Events

The Department of Mathematics sponsors a regular colloquium that hosts several talks by external speakers every year and a general faculty seminar for talks by faculty and students. Seminars are listed below after the colloquia.

Mathematics Colloquium

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Recent Mathematics Colloquium Talks

Date Topic Speaker
Apr 7, 2023 Improving business insurance loss models by leveraging InsurTech innovation

Dr. Emiliano A. Valdez,
University of Connecticut

Mar 10, 2023 Federal funding to improve STEM education research and practice

Dr. Asli Sezen-Barrie,
NSF

Feb 3, 2023 Squirming through biological fluids

Dr. Ebru Demir,
Lehigh University

May 20, 2022 Valuation and optimal surrender policy for reverse mortgage guarantees  Dr. Junsen Tang,
University of St. Thomas
Apr 15, 2022 The mathematics of how HIV/AIDS defeats the immune system and how to defeat the virus Dr. Cameron Browne,
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Apr 8, 2022 Numerical methods for solving polynomial systems Dr. Dan Bates,
US Naval Academy
Mar 4, 2022 The topological symmetry groups of the Heawood graph Dr. Robin Wilson,
Cal Poly Pomona
Oct 29, 2021 The value of a pension buyout: An employee (retiree) perspective Dr. Tianxiang Shi,
Temple University
Oct 15, 2021 Learning nonlinear operators using deep neural networks for diverse applications Dr. Lu Lu,  
University of Pennsylvania

Seminar Meetings

The Mathematics Seminar is the venue where Towson faculty and students report on their research activities. In addition several research groups have research seminars in their respective research areas:

  • ASRM Seminar (coordinated by Min Ji):
    Meets on Fridays at 10 am
  • Number Theory Seminar (coordinated by A. Kumchev and N. McNew):
    Meets on Fridays at 2 pm in YR 216.

Recent and Upcoming Seminars

  • Oct 20, 2023: Number Theory Seminar.
    Angel Kumchev will speak on Small values of real quadratic forms.

Recent Mathematics Seminar & Sabbatical Talks

  • On May 5, 2023, Dr. Sergiy Borodachov presented a sabbatical lecture on Orthogonal Polynomials and Potentials of Spherical Designs.  
  • On November 4, 2022, Dr. Tatyana Sorokina presented a sabbatical lecture on Bernstein-Bezier Techniques.
  • On May 6, 2022, Dr. Leonid Stern presented a sabbatical lecture on the Distribution of norm groups of algebraic number fields.
  • On April 29, 2022, Dr. Yunwei Cui presented a sabbatical lecture on the Estimation of a semi-parametric trend model: Theory and practice.
  • On June 8, 2021, Dr. Min Ji presented a sabbatical lecture on Modeling mortality dependence: An application of dynamical vine copula.
  • On May 14, 2021, Dr. Angel Kumchev presented a sabbatical lecture on Recent results in discrete harmonic analysis.