Events

Helen Barton Lecture Series in Computational Mathematics

The Lecture Series in Computational Mathematics at UNCG has been organized by the Department of Mathematics and Statistics since Spring 2012. The target audience is graduate students and upper level undergraduate students, as well as faculty members. Experts in their fields will cover a variety of topics in computational mathematics and computational statistics, as well as their applications in other disciplines. A particular aim of the lecture series is to spark interest among students in the newer trends in computational mathematics and its applications. This lecture series is supported by the Helen Barton Excellence Professorship Funds.

The schedule for the lecture series is also incorporated into the schedule of talks.

Current Lectures
Past Lectures

Spring 2023

Wednesday, March 15, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Virtual

Singularities in geometry and data

Vidit Nanda
University of Oxford
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/nanda/

Wednesday, April 5, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Petty 150

Inferring manifolds from noisy data using Gaussian processes

David Dunson
Duke University
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics
https://dibs.duke.edu/profile/david-b-dunson/

Wednesday, April 19, 2023
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Petty 150

A Systems Biology Approach to Identifying Modifiers of Bleeding in Hemophilia

Karin Leiderman
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics
https://math.unc.edu/faculty-member/leiderman-karin/

2022-2023

Fall 2022

Wednesday, September 21, 2022
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Zoom

Chomsky, grammars and mathematics

Laura Ciobanu
Heriot-Watt University
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics

Wednesday, November 2, 2022
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Petty 150

Bayesian Quantile Regression and its Applications

Subhashis Ghoshal
North Carolina State University
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics

2021-2022

Spring 2022

Wednesday, February 16, 2022
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Virtual through Zoom

Challenges in Biobank-scale: Imaging Genetics and Beyond

Hongtu Zhu
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics
https://sph.unc.edu/adv_profile/hongtu-zhu-phd/

Wednesday, March 23, 2022
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Virtual through Zoom

Julia, a Fresh Approach to Technical Computing, 10 years later

Alan Edelman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics
https://klein.mit.edu/~edelman/index.php

Fall 2021

Wednesday, September 8, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Virtual through Zoom

Algorithmic Puzzles

Peter Winkler
Darmouth College
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics
https://math.dartmouth.edu/~pw/

Wednesday, October 20, 2021
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Virtual through Zoom

Can you hear the will of the People in the Vote? Quantifying Gerrymandering in NC using MCMC Sampling

Jonathan C. Mattingly
Duke University
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics
https://scholars.duke.edu/person/jonathan.mattingly

2020 – 2021

Spring 2021

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Virtual through Zoom	*Curves whose Newton polygons have many slopes of 1/2.* Professor Rachel Pries Colorado State University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics https://www.math.colostate.edu/~pries/ Read More »
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Virtual through Zoom	*On Learning and Testing Counterfactual Fairness in Machine Learning* Professor Wenbin Lu NC State University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics https://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~lu/ Read More »
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Virtual through Zoom	*Topological Data Analysis* Professor Peter Bubenik University of Florida Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics https://people.clas.ufl.edu/peterbubenik/ Read More »
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Virtual	*Predicting Disease Risk from Genomics Data* Professor Hongyu Zhao Yale University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/hongyu_zhao/ Read More »

Fall 2020

Wednesday, August 26, 2020 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Virtual through Zoom	*Hurwitz’s factorization count and its deformations* Professor Victor Reiner University of Minnesota Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www-users.math.umn.edu/~reiner/ Read More »
Wednesday, September 9, 2020 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Virtual through Zoom	*Adding Numbers and Shuffling Cards* Professor Persi Diaconis Stanford University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics https://statistics.stanford.edu/people/persi-diaconis Read More »
Wednesday, September 23, 2020 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Virtual through Zoom	*Space-filling designs for computer experiments* Professor Roshan Joseph Georgia Tech Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics https://pwp.gatech.edu/roshan-joseph/ Read More »
Wednesday, October 14, 2020 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Zoom	*Interacting systems and their collective behavior* Professor S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences, New York University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._R._Srinivasa_Varadhan Read More »
Wednesday, November 18, 2020 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Virtual	*Cohomology fractals* Professor Saul Schleimer University of Warwick, UK Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://homepages.warwick.ac.uk/~masgar/ Read More »

2019 – 2020

Talks Spring 2020

Friday, January 24, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Petty 150

Data Driven Models in Neuroscience: A Mathematical Success Story

Sharon Crook
Arizona State University
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics

Wednesday, February 12, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Petty 136

