Mathematics Colloquium

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Dietmar Bisch is a Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Center of Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras at Vanderbilt University. His research includes operator algebras, subfactor theory, and noncommutative geometry.

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Chad Giusti is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Oregon State University. His work is in applied mathematics, with interests in topology, geometry, complex systems, and neuroscience.

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Please join us for a department colloquium by Quoc Tran-Dinh, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Tran-Dinh’s research focuses on numerical optimization, theory and algorithms for convex optimization, and nonconvex continuous optimization, with applications across operations research, machine learning, and computational sciences.

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Rui Han is an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University. His research interests include mathematical physics, harmonic analysis, dynamical systems, and ergodic theory.

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Please join us for a department colloquium by Yulan Qing, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Qing’s research interests lie in low-dimensional topology and geometric group theory. Her current work focuses on asymptotic properties of finitely generated groups and big mapping class groups, including generalizations of the Gromov boundary, notions of genericity in groups, geometricity in Out(Fn), and generalizations of curve graphs.

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Please join us for a department colloquium by Taylor Arnold, Professor of Data Science and Statistics at the University of Richmond. Refreshments will be available at 3:45 PM, and the talk will begin at 4:10 PM.

Arnold develops corpus-based statistical methods and software for studying how messages are communicated through visual and multimodal forms, with particular attention to time-based media such as television and film. His work connects statistics, computation, linguistics, information sciences, digital humanities, and media studies, and includes the book Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images with Lauren Tilton.