Colloquium

A big part of research is presenting what you find. Students, faculty, and guest speakers present their research and answer questions for the campus community at the weekly colloquium.

Fall 2026 Colloquium Series


Our colloquium meets on Friday from 3:10 p.m. to 4 p.m. in RSS 251. Refreshments are served at 2:45 p.m. in the Math Lounge, RSS 346. 
  • Fall 2026 Dates, Speakers, and Abstracts

    August 21, 2026

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     August 28, 2026

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    September 4, 2026

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    September 11, 2026

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    September 18, 2026

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    September 25, 2026

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    October 2, 2026

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    October 9, 2026

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    November 6, 2026

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    November 13, 2026

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    November 20, 2026

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  • Give a Talk or Invite a Speaker

    If you would like to give a talk or invite someone to give a talk on our colloquium, please contact the colloquium coordinator, Stéphane Lafortune (lafortunes@cofc.edu).

    For outside visitors please include visitor's name, affiliation, and the title or the area of the suggested talk.   

    Also, as the sponsor, please note that you will be responsible to find an accommodation and take care of the visitor during his/her visit.

Fall 2025 - Spring 2026 Colloquia Series


Check The Math Hub for abstracts or reach out to MathOffice@charleston.edu to request an abstract. 

Fall 2025

August 29: Renling Jin, College of Charleston (joint with Mauro DiNasso), Impact of Multilevel Infinities on Additive Combinatorics 

September 26: David Flenner, College of Charleston, Randomizing Assignments Written in LaTeX with Python 

October 3: Nic Jones, College of Charleston student, On Legendre's conjecture and the existence of primes between consecutive powers

October 10: Desale Habtzghi, DePaul University, What are the main tools Statisticians, mathematicians, and data scientists use after graduation when working in the industry?

October 24: Joshua Frisch, University of California San Diego, Groups Big and Small and the Infinite Conjugacy Class Propert

November 7: Liz Jurisich, College of Charleston, Associating Groups to Borcherds Lie Algebras

November 14: Tingting Tong, College of Charleston, Smoothed Empirical Likelihood for Quantile Inference Under Balanced Ranked Set Sampling

November 21: Kathryn Pedings-Behling, College of Charleston, Examining the Role of Deconstruct Calculus on Changing Students’ Attitudes Toward Mathematics

Spring 2026

January 23: Alex Kasman, College of Charleston, Hermite Orthogonality from Bispectral KP Wave Functions

January 30: Stacie Baumann, College of Charleston, Minimum Graphs with Clique Covers Everywhere

February 13: Mauro Di Nasso, Università di Pisa, Italy, Arithmetic Ramsey theory, the search for monochromatic configurations

March 27: Roger Brown, College of Charleston student, Actuarial Foundations at the Galaxies Frontier

April 3: Lauren Tubbs, College of Charleston, Hardy, Ramanujan, and the Partition Function

April 10: Dan Maroncelli, College of Charleston, An Introduction C*-Algebras

April 17: Vadim Kaimanovich, University of Ottawa, Collapsing harmonic measures