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2024 Seminars & Colloquia

Friday
December 6
3:30 p.m.
RI 208

Department Colloquium

The Hamilton compression of vertex-transitive graphs of order pq

Sarobidy Razafimahatratra, Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences

Thursday
December 5
1:00 p.m.
CL 416

Topology and Geometry Seminar

Classifying Spaces

Matthew Alexander, University of Regina

Friday
November 29
3:30 p.m.
RI 208

Department Colloquium

Non-Linear Classification of Finite-dimensional C*-Algebras

Sushil Singla, University of Regina

Thursday
November 28
1:00 p.m.
CL 416

Topology and Geometry Seminar

Characteristic classes: A computation and the Splitting Principle

Carlos Gabriel Valenzuela Ruiz, University of Regina

Wednesday
November 27
1:00 p.m.
ED 612

Machine Learning Seminar

Deep Sets

Agustin D'Alessandro, University of Regina

Thursday
November 21
1:00 p.m.
CL 416

Topology and Geometry Seminar

Stiefel-Whitney classes, an axiomatic approach

Martin Frankland, University of Regina

Wednesday
November 20
1:00 p.m.
ED 612

Machine Learning Seminar

Universal Approximation Theorem

Amitabh Halder, University of Regina

Tuesday
November 19
4:00 p.m.
CL 312

Graduate Seminar

Similarity-based clustering of probability density functions

Pornpiya Vikitset, University of Regina

Thursday
November 14
1:00 p.m.
CL 416

Topology and Geometry Seminar

Principal bundles and vector bundles

Francis Bischoff, University of Regina

Wednesday
November 13
1:00 p.m.
ED 612

Machine Learning Seminar

Stochastic gradient descent algorithm

Nanzin Akhi, University of Regina

Tuesday
November 12
4:00 p.m.
CL 312 and
Livestream

Graduate Seminar

Steenrod’s realization problem and graded Stanley-Reisner rings

Shashen Gounden, University of Regina

Thursday
November 7
2:30 p.m.
Livestream

Prairie Mathematics Colloquium

Quillen Cohomology of Divided Power Algebras over an Operad

Martin Frankland, University of Regina

Thursday
November 7
12:00 p.m.
Livestream

Topology and Geometry Seminar

Universal differentials in the bar spectral sequence

Adela YiYu Zhang, University of Copenhagen

Friday
November 1
3:30 p.m.
RI 208

Department Colloquium

Recent Advances on Inverse Spectral Problems for Graphs: 'Strong’ Matrix Properties

Shaun Fallat, University of Regina

Thursday
October 31
1:00 p.m.
CL 416

Topology and Geometry Seminar

Complex line bundles, divisors, and the degree map

Aditya Dwarkesh

Wednesday
October 30
1:00 p.m.
ED 612

Machine Learning Seminar

Deep-dive into the backpropagation algorithm

Affan Shoukat, University of Regina

Friday
October 25
3:30 p.m.
RI 208

Department Colloquium

Product systems arising from Lévy processes

Remus Floricel, University of Regina

Thursday
October 24
1:00 p.m.
CL 416

Topology and Geometry Seminar

Broken Toric Varieties and Balloon Animal Maps

Evan Sundbo, University of Toronto

Wednesday
October 23
1:00 p.m.
RI 215

Machine Learning Seminar

What is a neural network?

Affan Shoukat, University of Regina

Friday
October11
3:30 p.m.
RI 209

Department Colloquium
In Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the University of Regina

Some recent advancements in quantum state transfer

Sarah Plosker, Brandon University

Thursday
October 10
1:00 p.m.
CL 416

Topology and Geometry Seminar

A crash course on cohomology, part 3

Martin Frankland, University of Regina

Thursday
October 3
1:00 p.m.
CL 416

Topology and Geometry Seminar

A crash course on cohomology, part 2

Martin Frankland, University of Regina

Friday
September 27
10:00 a.m.
RI 314

Operator Algebra Seminar

Sequence of operator algebras converging to odd spheres in the quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance II

Sushil Singla, University of Regina

Thursday
September 26
1:00 p.m.
CL 416

Topology and Geometry Seminar

A crash course on cohomology

Martin Frankland, University of Regina

Friday
September 20
10:00 a.m.
RI 314

Operator Algebra Seminar

Sequence of operator algebras converging to odd spheres in the quantum Gromov-Hausdorff distance

Sushil Singla, University of Regina

Thursday
September 19
1:00 p.m.
CL 416

Topology and Geometry Seminar

Real line bundles, Submanifolds, and Whitney classes

Francis Bischoff, University of Regina

Tuesday
September 17
4:30 p.m.
CL 312

Graduate Seminar

Exploring the EM Algorithm: Examples and Length-Biased Data

Himansi Kumari, University of Regina

Tuesday
September 17
3:30 p.m.
RI 209

Department Colloquium

Some matrix and graph techniques in quantum tomography problems

Chi-Kwong Li, College of William & Mary and Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo

Friday
September 13
10:00 a.m.
RI 314

Operator Algebra Seminar

Christensen-Ivan Spectral Triple

Patrick Melanson, University of Regina

Friday
September 6
10:00 a.m.
RI 314

Operator Algebra Seminar

An Introduction to Spectral Triples

Patrick Melanson, University of Regina

Wednesday
August 21
3:30 p.m.
CW307.20

Department Colloquium

Variable Selection in Joint Frailty Model of Recurrent and Terminal Events with Diverging Number of Covariates

