Events

The Department of Mathematics sponsors a regular colloquium that hosts several talks by external speakers every year and a general faculty seminar for talks by faculty and students. Seminars are listed below the colloquia.

Mathematics Colloquium

The next Mathematics Colloquium will likely take place during the Spring 2026 semester.

Recent Mathematics Colloquium Talks

Date Topic Speaker
Nov 10, 2025 Connecting noticing of student thinking to responsive teaching in math and science

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Chapman University
Oct 27, 2025 Introduction to statistical meta-analysis with an application

 , UMBC
Oct 21, 2025 Large zeros of linear recurrence sequences

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Stellenbosch University
Apr 25, 2025 Defining connected components

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Kingsborough CC (CUNY)
Apr 24, 2025 Middle-school students’ meanings of points from quantitative and covariational reasoning perspectives

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Cal State - San Bernardino
Mar 14, 2025 A multi-species, multi-stimuli rheological model for living polymers

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RIT
Feb 13, 2025 Using data science to understand patterns of social harm

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Boston College
Apr 24, 2024 Arboreal Galois groups: Introduction

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Amherst College 
Apr 17, 2024 Thicket density

Dr. Siddharth Bhaskar,
James Madison University
Apr 3, 2024 Finite element exterior calculus in four-dimensional space

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Penn State University
Apr 3, 2024 Finite-dimensional reduction of dissipative PDEs

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Florida International University
Mar 29, 2024 Patterns, algorithms, and your friends

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Brigham Young University
Mar 8, 2024 Finite expression method: A symbolic approach for scientific machine learning

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University of Maryland 
Feb 14, 2024 Biostatistics: Applications of statistics in biomedicine and public health

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Georgetown Medical Center

Seminar Meetings

The Mathematics Seminar is the venue where Towson faculty and students report on their research activities. The next talk will occur on Monday, November 17, when Dr. Vincent Guingona will present a sabbatical lecture on Applications of Model Theory to Statistical Learning Theory.

Abstract. In this talk, I will discuss some interesting applications of model theory, a branch of mathematical logic, to statistical learning theory. Many different notions of learnability can be classified in terms of model-theoretic dividing lines. For example, the notion of stability from model theory is equivalent to online learnability and differentially private probably approximately correct (PAC) learning. Moreover, the absence of the independence property (NIP) from model theory is equivalent to PAC-learning, recursive teachability, and sequence compressibility

In addition several research groups have research seminars in their respective research areas:

  • ASRM Seminar (coordinated by Min Ji):
    Meets on Fridays at 10 am
  • Number Theory Seminar (coordinated by A. Kumchev and N. McNew):
    Meets on Tuesdays at 4:30 pm in YR 320.

Recent and Upcoming Seminars

  • October 16, 2025: Number Theory Seminar.
    , McDaniel College, gave at talk on Sums of k-th powers in ramified p-adic rings.
  • September 16, 2025: Number Theory Seminar.
    Dr. Vefa Goksel gave a talk on Square patterns in dynamical orbits.
  • April 11, 2025: ASRM Speaker Series.
    William Logan '09, FSA, gave a talk on Stable value fund dynamics: Understanding withdrawal patterns through experience studies.
  • April 8, 2025: Number Theory Seminar.
    Dr. Russell Hendel gave a talk on A family of sequences generalizing the Thue-Morse and Rudin-Shapiro sequences.
  • March 11, 2025: Number Theory Seminar.
    Dr. David Hubbard gave a talk on Computing the p-part of the class group.
  • March 4, 2025: Number Theory Seminar.
    Vishal Gupta, University of Delaware, gave a talk on the Minimum spectral radius in a given class of graphs.
  • February 25, 2025: Number Theory Seminar.
    , US Naval Academy, gave a talk on Quasimodular forms, q-multiple zeta values, and partitions.
  • November 21, 2024: Number Theory Seminar.
    , University of South Carolina, gave a talk on Disjoint covering systems.  
  • November 15, 2024: ASRM Speaker Series. 
    Shelby Cimino, ASA, gave a talk on Actuarial modeling: An overview.
  • September 10, 2024: Number Theory Seminar.
    , Johns Hopkins University, gave a talk on All trees on n edges decompose the complete bipartite graph \(K_{n,n}\).
  • August 20, 2024: Number Theory Seminar.
    , Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, gave a talk on Expansion, divisibility and parity.

Recent Mathematics Seminar & Sabbatical Talks

  • On November 3, 2025, Dr. Kimberly Corum presented a sabbatical lecture on Leveraging Justice-Centered Making to Support Mathematics Teaching and Learning.
  • On April 7, 2025, Dr. Banghee So, gave a seminar on A Novel Neural Network Model with Predictive Power and Interpretability for Insurance Pricing. 
  • On March 24, 2025, Dr. Jing Tian presented a sabbatical lecture on Parameter Analysis in Continuous Data Assimilation for Various Turbulence Models.
  • On February 24, 2025, Dr. Sebastian Calvo presented a seminar on the Waldschmidt Constant of Complex Reflection Groups.
  • On October 16, 2024, Dr. Min Deng presented a sabbatical lecture on Bayesian Inference for the Loss Models via Mixture Priors. 
  • On September 30, 2024, Dr. Melike Kara Atas presented a sabbatical lecture on Improving Pre-Service Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching Fraction Concepts.