Groups, geometry, and finite state automata

Susan Hermiller
University of Nebraska
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics

Wednesday, February 19, 2020
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Petty 136

Numerical methods for solving polynomial equations

Jonathan Hauenstein
University of Notre Dame
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics

Talks Fall 2019

Monday, October 21, 2019
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Petty 213

Exploring Resonance and Nonresonance

Stephen Robinson
Wake Forest University
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics

Friday, October 25, 2019
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Petty 213

Exploring Resonance and Nonresonance

Stephen Robinson
Wake Forest University
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics

Friday, November 8, 2019
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Petty 150

(Cyclically) consecutive 123-avoiding permutations

Richard Ehrenborg
University of Kentucky
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics

Talks Fall 2018

Friday, September 28, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Petty 150

Computational Topology and the Life Sciences: Finding structure in models and data

Sarah Day
College of William and Mary
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics
https://www.wm.edu/as/mathematics/faculty-directory/day_s.php

Wednesday, October 10, 2018 - Friday, October 12, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Petty 136

Topology and Robot Motion Planning

Dr. Alexander Dranishnikov
University of Florida
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics
https://people.clas.ufl.edu/dranish/

Friday, October 26, 2018
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Petty 150

Algorithms for Electronic Structure Models

Jianfeng Lu
Duke University
Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics
https://math.duke.edu/people/jianfeng-lu

Talks Spring 2018

Monday, February 12, 2018 - Friday, February 16, 2018 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Petty 219	*Time Dependent Stability: Theory, Computation, and Applications* Dr. Erik S. Van Vleck The University of Kansas Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics https://geog.ku.edu/van-vleck-erik-s Read More »
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Petty 219	*Time Dependent Stability: Theory, Computation, and Applications* Dr. Erik S. Van Vleck The University of Kansas Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics https://geog.ku.edu/van-vleck-erik-s Read More »
Sunday, February 25, 2018 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Petty 213	*New Tests of the Dimensions of Measures Using Instrumental Variables* Ken Bollen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://bollen.web.unc.edu/ Read More »
Wednesday, March 14, 2018 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Petty 303	*How to Model and Simulate moving Fronts?* Zhilin Li North Carolina State University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www4.ncsu.edu/~zhilin/ Read More »
Friday, March 16, 2018 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Petty 303	*Recognizing n-manifold groups* Jason Manning University at Buffalo Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.nsm.buffalo.edu/~j399m/ Read More »
Friday, April 6, 2018 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Petty 213	*From poset topology to combinatorial representation theory* Patricia Hersh NC State University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics https://math.sciences.ncsu.edu/people/plhersh Read More »

2016 – 2017

Talks Fall 2016

Monday, October 3, 2016 4:00 pm Petty 150	*The Evolution of Data Science and Statistics* Michael R. Kosorok University of North Carolina Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.bios.unc.edu/~kosorok/ Read More »
Friday, October 7, 2016 4:00 pm Petty 150	*Arithmetic Statistics and Computations* John Jones Arizona State University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://hobbes.la.asu.edu/ Read More »
Friday, October 21, 2016 4:00 pm Petty 150	*Highly Accurate Immersed Methods for Interface Problems* Slimane Adjerid Virginia Tech Institute Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics https://www.math.vt.edu/people/adjerids/ Read More »
Monday, November 14, 2016 - Wednesday, November 16, 2016 4:00 pm Petty 136, Petty 224	*Statistical Inference Subject to Shape Constraint* Dr. Sujit K. Ghosh North Carolina State University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/people/ghosh/ Read More »
Friday, November 18, 2016 4:00 pm Petty 150	*Dynamical and Computational Aspects of Surfaces* Dan Margalit Georgia Tech University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://people.math.gatech.edu/~dmargalit7/ Read More »

2014 – 2015

Talks Spring 2015

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 4:00 pm Petty 150	*Root Separation Bounds* Hoon Hong North Carolina State University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hong/ Read More »
Friday, February 20, 2015 4:00 pm Petty 150	*Poset-free Families and Poset Packing in the Boolean Lattice* Jerrold R. Griggs University of South Carolina Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://people.math.sc.edu/griggs/ Read More »
Thursday, March 5, 2015 4:00 pm Petty 150	*How mathematics is making Hollywood movies better* Michael Dorff Brigham Young University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.math.byu.edu/~mdorff/ Read More »
Monday, April 13, 2015 - Wednesday, April 15, 2015 4:00 pm Petty 150	*The Power of Optimal Control in Biological Models* Dr. Suzanne Lenhart University of Tennessee Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.math.utk.edu/~lenhart/ Read More »

