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The What is... Graduate Seminar (TWIGS)

The What Is... Graduate Seminar (TWIGS) was originally founded by Farshid Hajir in 2002 as a way for graduate students to learn about faculty research interests in an accessible forum.

Talks will be given by Department faculty on topics related to their research. The goal is for the talks to be as accessible as possible to all students in the Department. We encourage all graduate students (including incoming students) to attend as regularly as they are able.

Date Speaker Title
Fri. 4/5
Sohrab Shahshahani
UMass Amherst

What are the effects of solitons on the dynamics of nonlinear wave equations

Fri. 4/19
Ziyu Chen

What is group-invariant distribution learning?

Mon. 4/22
Andreas Buttenschoen

Bridging from single to collective cell migration: Repolarization, Cell entrainment, and migrating clusters.

Fri. 4/26
Tom Braden
UMass Amherst

What is a matroid?

Mon. 4/29
Panos Kevrekidis

What are compartmental models in epidemiology?

Fri. 5/3
Martina Rovelli
UMass Amherst

What is an (∞, n)-category?

Date Speaker Title
Mon. 11/14
Leili Shahriyari
UMass Amherst

What is computational and mathematical oncology?

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