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 C_n[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