Starting in 2021, the University of Pittsburgh AWM Chapter hosts the Pitt AWM Student Seminar Series, held on a Friday 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. There have been more than 50 talks so far!
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 Rui Fang at: ruf10@pitt.edu
Talks are held virtually on Zoom. Meeting id: 886 611 5513. 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.
The Association for Women in Mathematics has selected the University of Pittsburgh’s Student Chapter as the winner of the 2023 AWM Student Chapter Award for Scientific Excellence. The citation recognizes our seminar: "The AWM Student Chapter at University of Pittsburgh is recognized for a number of endeavors, especially “Pitt AWM Student Seminar Series.” This monthly series features two 30-minute talks from female graduate students from around the world, is attended by faculty and students, and is made publicly available on YouTube. The seminar series has featured 38 speakers since 2021. This seminar series represents a significant organizational undertaking and makes an important contribution to the research community."
Upcoming Seminars in Fall 2025:
September 12, 20254:45pm |
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October 17, 20254:45pm |
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November 7, 20254:45pm |
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December 5, 20254:45pm |
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Seminars in Spring 2025:
January 17, 20254:45pm |
Camille Godin (PhD Student) Université d’Ottawa, Canada |
Controlling brain oscillations with transcranial electrical stimulation: A computational framework |
January 17, 20255:15pm |
Johanna Ulvedal Marstrander (PhD Student) Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway |
Numerical analysis of Fourier spectral methods for systems modeling water waves |
February 21, 20254:45pm |
Evangelia Ftaka (PhD Student) North Carolina State University |
Piecewise smooth solutions to scalar balance laws with singular nonlocal sources |
February 21, 20255:15pm |
Skylyn Irby (PhD Student) University of Alabama |
Investigating A STEM Retention Program Participant’s Sense of Belonging in Mathematics |
March 14, 20254:45pm |
Tatyana Benko (PhD Student) University of Oregon |
Double boxes and double dimers |
March 14, 20255:15pm |
Halley Fritze (PhD Student) University of Oregon |
Topological exploration through higher-dimensional mapper graphs |
April 11, 20254:45pm |
Rachel Morris (PhD Student) North Carolina State University |
Uniform convergence guarantees for adversarially robust learning |
April 11, 20255:15pm |
Allison Cruikshank (PhD Student) Duke University |
Sex differences in liver cell metabolism and their consequences |
Seminars in Fall 2024:
September 20, 20244:45pm |
Akshara Vincent (PhD Student) University of Pittsburgh |
Mappings minimizing the Lp norm of the gradient |
September 20, 20245:15pm |
Yutong Duan (PhD Student) University of Illinois at Chicago |
How to prove strong minimality of Lotka-Volterra (Iv6) equation |
October 18, 20244:45pm |
Kimberlyn Eversman (PhD Student) University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
A multiscale mixed modeling framework of parasitoid wasp and host dispersal |
October 18, 20245:15pm |
Farjana Siddiqua (Visiting Assistant Professor) Georgia Institute of Technology |
Numerical analysis of a corrected Smagorinsky model |
November 15, 20244:45pm |
Aashi Dalal (PhD Student) University of Pittsburgh |
A Robin-Robin splitting method for the Stokes-Biot fluid-poroelastic structure interaction model |
November 15, 20245:15pm |
Jagerynn Verano (PhD Student) University of Illinois at Chicago |
Locally convex immersions of complexes of groups |
December 13, 20244:45pm |
Anusrika Dattta (PhD Student) University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
The introduction to the Drury Arveson spase and its multipliers |
December 13, 20245:15pm |
Manaswinee Bezbaruah (PhD Student) Texas A&M University |
Shape and eigenvalue optimization of microstructures governed by Maxwell's equations |
