The Geosciences Dept. and Class of 60's Speaker Series presents Dr. Sara Seager, MIT, speaking on "Exoplanets and the Search for Life Beyond Earth."

Dr. Bridgid Finn, Senior Research Scientist at ETS, will present "Links between memory, metacognition, and motivation: How remembered success guides achievement choice" on Tuesday, October 18, at 4:15 p.m., in Wachenheim 113.

The Sandpile Group and Self-Organized Criticality by Sameer Khan '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, November 16, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Beauty in the Eye of the Statistician: Statistical Image Properties in Traditional Art, Bad Art, and Abstract Art by Trang Ngo '23, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, November 16, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

The Triple Soap Bubble by Frank Morgan, Atwell Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, Williams College, Mathematics Faculty Seminar, Friday, November 18, 1 - 1:45pm, North Science Building 017, Wachenheim.

The Banach-Tarski Paradox by Michael DeGasperis ’23, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, November 21, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Exploring Midy's Theorem by Sharon Mutoni '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, November 28, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Predicting March Madness Round-of-64 Upsets by Maria Chapman '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, November 30, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Forecasting Inflation: Factor Models and Factor Selection through Shrinkage by Nicholas Langel '23, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, November 30, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

Optimal Control Problems in Binocular Vision by Professor Bhagya Athukorallage, Mathematics Faculty Seminar, Friday, December 2, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 017, Wachenheim.

"The Good Will Hunting Problem: Cayley's Formula for the Number of Trees" by Keith Grossman '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, December 5, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Mathematical Modeling of Athletic Performance: Laplace Transforms, Convolutions, and Influence Curves for Optimizing Performance by Zach Dekko '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, December 7, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113.

Hidden Markov Models, What Are They? And Applications in Speech Recognition by Daniel Lee '23, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, December 7, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

Gluing Associated Prime Ideals of Small Height by Elizabeth Ostermeyer '23, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Monday, December 12, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Getting Sharked! Modeling Depredation Events in Longlining Vessels by Daniel Lee '23, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, February 1, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

This Geosciences sponsored Claiming Williams talk will feature Dr. Anika Daniels-Osaze who will speak on "Social Justice in the STEM fields: How Knowing Our Story Can Enhance True Inclusiveness" on Feb 2 at 2pm in Bronfman Auditorium.

The Discrete Fourier Transform and Applications in Audio Signal Analysis by Matt Wisotsky '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, February 6, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Green's Functions & Quantum Mechanics by Ashraf Dhahbi '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, February 8, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Predicting the Distribution of U.S. Residential Solar Arrays in the U.S. using Zero-Inflated Regression Models by Gracie Guidotti '23, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, February 8, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

"Will Knotoids Solve All Our Problems? (Spoiler: Probably Not All.)" by Prof. Colin Adams, Williams College, Mathematics Faculty Seminar, Friday, February 10, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim Science Center.

Measuring the Centrality of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions by Grady Short '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, February 13, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Verifying Sol LeWitt's "Variations on Incomplete Open Cubes" by Lemmy Evans '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, February 15, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Using Social Network Analysis to Examine the Collective Dynamics of Smoking Behavior by Isabel Arvelo '23, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, February 15, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

The Banzhaf Power Index and Weighted Voting Systems by Annie Lu '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, February 20, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Predicting MLB Win-Loss records by Runs Scored vs Runs Allowed by Brandt Mandia '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, February 22, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Using Statistics to Evaluate the Role of Skill in Daily Fantasy Sports by Shea van den Broek '23, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, February 22, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

The Phase Transition for Percolation in Two Dimensions by Sameer Jain '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, February 27, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Detecting and Correcting Errors in Message Transmission by Jules Walzer-Goldfeld '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, March 1, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Violating a Statistician’s Favorite Assumption: Using Generalized Estimating Equations to Model Correlated, Repeated, or Clustered Multinomial Response Data by Brandon Paguada '23, Statistics Colloquium.

Transboundary Management of Ecological Systems with Applications to Diseases by Prof. Julie Blackwood, Mathematics Faculty Seminar, Friday, March 3, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim.

