Colloquia
The Applied Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium takes place at 3 p.m. on Fridays in Chauvenet 143. Come get a seat and refreshments 15 minutes prior to the talk.
View colloquium videos on YouTube.
Spring 2018
| March 2 | Grant Brown University of Iowa Biostatistics Video |
| March 9 | Victoria Booth University of Michigan Mathematics Video |
| March 23 | Daniel Appelö University of Colorado Applied Math Video |
| April 6 | Grad Student Showcase Video |
| April 20 | Jem Corcoran University of Colorado Applied Math |
| May 4 | Ian Sloan University of New South Wales Mathematics |
Fall 2017
| August 25 | Zachary Kilpatrick University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Applied Mathematics Evidence accumulation in changing environments: Neurons, organisms, and groups |
| September 8 | Lincoln Carr Colorado School of Mines, Department of Physics Video |
| September 22 | Joe Guinness North Carolina State University, Department of Statistics Video |
| October 13 | Eliot Fried Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Mathematics, Mechanics, and Materials Unit |
| October 20 | Arthur Sherman National Institutes of Health Video |
| November 3 | Adrianna Gillman Rice University, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics Video |
| November 17 | Laura Miller University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Departments of Mathematics and Biology Video |
| December 1 | AMS Graduate Student Showcase Video |
Spring 2017
| January 13 | Roger Ghanem University of Southern California, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Uncertainty quantification at the interface of computing and everything else Special joint colloquium with Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| January 27 | Wolfgang Bangerth Colorado State University, Department of Mathematics Simulating complex flows in the Earth mantle Video |
| February 10 | Chris Mast Mercer, Actuary and Employee Benefits Consultant Actuarial problems in employer-sponsored healthcare Video |
| February 24 | Natasha Flyer National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational Math Group Bengt Fornberg University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Applied Mathematics Radial basis functions: Freedom from meshes in scientific computing Video |
| March 10 | Michael Sprague National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Computational Science Center A computational model for a dilute biomass suspension undergoing mixing and settling Video |
| March 24 | Randall J. LeVeque University of Washington, Department of Applied Mathematics Generating random earthquakes for probabilistic hazard assessment Special joint colloquium with US Geological Survey Video |
| April 7 | Fred J. Hickernell Illinois Institute of Technology, Department of Applied Mathematics Think like an applied mathematician and a statistician Video |
| April 14 | Ian Sloan University of New South Wales, School of Mathematics How high is high dimensional? Video |
| April 21 | Mark Embree Virginia Tech, Department of Mathematics Using interpolatory approximations to learn from an instrumented building Video |
| April 28 | James A. Warren National Institute of Standards and Technology, Material Measurement Laboratory The Materials Genome Initiative: NIST, data, and open science Video Special joint colloquium with Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering |
| May 5 | Jessica F. Ellis Colorado State University, Department of Mathematics The features of college calculus programs: An overview of the MAA two calculus projects' main findings Video |
Fall 2016
| September 2 | Stephen Becker University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Applied Mathematics Subsampling large datasets via random mixing Video |
| September 16 | Art Owen Stanford University, Department of Statistics Permutation p-value approximation via generalized Stolarsky invariance Video |
| September 30 | Stefan Wild Argonne National Laboratory, Mathematics and Computer Science Division Beyond the black box in derivative-free and simulation-based optimization Video |
| October 14 | Erica Graham Bryn Mawr College, Department of Mathematics Modeling physiological and pathological mechanisms in ovulation Video |
| October 28 | Jim Koehler Google Boulder, Principal Statistician Statistical methods supporting Google's ad business |
| November 11 | Dennis Cook University of Minnesota, School of Statistics An Introduction to envelopes: Methods for improving efficiency in multivariate statistics Video |
| December 2 | Howard Elman University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science Efficient computational methods for parameterized partial differential equations Video |