Seminar

What is Seminar?

The Mathematics Program has two seminars: The Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar, and the Graduate Mathematics Seminar.  The seminars consist of invited lectures on contemporary mathematics and applications of mathematics to other areas of study and life. Topics have included mathematics education, physics, mathematics research, and interdisciplinary applications of mathematics, like biological and ecological mathematical modeling.

The Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar is held during Math 499: Senior Colloquium, 4:30-5:20PM, on certain days (see the schedule below).  The Math 599: Graduate Mathematics Seminar is held every Monday 6:00-7:00PM.  Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, seminar talks will be done virtually. All mathematics students and faculty will obtain the Zoom links and passwords internally via email. If you need the link, please email Dr. Alona Kryshchenko at alona.kryshchenko@csuci.edu for the graduate seminar (Math 599) and Dr. Ivona Grzegorczyk at ivona.grzegorczyck@csuci.edu for the undergraduate seminar (Math 499). Please see check back periodically. Everyone is invited to attend! 

The Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar is sponsored by Instructional Related Activities Funds.

What are the strengths of this series?

The seminars give our students the opportunity to see math at work. There is a good portion of our enrolled undergraduates that are interested in teaching. While we make sure to bring in speakers that discuss mathematics education, we also want our students to experience other fields. We do so by exposing them to the careers in mathematical research, academia, and industry via our speakers. Our students have the opportunity to follow up with the speakers if they wish, thus widening their network. 

Visit for upcoming Spring 2021 talks:

Spring 2021 Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar

Spring 2021 Graduate Mathematics Seminar

• May 3, 2021: "Analysis and Prediction of Sales Data Using Parametric and Non-Parametric Methods" by Dr. Oleksandra Kollie, Kyive National University of Taras Shevchenko
• April 26, 2021: "Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases" by Dr. Qimin Huang, Case Western Reserve University
• April 19, 2021: "Evaluating the Probability of Outbreak and Spillover in Stochastic Epidemic Model" by Dr. Aadrita Nandi, University of Michigan Medical School.
• April 12, 2021: "Self-assembly in Chromonic Liquid Cyrstals" by Dr. Lidia Mrad, Mount Holyoke College 
• April 5, 2021: "Analysis and Control of Porous Media Flows with Applications in Ocular Perfusion" by Dr. Lorena Bociu, NCSU
• March 29, 2021: "Krylov subspace methods as a tool to solve large-scale inverse problems and estimate maximum a posteriori for non-Gaussian noise" by Dr. Mirjeta Pasha, ASU
• March 22, 2021: "Quotients of Primes in a Number Ring" by Dr. Brian Sittinger, CSUCI
• March 8, 2021: "Coherent Sheaves and Vector Bundles" by Ricardo Suarez, University of Turin grad
• March 1, 2021: "Modeling and Simulation in Drug Development" by Dr. Malidi Ahamadi, AMGEN
• February 22, 2021: "Bifurcation and Sensitivity Analysis in a Model of Macrophage Polarization" by Dr. Hwayeon Ryu, Elon University
• February 15, 2021: "Re-Imaging the World with Linear Algebra" by Dr. Malena Español, Arizona State University
• February 8, 2021: "Introduction to the Literature Review Essay for Mathematics Graduate Students" by Dr. Sohui Lee, CSUCI Writing & Multiliteracy Center Faculty Director
• February 1, 2021: "Using Mathematics to Understand Biology" by Dr. Rebecca Segal, Virginia Commonwealth University

Past seminars:

Fall 2020 Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar

Fall 2020 Graduate Mathematics Seminar

• November 30, 2020: "The Distribution and Moments for the GCD of Ideals in the Gaussian Integers" by Jordan Kinberg, CSUCI grad student
• November 23, 2020: "Parameter Estimation: An Alternative POV" by Dr. Delil Martinez, California Lutheran University
• November 16, 2020: "Sum of Squares Residues Formulas" by Dr. Jorge Garcia, CSUCI
• November 9, 2020: "Learning Interaction Laws in Multi-Agent Systems from Data" by Dr. Sui Tang, UCSB
• November 2, 2020: "Fitting Small Neural Net Models to 'PL-Smoohtly' Interpolate Data Sets: Examples" by Dr. Linda Ness, DIMACS Center at Rutgers
• October 26, 2020: "Smokey the Beaver: Can beaver dams keep riparian corridors green during wildfire?" by Dr. Emily Fairfax, CSUCI ESRM
• October 19, 2020: "Initial and boundary value problems for the deterministic and stochastic Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation in a bounded domain" by Dr. Chuntien Wang, University of Alabama
• October 12, 2020: "Clifford Algebras and Their Representations" by Ricardo Suarez, University of Turin, Italy
• October 5, 2020: "Extensions of the Riemann Hypothesis" by Dr. Jesse Elliott, CSUCI
• September 28, 2020: "Model-Informed Precision Dosing" by Dr. Michael Neely, CHLA Infectious Diseases
• September 21, 2020: "Analyzing COVID-19 Twitter Dynamics Using Nonnegative Matrix and Tensor Decompositions" by Lara Kassab, PhD candidate, Colorado State University
• September 14, 2020: "The Curse of the 5th Postulate" by Dr. Oleg Gleizer, UCLA