Seminars in Spring 2024:
February 2, 20244:45pm |
Thamarai Venkatachalam (PhD Student) Imperial College London, UK |
Minimal model program and the classification of fanos |
February 2, 20245:15pm |
Samantha Brozak (PhD Student) Arizona State University |
Integrating wastewater surveillance with dynamic modeling to track and predict viral outbreaks |
March 1, 20244:45pm |
Mariya Savinov (PhD Student) Courant Institute, New York University |
Modeling the cytoskeleton: how friction can guide its dynamics |
March 1, 20245:15pm |
Anna Thomas (PhD Student) University of Pittsburgh |
Computational model of Basal Ganglia projections to Brainstem in long-term motor recovery in Parkinson’s Disease |
April 5, 20244:45pm |
Bilyana Tzolova (PhD Student) Rice University, Texas |
Modelling the flow and transport of TACE treatments in the liver organ |
April 5, 20245:15pm |
Lei Wei (PhD Student) Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China |
The dispersion problem of the Schrodinger equation with magnetic potential |
May 3, 20244:45pm |
Katherine Booth (PhD Student) Georgia Institute of Technology |
Recovering surface maps from automorphisms of fine curve graphs |
May 3, 20245:15pm |
Marilin Guerrero (MSc Student) University of Puerto Rico |
The inhomogeneous diffusion equation of Wentzell type with discontinuous data |
Seminars in Fall 2023:
September 8, 20234:45pm |
Jenita Jahangir (PhD Student) University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
A discrete time stage structured model for host parasitoid interaction with pest control |
September 8, 20235:15pm |
Rui Fang (PhD Student) University of Pittsburgh |
Ensemble Monte Carlo penalty finite element method for the Navier-Stokes equations with random forcing and initial conditions |
October 13, 20234:45pm |
Alice Merz (PhD Student) Università di Pisa, Italy |
On Markov theorem for knots with symmetries |
October 13, 20235:15pm |
Rachael Alfant (PhD Student) Rice University |
A stochastic nonlinear programming approach to pricing in the cloud |
November 10, 20234:45pm |
Arnaja Mitra (PhD Student) University of Texas at Dallas |
Equivariant global Hopf bifurcation in abstract nonlinear parabolic problems |
November 10, 20235:15pm |
Isabel Barrio Sanchez (PhD Student) University of Pittsburgh |
New Re-redistribution Scheme for Weighted State Redistribution with Adaptive Mesh Refinement |
December 8, 20234:45pm |
Truöl Paula (Postdoc) Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany |
Knot concordance and notions of braid positivity |
December 8, 20235:15pm |
Agnese Mantione (PhD Student) University of Münster, Germany |
Introduction to G2-holonomy |
Seminars in Spring 2023:
February 17, 20234:45pm |
Shiyue Li (PhD Student) Brown University |
Equivariant log-concavity of independent sequences of claw-free graphs |
February 17, 20235:15pm |
Brown University |
Convergence of Lagrange FEM for Maxwell Eigenvalue Problem in 3D |
March 17, 20234:45pm |
Kamrun Nahar Keya (PhD Student) Arizona State University |
Directed diffusion in population dynamics with Allee effect |
March 17, 20235:15pm |
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 |
April 21, 20234:45pm |
Sarah Griffith-Siqueira (PhD Student) Brown University |
The Torelli theorem for graphs |
May 19, 20234:45pm |
Elisa Vitale (PhD Student) International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy |
Motive of Quot schemes on curves |
May 19, 20235:15pm |
Valentina Bais (PhD Student) International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy |
On Stiefel's parallelizability theorem for closed 3 manifolds |
Seminars in Fall 2022:
October 7, 20224:45pm |
Charlotte Beckford (PhD Student) University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
Hybrid model of winter tick epizootics in moose |
October 7, 20225:15pm |
Natalie Wellen (PhD Student) University of Washington |
K-Spectral Sets -- Talk Cancelled -- |
November 4, 20224:45pm |
Jenny Power (PhD Student) University of Bath, UK |
Making Cancer Treatments Safer with Math: Optimal Control for Brachytherapy Radiation Problems |
November 4, 20225:15pm |
