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

On Friday, May 5, 2023, Dr. Sergiy Borodachov, Professor of Mathematics at Towson University, will present a sabbatical lecture on Orthogonal Polynomials and Potentials of Spherical Designs. The lecture will take place at 2 pm in 7800 York Road, Room 205.

Abstract: We will discuss results on universal minima and maxima of potentials of spherical point configurations that form nodes of cubature formulas of the highest algebraic degree of precision. Properties of Gegenbauer and Jacobi orthogonal polynomials are an important tool in analyzing their potentials and establishing sharp upper and lower bounds. Our results apply to many known regular spherical configurations in various dimensions. This research is related to approximation theory, discrete geometry, theory of spherical designs, and potential theory. We will also talk about our work on construction of the pointwise optimal recovery algorithm for twice differentiable functions on a rectangular box with uniformly bounded second order derivatives in any direction. The data is given by values and gradients of a function at a fixed rectangular grid. Other activities from our sabbatical plan will be also mentioned.

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. The Graduate Seminar hosts expository talks by faculty that introduce graduate students in the departmental APIM Master's program to topics that present opportunities for graduate research projects. 

Upcoming Seminars

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Recent Mathematics Seminar & Sabbatical Talks

  • 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.