Spring 2020 Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar

Spring 2020 Graduate Mathematics Seminar

• May 11, 2020: Masters Thesis Presentations (MS Word, 144KB)
• May 4, 2020: "Randomized Kaczmarz for Tensors" by Dr. Anna Ma, UCI
• April 27, 2020: "Shape Synthesis Using Structure-Aware Reasoning and Medical Applications" by Dr. Elena Sizikova, NYU
• April 20, 2020: "Learning with Difference-of-Convex Sparsity Functions" by Dr. Miju Ahn, Southern Methodist University
• April 13, 2020: "Nearly Optimal Adaptive Tests for Object Detection" by Dr. Grigory Sokolov, Xavier University
• April 6, 2020: "Stochastic Algorithms in Signal Processing and Their Application to Medical Image Reconstruction" by Dr. Rachel Grotheer, Goucher College
• March 30, 2020: "Modewise methods for tensor dimension reduction" by Dr. Elizaveta Rebrova, UCLA 
• March 9, 2020: "On Theoretical Aspects of Nonlocal Helmholtz Decomposition of a Vector Field" by Dr. Cynthia Flores, CSUCI
• March 2, 2020: "Resume Bootcamp: Preparing for the Job Market" by Dr. Megan Kenny Feister, CSUCI Communications
• February 24, 2020: "How to count pries without counting primes" by Dr. Jesse Elliott, CSUCI
• February 17, 2020: "Monoid Comprehensions in the Structure and Optimization of Computer Programs" by Dr. Daniel Brice, CSUCI
• February 10, 2020: "Infinity Topoi and Non-Commutative Iwasawa Theory" by Shanna Dobson, CSULA
• February 3, 2020: by Gangyong Lee, Chungnam National University  

Fall 2019 Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar

• October 7, 2019: "Quaternion Algebra" by Ricardo Suarez, CSUCI

Fall 2019 Graduate Mathematics Seminar

• December 2, 2019: "Waves, Nonlinear Waves, Solitons" by Dr. Tuncay Aktosun, UT Arlington
• November 25, 2019: Graduate student presentations by Joan Kim and Thomas LaGrange
• November 18, 2019: "From Quantum Matrices to Totally Nonnegative Matrices" by Dr. Karel Casteels, UCSB
• November 4, 2019: "Mathematical Modeling in Sleep Dynamics and Epidemiology" by Dr. Selenne Bañuelos, CSUCI
• October 28, 2019: "Rational Points on Curves" by Dr. Özlem Ejder, Colorado State University
• October 21, 2019: "The Untwisting Number of a Knot" by Dr. Kenan Ince, Westminster College
• October 14, 2019: "Multimodal Human-Robot Interaction" by Dr. Bahareh Abbasi, CSUCI CompSci
• October 7, 2019: "A Guided Safari Tour of Programming Languages for Math" by Dr. Scott Feister, CSUCI CompSci
• September 30, 2019: "Injecting Spatial Reasoning in Vector Calculus" by Monica Mendoza, PhD candidate, UCSB
• September 23, 2019: "Mathematical Approaches to Ancient History" by Dr. Tatiana Tatarinova, University of La Verne
• September 16, 2019: "Analyzing Hybrid Randomized and Greedy Projection Methods" by Dr. Jaime Haddock, UCLA
• September 9, 2019: "Modeling of thin liquid films flowing down a cylindrical fiber - experiments and applications" by Dr. Claudia Falcon, UCLA

Spring 2019 Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar in Sierra Hall 1411

