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Seminar Series
The Department of Mathematics hosts a weekly seminar on research topics in mathematics. Talks are plenary, intended to be accessible to all mathematics faculty. Faculty from other departments, as well as graduate students and advanced undergraduates, are also welcome to attend.
Upcoming Seminars
Seminars will resume in Fall 2012
Past Seminars
May 2012
Monday 05/07 2:15 - 3:00 PM in PB 390
Joel Smith
CSUF
The HOMFLY-PT polynomial of a braid
Room: PB 390
Friay 05/04 1:00 - 2:00 PM at PB 390
Oscar Vega, Assistant Professor
CSUF
Embeddings of graphs in projective spaces
Room: PB 390
April 2012
Monday 04/30 2:15 - 3:00 PM in PB 390
David Heywood & Dionne Ibarra
CSUF
Jaeger's model for the two-variable Kauffman polynomial
Room: PB 390
Friday April 27th, from 1:00 to 2:00 PM in PB 390
Stefaan Delcroix, Associate Professor
CSUF
Haussdorf dimensions of cartesian and tensor products of graphs and fractals
Room: PB 390
Monday, April 23rd, at 2:15pm in PB 390
Carmen Caprau, Assistant Professor
CSUF
An invariant for handlebody-tangles II
Room: PB 390
Monday, April 16th, at 2:15pm in PB 390
Carmen Caprau, Assistant Professor
CSUF
An invariant for handlebody-tangles I
Room: PB 390
March 2012
Friday March 02 at 1:00 PM in PB 132.
Megan Kuneli & Robyn McDonald
Jamie Peabody & Karen Willis
Katherine Urabe
CSUF
Abstracts
Room: PB 132
November 2011
Tuesday, November 1, in PB 102 at 2:00 pm.
Tamas Forgacs, Assistant Professor
CSUF
On Legendre Multiplier Sequences
Room: PB 102
October 2011
Tuesday, October 25, in PB 102 at 2:00 pm.
Carmen Caprau, Assistant Professor
CSUF
Searching for invariants for graphs
Room: PB 102
Tuesday, October 18, in PB 102 at 2:00 pm.
Oscar Vega, Assistant Professor
CSUF
Autotopism groups in translation planes
Room: PB 102
May 2011
Monday, May 9, in PB 390 at 9:30 am.
Carmen Caprau, Assistant Professor
CSUF
A model for the Kauffman polynomial
Room: PB 390
March 2011
Friday, Mar. 4, in PB 390 at 9:00 am.
James Tipton, Ben Wright
CSUF
On multiplier sequences for simple sets of polynomials
Room: PB 390
Mario Banuelos, Michelle Hoshiko
CSUF
On multiplier sequences of a special form for finite fields
Room: PB 390
February 2011
Monday, Feb. 14, in PB 390 at 9:30 am.
Tamas Forgacs, Assistant Professor
CSUF
On Hermite diagonal operators
Room: PB 390
December 2010
Wednesday, December 8, at 10:30 in PB 192
Stefaan Delcroix, Associate Professor
CSUF
An elementary proof of Waring's Theorem Part II
Room: PB 192
Wednesday December 1, at 2:15 PM in PB 390
Dhiraj Holden
CSUF
On the 3x+1 and 3x+d Conjectures
Room: PB 390
November 2010
Monday, November 29, at 10:30 am in PB 390
James Tipton
CSUF
Homfly polynomial for four valent graphs
Room: PB 390
Tuesday November 23rd, at 2:00 PM, in PB 192
Oscar Vega, Assistant Professor
CSUF
Clean rings
Room: PB 192
Friday November 19th, at 10:30 AM, in PB 390
Stefaan Delcroix, Associate Professor
CSUF
An elementary proof of Waring's Theorem
Room: PB 390
Friday November 19th, at 5:00 PM, in PB 390
Ana-Cristina Jimenez
CSUF
Games on Topological Spaces
Room: PB 390
October 2010
Friday, October 15th at 10:30 AM, in PB 390
Keith Mellinger
University of Mary Washington
Coding, Cryptography, and Conics: using what they know to introduce research
Room: PB 390
Wednesday, October 06th, at 2 PM in PB 390
Larry Cusick, Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Finite Groups of Derangements on the n-Cube II
Room: PB 390
May 2010
Wednesday, May 12th, at 1 PM in PB 192
Peter Tannenbaum, Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
What is a Hadamard Matrix (and Why Should You Care)?
