Our Faculty Colloquium Series features occasional research oriented lectures intended primarily for faculty and graduate students. Advanced undergraduates are encouraged to attend as well. The lectures are presented by Ball State faculty and visiting faculty from other institutions. An abstract for each talk will be linked approximately a week ahead of the scheduled date.

2026
Wednesday, January 7, 2026, 1:00 – 1:50 PM, RB 118
Dr. Md. Forhad Hossain (Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka)
Title: “Use of Minimum Perpendicular Distance Square Method in Regression Coefficient Estimation”

Thursday, January 30, 2025, 1:00-1:50 pm, RB 450
Dr. Guy David (Ball State University)
Title: “Factorization and approximation of homeomorphisms”


Thursday, April 17, 2025, 1:00-1:50 pm, RB 450
Dr. Hanspeter Fischer (Ball State University)
Sabbatical Presentation
Title: “Nonlocal loss of first homotopy in polyhedral approximations of Peano continua”

Thursday, October 16, 2025, 1:00-1:50 pm, RB 450
Dr. Zhixin Yang (Ball State University)
Title: “Game Theory as a Tool for Market Design: The Case of the Digital and Green Economies”

Thursday, October 23, 2025, 1:00-1:50 pm, RB 450
Dr. Jerry Woodward (Ball State University)
Title: “Equivalence as a Foundation for Algebraic Reasoning Across the K-12 Mathematics Curriculum”

Thursday, October 30, 2025, 1:00-1:50 pm, RB 450
Dr. Shaha A. Patwary (Butler University)
“Analytic Estimation of Missing Observations in Non-Replicated Factorial Experiments”

Thursday, November 20, 2025, 1:00-1:50pm, RB 450
Dr. Tadele Mengesha (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Title: “Variational limit of parametrized energy functionals”

Thursday, February 22, 2024 RB 450, 11:00 – 11:50 AM
Tomas Miguel Rodriguez (University of Toledo)
Title: “On compactness of Toeplitz operators with continuous symbols on domains in multidimensional complex plane”
 

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 1:00-1:50 PM, RB 450
Ahmed Mohammed (Ball State University)
Sabbatical Presentation
Title: “A Vázquez-type strong minimum principle for weighted partial trace equations”

Thursday, March 21, 2024 1:00-1:50 PM, RB 450
Roza Aceska (Ball State University)
Sabbatical Presentation
Title:  “Cross Frame Potential and Frame Design” 

Thursday, March 28, 2024 1:00-1:50 PM, RB 450
Jose Contreras (Ball State University)
Sabbatical Presentation
Title:  “Learning to Pose Beautiful Geometric Problems: A Personal Perspective”

Thursday, April 18, 2024 1:00-1:50 PM, RB 450
Chris Gartland (University of California, San Diego)
Title:  “Stochastic Embeddings of Hyperbolic Metric Spaces”

Thursday, April 25, 2024, 1:00 – 1:50 PM, RB 450
Scott Kaschner (Butler University)
Title: “Geometric Limits in Complex Dynamics”

Thursday, November 14, 2024, 1:00 – 1:50 PM, RB 452
Daniel Haider (University of Vienna)
Title: “Injectivity and Stability of ReLU-layers: Perspectives from Frame Theory”

Thursday, February 9, 2023, RB 125, 1:00-1:50 PM
Dr. Vyron Vellis (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Title:  “Cantor Julia sets”

Thursday, February 23, 2023, RB 125, 1:00-1:50 PM
Dr. Yayuan Xiao (Ball State University)
Sabbatical Presentation
Title: “Complex Networks and its application: identifying genes associated with specific diseases”

Thursday, March 23, 2023, RB 125, 1:00-1:50 PM
Dr. Rahmatullah Imon (Ball State University)
Sabbatical Presentation
Title: “Identification of Multiple Outliers in Spatial Regression”

Thursday, April 27, 2023, RB 449, 1:00-1:50pm
Dr. Michael Pilla (Indiana Academy)
Title: “Self-Maps of the Unit Ball in C^N”

Thursday, November 16, 2023, RB 450, 1:00-1:50 PM
Josh Kline (University of Cincinnati)
Title: “Least Gradient Problems in Metric Measure Spaces”