Trevor Reckell - Applied Mathematics, PhD Defense
Friday, November 6, 2026
9:00 AM AZ/MT
WXLR A113 - Tempe Campus Only
Title: From Mechanism to Premium: Modeling, Identifiability, and Insurance Pricing for Environmentally Driven Disease, with Application to Valley Fever
Student Defense
Andre Rouhani, Mathematics Education PhD Defense
Wednesday, October 21
10:00 am AZ/MT
ECA 385
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Title: The Dimensions of Proofiness: How Undergraduates Evaluate Mathematical Proof
Chukwudi Obite - Statistics PhD Defense
Friday, October 30, 2026
10:00 am AZ/MT
WXLR A113
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Title: Bayesian Modeling with Q-Exponential Processes: Spatiotemporal Dynamics, Latent and Deep Representation.
Julia Judson-Garcia - Mathematics Education, PhD Defense
Monday, July 13, 2026
2:00 PM
Engineering Center A-Wing Room: 221
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Title: The Complexities of Students' Meanings for Calculus Animations
Ryan Swart, MA Mathematics, Thesis Defense
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
11:00 AM
WXLR A546
Virtual Meeting Link: Email Ryan Swart for link
Title: A Nonmonotone Gradient-Based Algorithm for Symmetric Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Graph Clustering
Jason Guglielmo - Mathematics Education, PhD
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
11:00 AM
WXLR A102
Virtual Meeting Link: email Jason Guglielmo for link
Title: Understanding Students' Math Identities through their Perceptions of their Character Enactments in the Figured World of their Precalculus Class
Jennifer Rastegar - Statistics, PhD Defense
Monday, May 18, 2026
10:00 AM AZ/MT
WXLR A546
Virtual Meeting Link: Email Jennifer Rastegar for link.
Title: A Hierarchical Gaussian Process Approach to Electron Scattering Data with Structured Noise
Alejandro Vidales Aller - Statistics PhD Defense
Thursday, April 30, 2026
11:00 AM AZ/MT
WCPH 560 (University/Rural)
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Title: Optimal Design for Two-Sample Inference and Prediction in Sparse Functional Data
Jacob Roarty, Applied Mathematics PhD Defense
Friday, April 10, 2026
9:00 AM AZ/MT
ECG G305 - Engineering Center G-Wing
Virtual Meeting Link: Email Jacob Roarty for link
Title: Computational Methods for Electrical Impedance Tomography: Forward and Inverse Problems
Allison Fuller, Applied Mathematics PhD Defense
Monday, April 13, 2026
1:00 PM AZ/MT
ART 240
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Title: Tensor-Based Kronecker Rank Analysis of Structured Matrices, with Applications to Inverse Problems