Past Seminars

May 1 2017 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
Keith Weber, Rutgers University
How students perceive lectures in advanced mathematics
April 24 2017 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
Daniel Abrams, Northwestern University
Careful or colorful? The evolution of animal ornaments
April 17 2017 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
Jorge Trueba, Montclair State University
Exploring the morphodynamics of river deltas and barrier islands with simple models
April 10 2017 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
Andrada Ivanescu, Montclair State University
Dynamic Child Growth Prediction: A Comparative Methods Approach
March 27 2017 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
Gary Gordon, Lafayette University
Trees and subtrees
March 13 2017 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
Diane Henderson, Penn State University
Models of and Experiments on Downshifting of Freely-Propagating, Surface-Gravity Waves
February 27 2017 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
Deming Zhuang, Citigroup Model Risk Management
Applications of mathematics in the financial industry
February 23 2017 at 10:15 AM in CELS room 110
Virgil Pierce, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Enumeration of Ribbon Graphs Using Complex Gaussian Random Variables
February 22 2017 at 10:20 AM in Richardson Hall room 261, Department Seminar
Collin Capano, Albert Einstein Institute
The detection and analysis of the first gravitational-wave observations
February 21 2017 at 9:00 AM in CELS room 110
Ben Herbst, Stellenbosch University
Computation in Science
February 10 2017 at 11:00 AM in Richardson Hall room 231, Department Seminar
Rodica Martin, Montclair State University
The Advanced LIGO Interferometer – preparing the beam for detection of gravitational waves
February 7 2017 at 9:00 AM in CELS room 110, Department Seminar
Weimin Han, University of Iowa
Numerical Analysis of Hemivariational Inequalities
February 3 2017 at 11:00 AM in Richardson Hall room 231, Department Seminar
Brian Anderson, University of Maryland and National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
Better Living Through Quantum Mechanics
January 31 2017 at 10:30 AM in CELS room 110, Department Seminar
Michael Ferrara, University of Colorado Denver
Sequence Packings and STEM CLUSTERS: A Research Overview in Two Parts
January 30 2017 at 4:15 PM in Richardson Hall room 222, Department Seminar
Sanghyun Lee, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences University of Texas at Austin
Enriched Galerkin Approximations for Coupled Flow and Transport in Porous Media
January 27 2017 at 11:30 AM in Richardson Hall room 222, Department Seminar
Longhua Zhao, Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics, Case Western Reserve University
Fluid-structure interactions with biological applications

2016

December 12 2016 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
David Trubatch, Montclair State University
Wave breaking in the Short-Pulse Equation
December 5 2016 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
Nicholas Wasserman, Teachers College – Columbia University
Addressing the Dilemma of Advanced Mathematics in Secondary Teacher Preparation: The Case of a Real Analysis Course
November 14 2016 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
Soutir Bandyopadhyay, Lehigh University
Wendland meets Markov: Kriging for LARGE spatial data
November 7 2016 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102, the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
Amir Sajjadi, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital
Optical Near Infrared Imaging; From breast cancer imaging to monitoring phase transition in adipose tissues
October 24 2016 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
David Shirokoff, NJIT
Approximate global minimizers for pairwise interaction problems
October 10 2016 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
Erika Hamden, California Institute of Technology
FIREBall-2: upcoming UV observations of the circumgalactic medium
September 26 2016 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
Janet Striuli, Fairfield University
Uniform bounds for free resolutions
September 12 2016 at 3:00 PM in Science Hall room 102 the Sokol Room, Department Colloquium
Erin Krupa, Montclair State University
Undergraduate Students’ Knowledge of Algebra in the Math Emporium: Effective for whom and for what?
May 2 2016 at 3:45 PM in CELS room 110, Mathematics Education Seminar
Dr. Luis A. Leyva, Recent PhD graduate from Rutgers Graduate School of Education.
Mapping the margins [in mathematics]
April 27 2016 at 4:15 PM in Richardson Hall room 222, Department Colloquium
Mathematical Science Students present their research.
Student Research
April 20 2016 at 4:15 PM in Richardson Hall room 222
Pure and applied seminar by the two visiting Chinese scholars
April 13 2016 at 8:00 PM in CELS room 110
Dr. Marc Favata, mathematical sciences department, will be discussing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
The First Detection of Gravitational Waves by LIGO – 8 p.m.
April 13 2016 at 4:00 PM in CELS room 120
Dr. Marc Favata, mathematical sciences department, will be discussing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
The First Detection of Gravitational Waves by LIGO – 4 p.m.
February 10 2016 at 8:00 PM in CELS room 207
Jana Grcevich, American Museum of Natural History
The Dark Matter of Ghost Galaxies
February 10 2016 at 3:45 PM in Richardson Hall room 223
Dr. Steven Greenstein, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, CSAM.
Topology, Technology, and Children’s Ideas
February 4 2016, All Day in Richardson Hall room 224
Pulsars: precision tools for understanding the Universe
Rob Ferdman, Research Associate, Interview

