Mathematical and Digital Sciences Seminar Series

Spring 2020
Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30 in Navy 209

February 18	Approaching Minimum Chi-Square Estimation Through an Algebraic Geometric Lens	Dr. Grant Innerst	Shippensburg University
March 3	An Analysis of Forensics Artifacts Associated with Oracle VirtualBox Applications and Virtual Machines	Austin Pasquel	BU Digital Forensics major

Fall 2019
Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30 in Navy 209

September 17	Neural Networks	Dr. Youmin Lu	Bloomsburg University
October 1	Conquering the Rubik's Cube	Dr. Kevin Ferland	Bloomsburg University
October 15 (Kehr Ballroom 1)	Digital Forensics	John Lucich	eForensix, CEO
October 22	Lots of Grittiness	Dr. John Riley	Bloomsburg University
November 19	Machine Learning	Jacob Nocentino	BU CS/Math major
December 3	Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap: Creating an Inexpensive Mesh Network of Bad USBs	Nelson Maher	BU Digital Forensics major

Spring 2019
Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30 in Navy 207

March 5	Revisiting the Mystery of π²/6	Dr. Paul Loomis	Bloomsburg University
March 26	Fun with Primes and Trees	Dr. William Calhoun	Bloomsburg University
April 2	Parametric Analysis of Renal Failure Data using the Exponentiated Odd Weibull Distribution	Dr. Nonhle Channon Mdziniso	Bloomsburg University
April 9	Image Processing Problems And Facility Location Problems Can Often Be Parallelized Easily To Run Hundreds or Thousands of Times Faster	Dr. Erik Wynters	Bloomsburg University
April 30	PTBA	James Sharpe	BU Mathematics major

Fall 2018
Tuesdays from 3:30-4:45 in Bakeless 201

September 18	The Intermediate Value Property — Locally	Dr. John Riley	Bloomsburg University
October 2	Mathematics of Surprises	Dr. Reza Noubary	Bloomsburg University
October 9	Stories of Mathematics: Cold Objectivity or Hot Subjectivity	Dr. Eric Kahn	Bloomsburg University
November 6	An introduction to the solution of partial differential equations by the finite element method	Jake Jacavage	University of Delaware Graduate Student, BU Alumnus
November 13	Cybersecurity Liability: How Technically Savvy Can We Expect Small Business Owners to Be?	Dr. Carolyn Lamacchia	Bloomsburg University
November 27	CyberAuto Challenge	Alexander Demergis	BU Digital Forensics major
December 4	Machine Learning Projects	Jamin Heiser and James Sharpe	BU Mathematics majors

Spring 2018
Tuesdays from 3:30-4:45 in Bakeless 201

February 20	Your smart devices are spying on you! An inside look at the Internet of Things	Zach Prebosnyak	BU Digital Forensics major
February 20	Tracking Criminal Activity on Tumblr Using Open Source Intelligence Techniques	Megan Mahle	BU Digital Forensics major
February 27	The CyberAuto Challenge	David Lucas Donald Tennant	BU Digital Forensics majors
March 20	Log Lindley-Normal Distribution and its Application	Chase Sakitis	BU Mathematics major
March 27	Intermediate Intermediate Value Properties	Dr. John Riley	Bloomsburg University
April 10	Hacking from afar	Dr. Phil Postra	Bloomsburg University
April 17	6 / π²	Dr. Paul Loomis	Bloomsburg University

Fall 2017
Tuesdays from 3:30-4:45 in Bakeless 201

Date	Title	Speaker	Affiliation
September 12	Texas Instruments Technology in the Classroom	Mr. Dana Morse	Texas Instruments
October 3	Application Development for QVC	Mr. Daniel Polenik	QVC, BU Computer Science graduate
October 24	Thinking about Linking, Combinatorial Style	Dr. John Polhill	Bloomsburg University
November 7	A Higher-Dimensional Analogue to Heron's Formula	Dr. Barry Minemyer	Bloomsburg University
November 14	Data Science	Dr. Bailey	PEDSnet
November 28	Designing a Monadic Java Virtual Machine	Mr. Louis Jenkins	BU Computer Science major

Spring 2017
Tuesdays at 3:30 in Navy 207

Date	Title	Speaker	Affiliation
February 14	Open Source Software for Efficient Evaluation of Student Code	Louis Jenkins	BU Computer Science major
March 7	Using Mathematics to Model the Treatment of River Blindness	Dr. Shelly Bouchat	Indiana University of PA
April 4	Many Means from Two Means	Dr. John Riley	Bloomsburg University
April 25	Principles of Public-Key Cryptography	Dr. Drue Coles	Bloomsburg University

