OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
Open search box
France, Japan and Luxembourg: international experiences give Saki Nakai a rich, interdisciplinary perspective.
The Mathematics Department has hired several new faculty to start in the fall
Seed funding from the College of Science Research and Innovation Seed (SciRIS) program awarded to four math faculty
Mathematics and statistics are two of the quickest-growing fields in the country, and it's not hard to guess why.
The Fourier transform is one of the most celebrated tools in mathematics. In this talk, I will introduce the Fourier transform in $\mathbb{R}^d$ and discuss its many properties and dualities. In particular, I will expand upon a fundamental notion from harmonic analysis called the uncertainty principle—a function and its Fourier transform cannot be simultaneously localized.
TBA
Let F(x,y) be an irreducible polynomial over Q, and let C be the plane curve cut out by F(x,y) = 0. We say that a number field K/Q is generated by F if there exists an algebraic point P on C such that K = Q(P). Recently, Mazur and Rudin suggested the idea of studying the geometry of C by instead investigating the set of all number fields generated by C. This relationship can also be examined in the opposite direction, by fixing a curve or a family of curves and asking what can be said about the fields generated by that curve or family.
Random matrices have a variety of applications in many areas of math and science. I will introduce and motivate random matrices through the lens of population dynamics and briefly discuss other applications. The goal of the talk is to give a description of some cornerstone results from random matrices such as the probability distribution of the eigenvalues of a large random matrix, i.e. the Wigner semicircle law, and the probability distribution of the largest eigenvalue of a large random matrix, i.e. the Tracy-Widom distribution.
TBA