2015

December 9 2015 at 3:45 PM in CELS room 225
Teo Paoletti, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Reasoning Quantitatively to Develop Function and Inverse Function Meanings
November 18 2015 at 3:00 PM in Richardson Hall room 222
Enjoy Thanksgiving, avoid the weight gain
Say “No” To Thanksgiving Weight Gain
November 4 2015 at 3:45 PM in Richardson Hall room 223
Karmen Yu and Justin Seventko
Calculus Support Group
October 28 2015 at 3:30 PM in Richardson Hall room 261
Physics Club Seminar featuring Lynn Schneemeyer, Associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics
Highly correlated electron systems: electrons behaving differently in complex materials
October 21 2015 at 3:30 PM in Richardson Hall room 261
Eric Forgoston, Mathematical Sciences professor here at Montclair State
Introduction to Noise-Induced Rare Events
October 14 2015 at 3:45 PM in CELS room 225
Exploring Connections Between Content Knowledge, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, and Mathematics Topics Studied in Teacher Preparation Programs
Mathematics Education Seminar Series
October 14 2015 at 2:45 PM in Richardson Hall room 222
Dr. Stanley R. Huddy, Assistant Professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University gives a seminar delving into chaos theory
An Introduction to Chaos Theory
September 23 in Richardson 222 at 3pm
Dr. Jamie Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Friendship Paradox
April 29
Dr. Ren Zhang, VP American Express
Application of Statistics and Big Data Analysis in the Customer Finance Industry
April 22
Dr. Eugen Fiorini, Associate Director of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Rutgers
CrIME: Criminal Investigation through Mathematical Examination
March 24, 2015
Fuzhen Zhang, Nova Southeastern University
An Inequality for Tensor Product of Positive Operators and its Applications
Feb. 18, 2015
Deepak Bal, Miami University
Rainbow Structures in Random Graphs
Feb. 17, 2015
Mary Radcliffe, University of Washington
Eigenvalues, Connectivity, and Clusters
February 13, 2015
Natasha Komarov, Carnegie Mellon University
Cycles in Tournaments
February 10, 2015
Brian Nakamura, Rutgers University
Enumerating permutations with exactly r copies of a pattern

2014

December 19
Julie Nurnberger-Haag, Michigan State University
Moving on a Path versus Collecting Objects: New Perspectives to Analyze Student Learning with Integer Models
December 17
Teo Paoletti, University of Georgia
Bidirectional Reasoning
December 15
Michael Tallman, Arizona State University
Examining the Pedagogical Implications of a Secondary Teacher’s Understanding of Angle Measure
October 23
Rob Baello and Donald Coleman, Montclair State University
Design of Knapsack Cryptosystems Using Certain t-Superincreasing Sequences
October 23
Jasmine Rivers and Jose Torres, Montclair State University
A New Approach to Understanding Evolutionary Relationships Among Chagas Disease Vectors in Latin American Countries
April 30 at 3:00pm RI-222
Dr. Roy Goodman, NJIT
Recent Projects in the NJIT Applied Math Capstone Lab
Abstract: Undergraduate applied math majors at NJIT take a two-semester “Capstone” course as the culmination of their studies. This course aims to integrate laboratory experiments with the major tools of applied mathematics: modeling, numerics, and analysis. I will give an overview of the course, and describe some of the experiments that my colleagues and I have run there. I will focus on several mechanics experiments that I have run: dynamical bias in the coin toss, an analog model of chaotic scattering of solitary waves, and the formation of NLS kink solitons on a damped and parametrically forced chain of pendulums. The lab has support from an NSF grant, and the experiments are run using a variety of high tech and low: high-speed digital video, MATLAB, lasers, tin cans, christmas ornaments, and superballs.
April 17 at 11:00am in RI 224
Dr. Rachel Welder, Hunter College
Task Design for Preparing Elementary Teachers: An Illustrative Example in the Context of Fractions
April 16
Dr. S. Mukhopadhyay, Postdoc, Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Yale University
March 19
Dr. Vidya Atal, Asst. Professor, Dept. Economics and Finance, Montclair State University
Search, Project Adoption and the Fear of Commitment
February 6
Dr. Michael Dorff, Director of Center for Undergraduate Research, Brigham Young University
How Mathematics is Changing the World?
January 31
Andrada Ivanescu, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, East Carolina University
Computational Methods for Function-on-Function Regression
January 30
Haileab Hilafu, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Statistics, The University of Georgia
Sufficient Dimension Reduction for High Dimension Low Sample Size Data