Spring 2016
Tuesdays at 3:30 in Centennial 201

Date	Title	Speaker	Affiliation
February 2	Internships: Hershey and the NSA	Ember Baker & Riley Renn	BU Computer Science majors
February 9	What is forcing? What is data science?	Dr. Bill Calhoun	Bloomsburg University
February 23	Neutrix Limit on Divergent Series	Dr. Youmin Lu	Bloomsburg University
March 15	Free Groups	Nathan Weed	BU Mathematics major
March 29	The Search for Small Sorting Networks	Dr. Drue Coles	Bloomsburg University
April 12	Approaches to Parallel Programming	Dr. Bob Montante	Bloomsburg University
April 26	Generalized Happy Numbers	Lara Cesco-Cancian	BU Mathematics major

Fall 2015

September 8. Data Analysis for Precision Healthcare: A Short Introduction. Dr. Oleg Roderick. Data Science Group, Applied Research and Clinical Informatics, Geisinger
September 15. Collaboration with Polish Mathematicians and Opportunities for You. Dr. Mehdi Razzaghi. Bloomsburg University.
September 29. Make Me a Square, Make Me a Cube (Almost). Dr. John Riley. Bloomsburg University.
October 20. Mathematics of Records. Dr. Reza Noubary. Bloomsburg University.
October 27. Place Your Bet Here: Using Parallel Particle Swarm Optimization to Solve a Variety of Facility Location Problems Quickly and Easily. Dr. Erik Wynters. Bloomsburg University.
November 6. Overview of Federal Statistical Agencies and Tips for Applying for Federal Internships and Jobs. Kevin Cecco. Federal Government.
November 10. Batelle CyberAuto Challenge: Student Experience. Matthew Cox and Jesse Mancuso. BU Digital Forensics majors.
November 17. 15-Minute Linux Live Response. Dr. Phil Polstra. Bloomsburg University.

Spring 2015

January 27. Data Science for the Industry, In One Attempt. Dr. Oleg Roderick. Data Science Group, Division of Applied Research and Clinical Informatics, Geisinger.
February 3. Three Research Projects Involving Systems of Difference Equations. Dr. Chris Lynd. Bloomsburg University.
February 17. Looking into QVC Information Technology. Dan Polenik. Application Developer. QVC.
March 3. An Introduction to Perturbation Methods and Surface-Volume Reactions. Ryan Evans. Graduate student in mathematics at the University of Delaware.
March 17. An Overview of Data at Rest Encryption. Joe McDaniels. Security Analyst, Information Assurance Directorate, NSA.
March 24. Avoiding the Meltdowns: Software Development Practices at Hershey's. Dan Miller. Application Analyst, The Hershey Company.
April 21. Divide and Construct. Dr. John Riley. Bloomsburg University.

Fall 2014

September 16. 262 + 959 = 1221: Palindromic Sums and Differences of Palindromes. Dr. Paul Loomis. Bloomsburg University.
September 30. The Battle for the Network. Daniel Gortze. Security Systems Manager, Dell SecureWorks.
October 21. Knot Theory: Beyond the Boy Scouts. Dr. Jon Gray. Bloomsburg University.
November 4. Low Power Hacking. Dr. Phil Polstra. Bloomsburg University.
November 18. he Class of Periodic Left Nested Radicals. Dr. Chris Lynd and Devin Lesher (BU dual major in CS/Mathematics). Bloomsburg University.

Spring 2014

February 11. Regular Expressions, Python, Presidents and Movie Titles, Bob Montante, Bloomsburg University.
February 25. Games with Braids and Ladders. Jennifer Vasquez, University of Scranton.
March 11. Investigating the Factorization of Monic Trinomials. Joshua Harrington, Shippensburg University.
March 25. Effective Multifractal Spectra. Jan Reimann, Penn State University.
April 8. Opportunities for Undergraduate Research in Difference Equations. Chris Lynd, Bloomsburg University.
April 15. NetBeans GUI Builder: Expanding Your Toolkit. Jake Dorman, BU Computer Science student.
April 22. Partial Difference Sets and Error-Correcting Codes. John Polhill, Bloomsburg University.

