Monday, February 25, 1- 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101, Mathematics Colloquium

Beat the Dealer: How Math Changed the Game of Blackjack by Jake Foehl '19, Wednesday, February 27, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105, Statistics Colloquium

Give and Take: Three Ways of Approaching the Nash Bargaining Solution by Jacob Nadelman '19, Monday, March 11, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101, Mathematics Colloquium

How Many Mates? Impact of Disease and Punishment on Tendency Toward Polygyny vs Monogamy by Donglin Zhang '19, Wednesday, March 13, 1-1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101, Mathematics Colloquium

Predicting Rare Diseases: Random Forests and Imbalanced Data by Nina Min '19, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, March 13, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Modeling Social-Structure Driven Language Change by Nicholas Gardner '19, Monday, April 1, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101, Mathematics Colloquium

An Introduction to the Analytic Class Number Formula by Nam Nguyen '19, Wednesday, April 3, Stetson Court Classroom 101, Mathematics Colloquium

Not All Grades are Created Equal: Using Bayesian Latent Trait Formulation and Item-Response Modeling to Accurately Weight GPA by William Ruggiero '19, Wednesday, April 3, 1:10-1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105, Statistics Colloquium

The Ballot Problem by Muhammad Nausherwan Abbasi '19, Monday, April 8, Mathematics Colloquium, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Reducing Uncertainty in Paleoclimate With The Kalman Filter by Anna Black '19, Wednesday, April 10, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105, Statistics Colloquium

Kostant's Partition Function and Multiplex Juggling Sequences by Anthony Simpson '19, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Wednesday, April 10, 1-1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Dogs Probably Use the Factorial Base to do Math by Joanne Beckford '19, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, April 17, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

The Tightening Boundary: Improving the Speed of MCMC Algorithms With Variational Methods by Ian Shen '19, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, April 17, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Fermat's Last Theorem (with Polynomials) by Reuben Kaufman '19, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, April 22, 1-1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Imagining Protein Structure Through Knot Theory by Judah Devadoss '19, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Wednesday, April 24, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Generalizable Stability Analysis for Clustering Algorithms by Eric Rosenthal '19, Wednesday, April 24, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Statistics Senior Thesis Defense

Here Be Legendre Dragons: An Analysis of Paper Folding Diagrams Corresponding to Values of the Legendre Symbol by Grace Mabie '19, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Monday, April 29, 1 - 1:45 pm

Tropical Varieties of Cryptography by Jian Lu '19, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Wednesday, May 1, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Bayesian Estimation of Age at First Capture in Mark-Recapture Studies of Trinidadian Guppies, by Sophie Lu '19, Wednesday, May 1, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105, Statistics Senior Thesis Defense

Uncountable Excellent Rings With Countably Many Prime Ideals by Anya Michaelsen '19, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Monday, May 6

Span of the Bracket Polynomial and Triple-Crossing Projections of Knots by Jonah Greenberg '19, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Wednesday, May 8, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 101

Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Estimating Particulate Matter (PM10) Levels in South Korea by Youngsoo Baek '19, Statistics Senor Thesis Defense, Wednesday, May 8, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Cellular Automata and Symbolic Rank One Transformations by Yuxin Wu '19, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Monday, May 13, 10:30 am, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Topology of Random Simplical Complexes by Zhiqi Li '19, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Monday, May 13, 11:15 am, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Completions of Catenary Domains by Andrew Aramini '19, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Tuesday, May 14, 10:30 am, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Modeling Resource Cooperation in Invasive Species Bridgehead Systems by Thomas Benz '19, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Tuesday, May 14, 11:15 am, Stetson Court Classroom 105

The Relationship Between Prime Ideals of a Local Ring and Prime Ideals of its Completion by Prof. Susan Loepp, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, June 12, 1 - 1:45 pm., Stetson Court Classroom 101

Progress in Solving a Family of Thue Equations Over Imaginary Quadratic Fields by Prof. Eva Goedhart, Mathematics Faculty Seminar