Modeling the Pressure of an Extreme Ideology on a Society by Maria Crestanello '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, March 6, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Solving the Game of Lights Out Using Linear Algebra by Leyla Kamshad '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, March 8, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Using Super Learning to Predict HIV-1 Drug Resistance by Samuel Liu '23, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, March 8, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

Definable Perfect Matchings by Prof. Jenna Zomback, Williams College, Mathematics Faculty Seminar, Friday, March 10, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim.

Hausdorff Dimension by Therese Belnap ’23, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, March 13, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

On the Outcome map of MVP Parking Functions: Permutations Avoiding 321 and 3412, and Motzkin Paths by Brian Kamau '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, March 15, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Using Supervised Topic Models to Predict Movie Ratings Based on Labelled Text Reviews by Elijah Tamarchenko ’23, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, March 15, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

Malcolm Bellairs '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Sturm-Liouville Equations, Monday, April 3, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Uncovering Group Structures in Western Musical Harmony by Theodore Cohen '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, April 5, 1 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Simple Yet Powerful: The Gibbs Sampler by Catherine Torres '23, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, April 5, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

Math/Stats Faculty Research Showcase and Thesis Information Session, Friday, April 7, 1 - 2:00 pm, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim.

Can a Finite Set of Tiles Generate a Countable Infinity of Tilings? by Lillian Bates '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, April 10, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Dr. Martinque Jones, Assistant Professor in the Counseling Psychology Program at the University of North Texas, will present "Identity, Mental Health & Counseling Processes Among Black Women" on Tues., Apr. 11, at 4:15 p.m., in Wach 113.

Richman Games by Snehadri Das '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, April 12, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Boosting in Supervised Machine Learning by Mohammad Mehdi Mojarradi ’23, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, April 12, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

The Characteristic Polynomial of Several Matrices by Prof. Rongwei Yang, University at Albany, Mathematics Faculty Seminar, Friday, April 14, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim.

Tiling with Dominos by Tommy Coyne '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, April 17, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Innovation in Baseball by Larry Moore, Director, Baseball in the Berkshires Museum, Wednesday, April 19, 10 - 10:50 am, North Science Building 116, Wachenheim.

Tilings and Turing Machines: Computing with Wang Tiles by Mac Carso '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, April 19, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Granger Causality and Lasso Penalty: Nerding Out To The Beautiful Game by Onder Kilinc '23, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, April 19, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

Dr. Lori Markson, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will present "How to Raise an Anti-Racist Child" on Thursday, April 20, at 4:15 p.m., in Wachenheim 113.

Succeeding as a Sabermetrician, Class of 1960s Speaker Bryan Woolley '21, Working with the NY Mets, Friday, April 21, 10 - 10:50 am, North Science Building 116, Wachenheim.

Autoencoders with Time Delay Encoding in Data-Driven Science and Engineering for Reduced Order Modelling by Dr. Neranjaka Jayarathne, Research Associate, Clarkson University Center for Complex Systems Science, Class of 1960s Speaker

The Gamma Function by Nolan Holley '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Monday, April 24, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Infinitely Noncatenary Unique Factorization Domains by Alexandra Bonat '23, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Wednesday, April 26, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Shrinkage: Stein's Paradox by Henry Walsh '23, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, April 26, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

Mathematics Class of 1960s Speaker, Prof. Mikolaj Sierzega, Cornell University, Differential Harnack Bounds for Non-Local and Non-Linear Heat Flows, Friday, April 28, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim.

Low-Lying Zeros of Rankin-Selberg L-Functions by Alexander Shashkov '23, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Monday, May 1, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Tuesday May 2, from 6:30-8:00pm, join faculty and students from the math and stats department in Wachenheim's Frank Morgan Library for the traditional pre-registration ice cream social.

Stochastic Infectious Disease Network Models Can Show the Effectiveness of Prevention Measures by Nathan Hu '23, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Wednesday, May 3, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Sparse Principal Component Analysis and Its Application to Soccer Player Performance Data by Eamon Gara Grady '23, Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, May 3, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

Obtaining Integer Partitions Using the Selmer and Brun Algorithms by Matthew Phang '23, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Friday, May 5, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim.

