2018-2019
- 13 February 2019, 8:00pm – 9:00pm in CELS 110, NJAG Monthly Seminar
Prof. Hyumin Kim, NJIT
Doing Solar Physics While Living in Antarctica - (TO BE RESCHEDULED) 20 February 2019, 3:00 pm – 4:30pm in CELS 120, Department Colloquium
Prof. Catalin Martin, Ramapo College
Superconductivity: Why it keeps fascinating scientists 100 years after its discovery
- 13 March 2019, 8:00pm – 9:00pm in CELS 110, NJAG Monthly Seminar
Ken Udani, NJAG
The Arecibo Radio Telescope - 26 March 2019, 2:30pm – 4:00pm in CELS Atrium, CSAM/University College Event
Major Madness
Come learn about Physics and other CSAM majors! - 27 March 2019, 3:00pm – 4:30pm in TBD, Department Colloquium
Dr. Kevin Miller, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA’s Work in Exoplanet Hunting Satellites and Robotic Servicing of Satellites - 10 April 2019, 8:00pm – 9:00pm in CELS 110, NJAG Monthly Seminar
Adam Broussard, Rutgers
Starburst! Looking at Galaxies as Stellar Factories - 17 April 2019, 11:00am – 3:00pm, Student Center and Annex/Quad, Department/Physics Club Event
Physics Day!
Come learn and experience why Physics is awesome! - 24 April 2019, 3:00pm – 5:00pm in RI-114, Department/Physics Club Event
End of the Year Party
Celebrate the end of the academic year and our scholarship awardees! - 1 May 2019, 3:00pm – 4:00pm in CELS 120, CSAM/Physics Event
Prof. Erika Hamden, University of Arizona
Open Discussion/Q&A on “Challenges for Women in Science” - 1 May 2019, 4:00pm – 5:00pm in CELS 120, Department Colloquium
Prof. Erika Hamden, University of Arizona
The Ups and Downs of Scientific Ballooning - 8 May 2019, 8:00pm – 9:00pm in CELS 110, NJAG Monthly Seminar
various student speakers
Montclair State physics student research updates - 12 June 2019, 8:00pm – 9:00pm in CELS 110, NJAG Monthly Seminar
Mary Ducca, Amateur Astronomers Inc (AAI) and NJAG
My Northern Lights Adventure - 10 July 2019, 8:00pm – 9:00pm in CELS 110, NJAG Monthly Seminar
Chris Mauro, NJAG
The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Program - 3 December 2018 at 11:15am in CCIS 212, Department Colloquium/Faculty Candidate Research Presentation
Dr. Chiara Mingarelli, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
Pulsar Timing Arrays: The Next Window to Open on the Gravitational-Wave Universe - 12 December 2018 at 4:00 pm in CCIS 133, Department Colloquium/Faculty Candidate Research Presentation
Dr. Sarah Vigeland, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Detecting Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays - 13 December 2018 at 4:00 pm in CELS 225, Department Colloquium/Faculty Candidate Research Presentation
Dr. Shaon Ghosh, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
From the Ashes of a Pair of Neutron Stars: The Tale of a Kilonova - 17 December 2018 at 3:00 pm in RI 117, Department Colloquium/Faculty Candidate Research Presentation
Dr. Timothy Pennucci, Eotvos Lorand University
Pulsar Potpourri: A Sampling of What We Can Learn from Neutron Stars - 20 December 2018 at 4:00 pm in CELS 110, Department Colloquium/Faculty Candidate Research Presentation
Dr. Michael Lam, West Virginia University
Gravitational Wave Astronomy with a Next-Generation Pulsar Timing Array Detector
[Listings prior to July 2018 include physics and math seminars as part of the Mathematical Sciences Department.]
2017
- May 1 2017 at 3:00 p.m. 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 p.m. 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 p.m. 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 p.m. 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 p.m. 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 p.m. 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 a.m. 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 a.m. 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 a.m. in CELS room 110
Ben Herbst, Stellenbosch University
Computation in Science - February 10 2017 at 11:00 a.m. 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 a.m. in CELS room 110, Department Seminar
Weimin Han, University of Iowa
Numerical Analysis of Hemivariational Inequalities - February 3 2017 at 11:00 a.m. 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 a.m. 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 p.m. 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 a.m., 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 p.m. 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 p.m. 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 p.m. 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 p.m. 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 p.m. 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 p.m. 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 p.m. 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 p.m. 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? - July 13 2016 at 8:00 p.m. in CELS room 110, Astronomy Club Seminar
Jay Gowers
Planetary Probes: Exploring the Solar System and Beyond - June 8 2016 at 8:00 p.m. in CELS room 110, Astronomy Club Seminar
Tolga Gumusayak
The Physics Behind Astrophotography - May 11 2016 at 8:00 p.m. in CELS room 110, Astronomy Club Seminar
Students presenting their projects in astronomy and physics
Montclair State University Student Projects - 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 p.m. in Richardson Hall room 222, Department Colloquium
Mathematical Science Students present their research.
Student Research - April 20 2016 at 4:15 p.m. in Richardson Hall room 222
Pure and applied seminar by the two visiting Chinese scholars - April 13 2016 at 8:00 p.m. 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 p.m. 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 p.m. in CELS room 207
Jana Grcevich, American Museum of Natural History
The Dark Matter of Ghost Galaxies - February 10 2016 at 3:45 p.m. 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 8:00 p.m. in CELS room 207
Astronomy Club Seminar - December 9 2015 at 3:45 p.m. 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 p.m. in Richardson Hall room 222
Enjoy Thanksgiving, avoid the weight gain
Say “No” To Thanksgiving Weight Gain - November 11 2015 at 8:00 p.m. in CELS room 207
Astronomy Club Seminar with Kevin Urban
Earth Voyage: Sailing the Seas of the Solar Wind - November 4 2015 at 3:45 p.m. in Richardson Hall room 223
Karmen Yu and Justin Seventko
Calculus Support Group - October 28 2015 at 3:30 p.m. 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 p.m. in Richardson Hall room 261
Eric Forgoston, Mathematical Sciences professor here at Montclair State
Introduction to Noise-Induced Rare Events - October 14 2015 at 8:15 p.m. in CELS room 207
Astronomy Club Seminar
Summer Star Parties Remembered - October 14 2015 at 3:45 p.m. 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 p.m. 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 3 p.m.
Dr. Jamie Radcliffe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Friendship Paradox - September 9, Astronomy Club lecture,
Dr. Deborah Freile of New Jersey City University
The Demise of the Dinosaurs: Bolide Impact or Flood Basalts - 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 & 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 University 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 & 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