GVSU Applied Math Seminar

Welcome to the 3rd year of our GVSU Applied Seminar. We have a great set of speakers lined up to talk to us about applications of mathematics in areas including forest fires, gambling, data science, computer science and more!

New this year, we will provide pizza for those attending in person. So come join us have lunch and feed your applied math curiosity too!

RVSP for pizza here (if available will lead you to a google form accepting responses)

When: Approx. Third Friday of the month, 1-1:50pm

** Past recorded seminars (requires GVSU logon) **

Date	Speaker	Title
WINTER 2023
Jan 20	Jiyeon Suh GVSU Math	Simple Random Walk on the Hypercube
Feb 17	Paul Fishback GVSU Math	Discrete Fourier Transforms, Coherence, Clustering, and Causality: Network Science Analysis of Brain Signals in the Context of Treating Intractable Epilepsy.
March 17	Shandelle Henson Andrews University Editor-in-Chief Natural Resource Modeling	Climate Change and Tipping Points for Seabird Colonies in the Pacific Northwest
April 14	Alumni Panel	Hear from recent graduates about their experience in the workforce and in graduate school. Bring some questions!
FALL 2022
Sept. 23	Jenna Mc Donald, PhD candidate Rochester Institute of Technology (joins us via Zoom)	Mathematical Modelling of Tree Litter Dispersal
Oct 7	Zachary DeBruine GVSU- School of Computing	Extension and Optimization of Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Nov 11	Ed Aboufadel GVSU- Math and Provost Office	A mathematician wanders into a sportsbook
Nov 18	Nate Bowman GVSU- School of Computing	Computation of Minimum-volume Enclosing Ellipsoids
Dec 2	Brian Yurk Hope College	Mapping plant populations in Lake Michigan sand dunes using drones and machine learning

Norma Ortiz-Robinson's page * GVSU math department