# All Seminars

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Title: TBA
Colloquium: N/A
Speaker: Sherry Li of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Contact: Lar Ruthotto, lruthotto@emory.edu
Date: 2018-04-05 at 4:00PM
Venue: W201
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Title: A Decision Support System For Heparin Dosing
Defense: Masters
Speaker: Romgmei Lin of Emory University
Contact: Rongmei Lin, rongmei.lin@emory.edu
Date: 2017-12-15 at 2:00PM
Venue: E408
Abstract:
Medication dosing is a comprehensive problem with uncertainties. Every patient has unique condition, meanwhile some drugs have narrow therapeutic windows. Mis-dosing might result in preventable adverse event. Therefore, a robust decision support system would be helpful to clinicians by providing advisable dosing suggestions. Heparin is one of the sensitive drugs. In order to build up the decision support system for heparin patients, we present a clinician in the loop framework with deep reinforcement learning algorithm. There are two main objectives in this thesis, the first one is providing individualized dosing suggestion based on the multi-dimensional features of patients. The second one is evaluating the dosing predicted by our decision support system. We implemented several experiments to achieve these objectives. The data used in the experiments including simulated data, MIMIC-II intensive care unit data and Emory hospital intensive care unit data. There are two important processes with respect to our objectives. In the training process, the decision support system learned from the dosing executed by clinicians and the corresponding response of patients. In the evaluating process, we explored the results from several aspects and focused on the causality between variables and outcomes. The experimental results suggested that given the states of patients, our medication dosing support system is able to provide a reasonable recommendation
Title: Patching for proper schemes
Seminar: Algebra
Speaker: Bastian Haase of Emory University
Contact: John Duncan, john.duncan@emory.edu
Date: 2017-12-05 at 4:00PM
Venue: W306
Abstract:
We discuss an extension of field patching to proper schemes. Then, we will introduce Tannaka duality for stacks as first developed by Lurie and then refined by Hall and Rydh. Their work allows us to patch morphisms from proper schemes to nice stacks, in particular certain moduli stacks. As an application of this result, we prove that patching holds for relative torsors which allows us to give a characterization for local-global principles for torsors over proper schemes. This is joint work with Daniel Krashen and Max Lieblich.
Title: The complexity of perfect matchings and packings in dense hypergraphs
Seminar: Combinatorics
Speaker: Jie Han of University of Sao Paulo
Contact: Dwight Duffus, dwight@mathcs.emory.edu
Date: 2017-12-05 at 4:00PM
Venue: W303
Abstract:
Given two $k$-graphs $H$ and $F$, a perfect $F$-packing in $H$ is a collection of vertex-disjoint copies of $F$ in $H$ which together cover all the vertices in $H$. In the case when $F$ is a single edge, a perfect $F$-packing is simply a perfect matching. For a given fixed $F$, it is generally the case that the decision problem whether an $n$-vertex $k$-graph $H$ contains a perfect $F$-packing is NP-complete.\\ \\In this talk we describe a general tool which can be used to determine classes of (hyper)graphs for which the corresponding decision problem for perfect $F$-packings is polynomial time solvable. We then give applications of this tool. For example, we give a minimum $l$-degree condition for which it is polynomial time solvable to determine whether a $k$-graph satisfying this condition has a perfect matching (partially resolving a conjecture of Keevash, Knox and Mycroft). We also answer a question of Yuster concerning perfect $F$-packings in graphs.
Title: Recommender System and Information Fusion in Spatial Crowdsourcing
Defense: Dissertation
Speaker: Daniel Garcia Ulloa of Emory University
Contact: TBA
Date: 2017-12-01 at 11:00AM
Venue: W301
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Title: Bridging the Gap: Math across Emory
Seminar: Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
Speaker: Samuel Sober, Roberto Franzosi, Gordon Berman of Emory University
Contact: Sofia Guzzetti, sofia.guzzetti@emory.edu
Date: 2017-11-17 at 2:00PM
Venue: W301
Abstract:
Mathematics is a powerful tool that addresses real-life applications arising from various disciplines. In this event, organized by the Emory SIAM Student Chapter, you will be able to taste the versatility of Math. Professors conducting cutting-edge research in Biology, Sociology, and Physics will share how Mathematics contributes to their work. The talks will be followed by an open discussion and refreshments.
Title: Application of Global Optimization to Image Registration
Defense: Honors Thesis
Speaker: Huiying Zhu of Emory University
Contact: TBA
Date: 2017-11-16 at 2:30PM
Venue: E408
Abstract:
Given two images, image registration aims to transform an image into a given reference image so that the two images look alike. This technique is vital in many applications, such as medical imaging and astronomy. Finding the best transform can be phrased as solving a mathematical optimization problem. Due to the non-convexity of the objective function, commonly employed optimization techniques often generate local minimizers, limiting the accuracy of the registration. This thesis evaluates the applicability of a global optimization method, called as DDNCID, for image registration. Direct application of DDNCID in image registration could cause minimizers to be infeasible. Thus, a focus of this thesis is to add a bound constraint by imposing a barrier function into the objective function to extend DDNCID.
Title: An arithmetic count of the lines on a cubic surface.
Seminar: Algebra
Speaker: Kirsten Wickelgren of Georgia Institute of Technology
Contact: John Duncan, john.duncan@emory.edu
Date: 2017-11-14 at 4:00PM
Venue: W306
Abstract:
A celebrated 19th century result of Cayley and Salmon is that a smooth cubic surface over the complex numbers contains exactly 27 lines. Over the real numbers, it is a lovely observation of FinashinKharlamov and OkonekTeleman that while the number of real lines depends on the surface, a certain signed count of lines is always 3. We extend this count to an arbitrary field k using an Euler number in A1-homotopy theory. The resulting count is valued in the Grothendieck-Witt group of non-degenerate symmetric bilinear forms. This is joint work with Jesse Kass.
Title: On semi-simplicity of tensor products in positive characteristics
Seminar: Algebra
Speaker: Vikraman Balaji of Chennai Mathematical Institute
Contact: John Duncan, john.duncan@emory.edu
Date: 2017-11-14 at 5:00PM
Venue: W306
Abstract:
We work over an algebraically closed field k of characteristic p greater than 0. In 1994, Serre showed that if semi-simple representations V_i of a group \Gamma are such that \sum ( dim(V_i) - 1 ) less than p, then their tensor product is semi-simple. In the late nineties, Serre generalized this theorem comprehensively to the case where \Gamma is a subgroup of G(k), for G a reductive group, and answered the question of complete reducibility of \Gamma in G (Seminaire Bourbaki, 2003). In 2014, Deligne generalized the results of Serre (of 1994) to the case when the V_i are semi-simple representations of a group scheme \mathfrak{G}. In my talk I will present the recent work of mine with Deligne and Parameswaran where we consider the case when \mathfrak{G} is a subgroup scheme of a reductive group G and generalize the results of Serre and Deligne. A key result is a structure theorem on doubly saturated subgroup schemes \mathfrak{G} of reductive groups G. As an application, we obtain an analogue of classical Luna's etale slice theorem in positive characteristics.
Title: Ramsey Properties of Random Graphs and Hypergraphs
Seminar: Combinatorics
Speaker: Andrzej Dudek of Western Michigan University
Contact: Dwight Duffus, dwight@mathcs.emory.edu
Date: 2017-11-13 at 4:00PM
Venue: W302
Abstract:
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