Department of Mathematics

Friday, April 16, 2026, 8am (Pacific time) on Zoom

Dr. Silvia Fernandez will give the Plenary address at the 41st Víctor Neumann-Lara Colloquium on Graph Theory, Combinatorics, and Their Applications.

This meeting is being held at UNAM Campus Morelia in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, but Dr. Fernandez will deliver her talk via zoom on Friday, April 16, 2026, 8am (Pacific time)

English title: When Does a Rainbow Occur? A Coloring Problem in the n-Dimensional Cube

Spanish title: ¿Cuándo aparece un arcoíris? Un problema de coloración en el cubo n-dimensional.

Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 2:45-3:45pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak Hall, room 1328)

Some Unifying Principles in Continuous Data Assimilation for Dissipative PDEs

Dr. Vincent Martinez

Associate Professor

The City University of New York

Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 2:45-3:45pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak Hall, room 1328)

Machine Learning Meets Partial Differential Equations

Dr. Aras Bacho

California Institute of Technology

Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 2:45-3:45pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak Hall, room 1328) and via Zoom

Biquandle Virtual Bracket Quivers

Dr. Sam Nelson

Professor of Public Affairs and Mathematics

Clarement McKenna College

Monday, April 6, 2026, 2:45-3:45pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak Hall, room 1328) and via Zoom

From Mathematics to Software Engineering

Levon Kolesnikov

Senior Software Engineer at Google

Wednesday, April 1, 2026, 2:45-3:45pm via Zoom

Watch the zoom in LO 1328 (Live Oak building) hosted by the Math Department

Building Mathematical Confidence

Howie Hua

Math Instructor at Fresno State University

Monday, March 30, 2026, 1:45-2:45pm in MA 209 (Goodman (formerly Maple) Hall) and via Zoom

An Overview of the Air Force Research Lab and Collaborative Opportunities

José A. Camberos, Ph.D., P.E.

Director, Applied Research Center of Hypersonics

Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Air Force Institute of Technology

Monday, March 23, 2:45-3:45pm in LO 1328 (Live Oak Building) and via Zoom

Quantitative Symplectic Geometry

Dr. Richard Hind

Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Notre Dame University

Wednesday, February 25, 2:45-3:45pm in LO 1328 and via Zoom

Tracking structure across growing populations: cancer mutations and tissue development

Dr. Tom Chou

Computational Medicine, Mathematics, UCLA

Wednesday, November 12, 2:45-3:45pm in LO 1328 and via Zoom

Statistics, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Mathematics in the Dodgers Front Office

Dr. Sam Fleischer

Senior Quantitative Analyst - Los Angeles Dodgers

Friday, November 14

One-day crash course on the mathematical foundations of deep learning

Dr. Maziar Raissi

Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, UC Riverside

Wednesday, November 19, 2:45-3:45pm in LO 1328 and via Zoom

Determining Both the Source of a Wave and Its Speed in a Medium form Boundary Measurements

Dr. Amir Moradifam

Associate Professor of Mathematics

University of California, Riverside

Ricardo Ramirez

CSUN Applied Mathematics Graduate Students

Accepted to two Ph.D. programs:

• University of Massachusetts, Amherts
• UC Davis

Nima Jafari

CSUN Undergraduate Student

• Computer Science senior working with Dr. Jason Lo from the Mathematics Department
• Nima's abstract and poster were accepted by the Stanford Research Conference for undergraduates
• He will present his work there on April 10-11, 2026

Marissa Ackerman

CSUN Mathematics Undergraduate Student

• Selected to participate in the 8-week CERN-ATLAS (European Organization of Nuclear Research-A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) search program during the summer at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland (sponsored by an NSF-HSI grant based at Fresno State). 
• Her talk “ Exploring polyomino motion: classification of amoebic polyominoes” concerning our research was accepted at the 2026 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). The event will take place April 13-15 in Richmond, Virginia.

• The College Mathematics Journal  Volume 56, August 2025 - Issue 4

  • Problem 1285 Christine Brackney, Megan Gleason, Sophia Mata, Tigran Frunze Pogosyan, and Ryan (Luther) Whyde

Petros Mavromichalis

Passed qualifying exams and has a PhD Thesis advisor 

Dr. Frauke Bleher

Haidee Ruvalcaba

Harmony Vargas

Dr. Silvia Fernandez will give the Plenary address at the 41st Víctor Neumann-Lara Colloquium on Graph Theory, Combinatorics, and Their Applications.

This meeting is being held at UNAM Campus Morelia in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, but Dr. Fernandez will deliver her talk via zoom on Friday, April 16, 2026, 8am (Pacific time)

English title: When Does a Rainbow Occur? A Coloring Problem in the n-Dimensional Cube

Spanish title: ¿Cuándo aparece un arcoíris? Un problema de coloración en el cubo n-dimensional.

Dr. Jorge Balbas will be one of the panelists on an upcoming AMS (American Mathematical Society) webinar, Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 2-3:30pm Eastern

Enhancing Digital Accessibility of Mathematics

                Dr. Jun Li

                      Assistant Professor

                  Dr. Ryan Moruzzi

                        Assistant Professor

Dr. Turbo Ho

Associate Professor

Dr. Ali Sharadqah

Professor

Dr. Maria D'Orsogna

• Army Research Office (4/15/2023-4/14/2026)
  • Title: Identifying drivers of discontent, advancing social cohesion, and promoting resilient decision-making through modeling and data analysis
  • NSF Grant (9/15/2023-8/31/2026)
    • Title: Equipment: MRI: Track 1 Acquisition of a high-performance computer cluster for computational biology (coPI)

Dr. Jing Li

• NSF Grant (8/15/2023-7/31/2026)
  • Title: Collaborative Research: Structured Population Dynamics Subject to Stoichiometric Constraints

Dr. Jason Lo

•  Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant (9/2024-8/2027)
  • Title: Reasoning in Autonomous Systems via Wiring Diagrams

Dr. Majid Mojirsheibani

• NSF (8/31/2023-8/31/2026)
  • Title: RUI: Predictive Models with Incomplete and Fragmented Observations, and New Advances in Virtual Re-sampling for Big Data

Dr. Ali Pakzad

• NSF Grant (8/15/2025-7/31/2027)
  • Title: Applied Data Assimilation in Turbulence Modeling: Bridging Theory and Computation

Dr. Csaba Toth

• -NSF Grant (9/1/2022-8/31/2026)
  • Title: Optimization on Geometric Spanner Networks from a Combinatorial Perspective