• April 8, 2019: "Fitting Classical Mathematical Models to Small Data Sets from Lewis Lung and Human Breast Carcinomas" by Dr. Judith Canner, CSU Monterey Bay
• February 18, 2019: "Fractals, Dimensions, and Pascal's Triangle" by Kevin Howe, CSU Channel Islands
• February 11, 2019: "Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves" by Dr. Brittany Kamai, Cal Tech

Spring 2019 Graduate Mathematics Seminar in Sierra Hall 2411

• April 29, 2019: "Detect Oral Cancer with a Computer" by Dr. Vladimir Makarov, CSU Channel Islands
• April 22, 2019: "Enumerating Diagonalizable Matrices" by Dr. Brian Sittinger, CSU Channel Islands
• April 15, 2019: "The Secret behind the Squiggles: A Guitar with Optimally Curved Frets" by Dr. Jordan Schettler, San Jose State University
• April 8, 2019: "The effect of Statistical Error Model Formulation on the Fit and Selection of Mathematical Models of Tumor Growth for Small Sample Sizes" by Dr. Judith Canner, CSU Monterey Bay
• March 25, 2019: "Skein Relations and Knot Theory: from Topology to DNA" by Dr. Crombecque, University of Southern California
• March 11, 2019: "Mathematics in Sabbatical-land: Rings, Closures, and Prime Numbers" by Dr. Jesse Elliott, CSU Channel Islands
• March 5, 2019: "Deep learning in LiDAR and how mathematical ideas can help us in machine learning" by Dr. Francis Patricia Medina, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Please open flyer for different time and location)
• February 25, 2019: "Determination of the Shape of a Human Vocal Tract from Speech Sounds" by Dr. Tuncay Aktosun, University of Texas at Arlington
• February 18, 2019: "Cyberthreats: what can a mathematician do about it?" by Dr. Michael Soltys, CSU Channel Islands 
• February 11, 2019: "How do we capture more gravitational wave events from Earth?" by Dr. Brittany Kamai, Cal Tech
• February 4, 2019: "Using Mathematics in Service of Conservation: Matrices and Sea Turtles" by Dr. Jason Miller, CSU Channel Islands 

Fall 2018 Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar

Fall 2018 Graduate Mathematics Seminar

• October 15, 2018: "" by Dr. Melike Sirlanci, Cal Tech
• October 8, 2018: "" by Dr. Christopher Ograin, UCSB
• October 1, 2018: "" by Dr. Jeffrey Stopple, UCSB
• September 24, 2018: "" by Dr. Delil Martinez, Cal Lutheran University
• September 17, 2018: "" by Demirkaya Emre, USC
• September 10, 2018: "" by Dr. Cynthia Flores, CSUCI

Spring 2018 Semester Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar

• April 9, 2018: "Modeling of an Alcohol Biosensor Problem with Numerical Results" by Melike Sirlanci, USC
• March 26, 2018: "The Beauty of Mathematics and Its Reflections in Everyday Life" by Jarmila Nguyen, CSU Channel Islands
• March 12, 2018: "Case Studies in Predictive Modeling Applications in Health Care" by Dr. Vladimir Makarov, CSU Channel Islands
• March 12, 2018: "Case Studies in Predictive Modeling Applications in Health Care" by Dr. Vladimir Makarov, CSU Channel Islands
• March 5, 2018: "Computational Biology: Student International Research Experience" by Dr. Tatiana Tatarinova, La Verne
• February 26, 2018: "What Should a Digital Microscope Do?" by Dr. Brian Rasnow, CSU Channel Islands and Etaluma Inc.
• February 12, 2018: "Linear Representations using the Left Multiplication Map" by Ricardo Suarez, University of Madrid

Fall 2017 Semester Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar

• November 20,2017: "Student Presentations" (PDF, 1.007MB) by  Kayla Roberts, Natalie Huerta, Marie Conteras, Roberts Arotunian, Ty, Cesar Manzo, Dale Perrizolo, David Lary, Luke Burgess, and James Kovacs, CSU Channel Islands
• October 23, 2017: "An overview of community detection algorithms on graphs" by Dr. Vitalii Ostrovskyi, Omaze
• October 9, 2017: "Understanding Pre-College Student Attitudes toward STEM through Statistical Methods" by Dr. Alana Unfried, CSU Monterey Bay
• September 25, 2017: "Calculus on fractals" by Andrea Arauz, PhD candidate at UC Riverside
• September 18, 2017: "Identifying Bats with Mathematics" by Dr. Jason Miller, CSU Channel Islands