2013

December 20
Jess Ellis
Preparing Future College Instructors: The Role of Graduate Student Teaching Assistants (GTAs) in Successful College Calculus Programs
December 19
Mathew Campbell, Oregon State University
Designing Responsive Enactment Opportunities for Prospective Mathematics Teachers
December 16
Spencer Bagley, UCSD and SDSU
December 13
Eileen Murray, Harvard Graduate School of Education
December 6
Sandy Spitzer, Towson University
Using Online Collaboration to Improve Prospective Teachers’ Analysis of Teaching
November 20
Dr. Joga Rao, NJIT
Mechanics of Shape Memory Polymers
November 13
William P. Burke and Rob R. A. Baello, Montclair State University
Graph Connectivity Indices of Octagonal Systems
November 13
Pamela Guerron, Montclair State University and Zeyad Boodoo, Rutgers-Newark
Applications of Graph Connectivity Indices in DNA Data Analysis
October 30
Dr. Mahdi Mohebbi, University of Pittsburgh
The Mathematical Theory of Navier-Stokes Equations
October 23
Dr. Frank Kozusko, Hampton University
April 24
Nick Moore, Applied Math Lab at NYU
Reduced-order modeling of fluid-structure interactions
March 27
Jennifer Krumins, Department of Biology, Montclair State Univ.
March 18
Adam Ciarleglio, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University
Wavelet-Based Scarlar-on-Function finite mixture regression
February 22
Lei Jin, Department of Mathematics, Mcneese State University
A new nonparametric stationarity test of time series in time domain
February 21
Yang Li, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri at Columbia
Regression analysis of panel count data with dependent observation process and terminal event
February 20
Ming Wang, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, School of Public Health, Emory University
A conditional likelihood approach for regression analysis using biomarkers measured with batch-specific error
February 20
Brittany Shelton, Math department, Lehigh University (and Montclair State math alumni)
On God’s Number(s) for Rubik’s Slide

2012

November 14
Dr. Shane R. Keating, Center for Atmosphere Ocean Science
Models and measures of turbulent mixing in the ocean
October 17
Leif Ristroph, Applied Math Lab, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
Fluid-structure interactions in biological and geophysical flows
October 11
Dr. Richard McLaughlin, Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Falling bodies in sharply stratified fluids: Theory and Experiments
October 10
Dr. Steven Greenstein, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montclair State University
Developing a Qualitative Geometry from the Conceptions of Young Children
September 26
Daisuke Takagi, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Applied Math Lab, NYU
How Synthetic Microswimmers Move, Turn, Flip, and Spread
April 26
Neil Johannsen, Ph.D. Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA
March 18
Professor Larry D’Antonio, School of Theoretical and Applied Science, Ramopo College
March 11
Professor Ani Hsieh, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel University
March 7
Amy Davidow, Ph.D., UMDNJ
February 16
Timothy Fukawa-Connelly, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Hampshire
Analyzing the teaching of advanced mathematics courses via the enacted example space
February 15
Professor Lou Kondic, Department of Mathematics, NJIT
February 9
Anja Bosy-Westphal, M.D., Ph.D. Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
Relationship between resting energy expenditure and energy balance: results from clinical trials and controlled feeding experiments
February 8
Lider Leon, Nicholas Kass, Kristina Torbratt, Undergraduate students
Three Vignettes of Mathematical Modeling: Predicting and Treating Epidemics, Growth of Cancerous Tumors, and Complex Patterns in a Simple System
January 25
Dr. Rosenblum and Dr. Weiss, UMDNJ