Mathematics Colloquium Kamil A. Khan, McMaster University Recent advances in constructing convex relaxations for global optimization Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Refreshments at 3pm, talk 3:15 – 4:05 pm.

Mathematics Colloquium Film Presentation Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Refreshments at 3pm, talk 3:15 – 4:15 pm.

Mathematics Colloquium Prof. David Hiebeler, University of Maine Some structured population/epidemiological models Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Refreshments at 3pm, talk 3:15 – 4:05 pm.

Math Colloquium Dr. Rakvi, UMaine Title: Elliptic Curves, Isogenies, and Adelic Indices Wednesday, November 6, 3:00 - 4:05pm. Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall.

Math Colloquium Prof. Naomi Tanabe, Bowdoin College Title: Large sums of multiplicative functions Wednesday, November 20, 3:00 - 4:05pm. Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall.

Math Colloquium Dr. Max Weinreich, Harvard Title: Chaos in mathematical billiards: dynamics, algebra, and arithmetic Wednesday, November 13, 3:00 - 4:05pm. Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall.

Math Colloquium Dr. Joseph Hoisington, Colby College Title: Isoperimetric Inequalities and Spaces of Non-positive Curvature Wednesday, October 30, 3:00 - 4:05pm. 101 Neville Hall.

Dr. Ayan Maiti, Purdue University Title: A historical context of the Langlands Program Wednesday, October 23, 3:15 - 4:15pm. Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall.

Prof. Brandon Hanson, University of Maine The puzzles of Paul Erdos Hill Auditorium (Barrows ESRB) Refreshments at 3:00 pm; talk 3:15 – 4:05pm.

Prof. Chandrika Sadandand, Bowdoin College You can hear the shape of a polygonal billiard table Hill Auditorium (Barrows ESRB) Refreshments at 3:00 pm; talk 3:15 – 4:05pm.

Prof. Andrew Knightly, University of Maine Statistical properties of elliptic curves and modular forms 101 Neville Hall Talk 3:15 – 4:15 pm, refreshments at 3:00 pm

Rose Morris-Wright, Middlebury College Hyperbolic geometry in group theory Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall Talk 3:15 – 4:15 pm, refreshments at 3:00 pm

Robert Franzosa, University of Maine I Saw Total Eclipses of the Sun on February 26, 1979, and on February 26, 1998. Was That a Coincidence? Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall Talk […]

Karol Bacik, MIT Is random walk a good model of walking?​​ Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall Talk 3:15 – 4:15 pm, refreshments at 3:00 pm

Aden Forrow, University of Maine Single-cell trajectory inference 101 Neville Hall Talk 3:15 – 4:15 pm, refreshments at 3:00 pm

Lauren Forrow, Mathematica A Perfect Match: Designing rigorous causal studies of public policies Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall Talk 3:15 – 4:15 pm, refreshments at 3:00 pm

Mathematics faculty, University of Maine Teaching workshops Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall Talk 3:15 – 4:15 pm, refreshments at 3:00 pm

Julian Rosen, Upstart Network Assembling weak learners into strong ones Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall Talk 3:15 – 4:15 pm, refreshments at 3:00 pm

Salimeh Sekeh, University of Maine Can AI Models Be Highly Performant, Efficient, And Robust Simultaneously? Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall Talk 3:30 – 4:30 pm, refreshments at 3:15 pm

Sophia Bragdon, ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Leveraging AI and Mathematics to improve buried object detection Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall Talk 3:15 – 4:15 pm, refreshments at 3:00 […]

Justin Dimmel, University of Maine The SunRule: An Interactive Mathematical Sculpture Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall Talk 3:15 – 4:15 pm, refreshments at 3:00 pm

Simen Bjorvand, NTNU Model Predictive Control - Optimization based Control Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall Talk 3:15 – 4:15 pm, refreshments at 3:00 pm

Neel Patel, University of Maine Bubbles in Groundwater Room 100, Neville Hall Talk 3:15 – 4:15 pm, refreshments at 3:00 pm

Stephanie Dodson, Colby College Traveling waves and cardiac arrhythmias Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall Talk 3:15 – 4:15 pm, refreshments at 3:00 pm

Leah Sturman, Bowdoin College Comparing Integer Partitions Room 100, Neville Hall Talk 3:30 – 4:30 pm, refreshments at 3:15 pm (note later start)

Cole Butler, North Carolina State University Modeling insect populations and the next generation of genetic pest control Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall Talk 3:15 – 4:15 pm, refreshments at 3:00 pm

Wednesday, October 4, 2023. Mathematics Colloquium. Mathematics and Statistics Faculty, University of Maine Research Symposium Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 3:00 – 4:15 pm, Snacks at 4:00 pm.

Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Giovanna Guidoboni, University of Maine  Title: Mathematical and computational properties of differential equations for fluid flows in deformable domains Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall […]

Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Evan Randles, Colby College  Title: The large-time behavior of heat kernels Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, March 22, 2023. Mathematics Colloquium. Chris Stith, University of Michigan Title: TBA Room 104, Jenness Hall 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Gil Moss, University of Maine  Title: Fermat's last theorem, L-functions, and the Langlands program Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks […]

Wednesday, February 22, 2023. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Jane Wang, University of Maine  Title: The Illumination Problem Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, December 7, 2022. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Brandon Hanson, University of Maine  Title: The unreasonable effectiveness of polynomials in the mathematical sciences Room 101, Neville Hall 3:15 - 4:15 pm, […]

Wednesday, November 30, 2022. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Tim Browning, IST Austria Title: Polynomials over ℤ and ℚ: counting and freeness Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Aden Forrow, University of Maine  Title: An Introduction to Likelihood-free Inference Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, November 9, 2022. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Benjamin Weiss, Unum  Title: Valuing Insurance Companies or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Quartic Splines Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 […]

Wednesday, October 26, 2022. Mathematics Colloquium. Elena Salguero, University of Seville, Spain The Dynamics of a Stokes Flow Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Franziska Peterson, University of Maine TBA Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Casey Pinckney, University of Maine Independence Complexes of Finite Groups Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, April 20, 2022. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Jack Buttcane, University of Maine A meandering through number theory Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, December 8, 2021. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Brandon Lieberthal, University of Maine Human mobility networks and infectious disease epidemics Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, November 17, 2021. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Byungjae Son, University of Maine Semipositone Steady State Reaction Diffusion Equations Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, November 10, 2021. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Peter Stechlinski, University of Maine Nonsmooth Analysis Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, November 3, 2021. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Yeongseong Jo, University of Maine The Riemann zeta function toward the automorphic L-function Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, October 20, 2021. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Tyrone Crisp, University of Maine The algebra of pulling things apart Room 100, Donald P. Corbett Business Building 3:15 - 4:15 pm.

Wednesday, September 22, 2021. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Brandon Hanson, University of Maine Sums and products and combinatorial geometry (oh my!) Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Friday, February 21, 2020. Joint Mathematics/Physics Colloquium. Dr. Glen Van Brummelen, Quest University/Institute for Advanced Studies The Forgotten Man: Astronomy in the Transformative 15th Century Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Byungjae Son, University of Maine Steady state reaction diffusion equations where a parameter influences the equation as well as the boundary condition Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, November 6, 2019. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Sara Chari, Bates College Metacommutation of primes in locally Eichler orders Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, October 30, 2019. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Shenhui Liu, University of Maine Non-vanishing of automorphic L-functions Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Wednesday, October 23, 2019. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Keshav Aggarwal, University of Maine Sums of Oscillatory Functions and Circle Method Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:15 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Thursday, September 19, 2019. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Tonghui Wang, New Mexico State University Family of skew normal distributions, properties, applications, and recent development Hill Auditorium 3:15 - 4:20 pm, Snacks at 3:00 pm.

Monday, February 4, 2019. Mathematics Colloquium. Dr. Joan Ferrini-Mundy, President, The University of Maine & the University of Maine at Machias Integrating Research, Policy, and Practice in Mathematics Education: What Does it Mean to "Make a Difference?" Hill Auditorium 3:00-4:00, Refreshments will be served. This colloquium is co-sponsored with the Maine Center for Research in STEM Education […]

Wednesday, January 30, 2019. Mathematics Colloquium. Prof. Robert Franzosa, University of Maine Two Talks in One Hill Auditorium 3:30 - 4:30 pm, Snacks at 3:15 pm.

