Mathematics and Statistics

Mailing Address
Cleveland State University
Mathematics & Statistics
2121 Euclid Ave., MTH
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214

Campus Location
Rhodes Tower (RT)
1860 E. 22nd Street, Rm. 1515

Contact Us
Phone: 216.687.4680
mathematics@csuohio.edu

Mathematics Colloquium

The Math Department's Colloquiums are held on Fridays from 2:30 to 3:30 pm in Rhodes Tower 1516. Refreshments start at 2:00 PM.

Spring 2025

Date	Speaker	Title
May 2 (2:30)	Sakshi Arya (CWRU)	TBD
Apr. 4 (1:00)	Jumping Shi (College of William and Mary)	Modeling Animal Movement with Memory with Partial Differential Equations with Time-Delay
Apr. 3 (1:00)	Amy Buchmann (Univ. of San Diego)	Computational Models of Microorganism Motility
Mar. 21 (1:00)	Chang-Hong Wu (National Yang Ming Chi Tung University, NYCU)	Dispersal strategy of hosts and evolution of pathogen virulence in a two-patch model with travel loss
Jan. 24 (2:30)	Barbara Margolius (CSU Emeritus)	An eigenfunction/eigenvalue-like approach to time-varying queues with periodic transition rates

Fall 2024

Date	Speaker	Title
Nov. 15 (2:30)	Karen Abbott (CWRU)	Colloquium Flyer Karen Abbott Nov 15 2024
Oct. 18 (2:30)	Xueying (Snow) Wang (Washington State Univ.)	Colloquium Flyer for X. Wang
Sept 26 (1:00)	Vlad Sworski (Colorado State Univ)	Something "Super Special": A Tale of Isogeny Graphs, Cryptosystems, and Structures in the First and Second Dimension
Sept 20 (2:30)	Shigui Ruan (Univ of Miami, FL)	Modeling the Growth, Invasion and Competition of Aedes Mosquitos

Spring 2024

Date	Speaker	Title
April 26	Daniele Rosso (Indiana University Northwest)	Grothendieck rings of towers of generalized Weyl algebras
April 12	Yanyu Xiao (University of Cincinnati)	Examine the environmental effects on population dynamics of insects via some mathematical models and experimental data
March 29	Michael Robert (Virginia Tech)	An old threat in new territory: investigating dengue emergence with mathematical modeling
March 22	Anuj Abhishek (Case Western Reserve University)	An operator learning framework for an inverse problem in Electrical Impedance Tomography
February 2	Rachel Diethorn (Oberlin College)	Free resolutions of differential operators

Fall 2023

Date	Speaker	Title
December 8	Rosalia and Joshua (CSU Honors Students)	Honors Senior Project Presenations
October 20	Alexander Wilson (VAP at Oberlin College)	Super Multiset RSK and the Restriction Problem
October 13 4pm in WH401	Hakan Doga (Postdoc Mathematician at IBM Research, CCF)	Special Colloquium on Quantum Computing (Note time and location)
September 29	Michael Roysdon (VAP at CWRU)	Framework for the Theory of Higher Order Convex Bodies
September 15	Gennadiy Averkov (Brandenburgische Technische Universitat)	Plücker-type Inequalities for Mixed Areas and Intersection Numbers of Curve Arrangements

