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Promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor & Tenure
Will Boney, Jake Fillman, & Wade Hindes
Promotion from Associate Professor to Professor
Jennifer Czocher, Samuel Obara, Ray Treinen, & Yong Yang
Dr. Elizabeth Roan recipient of the 2024 Graduate College’s Outstanding Dissertation Award
@TXST Math
- Location:
- Derrick 235
- Cost:
- Free
- Contact:
- vne11@txstate.edu
- Campus Sponsor:
- Department of Mathematics
Special Guest Shiyu Liang from the University of Texas at Austin
A knot in a lens space is said to be spherical if it admits Dehn surgery yielding $S^1\times S^2$. We classify spherical simple knots and thereby confirm the conjecture of Baker, Buck, and Lecuona using rational Seifert surfaces and Morse functions. Additionally, we show that the homology classes of spherical knots are determined by simple knots, analogous to Greene's work in the context of the Berge Conjecture (i.e., surgeries yielding $S^3$).
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A knot in a lens space is said to be spherical if it admits Dehn surgery yielding $S^1\times S^2$. We classify spherical simple knots and thereby confirm the conjecture of Baker, Buck, and Lecuona using rational Seifert surfaces and Morse functions. Additionally, we show that the homology classes of spherical knots are determined by simple knots, analogous to Greene's work in the context of the Berge Conjecture (i.e., surgeries yielding $S^3$).
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- Location:
- Derrick 333 and Zoom
- Cost:
- Free
- Contact:
- vi11@txstate.edu
- Campus Sponsor:
- Department of Mathematics
Special guest Matthew Beckman, Penn State University
This talk seeks to articulate the benefit of free-response tasks and timely formative assessment feedback, a roadmap for developing human-in-the-loop natural language processing (NLP) assisted feedback, and results from a pilot study establishing proof of principle. If we are to pursue Statistics and Data Science Education across disciplines, we will surely encounter both opportunity and necessity to develop scalable solutions for pedagogical best practices. Research suggests “write-to-learn” tasks improve learning outcomes, yet constructed-response methods of formative assessment become unwieldy when class sizes grow large. In the pilot study, several short-answer tasks completed by nearly 2000 introductory tertiary statistics students were evaluated by human raters and an NLP algorithm. After briefly describing the tasks, the student contexts, the algorithm and the raters, this talk discusses the results which indicate substantial inter-rater agreement and group consensus. The talk will conclude with recent developments building upon this pilot, as well as implications for teaching and future research.
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This talk seeks to articulate the benefit of free-response tasks and timely formative assessment feedback, a roadmap for developing human-in-the-loop natural language processing (NLP) assisted feedback, and results from a pilot study establishing proof of principle. If we are to pursue Statistics and Data Science Education across disciplines, we will surely encounter both opportunity and necessity to develop scalable solutions for pedagogical best practices. Research suggests “write-to-learn” tasks improve learning outcomes, yet constructed-response methods of formative assessment become unwieldy when class sizes grow large. In the pilot study, several short-answer tasks completed by nearly 2000 introductory tertiary statistics students were evaluated by human raters and an NLP algorithm. After briefly describing the tasks, the student contexts, the algorithm and the raters, this talk discusses the results which indicate substantial inter-rater agreement and group consensus. The talk will conclude with recent developments building upon this pilot, as well as implications for teaching and future research.
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Meeting ID 863 7686 1836 Passcode SS_DERR333
https://txstate.zoom.us/j/86376861836?pwd=MuhOetE19T5FEcaby8gqQ3TlZD6PZa.1
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- Derrick 333
- Cost:
- Free
- Contact:
- nestor@txstate.edu
- Campus Sponsor:
- Department of Mathematics
In this two part talk I will introduce the Fokker-Planck equation, a partial differential equation closely related to the heat equation and of great importance in statistical physics. About 25 years ago Jordan, Kinderlehrer, and Otto made a profound about this equation: it is the gradient flow of the Boltzmann entropy with respect to the quadratic transport metric. I will explain in detail what this statement means, discuss its proof, and review some of its broad impact.
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- Location:
- Derrick 235
- Cost:
- Free
- Contact:
- hhardison@txstate.edu
- Campus Sponsor:
- Department of Mathematics
Special guests Dr. Emma Gargroetzi and Hakeoung Hannah Lee of University of Texas at Austin discuss "Interrogating and Innovating our Mathematics Teaching Toward Just Civic World Building"
This talk shares results from a social design-based experiment (Gutiérrez et al., 2020) in which four secondary mathematics teachers pursued the design question, How can we design for civic learning in our mathematics classrooms? Following one design cycle, we asked the empirical question, What activities did such design and implementation work entail? Mirra & Garcia’s (2023) conceptualization of just civic worldbuilding frames our analysis of teaching artifacts, fieldnotes, journal entries, meetings and interviews. Findings describe five dimensions of the work of mathematics teaching for just civic worlds. Examples and reflections illuminate the efforts such work may demand and the possibilities it may afford. This talk is accompanied by a zine-style workbook and reflection journal for participants to engage in reflection on their own attitudes and practices and dream possibilities for their own classrooms Click here for more information
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This talk shares results from a social design-based experiment (Gutiérrez et al., 2020) in which four secondary mathematics teachers pursued the design question, How can we design for civic learning in our mathematics classrooms? Following one design cycle, we asked the empirical question, What activities did such design and implementation work entail? Mirra & Garcia’s (2023) conceptualization of just civic worldbuilding frames our analysis of teaching artifacts, fieldnotes, journal entries, meetings and interviews. Findings describe five dimensions of the work of mathematics teaching for just civic worlds. Examples and reflections illuminate the efforts such work may demand and the possibilities it may afford. This talk is accompanied by a zine-style workbook and reflection journal for participants to engage in reflection on their own attitudes and practices and dream possibilities for their own classrooms Click here for more information
- Location:
- DERR 338
- Cost:
- Free
- Contact:
- Tim Chase tmc113@txstate.edu
Cameron Farnsworth clf129@txstate.edu - Campus Sponsor:
- Department of Mathematics
Love a good problem? Like to solve difficult puzzles?
Join professors, graduate students and undergraduates as we tackle problems presented from several mathematical journals. An interest in higher level mathematics is all that is required to join our round table. Offer what you know, learn what you don't in a relaxed environment with some of our department's finest!
Join professors, graduate students and undergraduates as we tackle problems presented from several mathematical journals. An interest in higher level mathematics is all that is required to join our round table. Offer what you know, learn what you don't in a relaxed environment with some of our department's finest!
- Location:
- ELA 229
- Cost:
- Free
- Contact:
- Will Boney - wb1011@txstate.edu
- Campus Sponsor:
- NSF - Department of Mathematics
Curious about foundational mathematics? Interested in the intersection of math and philosophy? Have questions about infinity, proofs, or the nature of truth?
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