Alessandra Constantini, Oklahoma State University: The journey of a math major through college education usually starts with a calculus course. It is usually harder to predict where it ends, as several factors might affect each student’s trajectory. In this talk, I’ll tell you how my educational journey brought me to a Ph.D.…
Daniel Gomez, University of Pennsylvania: How long will a confined Brownian particle take to hit an exceedingly small target? It is a classical result that the expected value of this first hitting time (FHT) blows up as the size of the target vanishes in two or more spatial dimensions. This is an example of a "strongly localized…