Room: PB 192
Wednesday, May 05, at 1 p.m, in PB 192
Ana-Cristina Jimenez
CSUF
A representation of the braid groups inside the Temperley-
Lieb algebra
Room: PB 192
April 2010
Thursday, April 29, at 12 p.m, in PB 390
Tamas Forgacs, Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
Rigor in the chicken game - some proofs and ideas
Room: PB 390
Friday, April 9, at 10 a.m, in PB 192
John Baez, Professor of Mathematics,
UC Riverside
Abstract
Room: PB 192
Wednesday, April 7, at 1PM in PB 192
Agnes Tuska, Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
Area and Volume Formulas – How to communicate the big ideas of their developers?
Room: PB 192
March 2010
Wednesday, March 24 at 1:00P, PB 192
Ke Wu, Associate Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
Survival Analysis
Room: PB 192
Wednesday, March 10 at 1:00P, PB 192
Oscar Vega, Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
The well-covered dimension of a graph
Room: PB 192
December 2009
Tuesday, December 8 at 11:30A, PB 194
Comlan de Souza, Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
On the supports of periodic eigenfunctions of the Fourier Transform operator
Room: PB 194
Thursday, December 3 at 1:00P, PB 390
Isaac Birnbaum, Department of Mathematics,
CSUF
On the Well-Covered Dimensions of Various Individual Graphs and Graph Families
Room: PB 390
Tuesday, December 1 at 11:30A, PB 194
Ana Cristina Jimenez, Department of Mathematics,
CSUF
Three Strands, Three Crossings, One P-Colorability
Room: PB 194
November 2009
Thursday, November 19 at 11:30A
Stefaan Delcroix, Associate Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
Error-correcting codes: part two
Room: PB 390
Thursday, November 5 at 1:00P
Stefaan Delcroix, Associate Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
Error-correcting codes: introduction
Room: PB 390
October 2009
Tuesday, October 27 at 11:30A
Lance Burger, Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
Meta representational knowledge, transfer, and multiple embodiments in Linear Algebra
Room: PB 194
Friday, October 9 at 10:15A
Sam Nelson, Claremont McKenna College,
Quandle Homology and Knot Invariants
Room: PB 390
September 2009
Friday, 25 September at 9:15A
Michael Dorff, Brigham Young University
Topics in Harmonic Analysis
Room: PB 390
May 2009
Thursday, 7 May at 12:00 noon
Adnan Sabuwala, Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
Max-Plus Algebra: An Introduction
Room: PB 390
April 2009
Thursday, 23 April at 12:00 noon
Lance Burger, Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
There might be giants? - Teaching inquiry based Mathematics
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 16 April at 12:00 noon
Travis Kelm, Lecturer of Mathematics,
CSUF
The Whitehead Question and Asphericity Tests
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 2 April at 12:00 noon
Tamas Forgacs , Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
An inclusion theorem for multiplier sequences
Room: PB 390
March 2009
Thursday, 19 March at 12:00 noon
Oscar Vega , Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
Classifying translation planes by studying their groups of symmetries
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 12 March at 12:00 noon
Andrea Arias De Gill, Physics department, CSU Fresno
A Simple WKB Approach to Unruh Radiation
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 5 March at 12:00 noon
Merab GOGBERASHVILI, Andronikashvili Institute of Physics & Javakhishvili State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
OCTONIONIC GEOMETRY
Room: PB 390
February 2009
Thursday, 26 February at 12:00 noon
Comlan de Souza , Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Introduction to diffraction pattern invariant one dimensional crystals
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 19 February at 12:00 noon
Carmen Caprau, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
The Universal sl(2) Link Homology (Part 2)
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 12 February at 12:00 noon
Carmen Caprau, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
The Universal sl(2) Link Homology
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 5 February at 12:00 noon