Fall 2013

September 17. 436 Ways to Keep Math and Computer Science Students off the Streets. Drue Coles, Bloomsburg University.
October 1. Prime Numbers and Polynomials. Samuel Gross, Bloomsburg University.
October 22. Cool Results Involving Fibonacci Numbers and Compositions. James Sellers, Pennsylvania State University.
November 12. Computer Science Internships. Nikita Maizet and Dan Polenik, BU Computer Science students.

Spring 2013

March 12. Mobile Development for Enterprise Applications. Daniel Miller, The Hershey Company.
March 26. Xwords. Kevin Ferland, Bloomsburg University.
April 2. eDiscovery and Cyber Security in the Business World. Steven Rodi, Innovative Development LLC.
April 9. Moved Away But Stayed Close and Pi Via Integrals. John Riley, Bloomsburg University.
April 16. Problems from South America. Paul Loomis, Bloomsburg University.
April 23. The Brutal Reality of Computer Incidents — Case Studies. Tom Sammel, Dell SecureWorks.
April 30. High-Level Parallel Programming on GPUs using the Thrust Library. Erik Wynters, Bloomsburg University.

Fall 2012

September 18. Happy Birthday, Alan Turing. William Calhoun, Bloomsburg University.
October 9. Non-Parametric and Semi-Parametric Approaches in ROC Analysis. Dong Zhang, Bloomsburg University.
October 23. Hazard Assessment of Bloomsburg Floods. Reza Noubary, Bloomsburg University.
November 6. Angle Preservation and Non-Inscribable Polyhedra. Eric Kahn, Bloomsburg University.
November 13. Multitasking Software and Integration of OpenGL with the .NET Framework. John George, BU CS major.

Spring 2012

February 14. E-Discovery. William Calhoun and John Riley, Bloomsburg University.
March 27. A Diophantine Equation. Konstantine Zelator, Bloomsburg University.
May 1. Class Presentations from Software Engineering.
May 2. Class Presentations from Software Engineering.
May 3. Class Presentations from Software Engineering.

Fall 2011

September 6. Trends in Information Security. Rob Andrews, Cincinnati Bell Technology Services.
October 18. PPL Internship Program for CS Majors. Representatives from PPL Corporation.
October 25. A Gentle Introduction to Association Schemes. John Polhill, Bloomsburg University.
November 4. Integral Triangles with a 120° Angle. Konstantine Zelator, Bloomsburg University.
November 8. Risk and Investment Reza Noubary, Bloomsburg University.
November 15. Mac OS X and Linux Physical Memory Acquisition and Analysis. Robert Roos, BU major in Computer Forensics.
November 29. A Taste of Computational Geometry. Erik Wynters, Bloomsburg University.

Spring 2011

February 15. Email Hacking. Dan Balthaser, Bloomsburg University major in Computer Science.
February 22. Transforming Your Existing Assignments Into A Technology Portfolio That Impresses Employers. Nicole Snow, Oracle Education Initiatives.
March 15. Apple OS X and iOS Digital Forensics. Ryan Kubasiak, computer crime investigator, and Editor-in-chief of AppleExaminer.com.
March 22. Straight From Here to Here. John Riley, Bloomsburg University.
April 5. What Kindergarten Didn't Teach Us About Spheres. Eric Kahn, Bloomsburg University.
April 12. Computer Graphics in DirectX. Rod Cano, BU major in Computer Science.
April 19. Software Engineering class presentations.
April 20. Software Engineering class presentations.

Fall 2010

September 14. When can you color a grid and not have any monochromatic rectangles? Bill Gasarch, University of Maryland.
September 28. How Many Numbers are Friendly? Paul Loomis, Bloomsburg University.
October 12. Euler Constants and Integrals of Fractional Parts. Youmin Lu, Bloomsburg University.
October 26. I Didn't Know a Graphics Card Could Do That. Erik Wynters, Bloomsburg University.
November 9. Cyberwarfare. Brandon Bendigo, BU major in Computer Forensics and Computer Science.
November 16. A Math Modeling Contest Problem in Criminology. Undergraduate Math Modeling Team, Bucknell University.
November 30. An Interesting Operating System Modification. William Katsak. Rutgers University
December 7. Web Development for Mobile Devices. Helmut Doll. Bloomsburg University.

