The Department of Mathematics initiated the Mathematics in Science and Society (MSS) lecture series in 1995 to improve connections between mathematics other science departments. MSS colloquia range over a broad spectrum of topics in connections and interactions of mathematics with other scholarly disciplines and other aspects of the society in general.
Fall 2018
September 18, 2018
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 pm
Speaker: Eliot Fried (Mathematics, Mechanics, and Materials Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University)
Title: Möbius kaleidocycles: a new class of everting ring linkages
Abstract | Poster
Host: Anil Hirani
October 16, 2018
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 pm
Speaker: Emilie Purvine (Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
Title: Applications of topology for information fusion
Abstract | Poster
Host: Anil Hirani
October 23, 2018
245 Altgeld Hall, 4:00 pm
Speaker: Reinhard C. Laubenbacher (University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine)
Title: Multi-scale mathematical models of disease
Abstract | Poster
Host: Philippe Tondeur
