Pitt AWM Student Seminar Series

Starting in 2021, the University of Pittsburgh AWM Chapter hosts the Pitt AWM Student Seminar Series, held on the first Fridays of each month at 4:45pm. Every meeting features two 30 minute long talks by female PhD students, each presenting the speaker's research outcomes. Our seminar is hoped to give a platform to female students-researchers, to promote the spirit of collegiality and collaboration, and to recognize the hard work of students during the pandemic time and beyond.

Talks are video-recorded and made available on our Youtube Channel (subject to each speaker's permission).

If you wish to give a talk, please reach out to Farjana Siddiqua at: fas41@pitt.edu

Seminars are held virtually on Zoom. Meeting id: 96524480571. Password: awmpitt.

In order to keep the seminar space safe and professional, we respectfully request that all the participants identify themselves with their real names when connected via Zoom.

Seminars in Spring 2023:

February 17, 2023

4:45pm

Shiyue Li (PhD Student) 

Brown University

Equivariant log-concavity of independent sequences of claw-free graphs

(VIDEO)

February 17, 2023

5:15pm


Sining Gong (PhD Student) 

Brown University

Convergence of Lagrange FEM for Maxwell Eigenvalue Problem in 3D

(VIDEO)

March 17, 2023

4:45pm

Kamrun Nahar Keya (PhD Student) 

Arizona State University

Directed diffusion in population dynamics with Allee effect

(VIDEO)

March 17, 2023

5:15pm

Alice Marveggio (PhD Student) 

Institute of Science and Technology, Austria

Approximation of multiphase mean curvature flow by means of the Allen-Cahn phase field model

(VIDEO)

April 21, 2023

4:45pm

Sarah Griffith-Siqueira (PhD Student) 

Brown University

TBD

(VIDEO)

April 21, 2023

5:15pm

Jenita Jahangir (PhD Student) 

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

A discrete time stage structured model for host parasitoid interaction with pest management strategy

(VIDEO)

May 19, 2023

4:45pm

Elisa Vitale (PhD Student) 

International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy 

TBD

(VIDEO)

May 19, 2023

5:15pm

Valentina Bais (PhD Student) 

International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy 

On Stiefel's parallelizability theorem for closed 3 manifolds

(VIDEO)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Seminars in Fall 2022:

October 7, 2022

4:45pm

Charlotte Beckford (PhD Student) 

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Hybrid model of winter tick epizootics in moose

(VIDEO)

October 7, 2022

5:15pm

Natalie Wellen (PhD Student) 

University of Washington

K-Spectral Sets

-- Talk Cancelled --

November 4, 2022

4:45pm

Jenny Power (PhD Student) 

University of Bath, UK

Making Cancer Treatments Safer with Math: Optimal Control for Brachytherapy Radiation Problems

(VIDEO)

November 4, 2022

5:15pm

Lin Chen (PhD Student) 

Carnegie Mellon University

An optimal mass transport method for random genetic drift problem

(VIDEO)

December 2, 2022

4:45pm

Leah (Kaisler) LeJeune (PhD Student) 

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Effect of cross-immunity in a multi-scale cholera model

(VIDEO)

December 2, 2022

5:15pm

Melinda Kleczynski (PhD Student) 

University of Delaware

The Construction and Interpretation of Pollination Resource Complexes

(VIDEO)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Seminars in Spring 2022:

February 4, 2022

4:45pm

Rebecca Durst (PhD Student) 

Brown University

Loosely coupled time-splitting methods based on Robin-Robin interface conditions

(VIDEO)

February 4, 2022

5:15pm


Kiera Kean (PhD Student) 

University of Pittsburgh

On the Prandtl-Kolmogorov 1-Equation model

(VIDEO)

March 4, 2022

4:45pm

Vaishavi Sharma (PhD Student) 

Tulane University

Arithmetic properties of the divisor function

(VIDEO)

March 4, 2022

5:15pm

Rimjhim Tomar (PhD Student) 

Czech Academy of Sciences

The neural coding problem and the role of instantaneous firing rate

 

April 8, 2022

4:45pm

Himani Sharma (PhD Student) 

Australian National University

Boundedness of certain square functions

(VIDEO)

April 8, 2022

5:15pm

Emily Winn (PhD Student) 

Brown University 

Revisiting the effect size analogue for variable selection in nonlinear regression.

(VIDEO)

May 13, 2022

4:45pm

Elisa Bellah (PhD Student) 

University of Oregon 

Lifts of Markoff triples mod p

(VIDEO)

May 13, 2022

5:15pm

Sushmita John (PhD Student) 

University of Pittsburgh 

Slow negative feedback enhances robustness of square-wave bursting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seminars in Fall 2021:

October 1, 2021

4:45pm

Xing Wang (PhD Student) 

University of Pittsburgh

Analysis of the fully coupled Stokes-Biot-Transport problem and its applications

(VIDEO)

October 1, 2021

5:15pm

Yixuan Wang (PhD Student) 

University of Pittsburgh

Strong solution for compressible liquid crystal system with random force

(VIDEO)

November 5, 2021

4:45pm

Lauren Niu (PhD Student) 

Harvard University

The mechanics and geometry of sheets and shells

 

November 5, 2021

5:15pm

Sahiba Arora (PhD Student) 

Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany

An operator theoretic approach to uniform (anti-)maximum principles

(VIDEO)

December 3, 2021

4:45pm

Maria Strazzullo (PhD Student) 

SISSA, Trieste, Italy

The role of optimal control in bifurcating phenomena: an application to Navier-Stokes equations

(VIDEO)

December 3, 2021

5:15pm

Xihui Xie (PhD Student) 

University of Pittsburgh

New ideas for penalty method

(VIDEO)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Seminars in Spring 2021:

February 12, 2021

4:45pm

Nupur Patanker (PhD Student) 

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India

Hamming weights and other parameters of certain families of linear codes 

(VIDEO)

February 12, 2021

5:15pm

Sanjana Agarwal (PhD student)

Indiana University, Bloomington

A brief glimpse into configuration spaces of graphs

(VIDEO)

March 12, 2021

4:45pm

Grishma Palkar (MSc)

University of Pittsburgh

Understanding the effect of inhibition on the traveling waves in a neural network

(VIDEO)

March 12, 2021

5:15pm

Papri Dey (PhD)

University of Missouri-Columbia

Real degeneracy loci of matrices and their configurations

(VIDEO)

April 9, 2021

4:45pm

Nicole Buczkowski (PhD student)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Stability of nonlocal systems

(VIDEO)

April 9, 2021

5:15pm

Christine Vaughan (PhD student)

Iowa State University

An entropy-consistent quadrature-based moment closure for the Vlasov-Poisson system

May 14, 2021

4:45pm

Agata Lonc (MSc student)

University of Warsaw, Poland

Mathematical modelling of bacteria spreading in the inter-hospital network

(VIDEO)

May 14, 2021

5:15pm

Hayley Olson (PhD student)

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Investigating nonlinear diffusion in the nonlocal vector calculus framework

(VIDEO)

June 11, 2021

4:45pm

Tongtong Li (PhD student)

University of Pittsburgh

A new fully mixed formulation for the Stokes-Biot model

(VIDEO)

June 11, 2021

5:15pm

Anna Sisk (PhD student)

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Epidemic models of violence and network models of food deserts: Looking at community issues through the lens of mathematical modeling

(VIDEO)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Seminar/Colloquia Type:
Academic Year: 
2021
Day of the Week: 
Friday
Frequency: 
Monthly
Location: 
Zoom

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