Colloquiums

August-December, 2023

Name	Institution	Title	Day
Dr. Jack Calcut	Oberlin College	Visual Proofs	Oct 3
Dr. Donald Hoffman	UC-Irvine	Dynamics Beyond Spacetime	Nov 14
Dr. Ivelisse Rubio	UPR-Rio Piedras	TBA	TBA
Dr. Pablo V. Negron	UPR-Humacao	Deformation of rotating disks and spheres under self gravitation	Dic 7
Dr. Emmanuel J. Morales Butler	UPR-Utuado	Identifying Outliers in Radio Astronomy Data Using the Generalized Spectral Kurtosis Estimator Identifying Outliers in Radio Astronomy Data Using the Generalized Spectral Kurtosis Estimator	Dic 11

January - May, 2023

Name	Institution	Title	Date
Dr. Felix Gotti	MIT	Atomicity and the Ascending Chain Condition on Principal Ideals	Feb 22-2023
Dr. Irena Swanson	Purdue	Primary decompositions	Feb 23-2023
Dr. Ayman Badawi	American University of Sharjah	Absorbing Ideals in Commutative Rings: A Survey	Feb 24-2023
Dr. Manos Papadakis	Bates College	Fourier analysis methods in era of AI	Mar 14-2023
Dr. Álvaro Lozano-Robledo	Universidad de Connecticut	Una demostración corta de el último teorema de Fermat (para polinomios no constantes!)	Mar-16-2023
Dr. Andreas Mang	University of Houston	Numerical methods for PDE-constrained optimization problems governed by hyperbolic equations	Mar-28-2023
Dr. Erwin Suazo	University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley	Probabilistic solutions of fractional differential and partial differential equations and their Monte Carlo simulations	Apr-03-2023
Dr. Luis F Cáceres	University of Puerto RIco, Mayaguez	De la maestría en UPRM al doctorado en U.S.A.	Apr-20-2023
Dr. Ken Ono	University of Virginia	What is the Riemann hypothesis, and why does it matter?	May-02-2023
Dr. Ken Ono	University of Virginia	New results in arithmetic statistics?	May-04-2023

August - December, 2022

Name	Institution	Title	Day and time
Dr. Maurice Rojas	Texas A&M	Counting Real Roots of "Fewnominals"	Nov-10
Dr. Luis E. Medina	UPR-Rio Piedras	A characterization of k-rotations Boolean Functions	Nov-17
Dr. Deepam Patel	Purdue University	Enriched Hodge Structures	Nov-22
Dr. Matthew Junge	Baruch College	Ballistic Annihilation	Dic-06
Dra. Hortensia Soto	Colorado Statue University	Embodied Cognition: What is it? How does it Involve Mathematics?	Dic-08

January - May, 2022

Name	Institution	Title	Day and Time
Dr. Anna Zamojska-Dzienio	Warsaw University of Technology	Application of algebra to Knot Theory	February 24
Dr. Sebastian Hurtado	University of Chicago	Espacios Simetricos y Reticulas	February 25
Dr. Fernando Perez	UC, Berkeley	Jupyter: tools for open interactive computing across disciplines	February 26
Dr. David Matteson	Cornell University	Drift vs Shift: Decoupling Trends and Changepoint Analysis	February 26
Dr. Anna Zamojska-Dzienic	Warsaw University of Technology	New approach for solving Yang-Baxter equation	March 8
Dr. Irena Swanson	Purdue University	Computing in Algebra	March 17
Dr. Lev Steinberg	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Cosserat Plate Theory	April 21
Dr. Victor Ocasio	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	TBA	April 28

August - December, 2021

Name	Institution	Title	Day and Time
Dr. Po-Shen Loh	Carnegie Mellon University	A New Approach for Fighting Infectious Disease, Combining Game Theory and Network Theory	September 23
Dr. Maria Magdalena Boureanu	University of Craiova, Romania	Higher-order problems with variable exponents	September 30
Dr. Erika Camacho	Arizona State University	The Role of RdCVFL in a Mathematical Model of Photoreceptor Interactions	October 14
Dr. Alejandro Velez	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Analysis and Partial Differential Equations over 3D Koch-type Fractal Crystals	October 28
Dr. Paolo Mantero	University of Arkansas	Symbolic powers of ideals, interpolation and related problems	November 18
Dr. Alexander Diaz-Lopez	Villa Nova University	Arithmetical Structures on Graphs	December 2

