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.
Fall 2018
| August 31 | Michael Wakin Colorado School of Mines |
| September 14 | Michael Scheuerer National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) |
| September 28 | Kathryn Colborn CU Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus |
| October 12 | Philippe Naveau Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, IPSL-CNRS, France |
| October 26 | Carrie Manore Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| November 2 | Jon Trevelyan Durham University, UK |
| November 9 | Sarah Olson Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| November 30 | Elwin van't Wout Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile |
| December 7 | Bruce Bugbee National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) |
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 Video |
| May 4 | Ian Sloan University of New South Wales Mathematics Video |
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 Video |
| 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 |