# Events

For individual seminars (current semester only):

For earlier events:

Sebastian Jaimungal - University of Toronto
Nov 12, 4:40pm to 5:55pm
Applied Mathematics - Colloquia - E1 104
Wed.
Nov 12
Tim Davis
Sep 29, 4:40pm to 5:55pm
Applied Mathematics - Colloquia - E1 104
Mon.
Sep 29
Bridget Tenner - DePaul University
Sep 8, 4:40pm to 5:55pm
Applied Mathematics - Colloquia - E1 104
Abstract: Suppose that mathematician M has just proved theorem T. How is M to know if her result is truly new, or if T already exists in the literature? I will discuss existing databases of theorems which assign a small, language-free, canonical, and searchable "fingerprint" to their... read more
Mon.
Sep 8
May 19 (All day) to May 22 (All day)
Applied Mathematics - Seminar - E1 Auditorium
An international conference on algebraic statistics, AS2014, will take place right here in our department! See website for schedule, details, contact information, registration, etc. IIT graduate students who are interested in helping out with the conference will have registration fees waived.... read more
Mon.
May 19
David Haws - IBM Research
Apr 30, 3:30pm
Applied Mathematics - Seminar - E1 121
This talk will cover descriptions of probabilistic conditional independence (CI) models and learning graphical models which has applications in biology (epistasis, gene regulatory networks, protein signaling, systems biology), Markov random processes, probabilistic reasoning, artificial... read more
Wed.
Apr 30
Emil Constantinescu - Argonne National Laboratory
Apr 28, 4:40pm
Applied Mathematics - Colloquia - LS 152
Abstract: An important issue in quantifying uncertainty in the simulation of large-scale dynamical processes is to determine statistical models that appropriately account for their physical characteristics or nonstationarity. In this talk we describe a method to derive covariance... read more
Mon.
Apr 28
Dane Wilburne - IIT Applied Math
Apr 23, 3:30pm
Applied Mathematics - Seminar - E1 121
Abstract coming soon.
Wed.
Apr 23
Dr. Larry Birnbaum - Northwestern University
Apr 23, 11:25am to 12:40pm
Applied Mathematics - Seminar - SB 107
Systems that present people with information inescapably make editorial judgments in determining what information to show and how to show it. However the editorial values used to make these judgments are generally invisible to users and in many cases even to the engineers who design them. This work... read more
Wed.
Apr 23
Emma Turian
Apr 22, 3:15pm to 4:30pm
Applied Mathematics - Seminar - E1 122
Tue.
Apr 22
Laura McLay - University of Wisconsin at Madison
Apr 21, 4:40pm
Applied Mathematics - Colloquia - LS 152
Abstract: Covering models are used in a broad spectrum of applications. This talk will first overview various covering models and then focus on covering models and algorithms for emergency medical services. These emergency medical service models reflect multiple partial coverage. Lastly, I will... read more
Mon.
Apr 21
Yang Wang - Michigan State University
Apr 18, 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Applied Mathematics - Colloquia - E1 244
Abstract: This presentation is accessible to general audience, including undergraduate and graduate students. The recent controversy surrounding the authorship of "The Cuckoo's Calling" by Robert Galbraith had become a headline news in the world. While information leakage was... read more
Fri.
Apr 18
Jose Rodriguez - University of California, Berkeley
Apr 16, 3:30pm
Applied Mathematics - Seminar - E1 121
Numerical algebraic geometry is a growing area of applied algebra that involves describing solutions of polynomial systems of equations. This area has already had an impact in kinematics, statistics, PDE's, and pure math. In this talk we focus on using numerical algebraic geometry for maximum... read more
Wed.
Apr 16
Francisco Hernandez
Apr 15, 3:15pm to 4:30pm
Applied Mathematics - Seminar - E1 122
Tue.
Apr 15
Shouhong Wang - Indiana University
Apr 14, 4:40pm
Applied Mathematics - Colloquia - LS 152
Abstract: In this talk, I shall present a few first principles and laws for four fundamental forces of Nature, demonstrating the symbiotic interplay between advanced mathematics and theoretical physics. First, we present Einstein’s principle of general relativity and principle of... read more
Mon.
Apr 14
Chris Mitillos - IIT Applied Mathematics
Apr 10, 2:00pm
Applied Mathematics - Seminar - E1 room 027
Graph fall-colouring is an intersection of graph colouring and graph domination, whereby we attempt to partition a graph into independent dominating sets. In this talk, we will see various results regarding this type of graph coloring, including constructions of fall-colourable graphs with certain... read more
Thu.
Apr 10
Kawkab Alhejoj - IIT Applied Math
Apr 9, 3:30pm
Applied Mathematics - Seminar - E1 121
Emerging field of phylogenomics integrates two major disciplines: genomics (the study of the structure and function of genes and genomes) and phylogenetics (the study of the hierarchical evolutionary relationships among organisms and their genomes). The goal of phylogenomics is to identify the... read more
Wed.
Apr 9
Sonja Petrovic - Assistant Professor of Applied Math, IIT
Apr 9, 11:25am to 12:40pm
Applied Mathematics - Seminar - SB 107
Social networks and other large sparse data sets pose significant challenges for statistical inference, as many standard statistical methods for testing model fit are not applicable in such settings. Algebraic statistics offers a theoretically justified approach to goodness-of-fit testing that... read more
Wed.
Apr 9
Yuanchao
Apr 8, 3:15pm to 4:30pm
Applied Mathematics - Seminar - E1 122
Tue.
Apr 8
Oleksandr Misiats - Purdue University
Apr 7, 4:40pm
Applied Mathematics - Colloquia - LS 152
Abstract: We study the long-time behavior of systems governed by nonlinear reaction-diffusion type equations $du = (Au + f(u))dt + \sigma(u) dW(t)$, where $A$ is an elliptic operator, $f$ and $\sigma$ are nonlinear maps and $W$ is an infinite dimensional nuclear Wiener process. This equation... read more
Mon.
Apr 7
Charles Wampler - General Motors
Apr 2, 4:40pm
Applied Mathematics - Colloquia, - Seminar - LS 152
Recently, numerical algorithms have been developed for computing cell decompositions of the real points in complex algebraic curves and surfaces. These algorithms operate in the spirit of Morse theory by introducing a real projection and using numerical algebraic geometry to find the critical sets... read more
Wed.
Apr 2