The Graduate Research in Mathematics Symposium will be a one day conference on Saturday February 8th, 2025 hosted by the MGSA at UNC Charlotte. Centering our graduate students in the department of Mathematics and Statistics, this event will provide our students opportunities to present their research to a regional audience.
Who: Graduate students in Mathematics and Statistics from UNC Charlotte and surrounding institutions
What: One day conference centering graduate-level research
When: Saturday February 8th, 2025
Where: Popp Martin Student Union, UNC Charlotte, 8845 Craver Rd, Charlotte, NC 28262
Accommodations: The UNC Charlotte Marriott is the closest hotel to campus. There are also several other hotels at various price points in the immediate area. A list of such hotels can be found here.
Parking: Parking is free on campus on the weekends. The closest parking deck to the conference is the Union Deck, located at the same address as the conference. For a map of campus and the various parking decks, see this link.
GRiM Attendee Registration Form Link
Inaugural UNC Charlotte MGSA Graduate Research in Mathematics
Symposium Schedule
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:05 Welcome from Sarah Helfert Murphy, UNC Charlotte, MGSA President
9:05-9:15 Opening Remarks from Dr. Taufiquar Khan, UNC Charlotte Mathematics Department Chair
9:20-10:20 Graduate Student Session I
9:20-9:40 Evaluating biomedical feature fusion on machine learning’s predictability and interpretability of COVID-19 severity types, Hal West-Page, UNC Charlotte
9:40-10:00 Modeling Resilience in Natural Systems, Hannah Powell, UNC Charlotte
10:00-10:20 Stationary optimal transport plan and the thermodynamic formalism, Shengwen Guo, UNC Charlotte
10:20-10:40 Break
10:40-11:30 Plenary Lecture - Dr. Michael Grabchak, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
11:30-11:50 Break
11:50 - 12:50 Graduate Student Session II
11:50-12:10 Optimal couplings of undirected graphs with applications in detecting graph isomorphisms, Phuong Hoang, UNC Charlotte
12:10-12:30 On disjoint covering systems, Alex Kalogirou, University of South Carolina
12:30-12:50 Heaps of Pieces on an Eulerian Digraph, Utku Okur, University of South Carolina
12:50-2:30 Recess for lunch
2:30-3:30 Graduate Student Session III
2:30-2:50 A new persepective on Ergodic theory, Jade Raymond, UNC Charlotte
2:50-3:10 Efficient and accurate training of physics-informed deep operator networks with the conjugate kernel, Sarah Helfert Murphy, UNC Charlotte
3:10-3:30 Change-Point Detection With Quantile Autoregression Model, Sha Wan, Clemson University
3:30-3:50 Break
3:50-4:50 Graduate Student Session IV
3:50-4:10 A walk through the theory of single and multidimensional persistence Sebastian Gaitan-Escarpeta, UNC Charlotte
4:10-4:30 Bounding the Crossing Number of Tanglegrams Alec Helm, University of South Carolina
4:50 Closing Remarks - Sarah Helfert Murphy, UNC Charlotte, MGSA President