Doreen De Leon , Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
An Introduction to Scientific Research: Modeling with Maple
Room: PB 390
December 2008
Thursday, 4 December at 11:00am
Paul Savala , Mathematics Major,
CSUF
On Cayley Graphs of the Form Cn[1,a]
Room: PB 390
November 2008
Thursday, 20 November at 11:00am
Comlan de Souza , Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
Introduction to Logarithmically Convex Functions and Applications
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 13 November at 11:00am
Tamas Forgacs , Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
Extrema of Functionals, the Euler-Lagrange Equation and an Application in Economics
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 6 November at 11:00am
Adnan Sabuwala , Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
Finite Difference Methods for Partial Differential Equations:
Part 1
Room: PB 390
October 2008
Thursday, 30 October at 11:00am
Oscar Vega , Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
More Questions than Answers
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 23 October at 11:00am
Adnan Sabuwala , Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
The Mystery of the Euler-Cauchy Surprise Unraveled
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 16 October at 11:00am
Doreen De Leon , Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
CSUF
A Simple Solution to Euler-Cauchy Problems with Polynomial
Right-Hand Sides
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 9 October at 11:00am
Iliana Perez,
Urbanization and International Trade - A Possible Relationship
Room: PB 106
Thursday, 9 October at 2:00pm
Piero Nicolini , University of Trieste,
Italy
Introductory Notes to Non-Commutative Geometry (Part 2)
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 2 October at 2:00pm
Piero Nicolini , University of Trieste,
Italy
Introductory Notes to Non-Commutative Geometry
Room: PB 390
September 2008
Friday, 26 September at 4:30pm
Todd Wilson
Department
of Computer Science, CSUF
Smooth Infinitesimal Analysis
Room: PB 390
May 2008
Thursday, 1 May at 11:00am
Iliana Perez, Maya Rodriguez and Abinet Tibebu, Mathematics
Department
CSUF
P-Colorability of the Knot/Link (12)n and (12')n.
Room: PB 390
April 2008
Thursday, 24 April at 11:00am
Dr. Sean Fulop, Linguistics Department
CSUF
Type-Logical Grammars: Linguistic Applications
and Linear Skein Relations
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 17 April at 11:00am
Doreen De Leon, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
An Euler-Cauchy Surprise
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 10 April at 11:00am
Andrzej Piotrowski and Tamas Forgacs, Assistant Professors of Mathematics
CSUF
Laguerre Multiplier Sequences: Towards a Classification Theorem (Part II)
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 3 April at 11:00am
Andrzej Piotrowski and Tamas Forgacs, Assistant Professors of Mathematics
CSUF
Laguerre Multiplier Sequences: Towards a Classification Theorem (Part I)
Room: PB 192
March 2008
Thursday, 27 March at 11:00am
Travis Kelm
CSUF
Elementary Geometric Group Theory and Topology
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 13 March at 11:00am
Carmen Caprau, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Khovanov Homology
Room: PB 390
Wednesday, 12 March at 11:00am
Dr. Emil Akhmedov, ITEP (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics), Moscow
Gluing Surfaces with Polygonal Holes
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 6 March at 11:00am
Katherine Kelm, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Fox Derivatives
Room: PB 390
February 2008
Thursday, 28 February at 11:00am
Oscar Vega, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Parallelisms of PG(3,q) and a 'New' Polynomial Invariant for Spreads (II)
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 21 February at 11:00am
Oscar Vega, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Parallelisms of PG(3,q) and a 'New' Polynomial Invariant for Spreads
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 14 February at 11:00am
Andrey Babichev
Is This Intuitionistically Valid, II?