2013 – 2014

Talks Spring 2014

Thursday, March 20, 2014 4:00 pm Petty 219	*Lecture* Harold Mead Stark University of California, San Diego Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Stark Read More »
Monday, March 24, 2014 - Wednesday, March 26, 2014 4:00 pm Petty 219	*Mathematical Modelling for the Life and Medical Sciences* Dr. Philip K. Maini University of Oxford Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/maini/ Read More »
Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:00 pm Petty 219	*Lecture* Jerry Reiter Duke University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.stat.duke.edu/~jerry/ Read More »
Monday, April 21, 2014 4:00 pm Petty 219	*Lecture* Greg Forest University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://gregforest.web.unc.edu/ Read More »

2012 – 2013

Talks Spring 2013

Wednesday, February 13, 2013 4:00 pm Petty 313	*Topology, Geometry and Statistics: Merging Methods for Data Analysis* John Harer Duke University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/math/faculty/harer/ Read More »
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 4:00 pm Petty 313	*Approximation of data points by sparse polynomial models* Erich Kaltofen North Carolina State University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kaltofen/ Read More »
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 4:00 pm Petty 313	*Public Key Encryption for Cloud Storage* Yuliang Zheng UNC Charlotte Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.signcryption.org/ Read More »
Friday, April 12, 2013 - Tuesday, April 16, 2013 4:00 pm Petty 210	*An Overview of Variational Inequalities-Applications to Obstacle, Contact, and Unilateral Problems-Elliptic Problems Subject to Constraints* Klaus Schmitt The University of Utah Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.math.utah.edu/~schmitt/ Read More »
Friday, April 19, 2013 4:00 pm Petty 150	*Product replacement algorithm and Kazhdan’s property (T)* Mikhail Ershov University of Virginia Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://people.virginia.edu/~mve2x/ Read More »
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:00 pm Petty 313	*A general framework for analysing multiplayer games in networks* Mark Broom City University London Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.city.ac.uk/engineering-maths/undergraduate/people/professor-mark-broom Read More »

Talks Fall 2012

Monday, August 27, 2012 - Friday, August 31, 2012 4:00 pm Petty 150	*Solvability of semilinear boundary value problems with discrete spectrum* Alfonso Castro Harvey Mudd College Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.math.hmc.edu/~castro/ Read More »
Saturday, September 22, 2012 4:00 pm Petty 303	*Geometric Arrangements and Their Applications* Pankaj Agarwal Duke University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.cs.duke.edu/~pankaj Read More »
Monday, October 8, 2012 3:00 pm Stone 204	*Dynamic Bayesian modeling for discrete valued time series (marketing, highway safety, ecology applications)* Nalini Ravishanker University of Connecticut Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.stat.uconn.edu/~nalini/ Read More »
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 4:00 pm Petty 150	*Expander Graphs* Paul Gunnells University of Massachusetts Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.math.umass.edu/~gunnells/ Read More »
Monday, November 5, 2012 4:00 pm Petty 150	*Modeling the evolution of dispersal with reaction-advection-diffusion equations and their discrete and nonlocal analogues* Chris Cosner University of Miami Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.math.miami.edu/dire/faculty.htm Read More »
Wednesday, November 14, 2012 4:00 pm Petty 223	*Strategic behavior among animals: insights from game-theoretic models* Mike Mesterton-Gibbons Florida State University Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.math.fsu.edu/~mesterto/ Read More »

2012

Talks Spring 2012

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - Friday, March 23, 2012 4:00 pm Petty 150	*Series of Lectures on Quasilinear PDEs* Pavel Drabek University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.kma.zcu.cz/main.php?DRC=./STRUCTURE/02_pracovnici/&DRL=EN&DROF=0&nick=PaDra&KMAfile=./CLENOVE/main.php&kam= Read More »
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 4:00 pm Petty 303	*L-Moments: Inference for Distributions and Data using Linear Combinations of Order Statistics* Jon Hosking IBM Research Division Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.research.ibm.com/people/h/hosking/ Read More »
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 3:30 pm Petty 150	*The Mathematics Behind Bar Codes* Fadil Santosa University of Minnesota Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.math.umn.edu/~santosa/ Read More »
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 4:00 pm Petty 303	*On computing integral points of Mordell curves over global fields* Michael Pohst TU Berlin Barton Lectures in Computational Mathematics http://www.tu-berlin.de/?79785 Read More »