All Seminars & Colloquia

University Seminars:Logic Across Disciplines-Transforming Machine Learning Heuristics into Provable Algorithms: Classical, Stochastic, and Neural

Friday, 2/23/2018, 4:00pm - 11:59pm

Title: Transforming Machine Learning Heuristics into Provable Algorithms: Classical, Stochastic, and Neural
Speaker: Cheng Tang, GWU, Computer Science
https://sites.google.com/site/chengtanggwu/

Combinatorics-Minor-Closed Classes of Polymatroids

Tuesday, 2/20/2018, 6:00pm - 11:59pm

Speaker: Joe Bonin, GWU
Date and time: Tuesday, February 20, 1-2pm
Place: Rome 771
Title: Minor-Closed Classes of Polymatroids

Combinatorics-Tymoczko's dot action on the cohomology of Hessenberg varieties

Tuesday, 2/13/2018, 6:00pm - 11:59pm

Speaker: Patrick Brosnan, University of Maryland
Date and time: Tuesday, February 13, 1–2pm
Place: Rome 771
Title: Tymoczko's dot action on the cohomology of Hessenberg varieties

Colloqiuim-Infinite time Blum-Shub-Smale machines - computability for analysis

Friday, 2/9/2018, 6:00pm - 11:59pm

Title: Infinite time Blum-Shub-Smale machines - computability for analysis 

Speaker:  Andrei Morozov, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia

http://www.math.nsc.ru/%7Easm256/

University Seminars:Logic Across Disciplines-Effective Ultraproducts and Their Applications

Thursday, 2/8/2018, 5:30pm - 11:59pm

Title: Effective Ultraproducts and Their Applications
Speaker: Rumen Dimitrov, Western Illinois University
http://www.wiu.edu/users/rdd104/home.htm
Date and Time: Thursday February 8, 12:30-1:30
Place: Phillips Hall (801 22nd Street), Room 730

Combinatorics-The Graph Brain Project

Tuesday, 2/6/2018, 6:00pm - 11:59pm


Speaker: Craig Larson, Virginia Commonwealth University
Date and time: Tuesday, February 6, 1-2pm
Place: Rome 771
Title: The Graph Brain Project

TA Meeting

Monday, 2/5/2018, 7:30pm - 11:59pm

TA Meeting

Date and Time:  Monday, February 5, 2018, 2:30 pm

Place: Philips 704, Math Lab

University Seminar: Logic Across Disciplines- Topological Spaces of Orderings of Algebraic Structures

Friday, 2/2/2018, 4:00pm - 11:59pm

Title:  Topological Spaces of Orderings of Algebraic Structures
Speaker:   Jennifer Chubb, University of San Francisco and GWU
http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~jcchubb/
Date and Time:  Friday, February 2 2018 11:00 am-12 noon
Place: Phillips Hall (801 22nd Street), Room 736

Combinatorics Seminar- Combinatorics and the Quadratic Formula

Tuesday, 1/30/2018, 6:00pm - 11:59pm

Speaker: Lou Shapiro, Howard University
Date and time: Tuesday, January 30, 1-2pm
Place: Rome 771
Title: Combinatorics and the Quadratic Formula
Abstract: We explore the connection between the quadratic formula and the Catalan numbers. We start with a piece of folklore, then move to examples including the drunk on the cliff. Then combinatorial interpretations, the Riordan group, and involutions in the Riordan group.

 
 

University Seminar: Logic Across Disciplines-Encoding Noncomputable Sets into Orders on Computable Structures

Friday, 1/26/2018, 4:00pm - 11:59pm

Title:  Encoding Noncomputable Sets into Orders on Computable Structures
Speaker:   Valentina Harizanov, GWU
http://home.gwu.edu/~harizanv/