Spring 2010

February 2. Examples from Probability and Statistics as Taught at Shandong University of Technology. Jim Pomfret, Bloomsburg University.
February 16. What Should Adorn Next Year's Math Contest T-shirt? Kevin Ferland, Bloomsburg University.
March 2. Analysis of a Game of Table Tennis: Can Mathematics Help Me to Beat My Chinese Colleagues? Reza Noubury, Bloomsburg University.
March 16. A C++ Tree Template Class. Brandon McKenzie, BU major in Computer Science.
March 30. Mathematics-Nspired. Steve Kokoska, Bloomsburg University.
April 13. Detecting Hidden Signals in MPEG Motion Vectors. Steve Rhein, East Stroudsburg University.
April 20. Careers In Mathematics — Being a Statistician in 2010. David Bennett, Bloomsburg University.
April 26. Software Engineering class presentations.
April 27. Software Engineering class presentations.

Fall 2009

October 6. Using Version Control Software in a Group Programming Course. Curt Jones, Bloomsburg University.
October 20. Perfect Distance Stars mod m. Xianrui Meng, BU student.
November 3. Enforcing Specifications for Hardware Interaction in Operating Systems Code. Lea Wittie, Bucknell University.
November 17. Elliptic Curves in Number Theory and Cryptography. Ryan Evans, BU student.
December 1. Football and Mathematics: Could You Do It Better? Eric Kahn, Bloomsburg University.
December 8. Perfect Totient Numbers. Joe Perott, BU student.

Spring 2009

February 10. Oscillation Criteria for a Non-linear Second Order Ordinary Differential Equation. Youmin Lu, Bloomsburg University.
February 24. Conference Graphs and Paley Partial Difference Sets. John Polhill, Bloomsburg University.
March 10. What's the Problem? William Calhoun, Bloomsburg Univerity.
March 24. A General Method for Generalized p-value. Xinmin Li, Shandong University.
March 25. On Sums of Powers of Primes, Florian Luca, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Morelia.
April 7. Improved Genetic Algorithms for Small Sorting Networks. Alex Paoletti, BU student.
April 20. Software Engineering class presentations.
April 21. Software Engineering class presentations.

Fall 2008

September 30. Square of Sum Equals Sum of Cubes. Paul Loomis, Bloomsburg University.
October 7. Earthquake Modelling: How to Do it Right. Reza Noubury, Bloomsburg University.
October 21. Artificial Life, Actual Life and Conway's Game of Life. Drue Coles, Bloomsburg University.
October 28. Crawling Up a Funnel. John Riley, Bloomsburg University.
November 4. Python Programming for Non-Programmers. Robert Montante, Bloomsburg University.
November 11. Holistic Video Game Optimization. Eric Preisz, Full Sail Institute.
November 18. Use of Double Quadratic Polynomials for Nonlinear Dose-Response Modeling in Biological Experiments. Jason Elsinger, BU student.
December 2. Two Internet-Based Java Applications. Advanced Java class.

Spring 2008

February 26. Characterizing solutions to Burgers' equation using integral representation. Upali Karunathilake, Bloomsburg University.
February 28. Using a Beowulf Cluster to model the shapes of asteroids. Michael Shepard, Bloomsburg University.
March 4. What's in an 8.3 name? A name by any other name is a forensics problem. John Riley, Bloomsburg University.
March 25. Difference sets, codes, and bent functions. Qing Xiang, University of Delaware.
April 8. Software Engineering class presentations.
April 22. Geometric group theory. Nicholas Koban, University of Maine.

Mathematical and Digital Sciences Seminar Series

Spring 2020 Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30 in Navy 209

Fall 2019 Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30 in Navy 209

Spring 2019 Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30 in Navy 207

Fall 2018 Tuesdays from 3:30-4:45 in Bakeless 201

Spring 2018 Tuesdays from 3:30-4:45 in Bakeless 201

Fall 2017 Tuesdays from 3:30-4:45 in Bakeless 201

Spring 2017 Tuesdays at 3:30 in Navy 207

Spring 2016 Tuesdays at 3:30 in Centennial 201

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Spring 2020
Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30 in Navy 209

Fall 2019
Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30 in Navy 209

Spring 2019
Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30 in Navy 207

Fall 2018
Tuesdays from 3:30-4:45 in Bakeless 201

Spring 2018
Tuesdays from 3:30-4:45 in Bakeless 201

Fall 2017
Tuesdays from 3:30-4:45 in Bakeless 201

Spring 2017
Tuesdays at 3:30 in Navy 207

Spring 2016
Tuesdays at 3:30 in Centennial 201