Fall 2018 Department Colloquium

The NAU Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium takes place on Tuesdays at 4:00-5:00 pm in Room 164 of the Adel Mathematics Building. Refreshments are available from 3:45pm in the same room.

Titles and abstracts uploaded as available. Schedule subject to change.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title  (click title to see abstract)
September 11	Bahattin Yildiz	NAU	p-ary local Frobenius rings, their homogeneous weights and a class of Griesmer-optimal codes.
September 18	Jin Wang	NAU	Sabbatical Report
Thursday, September 27	Mark Meyer	Georgetown University	Examining Rhesus Macaques Computer-usage using Functional Regression Models. Dr. Meyer will also give an intro to Bayesian Statistics to the Linguistics Department on Friday at 10:10.
October 2	Toby Hocking	NAU, SICCS	Why does functional pruning yield such fast algorithms for optimal changepoint detection?
October 9	Krishna Subedi	NAU	Positivity of truncated Toeplitz operators via Berezin transform on certain model subspaces of the Hardy space
October 16	Natalie Coston	NAU Alum, new PhD	Outliers in the Spectrum of Products of Independent Random Matrices
October 23	Robert McCulloch	ASU	Multidimensional Monotonicity Discovery with mBART
October 30	Angie Hodge et al.	NAU	The NAU/CCC Noyce Ambassador Program
November 6	Amirhossein Arzani	NAU Mechanical Engineering	Mathematical Modeling of Blood Flow: Numerical Analysis and Dynamical Systems
November 13	Robert Buscaglia	NAU	Data Science in Action: Connecting Biochemistry and Statistics
November 20	Barbara Boschmans	NAU	A Sabbatical Analyzing LMC Data and Improving LMC Success Rates for First Generation Students
November 27	Ye Chen	NAU	Inferring Microbial Co-occurrence Network from 16s rRNA-seq Data
December 5	Brian Beaudrie	NAU	A Tale of Two Sabbaticals