Spring 2017 Semester Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar

• April 17,2017: "Asking Good Questions: Thinking Mathematically is your Super Power!" (PDF, 1MB) by Dr. Cynthia Wyels, CSU Channel Islands
• March 13,2017: "Maximizing Brain Potential for Success in Mathematics" (PDF, 705KB) by Jarmila Nguyen, CSU Channel Islands
• March 6,2017: "Newton-type Methods for Unconstrained Optimization" (PDF, 2MB) by Dr. Melisa Hendrata, CSU Los Angeles
• February  20,2017: "Central Schemes for Nonlinear PDEs: Implementation, Applications, and Visualizations" (PDF, 7.3MB) by Dr. Jorge Balbas, CSU Northridge
• January 30, 2017: "Climb the Highest Mountain: A Review of Numerical Optimizations Techniques" (PDF, 303KB) by Dr. William Southwell, Brigham Young University

Fall 2016 Semester Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar

• November 21, 2016: "Three Ways of Generalizing Unique Factorization Domains" (PDF, 492KB) by Dr. Hwankoo Kim, Hoseo University
• October 10, 2016: "An In Depth Look At Our Old Friend: The Exponential Function y = eax"  (PDF, 259KB) by Dr. Alicia Machuca, Texas Women's University
• September 19, 2016: " An Introduction into Fractal Geometry" (PDF, 264KB) by Dr. John Rock, Cal Poly Pomona

Spring 2016 Semester Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar

• April 25, 2016: “Mathematical Meanings: An investigation into ways of thinking about average rate of change and consequences for teaching” (PDF, 228KB) by Dr. Stacy M. Musgrave, Cal Poly Pomona
• April 18, 2016: “Serial Killers, Chaos and Careers in Mathematics”(PDF, 2.4MB) by Talena Williamson, Amgen
• March 28, 2016: “The Interlace Polynomial of the Friendship Graph”(PDF, 1.7MB) by Dr. Christina Eubanks Turner, Loyola Marymount University
• March 7, 2016: “Upscaling Discrete to Continuous Mathematical Models (and other interesting things in Mathematical Biology)”(PDF, 242KB) by Dr. Alicia Prieto Langarica, Youngstown State University
• February 27, 2016: "Making the Infinite Seem Finite: Origins and Applications of Projective Geometry" (PDF, 170KB) by Dr. J. Brooke Ernest, Cal State University Channel Islands
• February 8, 2016: “Isomorphisms in Mathematics”(PDF, 232KB) by Dr. Alfonso Zamora Saiz, CI
• February 1, 2016: “Mathemagics and Card Tricks”(PDF, 185KB) by Dr. Jorge Garcia, CI

Fall 2015 Semester Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar

• November 4, 2015: “Modeling Shapes with Skeletal Fragments”(PDF, 290KB) by Dr. Kathryn Leonard, CI
• October 7, 2015: “Pathways to Careers in the Medical and Health Professions”(PDF, 385KB) by Dr. Gary Sayed, Cal State Dominguez Hills
• September 30, 2015: “The Lind-Lehmer Constant for Cyclic groups of order less than 892,371,480”(PDF, 272KB) by Dr. Vincent Pigno, CSU Sacramento
• September 23, 2015: “Contact Geometry: A 21st Century Geometry”(PDF, 323KB) by Bahar Acu, graduate student at USC
• September 9, 2015: “Research topics for graduate study in Biostatistics”(PDF, 230KB) by Matt Dawson, graduate student at UC Davis

Spring 2015 Semester Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar

• April 22, 2015: “From the White Elephant Game to Congressional Committee Assignments; Valuing Traded Goods(PDF, 130KB)
• April 15, 2015: “Twenty First Century Learners”(PDF, 222KB) by Veronica M. Solorzano
• April 8, 2015: “Si, Se Puede: Four “(PDF, 596KB) Drs. Alicia Prieto Langarica (Youngstown State University), Pamela Harris (West Point Academy), Selenne Bañuelos (CI), Cynthia Flores (CI)
• February 18, 2015: “Ingress and Graph Theory”(PDF, 140KB) by Dr. Roger Roybal, CI
• February 11, 2015: “What happens when we Sin over and over, without end?”(PDF, 219KB) by Dr. Christopher Towse
• February 4, 2015: “Making the Infinite Seem Finite”(PDF, 438KB) by J. Brooke Ernest