Spring 2023

Date	Speaker	Title
February 10	Steve Szabo (Eastern Kentucky University)	A (larger) taxonomy of Dedekind-finite rings and reflexive rings.
Feb 15, 17, 24	TT Stats Job Candidate Interviews	Misc.
March 3	Luciane Quoos (Instituto de Matematica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)	Algebraic Curves and Codes
March 10	Alexandra Seceleanu (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln)	Symmetric Monomial Ideals
March 13-17	Spring Break	No Scheduled Talks
March 24	Pedro Gerum (CSU Business)	Deep learning for real-time probabilistic traffic congestion prediction
March 31	Osvlado Tapia Dueñas (Visiting Scholar at CSU from Autonomous University of Aguascalientes)	Benefits of Simplification, Compression, and Reconstruction of 3D Objects using Chain Codes and Helical Paths
April 7 (1:00pm)	Eduardo Camps-Moreno (Visiting Scholar at CSU)	MRSD Codes and Anticodes in the sum-rank metric
Postponed	Andreas Aristotelous (U. Akron)	Postponed until Fall 2023
April 14	Sudhir R. Ghorpade (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)	A Confluence of Coding Theory, Combinatorics, and Commutative Algebra
April 21	Rowan Barker-Clarke (CCF, Theory Division)	Masking, maintenance and mimicry: the interplay of cell-intrinsic and cell-extrinsic effects in evolutionary games
April 28	Nick Battista (The College of New Jersey, Mathematics)	Wiggling and Paddling: Exploring Tomopteris Swimming Performance
May 5	Eliseo Sarmiento Rosales (Visiting Scholar at CSU, Prof Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico)	Maximum Zeros and Generalized Hamming Weight
May 19 (10 am)	Zhishen Shuai (Univ. of Central Florida)	TBA

Fall 2022

Date	Speaker	Title
October 14	Luke Oeding (Auburn University)	Jordan Decompositions of Tensors and Applications to Quantum Information
October 21	Henry Chimal-Dzul (Notre Dame Univ.)	Representations of Special Classes of Linear Codes
October 28	Paul Zachlin (Lakeland) and Anna Davis (Ohio Dominican)	Explorations in Resources for Linear Algebra Courses
November 4	Hayden Julius (YSU, former student at CSU)	ZPD Algebras and Related Questions
November 11	No Colloquium (Veteran's Day Observed)	N/A
November 18	Matea Santiago (U. Arizona)	Pulsing Xeniid Corals Modeling and SImulation: Mixing, Photosynthesis, and Muscle Contraction

Spring 2022

Date	Speaker	Title
April 26	Katherine Sammon	Honors Project Presentation - Location Julka Hall 338
April 29	Qixuan Wang (UC Riverside)	Roles of Cellular Anisotropy and Heterogeneity in Life
May 6	B. Kovacic, J. Rausch, R. Schonhuitt (CSU)	Reserved for Honors Project Presentations
March 8 - April 1	Candidate Interviews	Misc.

Fall 2021

Date																																																																Speaker																																																																Title
October 15																																																																Alberto Ravagnani (Eindhoven)																																																																Structure of Codes for the Sum-Rank Metric
October 22																																																																Francesca Gandini (Kalamazoo College)																																																																Degree bounds for invariant skew polynomials

Spring 2021

Date	Speaker	Title
January 29	David Duncan (JMU)	Triangles and Princesses and Bears! Oh My!
February 26	Bhargav Karamched (Florida State)	Mechanisms Underlying Spatiotemporal Patterning in Microbial Collectives: A Model's Perspective
March 12	Seongjai Kim (Mississippi State)	Mathematics of Digital Image Interpolation
March 26	Matt Evans (Oberlin College)	Spectra of commutative BCK-algebras
April 9	Department of Math/Stat Faculty	Discussion of Online Homework Systems for Future
April 12 - 16	Job Candidates	Research Talks
April 30	K. Ball and S. Alfaro (CSU Math)	Honors Undergraduate Research Presentations

Fall 2020

Date	Speaker	Title
September 18	Lori Ziegelmeier (Macalester College)	Using Topology to Measure Dynamics of Time-Varying Systems
October 9	Sandra Elizabeth Delgadillo Aleman and Roberto Ku Carrillo	A Mathematical Model for the Pest Control on a Broccoli Crop
October 16	Eliseo Sarmiento Rosales (National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico)	Q-Borel Ideals
October 23	Magali Tournus (Ecole Centrale Marseille, France)	A Wasserstein Norm for Signed Measures
October 30	Sara Jamshidi Zelenberg (Lake Forest College)	Using randomness and learning to calculate Gröbner bases in a novel way
November 6	Claudiu Raicu (Univ. of Notre Dame)	Equations and Syzygies for Varieties of Binary Forms
November 13	Arkadz Kirshtein (UMass Amherst)	Mathematical Modeling of Colon Cancer Progression
November 20	Mehrshad Sadria (U. Waterloo)	A Computational Model for Metabolism and Circadian Clock
December 4	Alexandra Seceleanu (U. Nebraska-Lincoln)	Monomials, convex bodies, and optimization
December 7	Elisabeth Helmick (CSU Math Honors Student)	Mathematics Honors Senior Project

