Student Travel Fund Awardees

The Mathematics Department is happy to support math majors that present results of their research in research conferences. Funds are distributed on a competitive basis. No deadlines are associated with this program. Students who have posters or oral presentations accepted in research conferences are welcomed to contact the undergraduate chair with requests for support. Funded projects include:

October 2018: Siri Neerchal, AISC Conference, UNC Greensboro

December 2018: Uro Lyi, Winter Simulation Conference 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden

December 2018-January 2019: Tanay Wakhare, Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, Paris-Sud Orsay, France

January 2019: April Nellis, Joint Mathematical Meeting, Baltimore

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  • Predictive Science and Deep Learning - A Bright Future or an Odd Couple?

    Speaker: Wolfgang Dahmen (Aachen, University of South Carolina) - https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/mathematics/our_people/directory/dahmen_wolfgang.php

    When: Wed, September 20, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • The optimal paper Moebius band

    Speaker: Richard Schwartz (Brown University) - https://www.math.brown.edu/reschwar/

    When: Fri, September 29, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Riehl (TBA)

    Speaker: Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University) - https://math.jhu.edu/~eriehl/

    When: Fri, October 6, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Categorification and geometry

    Speaker: Lars Hesselholt (Nagoya University) - https://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~larsh/

    When: Fri, October 13, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Mathematics Around the Heisenberg Group

    Speaker: Roger Howe (Yale University) - https://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/fft/2023/Speakers/Roger_Howe.html

    When: Thu, October 26, 2023 - 3:45pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Decoding Time's Mysteries for Better Predictions

    Speaker: James Howard (Johns Hopkins University) - https://www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/fft/2023/Speakers/James_Howard.html

    When: Thu, October 26, 2023 - 6:45pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • A tale of two invariants

    Speaker: Paul Feehan (Rutgers) - https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~feehan/

    When: Wed, November 15, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Using logic to study homeomorphism groups

    Speaker: Thomas Koberda (University of Virginia) - https://sites.google.com/view/koberdat

    When: Wed, November 29, 2023 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Generative Models for Implicit Distribution Estimation: a Statistical Perspective

    Speaker: Yun Yang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) - https://sites.google.com/site/yunyangstat/

    When: Thu, January 25, 2024 - 3:30pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Video Imputation and Prediction Methods with Applications in Space Weather

    Speaker: Yang Chen (University of Michigan) - https://yangchenfunstatistics.github.io/yangchen.github.io/

    When: Tue, January 30, 2024 - 4:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Arboreal Galois groups: an introduction

    Speaker: Robert Benedetto (Amherst College) - https://rlbenedetto.people.amherst.edu/

    When: Wed, February 7, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Higher theta series

    Speaker: Zhiwei Yun (MIT) - https://math.mit.edu/~zyun/

    When: Wed, February 28, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Random lattices and their applications in number theory, geometry and statistical mechanics

    Speaker: Jens Marklof (School of Mathematics, University of Bristol) - https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Jens-Marklof-6eb63e14-a018-4833-9cf8-b95272b5a09e/

    When: Fri, March 1, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • TBA

    Speaker: Svetlana Jitomirskaya (University of California, Berkeley) - https://math.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/svetlana-jitomirskaya

    When: Thu, March 14, 2024 - 3:00pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206
  • Instantaneous everywhere-blowup of parabolic stochastic PDEs

    Speaker: Davar Khoshnevisan (University of Utah) - http://www.math.utah.edu/~davar/

    When: Wed, April 3, 2024 - 3:15pm
    Where: Kirwan Hall 3206