January - May, 2021

Name	Institution	Title	Day and Time
Dr. Harry F. Oviedo Leon	CIMAT	Adaptive scaled gradient methods for Optimization on the Stiefel Manifold	February 4
Dr. Israel Almodovar	University of Puerto Rico, Ciencias Medicas	Kernel-estimated Nonparametric Overlap-Based Syncytial Clustering	February 11
Dr. Jairo A. Ayala	Universidad del Caribe	Eliminación automática del músculo pectoral en mamografías según sus características anatómicas	February 16
Mr. Anuj Bajaj	Wayne State University	Solving a continuous multifacility location problem by DC algorithms	February 18
Dr. Alcibiades Bustillo	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	A New Family of 3D Watermarks	February 23
Dr. Anderson Vera	University of Strasbourg	Quantum Invariants of 3-manifolds and the mapping class group	February 25
Dr. Brandilyn. Stigler	Southern Methodist University	Algebraic Methods for Biological Data Science	March 4
Dr. Diego Villamizar	Tulane University	Properties of extensions of the classical derangements	March 9
Sr. Jonathan Lopez	NC State, Raleigh	Their Voices, Their Lived Experiences and What Influence Them: A Mixed Methods Study on Students’ Perceptions of Required General Education Mathematics	March 11
Dr. Edwin Flórez	Universidad Politecnica	Mini-servidores en Raspberry Pi con Webwork para las escuelas de difícil acceso a Internet	March 18
Dr. Isabel Besembel	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Desarrollo de software OO guiado por modelos en UML 2.5	April 8

Spring 2020

Name	Institution	Title	Day
Dr. John Feo	Pacific Northwest Laboratory	Data Analytics at Scale	February 6
Dr. Francisco Brana	AVEVA Group	Leveraging your education, curiosity and initiative in a increasingly digital World	February 20
Dr. Gideon Zamba	University of Iowa	Learn about Biostatistics- the application of Statistics in biological and public health problems!	March 5

Fall 2019

Name	Institution	Title	Day
Dra. Maytee Cruz	University of Puerto Rico, Cayey	Modelos de Enfermedades de Transmision Sexual	September 26
Dr. Alejandro Velez	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Fine regularity for the Robin problem over irregular domains	October 10
Dr. Roberto Rivera	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Atomic Level Structural Dynamics in Catalysts	October 29
Dr. Pablo Negron	University of Puerto Rico, Humacao	Chaotic dynamics of a three particle array under Lennard--Jones type forces and a fixed area constraint	November 7
Srta. Maria Sanchez	University of Minesota	Mechanisms and management of litter-mediated hysteresis in enriched grasslands	December 2
Dr. Raul Machiavelli	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Seed rain along a gradient of degradation in a Caribbean dry forest: Fitting a generalized linear mixed model to analyze large counts	December 3

Spring 2017

Name	Institution	Title	Day
Dr. Michel L. Lapidus	UC-Riverside	Can One Hear the Shape of Fractal Drum?	March 2

Fall 2016

Name	Institution	Title	Day
Dra. Marggie Gonzalez	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	El uso de tecnología en la enseñanza de las matemáticas en el nivel secundario	September 15
Dra. Dorothy Bollman	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Determining steady state behaviour of discrete monomial dynamical systems	October 6
Dr. Rafael Martinez	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	El entendimiento de los estudiantes del calculo diferencial de las funciones de 2 variables	October 11
Dra. Maytee Cruz	University of Puerto Rico, Cayey	Kolmogorov Equations Applied to a SIS coupled Epidemiological Model	October 18
Dr. Alejandro Velez	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Variable exponent differential equations with dynamical boundary conditions	October 27
Dra. Karen Rios	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Modelling Coral Reef Response to Destructive Fishing Practices with Predator-Prey Interactions	November 3
Dr. Pablo Negron	University of Puerto Rico, Humacao	The repulsion property in nonlinear elasticity and a numerical scheme to circumvent it	November 15

Spring 2015

Name	Institution	Title	Day
Dr. Russell Miller	City University of New York	Computability Theory at Work: Factoring Polynomials and Finding Roots	February 17
Dr. Alejandro Aceves	Southern Methodist University	Quantum Mechanics and photonics crossing paths: the study of Parity-Time (PT) symmetric systems	February 24
Profa. Mary E. Falk de Losada	Universidad Antonio Narino	Esta cambiando la forma en que se hace matematicas y la matematica que se hace como resultado de las olimpiadas de matematicas?	February 26
Dr. Frank Morgan	Williams College	Optimal Tilings	February 26
Dr. Hector Salas	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Continuous Transformations on Banach Spaces	March 17
Dra. Ivelisse Rubio	University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras	Applications of the covering method for computing p-divisibility of exponential sums	March 26
Dra. Karen Rios-Soto	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	On the estimation of epidemiological parameters: dengue fever in PR as an example	April 16
Dr. Edgar Acuna	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Statistics, Data Mining, Big Data Analytics, And Data Science: more than a play of names	May 7

