STudent REsEarch TalkS at George Mason University
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The Student Research Talks (StReeTs) at George Mason University is a student-run seminar, overseen by benevolent leader Dr. Sean Lawton. Its purpose is to give graduate and advanced undergraduate students a forum to discuss research and other topics of interest as well as the opportunity to practice giving talks to colleagues. All students are welcome to attend. If you would like to present a topic please contact one of the organizing committee (Tracey Oellerich and Cigole Thomas).
Here is a problem page that includes problems and discussion concerning ideas from talks: Problems and Discussion
Time and location:
Alternate Fridays 2:30-3:20 pm, Exploratory Hall room 4106.
Fall 2019
6 December 2019: : MEGL Symposium
22 November 2019: Generalizing the Unscented Ensemble Transform to Higher Moments Deanna Easley (GMU)
8 November 2019: A Visual Introduction to Buildings , Bram Bekker (Radboud University, Netherlands)
25 October 2019: Gram Determinants Motivated By Knot Theory, Rhea Palak Bakshi (GWU)
11 October 2019: External Optimal Control of Fractional Parabolic PDEs, Deepanshu Verma (GMU)
27 September 2019: Quantum Assisted Clustering for NISQ-era Devices, Guy Oldaker (Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, Virginia)
13 September 2019: Adaptability Conditions in Biological Networks, Tracey Oellerich (GMU)
Spring 2019
3 May 2019: MEGL Fall 2018 Symposium, Special Time: 2:30-4:30pm
12 April 2019: AES: The Advanced Encryption Standard, Calvin Stanley (GMU)
29 March 2019: The Hodge Decomposition Theorem, Ryan Vaughn (GMU)
1 March 2019: An Introduction to Robust Perfect Adaptation Networks, Tracey Oellerich (GMU)
15 February 2019: Rotational Symmetries of Sequential Matrices,Yemeen Ayub(GMU)
1 February 2019: An Enumeration Problem Arising from Van der Waerden Hypergraphs, Julian Benali (GMU)
Fall 2018
7 December 2018: MEGL Fall 2018 Symposium, Special Time: 2:30-6pm
9 November 2018: The Thickened T-Shirt and its Kauffman Bracket Skein Algebra, Rhea Palak Bakshi (GWU)
19 October 2018: Introduction to Operator Theory and Weighted Composition Operators, Shams Alyusof (GMU)
5 October 2018: Understanding the Behavior of Quasiperiodic Orbits , Arsah Rahman (GMU)
21 September 2018: Increasing outreach activities in the Illinois Geometry Lab , Claire Merriman (UIUC)
7 September 2018: Kernel Methods in Dimensionality Reduction, Ryan Vaughn (GMU)
Spring 2018
4 May 2018: MEGL Spring 2018 Symposium
20 April 2018: How Reliable Are Our Computations?, Sayomi Stallings (GMU)
13 April 2018: An Introduction to Character Varieties, Cigole Thomas (GMU)
23 March 2018: Introduction to Polytopes, Alathea Jensen (GMU)
9 March 2018: Deep Learning for RF Device Fingerprinting in Cognitive Communication Networks, Shauna Revay (GMU)
2 February 2018: Root Finding with Chebyshev Polynomials: Background and Applications in 2-D, Lucas Bouck (GMU)
Fall 2017
8 December 2017: MEGL Symposium, L106 Exploratory Hall, 2:30 pm to 5:10 pm
1 December 2017: Polygon Spaces, Jack Love (GMU)
10 November 2017: Genetic Mutations and Conjunctive Bayesian Networks, Thomas Ales (GMU)
3 November 2017: Algebraic Structures in Knot Theory, Sujoy Mukherjee (GWU)
27 October 2017: Coloring Squares of Planar Graphs with no 4-cycles and no 5-cycles, Bobby Jaeger (GMU)
29 September 2017: Tropical Geometry and Well-Poised Varieties, Shams Alyusof (GMU).
1 September 2017: Longest Orbits over Varieties of a Generalized Markoff Equation over Finite Fields, Marvin Castellon and Seth Lee (GMU).
Spring 2017
12 May 2017: MEGL Symposium, 2:30-5:30pm
28 April 2017: Special Words in Free Groups, Tim Reid (GMU)
21 April 2017: Generalized Depth and Associated Primes in the Perfect Closure R-infinity, George Whelan (GMU)
24 February 2017: Counting Subwords of Elements of S_n, Brent Gorbutt (GMU)
Fall 2016
16 December 2016: MEGL Symposium, 2:30-5:30pm
18 November 2016: Decomposition of Complex Hyperbolic Isometries by Involutions, Cigole Thomas (GMU)
11 November 2016: Asymptotic Dimension with Linear Control, Corry Bedwell (UMCP) (slides)
7 October 2016: Preliminaries for an Algorithm to Calculate Steiner Graphs in R^2, Tyler Russ (GMU)
23 September 2016: What is Persistent Homology?, Ryan Vaughn (GMU)
9 September 2016: Orbits, Special Words, and Polytopes, Orton Babb (GMU), Patrick Bishop (GMU), Joseph Frias (GMU), Mary Leskovec (GMU), Tim Reid (GMU), and Cigole Thomas (GMU)
2 September 2016: Polygons in Space, Jack Love (GMU)
Spring 2016
6 May 2016: MEGL Symposium, in the Mason Experimental Geometry Lab from 1:00-5:00
22 April 2016: Surviving the Singularity: Using Grobner Bases to Describe Killer Robots, David Rice (GMU)
8 April 2016: The Hirsch Conjecture and the Diameters of Polytope Graphs, Mac Gallagher (GMU)
1 April 2016: Riesz Bases and Sampling Theory, Shauna Simeone (GMU)
26 February 2016: Permutation Groups and Puzzle Tile Configurations of Instant Insanity II, Amanda Justus (GMU)
12 February 2016: Binomial Coefficients in Congruence Equations, Tyler Russ (GMU)
29 January 2016: Diagonal Lengths of n-gons, Jack Love (GMU)
Fall 2015
11 December 2015: MEGL Symposium (12:30 - 3:30 in MEGL)
20 November 2015: The Perfect Closure R^Infinity, George Whelan (GMU)
23 October 2015: Grobner Bases of Toric Ideals, Jack Love (GMU)
16 October 2015: Sums of Discrete Functions, Tyler Russ (GMU)
2 October 2015: Lower Bound Cluster Algebras and Stanley-Reisner Complexes, Bradley Zykoski (University of Virginia)
18 September 2015: Flag Varieties, Brent Gorbutt (GMU)
Summer 2015
13-14 August 2015: MEGL Symposium, in 4106 EXPL from 11:00-3:00pm on both days.
Spring 2015
1 May 2015: Diego Torrejon
17 April 2015: Marilyn Vazquez
3 April 2015: Alathea Jensen
20 March 2015: Eli AlHajjar
20 February 2015: Rachel Locke
6 February 2015: Sam Mendelson
Fall 2014
5 November 2014: Jack Love
21 November 2014: Brent Gorbutt
5 December 2014: James Cameron