Wednesday, April 11, 2018. Mathematics Colloquium. Prof. Omer Offen, Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. "Models for representations of general linear groups." 3:30 - 4:20 pm. Snacks at 3:15pm.

Wednesday, November 29, 2017. Mathematics Colloquium. Prof. Evan Randles, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Colby College. "Convolution powers of complex-valued functions on $latex \mathbb{Z}^d$." 3:30 - 4:20 pm. Snacks at […]

Thursday, November 16, 2017. Statistics Colloquium. Prof. Erin Conlon Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University Massachusetts Amherst. "Parallel Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Bayesian Analysis of Big Data" 3:30 - […]

Wednesday, October 25, 2017. Mathematics Colloquium. Prof. Sougata Dhar, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine. "Linear and half linear Lyapunov-type inequalities and applications" 3:30 - 4:20 pm. Snacks […]

Wednesday, October 18, 2017. Mathematics Colloquium. Prof. Peter Stechlinski, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine. "Dynamic Optimization of Nonsmooth Systems" 3:30 - 4:20 pm. Snacks at 3:15pm.

Prof. Jerrod Smith, University of Maine Mathematics & Statistics. Title: Distinguished representations and relative discrete series for p-adic groups 100 Neville Hall Snacks at 3:15.

Prof. Randy Lai, University of Maine Mathematics & Statistics. Title: Julia, the programming language for 21st century. 100 Neville Hall Snacks at 3:15.

Prof. Liam O'Brien, Colby College Mathematics & Statistics. Title: Marginal Pairwise Associations Arising from Multiple Source Data. Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies and tea at 3:15.

Prof. Rob Benedetto, Amherst College, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Title: The arboreal Galois group of a PCF cubic polynomial Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies at 3:15pm.  

Prof. Naomi Tanabe, Dartmouth College, Department of Mathematics Title: Central Values of L-functions Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies at 3:15pm.  

Prof. David Krumm, Colby College Mathematics & Statistics. Title: The global dynamics of quadratic maps on the projective line. Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies and tea at 3:15.

Prof. Thomas Hulse, Colby College Mathematics & Statistics. Title: Counting Lattice Points in Spheres. Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies and tea at 3:15.

Prof. Peter Sarnak, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Title: Symmetry types for families of L-functions. Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies and tea at 3:15.

Prof. Lauren Ross, University of Maine Civil & Environmental Engineering. Title: Three-dimensional tidal flow in a frictional fjord-like basin with converging width: an analytical model. Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies and tea at 3:15.

Prof. Chris Johnson, Wake Forest University Mathematics & Statistics. Title: Non-singular ergodic theory, affine interval exchanges, and the T-fractal. Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies and tea at 3:15.

Prof. Robert Niemeyer, University of Maine Mathematics & Statistics. Title: The T-fractal billiard and fractal flat surface. Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies and tea at 3:15.

Prof. Thomas Enkosky (B.A. '03 & M.A. '04 UMaine), Boston University Mathematics & Statistics. Title: The Algebra of Rigid Structures. Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies and tea at 3:15.

Prof. Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College Mathematics. Title: A dynamical systems framework for exploring resilience. Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies and tea at 3:15.

Prof. Billy Jackson, University of Maine Mathematics and Statistics. Title: From Difference Equations to Differential Equations and Everything Else in Between Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies at 3:15pm.

Prof. Joshua Zelinsky, University of Maine Mathematics and Statistics. Title: Diophantine Equations, Hilbert's Tenth Problem, and Mazur's Conjecture Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies at 3:15pm.  

Prof. Solomon Friedberg, Boston College Department of Mathematics. Title: Theta functions and covering groups 100 Neville Hall Cookies and tea at 3:00pm in Neville 231.

Prof. Daniel Vallieres, UMaine Mathematics. Title:  Have you ever asked yourself what cos(2π/5) is? Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies and tea at 3:15

Prof. Chan Ieong Kuan, UMaine Mathematics. Title: Sums of nonnegative values of quadratic forms and modular forms Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB) Cookies at 3:15pm.