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 7 February at 11:00am
Andrey Babichev
Is This Intuitionistically Valid?
Room: PB 390
December 2007
Thursday, 6 December at 11:00am
Dr. Sean Fulop, Linguistics Department
CSUF
From Grammar to Knot Theory via Logic, Categories, and Quantum
Groups
Room: PB 390
November 2007
Thursday, 29 November at 2:00pm
Carmen Caprau , Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Categorification and Topological Quantum Field Theory, Part II
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 15 November at 2:00pm
Carmen Caprau , Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Categorification and Topological Quantum Field Theory, Part I
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 8 November at 2:00pm
Maria Nogin , Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Topological Semantics of Modal Logics
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 1 November at 2:00pm
Andrey Babichev
A Few Things About Ergodic Theory
Room: PB 390
October 2007
Thursday, 25 October at 2:00pm
Oscar Vega , Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Symplectic Geometry Over Finite Fields 2: A Wonderful Connection
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 18 October at 11:00am
Oscar Vega , Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Symplectic Geometry Over Finite Fields 1: One Form, Many Objects
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 11 October at 11:00am
Larry Cusick , Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Finite Groups of Derangements on the n-Cube
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 4 October at 2:00pm
Tamas Forgacs , Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
A Primer on Rational Addiction
Room: PB 390
September 2007
Thursday, 27 September at 2:00pm
Tamas Forgacs , Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Notions of Uniform Flatness
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 20 September at 2:00pm
Andrzej Piotrowski , Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Easy to State and Difficult to Solve II
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 13 September at 2:00pm
Andrzej Piotrowski , Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
Easy to State and Difficult to Solve
Room: PB 390
March 2007
Thursday, 22 March at 2:15pm
Maria Nogin , Assistant Professor of Mathematics
CSUF
The Logic of Topology
Room: PB 390
February 2007
Thursday, 15 February at 2:15pm
Vladimir Dzhunushaliev, Professor of Physics
Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Observables and Unobservables in a Non-Associative Quantum Theory
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 8 February at 2:15pm
Andrey Babichev
Quaternions and Rotations of R3
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 1 February at 2:15pm
Vladimir Dzhunushaliev, Professor of Physics
Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic
Nonassociativity in Physics
Room: PB 390
December 2006
Wednesday, 6 December at 5:00pm (tentative date)
Larry Cusick
The Hyperoctahedral Group & Free Symmetries of the Hypercube
Room: PB 390
November 2006
Thursday, 30 November at 4:00pm
Peter Tannenbaum
On Permanents
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 16 November at 5:00pm
Slava Archava
Algebraic Cycles and Hodge Theory II
Room: PB 390
Wednesday, 8 November at 5:00pm
Doreen De Leon
Introduction to Multigrid Methods III
Room: PB 390
Thursday, 2 November at 5:00pm
Slava Archava
Algebraic Cycles and Hodge Theory
Room: PB 390
October 2006
Wednesday, 25 October at 5:00pm
Aaron Reite
Sperner's Lemma, Brouwer's Fixed Point Theorem, birthday cakes, and roommates
Room: PB 390
Wednesday, 18 October at 5:00pm
Andrey Babichev
First Steps in Dynamics on the Real Line: What happens if you iterate f(x) = 4x(1-x) or similar functions?
Room: PB 390
Wednesday, 11 October at 5:00pm
Doreen De Leon
Introduction to Multigrid Methods II
Room: PB 390
Wednesday, 4 October at 5:00pm
Travis Kelm
Car Crashes and Algebraic Topology
Room: Music 160
September 2006
Wednesday, 27 September at 5:00pm
Andrey Babichev
Nonstandard analysis. Is it so naive?
Room: PB 390