Spring 2020

Date	Speaker	Title
January 31	Daniela Calvetti, Case Western Reserve University	Computationally predictive models of integrated cerebral metabolism, electrophysiology and hemodynamics
February 7	COSHP Teaching Award Luncheon	12:00-1:30 in the Student Center
February 14	Sachin Gautam, Ohio State University	Differential Equations and Monodromy Problems
February 21	Robert Short, John Carroll University	Maximizing Flow over Space Networks using Temporal Graphs and Sheaves
March 20 (POSTPONED due to Extended Spring Break from COVID19)	Hong Mei Li, Liaoning University (China)	A Study on Systemic Risk in the Chinese Commercial Banks
March 27 (POSTPONED due to suspension from face-to-face activities from COVID19)	Steve Szabo, Eastern Kentucky University	TBD
April 10 (POSTPONED due to suspension from face-to-face activities from COVID19)	Claudiu Raicu, Notre Dame University	TBD
April 17 (POSTPONED due to suspension from face-to-face activities from COVID19)	COSHP/COE Faculty	Science Research Day

Fall 2019

Date	Speaker	Title
September 20	Alex Hoover, U. Akron	From Nerve Net to Vortex Ring: A Computational Modeling Approach to Medusan Biomechanics
September 27	Peter Gordon, Kent State University	Gelfand-type Problems for Turbulent Jets
October 4	Dan Florentin, CSU	New Functional Polarity Inequalities
October 18	Steven Scheirer, Ashland Univ.	Discrete Morse Theory and Topological Complexity of Unordered Graph Configuration Spaces
October 25	Alicia Prieto Langarica, Youngstown State Univ.	Modeling the Long-term Effects of Thermoregulation on Human Sleep
November 15	Phuong Ngo, CSU Economics	Stock Price Fluctuations and Productivity Growth
November 22	Felice Manganiello, Clemson University	Reed-Muller codes with application to quantum computation and information retrieval

Spring 2019

Date	Speaker	Title
February 22	Zachary McCarthy, York University	Linking influenza virus infection to risk of cardiovascular events: a mechanistic approach
March 22	Mykhailo Potomkin, Penn State University	Mathematics predicts discontinuities in dynamics of living cells
March 29	Luise-Charlotte Kappe, Binghamton University	On the nonabelian tensor product of cyclic groups of p-power order
April 5	Nara Yoon, Cleveland Clinic (LRI)	Mathematical Modeling of Resistance to Anti-Cancer Drugs
April 12	Longhua Zhao, CWRU	Fluid-Structure Interactions with Biological Applications
April 26	Adam Van Tuyl, McMaster University	ColloquiumAbstractAvanTuyl_Apr26_2019.pdf
May 3	Prayat Poudel, Centre College (KY)	ColloquiumAbstractPrayatPoudel_May3_2019.pdf
May 7	Hermilo Sánchez-Cruz, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes	Coding and dominant point detection for shape-of-objects

Fall 2018

Date	Speaker	Title
November 2	Gil Ariel, Bar Ilan University (Israel)	Chaos and Levy walks in swarming bacteria
November 30	Semyon Alekser, Tel Aviv University (Israel)	TBA
December 7	CSU Math Honors Students	Honors Project Presentations (if needed)

Spring 2018

Date	Speaker	Title
February 16	Ryan Vitale, Indiana University	Graphical Presentations of Tensor Categories
March 19	Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University	Galois Groups in Enumerative Geometry and Applications
March 30	Wanda Strychalski, CWRU	Continuous and Discrete Energy Based Methods for Accurate Force Computations on Shells in the Immersed Boundary Method
April 6	Ann Johnston, Penn State University	Registries-based Population Size Estimation: An Algebraic Statistics Perspective
April 10	Mark Hamilton, Mount Allison University (Canada)	Monodromy in classical and quantum mechanical systems