Fall 2014

Name	Institution	Title	Day
Dr. Arturo Portnoy	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	WeBWorK: un sistema de pruebas electronicas: gratuito, abierto y endosado por el MAA	October 2
Dr. Roberto Rivera	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	A Dynamic Linear Model to Forecast Number of Hotel Rooms Occupied in Puerto Rico Using Google Trends Search Query Data	October 21
Dr. Remi Megret	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Computer vision for wearable video sensors: from stochastic filtering theory to applications in activity monitoring	October 23
Dr. Victor Ocasio	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Determining the computational complexity of an isomorphism	November 6
Dr.Stan Dziobiak	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	ON EXCLUDED MINORS IN GRAPHS	November 20
Dra. Eva Petkova	New York University	Personalized Medicine and Generated Effect Modifiers	December 4
Dr. Erwin Suazo	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Nonlinear evolution equations: Explicit solutions, transformations and its applications to Physics and Biology	December 9

Spring 2014

Name	Institution	Title	Day
Dr. Akihiro Nakatani	Osaka University	Disclination Plasticity Modeling for Microscopic Structure	January 10
Dr. Angel Lopez	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	A Higgs Particle Theory Primer	February 11
Dra. Damaris Santana	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Bayesian analysis of a linear mixed model to measure the impact of climate change on the yield of common bean for the year 2030 worldwide.	February 25
Dr. James Yorke	University of Maryland	The Many Facets of Chaos	February 27
Dr. Micah Leamer	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Torsion and Tensor products over commutative domains	March 18
Dr. Mario Marazzi-Santiago	Instituto de Estadisticas de Puerto Rico	Transparencia en los tiempos de los sistemas de información y obstáculos a la cultura estadística	March 25
Profa. Marggie González	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Lesson planning and the role of technology tools for in-service secondary mathematics teacher	March 27
Dr. Alexander Urintsev	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Implicit Function Calculation	April 3

Fall 2013

Name	Institution	Title	Day
Francisco Proskauer Alejandro Proskauer Gabriela Carrión	TASIS TASIS Escuela Espíritu Santo	Soluciones Perfectas en Olimpiadas Internacionales de Matemáticas	September 3
Dr. Luis Caceres	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Mathematics in Latin America and the Caribbean	September 17
Dr. Wolfgang Rolke	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	The Discovery of the Higgs Boson at the Large Hadron Collider	October 1
Profa. Helena Arias	Universidad del Valle, Colombia	Dengue fever under a predator-prey system	October 22
Dr. Pedro Torres	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Applications of Statistics to Public Health	October 24
Dr. Arturo Portnoy	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Talento, aprendizaje y buenos hábitos en matemáticas: anédotas y opiniones	November 7
Dra. Maria Egle	University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras	Changing the paradigm: The Adaptive alpha Significance Level	November 12

Spring 2013

Name	Institution	Title	Day
Dr. Michael Renardy	Virginia Tech	In the well-posedness of the hydrostatic limit in fluid mechanics	February 28
Dr. Pierre Albin	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Ricci flow and the determinant of the Laplacian on non-compact surfaces	March 4
Dr. Jonathan Farley	Research Institute for Mathematics	How Al Qaeda Can Use Lattice Theory to Defeat the United States	March 15
Dr. Sergei Suslov	Arizona State University	RogueWaves: A Linear Approximation	March 19
Dr. Dennis Collins	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Measuring Symmetries	April 11
Dr. Anvar Nurakunov	Academy of Sciences of Kyrgyz Republic	Quasivariety Lattices of Pointed Abelian Groups	April 11
Dr. Gerson Beauchamp	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	The Mathematics Behind Feedback Control Systems	May 2

Fall 2012

Name	Institution	Title	Day
Dr. Luis A. Medina	University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras	Asymptotic Behavior of the exponential sum of distortions of symmetric polynomials	September 25
Dr. Julio Rodriguez	Universitä Bielefeld	Stochastic Switching Networks of Adaptive Frequency Oscillator	October 2
Dr. Juan Romero	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Panorama sobre el analisis armonico moderno	October 18
Dr. Pablo Negron	University of Puerto Rico, Humacao	An introduction to bifurcation theory with applications to nonlinear elasticity	October 30
Dr. Robert Acar	University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez	Formulation of Conservation laws	November 8
Prof. Pedro Alejo Torres	NC State University	Quantiles Regression for Responses Repeatedly Measured with Error	December 13