Lin Chen (PhD Student) Carnegie Mellon University |
An optimal mass transport method for random genetic drift problem |
December 2, 20224:45pm |
Leah (Kaisler) LeJeune (PhD Student) University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
Effect of cross-immunity in a multi-scale cholera model |
December 2, 20225:15pm |
Melinda Kleczynski (PhD Student) University of Delaware |
The Construction and Interpretation of Pollination Resource Complexes |
Seminars in Spring 2022:
February 4, 20224:45pm |
Rebecca Durst (PhD Student) Brown University |
Loosely coupled time-splitting methods based on Robin-Robin interface conditions |
February 4, 20225:15pm |
University of Pittsburgh |
On the Prandtl-Kolmogorov 1-Equation model |
March 4, 20224:45pm |
Vaishavi Sharma (PhD Student) Tulane University |
Arithmetic properties of the divisor function |
March 4, 20225:15pm |
Rimjhim Tomar (PhD Student) Czech Academy of Sciences |
The neural coding problem and the role of instantaneous firing rate
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April 8, 20224:45pm |
Himani Sharma (PhD Student) Australian National University |
Boundedness of certain square functions |
April 8, 20225:15pm |
Emily Winn (PhD Student) Brown University |
Revisiting the effect size analogue for variable selection in nonlinear regression. |
May 13, 20224:45pm |
Elisa Bellah (PhD Student) University of Oregon |
Lifts of Markoff triples mod p |
May 13, 20225:15pm |
Sushmita John (PhD Student) University of Pittsburgh |
Slow negative feedback enhances robustness of square-wave bursting
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Seminars in Fall 2021:
October 1, 20214:45pm |
Xing Wang (PhD Student) University of Pittsburgh |
Analysis of the fully coupled Stokes-Biot-Transport problem and its applications |
October 1, 20215:15pm |
Yixuan Wang (PhD Student) University of Pittsburgh |
Strong solution for compressible liquid crystal system with random force |
November 5, 20214:45pm |
Lauren Niu (PhD Student) Harvard University |
The mechanics and geometry of sheets and shells
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November 5, 20215:15pm |
Sahiba Arora (PhD Student) Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany |
An operator theoretic approach to uniform (anti-)maximum principles |
December 3, 20214:45pm |
Maria Strazzullo (PhD Student) SISSA, Trieste, Italy |
The role of optimal control in bifurcating phenomena: an application to Navier-Stokes equations |
December 3, 20215:15pm |
Xihui Xie (PhD Student) University of Pittsburgh |
New ideas for penalty method |
Seminars in Spring 2021:
February 12, 20214:45pm |
Nupur Patanker (PhD Student) Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India |
Hamming weights and other parameters of certain families of linear codes |
February 12, 20215:15pm |
Sanjana Agarwal (PhD student) Indiana University, Bloomington |
A brief glimpse into configuration spaces of graphs |
March 12, 20214:45pm |
Grishma Palkar (MSc) University of Pittsburgh |
Understanding the effect of inhibition on the traveling waves in a neural network |
March 12, 20215:15pm |
Papri Dey (PhD) University of Missouri-Columbia |
Real degeneracy loci of matrices and their configurations |
April 9, 20214:45pm |
Nicole Buczkowski (PhD student) University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Stability of nonlocal systems |
April 9, 20215:15pm |
Christine Vaughan (PhD student) Iowa State University |
An entropy-consistent quadrature-based moment closure for the Vlasov-Poisson system |
May 14, 20214:45pm |
Agata Lonc (MSc student) University of Warsaw, Poland |
Mathematical modelling of bacteria spreading in the inter-hospital network |
May 14, 20215:15pm |
Hayley Olson (PhD student) University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Investigating nonlinear diffusion in the nonlocal vector calculus framework |
June 11, 20214:45pm |
Tongtong Li (PhD student) University of Pittsburgh |
A new fully mixed formulation for the Stokes-Biot model |
June 11, 20215:15pm |
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 |
