Our Faculty Colloquium Series features occasional research oriented lectures intended primarily for faculty and graduate students. Advanced undergraduates are encouraged to attend as well. The lectures are presented by Ball State faculty and visiting faculty from other institutions. An abstract for each talk will be linked approximately a week ahead of the scheduled date.

2023

Thursday, February 9, 2023, RB 125, 1:00-1:50 PM
Dr. Vyron Vellis (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Title:  “Cantor Julia sets”

Thursday, February 23, 2023, RB 125, 1:00-1:50 PM
Dr. Yayuan Xiao (Ball State University)
Sabbatical Presentation
Title: “Complex Networks and its application: identifying genes associated with specific diseases”

Thursday, March 23, 2023, RB 125, 1:00-1:50 PM
Dr. Rahmatullah Imon (Ball State University)
Sabbatical Presentation
Title: “Identification of Multiple Outliers in Spatial Regression”

Thursday, April 27, 2023, RB 449, 1:00-1:50pm
Dr. Michael Pilla (Indiana Academy)
Title: “Self-Maps of the Unit Ball in C^N”

Thursday, November 16, 2023, RB 450, 1:00-1:50 PM
Josh Kline (University of Cincinnati)
Title: “Least Gradient Problems in Metric Measure Spaces”




Thursday, November 10, 2022, RB 125, 1:00-1:50 PM
Dr. Lisa Naples (Macalester College)
Title : "Geometry of Measures: Carrying Sets and Characterizations"

Thursday, November 17, 2022, RB 125, 1:00-1:50 PM
Dr. Mohammed Chowdhury (Western Illinois University)
Title: "Machine Learning Models to Identify Quantitatively Significant Covariates for Blood Pressure Among American Adolescent Girls"

Thursday, December 1, 2022, RB 113, 10:00-10:50 AM
Dr. Sylvester Eriksson-Bique (University of Jyvaskyla, Finland)
Title: “Modulus on Networks - What is it?"

 

 

 


Thursday, November 11, 2021, RB 125, 1:00-1:50pm
Dr. Derek Thompson (Taylor University)
Title: "Spectra of Weighted Composition Operators with Quadratic Symbols”
Thursday, February 27, 2020, RB 447, 1:00-1:50 PM
Dr. Ruoqing Zhu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Title : “A parsimonious personalized dose finding model via dimension reduction”

Thursday, September 19, 2019, 1:00-1:50 PM, RB 447
Dr. Derek Kane (DEKA Research & Development)
Title: “Memento mori”

Thursday, October 17, 2019, 1:00-1:50 PM, RB 447
Dr. Adam Jaeger (Wichita State University)
Title: “Computational Challenges of Empirical Likelihood”

Thursday, October 24, 2019, 1:00-1:50 PM, RB 447
Dr. Honghao Gao (Michigan State University)
Title: “Link invariants from contact topology”

Thursday, October 31, 2019, 1:00-1:50, RB 447
Dr. Scott Zimmerman (University of Connecticut) 
Title: “Whitney Extension Theorems in the Heisenberg group”

Thursday, October 31, 2019, 1:00-1:50 PM, RB 447
Dr. Scott Zimmerman (University of Connecticut) 
Title: “Whitney Extension Theorems in the Heisenberg group”

Thursday, November 14, 2019, 1:00-1:50 PM, RB 447
Dr. John Lorch (Ball State University)
Title: “Factor-Pair Latin Squares”

Thursday, November 21, 2019, 1:00-1:50 PM, RB 447
Dr. Munni Begum (Ball State University)
Title: “Biomarker Identification using Biologically Informative Weights and Gene Mutation Profiles for Differential Treatment Effects”