Spring 2017

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
April 21st	Malena Espanol, Univ. of Akron	Deblurring Images with Mathematical Models
April 7th	Nick Scoville, Ursinus College (PA)	Towards a new digital homotopy
February 3rd	Peter Thomas, Case Western Reserve University	Advances in phase reduction: discontinuous, stochastic, and singular oscillators

Fall 2016

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
December 2	Jon C. Freeman, NASA Glenn Research	Resolution of the Priority Dispute on the Special Theory of Relativity; Einstein, Poincare, Lorentz, Larmor, and Voigt
November 4	Andrew Jones, Florida A&M University	Gas Transport and Applications to Materials Processing

Spring 2015

Date	Speaker	Title
April 10	Ali Tahzibi, University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos, Brazil	Coin Tossing and Fubini's Nightmare
February 4	Paul-Eugene Parent, University of Ottawa	Topological Complexity: A product formula

Fall 2014

Date	Speaker	Title
November 21	Mark Hamilton, Mount Allison University	Independence of polarization in geometric quantization

Spring 2014

Date	Speaker	Title
May 13	Linda Gojak, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics	STEMM Education: Fostering School University Connections
April 2	Omer Bobrowski, Duke University	Phase Transitions in Random Cech complexes
February 7	Sandra Hurtado, Weill Cornell Medical College	A Transformation Class for Spatio-temporal Survival Data With a Cure Fraction
February 5	Shanshan Ding, University of Pennsylvania	Envelopes for Matrix-valued Regressions
February 3	Reza Ramezan, University of Waterloo	Multivariate Analysis of Neural Spike Trains: Skellam Process with Resetting and Its Applications
January 31	Mark Grant, Newcastle University, UK	Topological Complexity of Groups
January 29	Jose Gonzalez, University of British Columbia	Some Ideas from Combinatorics, Commutative Algebra and Topology in the Realm of Algebraic Geometry
January 27	Javid Validashti, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Multiplicities and Distinguishing Singularities

Fall 2013

Date	Speaker	Title
November 22	Jim Keener, University of Utah	The Mathematics of Life: Decisions, Decisions

Spring 2013

Date	Speaker	Title
April 26	Alethea Barbaro, Case Western Reserve University	A mathematical view of fish migration
March 29	Vidit Nanda, University of Pennsylvania	Reconstructing manifolds and functions from noisy point samples
March 1	Dan Munther, Centre for Disease Modeling, York University	Enhanced surveillance on food-borne disease outbreaks: Dynamics of cross-contamination in biocidal wash procedure
February 27	Kathleen Wilkie, Tufts University School of Medicine	Mathematical Modeling of Immune-Modulated Tumor Growth
February 22	Christian Laing, Wilkes University	Analysis of RNA structures by using geometric shape descriptors

Fall 2012

Date	Speaker	Title
November 27, Tuesday, 2:50 PM	Flavia C. Sancier-Barbosa, Wittenberg University	Closing the memory gap in stochastic functional differential equations-CANCELED
November 16	Tony Shaska, Oakland University	Some remarks on the hyperelliptic moduli of genus 3
November 2	Steve Szabo, Eastern Kentucky University	Generalized Cyclic Convolutional Codes

Spring 2012

Date	Speaker	Title
April 27	Rachelle Bouchat, Slippery Rock University	Edge Ideals, Path Ideals, and the Linear Strand
April 13	Maria Tjani, University of Arkansas	Closed range composition operators on Besov type spaces
March 30 4 PM, MC 136	Christine Franklin, The University of Georgia	The Future of Introductory Statistics Courses and the Common Core State Standards in K-12
March 9	Mark Grant, The University of Nottingham	Topology and Robotics
February 10	John Duncan, Case Western Reserve University	K3 surfaces, quantum black holes and a sporadic simple group

Fall 2011

Date	Speaker	Title
December 2	Qi Chen, Winston-Salem State University	Topological Invariants Associated with Quantum Groups
November 4	Benjamin Nill, Case Western Reserve University	Ehrhart theory in practice
October 14	Don Edwards, University of South Carolina	Statistics and healthcare fraud investigations
September 30	Partha Srinivasan, Cleveland State University	Models of the Honey Bees Nest Site Selection Process
September 16	Michael Nowak, Northern Ohio Trauma System, Metro Hospital	On statistics related to trauma

