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Colloquium

About Our Colloquium

The Department of Mathematics at CSUSB has a Colloquium series in which each term we invite experts to come in and share interesting math ideas, problems, and applications.  These talks are intended for a more general audience, not just mathematicians, and all are welcome.  Typically about half of the audience is comprised of our math undergraduates.  

For questions about our colloquium, contact our colloquium coordinator, Dr. Jeffrey S. Meyer (jeffrey.meyer@csusb.edu).

 

See our Recordings Page to view past colloquia.  This will require you to sign in with your CSUSB ID.

 

Spring 2021 Schedule

All talks will be remote on Zoom and the default meeting data is below:

Time: Fridays, 2-3 PDT
Zoom Meeting ID: 823 8550 9211
Zoom Passcode: CSUSB_Math


Click in the title below to see the poster, which includes the abstract.

Current speaker list (subject to change) is below.

Colloquium Poster

 

Math Colloquium
Speaker Date Institution Title

Dr. Gregory Herschlag

 2021/03/12 Duke University Uncovering Gerrymandering:
Revealing Geopolitical Structure through Sampling
Dr. Anna Haensch 2021/03/19 Tufts University From Riemann Zeta to Big Data:
A journey through math and the lessons learned along the way
Dr. Nick Eubank 2021/03/26 Duke University

Partisan Dislocation:
A Precinct-Level Measure of Representation and Gerrymandering
SPRING BREAK 2021/04/02   No Talk
Dr. Zachary Scherr 2021/04/09 Susquehanna University Effectiveness of Coppersmith's attack on RSA cryptography
Dr. Diana Davis
with Quinn Basewitz,
Katie Knox, Corinne Mulvey		 2021/04/16 Phillips Exeter Academy Measuring gerrymandering:
a data analysis project
Dr. Carla Cotwright-Williams 2021/04/23 Department of Defense Secret Lives of Mathematicians

Fall 2020 Talks

  • September 11, 2-3pm.
    • Dr. Jeffrey S. Meyer (California State University, San Bernardino)
    • Hyperbolic Fruit Ninja
       
  • October 2, 2-3pm
    • Dr. Hani Aldirawi (California State University, San Bernardino)
    • Model Selection and Regression Analysis for Sparse Discrete Data
       
  • October 9, 2-3pm
    • Dr. Suthakaran Ratnasingam (California State University, San Bernardino)
    • Sequential Change Point Detection for High-Dimensional Data using Non-convex Penalized Quantile Regression
       
  • October 16, 2:30-3:30pm (note special time)
    • Dr. Lida Ahmadi (California State University, San Bernardino)
    • A combinatorial approach to pattern matching 
       
  • October 23, 2-3pm
    • Dr. Dalton Marsh (California State University, San Bernardino)
    • Student Interest and Persistence in STEM
       
  • November 6, 2-3pm
    • Dr. Steve Balady (California State University, San Bernardino)
    • Measuring Student Attitudes in an Active Learning Calculus Classroom

 

 

Colloquium

 

Once we go back in person

All colloquia are in Room 391, Jack Brown Hall, on the CSUSB campus. For directions on how to get to campus, please see directions and maps on the CSUSB web site. For visitors the parking fee is currently $6. One-hour and two-hour permits are available for $2.50 and $5.00, respectively.

Past Terms

 

Winter Quarter 2020

  • March 9: Dr. Charles Stanton, California State University San Bernardino 
    • Mathematical Models of Coronavirus

Fall Quarter 2019

  • October 2: Dr. Jeffrey S. Meyer, California State University San Bernardino 
    • Visualizing Hyperbolic Surfaces
  • October 16: Dr. Mahesh Sunkula (UC, Riverside)
    • Hamilton-Jacobi equation and an application to optics

Winter Quarter 2019

  • No speakers.

Fall Quarter 2018

  • October 10: Dr. Jeffrey S. Meyer, California State University San Bernardino 
    • Farey Sequences: A Tour Through Mathematics
  • October 22: Dr. Brian Benson, University of California, Riverside 
    • Connections between the sounds that drums make and shapes of least perimeter.
  • November 7: Dr. Javier Rojo, Oregon State University
    • Partial Orders of Distributions

Winter Quarter 2018

  • January 17: Dr. Christian Millichap (Linfield College)
    • An introduction to cryptology and modular arithmetic
  • January 31: Dr. Benjamin Linowitz (Oberlin College)
    •  Can you hear the shape of a drum?
  • March 14: Dr. Bianca Thompson (Harvey Mudd College)
    • An Accessible guide to Uniform Bounds of Twists

Fall Quarter 2017

  • October 18: Dr. Jeffrey S. Meyer, California State University San Bernardino 
    • How quickly do loops grow as you unwrap a space?
  • November 1: Dr. Victoria Noquez (Harvey Mudd College)
    • Model Theory and Continuous Logic
  • November 15: Dr. Sara Lapan (UC, Riverside)
    • A Snapshot of Holomorphic Dynamics Near a Fixed Point

Winter Quarter 2017

  • January 25: Dr. Scott Cramer, California State University San Bernardino 
    • Big Numbers (finite and infinite)
  • February 8: Dr. Lynn Scow, California State University San Bernardino 
    • What does Ramsey theory have to say about the MacLaurin Series for tan(x)?
  • February 22: Dr. Jeremy Aikin, California State University San Bernardino 
    • A Brief History of Matroid Theory

Fall Quarter 2016

  • October 12: Dr. Jason Park, San Bernardino Valley College, San Bernardino 
    • Convolution of Random Measures
  • October 26: Dr. Michael Hartglass, University of California, Riverside 
    • An introduction to free probability
  • November 16: Dr. Jeffrey S. Meyer, California State University San Bernardino 
    • Pell's Equation, Hyperbolic Geodesics, and Beyond