Optimal Tiles by Prof. Frank Morgan, Faculty Colloquium, today, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Hartog's Theorem by Brenda Xu '20, Mathematics Colloquium, September 16, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110

Invasive Spread Modeling in Manhattan by Alison Robey '20, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, September 18, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110

Enumerative Geometry, Combinatorics, and Algebra by Prof. Linda Chen, Swarthmore College, Class of 1960s Speaker, Mathematics Faculty Colloquium, Friday, September 20, 1-1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Voting in Agreeable Societies by Francis Su, Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics, Co-sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa and the Class of 1960s Scholars, Monday, September 23, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110

Ergodicity of the Gauss Map by Ting Da Wang '20, Wednesday, September 25, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110, Mathematics Colloquium

Regression Methods for Network Indexed Data: Modeling Occurrences of Burglary and Identifying Correlates of Injection Drug Use Cessation by Prof. Elizabeth Upton, Williams College, Wednesday, September 25, 1:10 - 1:50 pm

Throttling for the Game of Cops and Robbers and PSD Zero Forcing by Prof. Josh Carlson, Mathematics Faculty Colloquium, Friday, September 27, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Matrix Multiplication in Sub-Cubic Runtime by William Burford '20, Monday, September 30, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110, Mathematics Colloquium

The Rauzy Fractal by Daniel Jordan Alvarez '20, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, October 2, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110

Time-Varying Mediation Models: Inference for the Mediation Effect Using a Simulation-Based Approach by Ryan Cox '20, Wednesday, October 2, 1 :10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105, Statistics Colloquium

On Partition Zeta Functions by Prof. Thomas Garrity, Friday, October 4, Mathematics Faculty Seminar, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Abstract: We will be discussing the work of Schneider and of Ono, Rolen and Schneider.

Knotted Proteins by Prof. Colin Adams, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, October 7, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110

Sentiment Analysis and Latent Dirichlet Allocation by Paul Hwang '20, Wednesday, October 9, Statistics Colloquium, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110

Do Mice and Cats See Eye-to-Eye by Prof. Jennifer Crodelle, Courant Institute of Mathematics, New York University, Class of 1960s Speaker, Friday, October 11, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Generating Functions by Prof. Hugh Montgomery, University of Michigan, Class of 1960s Speaker, Wednesday, October 16, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110.

Accurate, Real-Time Flu Tracking With Internet Search Data by Prof. Shaoyang Ning, Wednesday, October 16, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105, Statistics Colloquium

What Exactly Are Virtual Knots, And Can They Be Hyperbolic? Oh, Yes, They Can! by Prof. Colin Adams, Mathematics Faculty Colloquium, Friday October 18, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

An Elementary Approach to the Distribution of Primes by Prof. Leo Goldmakher, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, October 21, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110.

On the Duffin-Schaeffer Conjecture by Prof. Dimitris Koukoulopoulos, Universite de Montreal, Class of 1960s Speaker, Mathematics Faculty Seminar, Monday, October 21, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110

Exploring Minimax Linkage: Hierarchial Clustering With Prototypes by Selin Gumustop '20, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, October 23, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105

Branching Processes and Local Species Vulnerability by Veronica Wolff '20, Monday, October 28, 1- 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110, Mathematics Colloquium

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Some of its Applications by Allen Wang '20, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, October 30, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110

Accurate, Real-Time Flu Tracking With Internet Search Data by Prof. Shaoyang Ning, Wednesday, October 30, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 105, Statistics Colloquium

Approximation by Random Fractions by Prof. Felipe Ramirez, Wesleyan University, Class of 1960s Speaker, Friday, Nov. 11, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110

Introduction to Space-Filling Curves by Xiwei Yang '20, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, November 4, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem by Harper Kerkhoff '20, Wednesday, November 6, 1 - 1:45 pm, Stetson Court Classroom 110, Mathematics Colloquium