Spring 2011

Date	Speaker	Title
May 4	Mikhail Chebotar, Kent State University	Characterization of Lie maps and other questions connecting Lie algebra and Ring Theory
April 22	Zach Teitler, Boise State University	Ranks of Polynomials
April 1	Kiumars Kaveh, University of Pittsburgh	Convex bodies and algebraic varieties
April 22	Jenya Soprunova, Kent State University	Minkowski length of polytopes

Fall 2010

Date	Speaker	Title
December 3	Victor Turchin, Kansas State University	Manifold calculus of functors
November 5	Janusz Adamus, The University of Western Ontario	Effective methods in geometry of polynomial mappings
October 21, Thursday	Benjamin Howard, University of Michigan	The invariants of n points on the line, and spatial polygons

Spring 2010

Date	Speaker	Title
April 8, Thursday	Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri, Columbia	Resolution of Certain Binomial Ideals
April 2	Rongling Wu, Pennsylvania State University	A Model for Functional Genome-wide Association Studies of Dynamic Traits
March 26	Yangjin Kim, University of Michigan - Dearborn	Pattern Formation of Glioma Cells Outside the Tumor Spheroid Core
March 5	David Richter, Western Michigan University	A Survey of Ghost Symmetry
February 26	Matthew Kahle, Stanford University	Configuration Spaces of Hard Discs
February 12	Andrew Resnick, Cleveland State University, Physics	Fluid Mechanics

Fall 2009

Date	Speaker	Title
November 20	Shuying Sun, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center	Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis and a Maximization Problem
November 13	Elizabeth Meckes, Case Western Reserve University	When is normal normal? Approximation results for random measures
October 16	Sean Chang, Dreamworks	The Mathematics of Digital Entertainment - an Industry Perspective
October 2	Weihong Guo, Case Western Reserve University	Mathematical Approaches on Some Image Processing and Analysis Problems

Spring 2009

Date	Speaker	Title
March 13	Tanujit Dey, The College of William and Mary	Fully Nonparametric Bayesian Analysis in Regression Model with Serially Correlated Errors
February 27	Mike Ferrara, The University of Akron	H-Linked Graphs

Spring 2008

Date	Speaker	Title
May 1, Thursday	K.T. Arasu, Wright State University	Sequences with good correlation properties
April 18	Sookkyung Lim, University of Cincinnati	Simulation of blood flow in a compliant vessel by the immersed boundary method
April 11	Sergei Chmutov, Ohio State University	Graphs on surfaces and knot theory
March 21 4 PM - 5 PM	Dursun Bulutoglu, Air Force Institute of Technology	Classification of Orthogonal Arrays by Integer Programming
March 7 In Stilwell Hall 103	Hassan K. Khalil, Michigan State University	Conditional Servo/Integral Action in Nonlinear Control

Fall 2007

Date	Speaker	Title
November 30	Dima Ryabogin, Kent State University	On the local equatorial characterization of Zonoids
November 21 Wednesday in RT 502	Sean Chang, Dream Works Animation	Mathematical Foundations of Computer Generated Digital Entertainment
November 16	Jenia Tevelev, University of Massachusetts	Tropical Elimination Theory
November 8 Thursday	Kevin Woods, Oberlin College	Solving Lattice Point Problems Using Rational Generating Functions
October 19	Ualbai Umirbaev, Eurasian National University	Automorphisms of polynomial and free algebras

Spring 2007

Date	Speaker	Title
April 20	Yusu Wang, Ohio State Univesity	Geometric and Topological methods in protein structure analysis
April 13	Hema Srinivasan, University of Missouri, Columbia	Graded Resolutions, Multiplicity and Graphs
March 30	Webster West, Texas A & M University	Adventures in Teaching with Technology
March 2	C.L. Chang, Cleveland State University	Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
February 23	Johannes Hatzls, University of Waterloo	The Lights Out Game: A Domination Problem with Parity Constraints
February 16	Artem Zvavitch, Kent State University	The Busemann-Petty problem for arbitrary measures
February 9	Frank Baginski, George Washington University	The Ups and Downs of Large High-Altitude Balloons