Xuewen Lu, University of Calgary

Monday
August 12
6:30 p.m.
RI 208 and
Livestream

Graduate Seminar

Inferences on Parameter Estimation and Testing the Ratio of Variances of Delta-Log-normal Distributions

Mohammad Mastak Al Amin, University of Regina

Monday
August 12
5:15 p.m.
RI 208 and
Livestream

Graduate Seminar

Estimating Confidence Intervals for Binomial Proportion: A Review of Sampling Schemes

Raymond Afful, University of Regina

Monday
August 12
4:00 p.m.
RI 208 and
Livestream

Graduate Seminar

Confidence Interval of the Ratio of Variances of Two Log-normal Populations

Puttipong Tantikhajorngosol, University of Regina

Wednesday
July 12
2:30 p.m.
CL 312

Department Colloquium

Graphs and Matrices in Continuous Quantum Walks

Jephian C.-H. Lin, National Sun Yat-sen University

Wednesday
May 1
2:30 p.m.
RI 209

Department Colloquium

Graphs and Matrices in Continuous Quantum Walks

Hermie Monterde, University of Manitoba

Friday
April 19
3:30 p.m.
RI 209

Department Colloquium

Mixtures of Weighted Distributions with Stochastically Ordered Components and Their Quantiles

Taehan Bae, University of Regina

Tuesday
April 16
12:30 p.m.
CL 312

Topology and Geometry Seminar

Data, Geometry and Homology

Wojciech Chachólski, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Monday
April 8
1:30 p.m.
AH 318

Honours Seminars

Cody Antal - Lie Groupoids and the Stokes Groupoids

Layne Byrne - The Dynamics of Fairness - Revisiting The Peach Stone Bowl Game

Peter Wadel - Low-dimensional SIC-POVMs

Jeffery Xu - Fock-Hilbert Spaces and their Operators

Wednesday
April 3
5:00 p.m.
Livestream

Topology and Geometry Seminar

Commutativity in Higher Algebraic Objects

Olivia Borghi, University of Melbourne

Wednesday
April 3
3:30 p.m.
RI 209

Graduate Seminar

Discrete Transmuted Record Type Exponential Distributions

Chengyu Gao, University of Regina

Wednesday
March 27
12:30 p.m.
CL 251

Topology and Geometry Seminar

The Bar-Cobar Construction for dg-algebras

Manak Singh, University of Regina

Wednesday
March 20
12:30 p.m.
Livestream

Topology and Geometry Seminar

The Chern Character after Toledo-Tong and Green

Mahmoud Zeinalian, Lehman College, CUNY

Wednesday
March 13
12:30 p.m.
CL 251

Topology and Geometry Seminar

Koszul Duality of Associative Algebras

Manak Singh, University of Regina

Thursday
March 7
2:30 p.m.
Livestream

Prairie Mathematics Colloquium

Generalized Hadamard Matrices, Graphs Diagonalized by Such Matrices, and Quantum State Transfer

Sarah Plosker, University of Brandon

Wednesday
March 6
3:30 p.m.
RI 209

Graduate Seminar

Asymptotic and Bootstrap Confidence Intervals for the Ratio of Modes of Log-normal Distributions

Chengyu Gao, University of Regina

Wednesday
March 6
12:30 p.m.
CL 251

Topology and Geometry Seminar

An HKR Theorem for Factorization Homology, and a Related Project in Character Theory

Hari Rau-Murthy, University of Notre Dame

Wednesday
February 14
3:30 p.m.
RI 209

Graduate Seminar

Survival and Longitudinal Modelling for Combined Cohorts

Qian Zhao, University of Regina

Wednesday
February 14
12:30 p.m.
CL 251

Topology and Geometry Seminar

DG Lie algebras and coalgebras in rational homotopy theory

Martin Frankland, University of Regina

Friday
February 9
3:30 p.m.
RI 209

Department Colloquium

What is a positive matrix?

Shaun Fallat, University of Regina

Wednesday
February 7
12:30 p.m.
CL 251

Topology and Geometry Seminar

More deformation functors

Martin Frankland, University of Regina

Friday
February 2
3:30 p.m.
RI 209

Department Colloquium

Plücker inequalities for weakly separated coordinates in totally nonnegative Grassmannian

Prateek Kumar Viskwakarma, University of Regina

Wednesday
January 31
3:30 p.m.
RI 209

Graduate Seminar

A Fortuitous Friendship between the Matching Polynomial and the Companion Matrix

Johnna Parenteau, University of Regina

Wednesday
January 31
12:30 p.m.
CL 251

Topology and Geometry Seminar

Deformation functors

Martin Frankland, University of Regina

Wednesday
January 24
12:30 p.m.
CL 251

Topology and Geometry Seminar

What is a formal moduli problem?

Martin Frankland, University of Regina

Thursday
January 18
2:30 p.m.
Livestream

Prairie Mathematics Colloquium

Moduli Spaces and Quantum Matter: From Materials to Pure Mathematics and Back

Steven Rayan, University of Saskatchewan

Wednesday
January 17
3:30 p.m.
CK 185 and
Livestream

Graduate Seminar

Log-Logistic Erlang Distribution

Khaysa Osmanli, University of Regina

Wednesday
January 17
12:30 p.m.
Livestream

Topology and Geometry Seminar

Deformation quantization of Poisson manifolds

Matt Alexander, University of Regina