Multi-Stage “Simultaneous Search” by Chenyang Sun ’23, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Monday, May 8, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Totally Geodesic Spanning Surfaces of Knots and Links in 3-Manifolds by Ben Shapiro ’23, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Wednesday, May 10, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Co-Occurrences of Long COVID Symptoms: An Analysis Using the Ising Model and Nodewise Logistic Regression by Samantha Kilcoyne ’23, Statistics Senior Thesis Defense, Wednesday, May 10, 1:10 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 114, Wachenheim.

A Chain of Knot Invariants by Zachary Romrell ’23, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Friday, May 12, 1 - 1:45 pm, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim.

The Distribution of Class Numbers in a Family of Real Quadratic Fields by Levi Borevitz '23, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Monday, May 15, 1 - 1:40 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Gluing Positive Height Prime Ideals in Complete Local Rings by Jackson Ehrenworth '23, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Monday, May 15, 1:45 - 2:30 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

To Accept or Reject, That is the Question: An Application of the Rejection Method to the Circular Beta Ensemble by Nathan Szeto '23, Mathematics Colloquium, Tuesday, May 16, 1 - 1:40 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Chip-Firing and Critical Groups of Simplicial Complexes by Emily Lindheim-Marx 23, Mathematics Senior Thesis Defense, Tuesday, May 16, 1:45 - 2:30 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Chip-Firing Games and Graph Gonality by Prof. Ralph Morrison, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, June 21, 1 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

When is a Knot Not a Knot? When it is a Knotoid by Prof. Colin Adams, Wednesday, June 28, 1 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Our Quasi-Excellent Summer Adventure by Prof. Susan Loepp, Mathematics Colloquium, Wednesday, July 5, 1 - 1:50 pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim.

Statistics Research Blitz: Networks, Mediation, and Microbiomes, oh my! by Professors Anna Plantinga, Xizhen Cai and Elizabeth Upton, Williams College, Wednesday July 19th, 1:00 PM - 1:50 PM, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim

How Knot to Confuse Proteins: Using Bondles to Catalog Bonded Linear Segments, Tong Gao '24, September 18, 1:00 - 1:50pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim

Dr. Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Head of the Stress Research Institute at Stockholm University in Sweden, will present “Sleep: A Matter of Life and Death” on Monday, September 18, at 4:15 p.m., in Wachenheim 113.

How to Beat the House: Making Money by Winning Every Guessing Game You Play by Danny Klein ‘24, Wednesday September 20, 1:00 - 1:50pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim

Examples of a Non-linear Path of Research, Professor Norean R. Sharpe, Williams College, The Class 1960 Scholars Program, Wednesday July 20, 1:00 - 1:50, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim

On Weak Mixing Properties and Factors of Nonsingular Actions by Cesar Silva, Williams College, Friday September 22, 1:00 - 1:50pm, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim

Traffic Instabilities in Self-Organized Pedestrian Crowds by Yannick Davidson ’24, Wednesday September 25, 1:00 - 1:50pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim

Tangling Up the Number Line With P-adics by Jonathan Geller ’24, Wednesday September 27, 1:00 - 1:50, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim

A New Linear Rank-Type Test for Interval-Censored Survival Data Based on A Proportional Odds Model by Jackson Anderson ’24, September 27, 1:00 - 1:50pm, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim

Penrose, Escher, Blocks: Fun with Height Functions by Professor Daniel Condon, Williams College, Friday September 29, 1:00 - 1:50pm, North Science Building 015, Wachenheim

This event is hosted by Jim and Karen Shepard and sponsored by The League of Women Voters, The David and Joyce Milne Public Library, The Friends of the Milne Public Library, and the Williams College English Department. Readers include Jamal Ahamad: Dear Martin by Nic Stone and How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi Tamanika Terry Steward: Annie…

What is a Line? by Professor Tom Garrity, Williams College, Monday October 2, 1:00 - 1:50pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim

Gaming Elections: Understanding Candidate Goals vs. Strategies via Game Theory by Peri Cannavo '24, Wednesday October 4, 1:00 - 1:50pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim

From Nodes to Knowledge: The Statistical Analysis of Network Data, by Professor Elizabeth Upton, Williams College, Wednesday October 4, 1:10-1:50, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim

From the Manhattan Project to Elliptic Curves, by Professor Steven Miller, Williams College , Wednesday October 11, 1:00 - 1:50pm, North Science Building 113, Wachenheim