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Today, Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Posted December 8, 2025

Faculty Meeting Questions or comments?

9:30 am Zoom

Meeting of the Professorial Faculty

Friday, December 12, 2025

Posted July 22, 2025
Last modified December 4, 2025

Control and Optimization Seminar Questions or comments?

10:30 am – 11:20 am Zoom (click here to join)

Javad Velni, Clemson University
Optimal Supplemental Lighting in Controlled Environment Agriculture: Data-driven and Model-based Perspectives

This seminar presents one aspect of my lab’s research focused on developing optimal supplemental lighting control strategies using LED lamps in controlled environment agriculture. The work aims to minimize electricity costs associated with supplemental lighting by integrating model-based optimization techniques with advanced machine learning methods, such as deep neural networks and Markov chains, used to predict uncertain environmental variables. Several scenarios are explored, ranging from a baseline optimal lighting approach for a single crop to more complex settings involving large-scale greenhouses with multiple crops and spatial light distribution considerations. Experimental results from a research greenhouse, where an Internet of Agricultural Things (IoAT) system was developed to grow lettuce, are presented and discussed. The seminar concludes with a roadmap highlighting several emerging research directions inspired by these findings.

Friday, January 2, 2026

Posted November 5, 2025

Graduate Student Event

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Lockett Hall 232

Qualifier Exam in Algebra

Event contact: Stephen Shipman

Monday, January 5, 2026

Posted November 5, 2025

Graduate Student Event

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Lockett Hall 232

Qualifier Exam in Analysis

Event contact: Stephen Shipman

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Posted November 5, 2025

Graduate Student Event

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Lockett Hall 232

Qualifier Exam in Topology

Event contact: Stephen Shipman

Friday, January 9, 2026

Posted November 5, 2025

Graduate Student Event

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Lockett Hall 232

Qualifier Exam in Applied Math

Event contact: Stephen Shipman

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Posted November 24, 2025

Informal Geometry and Topology Seminar Questions or comments?

1:30 pm Lockett Hall 233

Krishnendu Kar, Louisiana State University
Matthew Lemoine, Louisiana State University
Organizational Meeting

Join us for the first meeting of the Spring Semester 2026 Informal Geometry and Topology Seminar to decide which topic we will follow. The Informal Geometry and Topology Seminar is an opportunity for graduate students to get experience presenting information that they learn or have learned. We normally have a topic, paper, book, or subject that we follow and take turns presenting the information we learn, or giving independent talks about our own research. If you have any questions or would like to be added to the email list, please feel free to email Matthew Lemoine (mlemo36@lsu.edu) or Krishnendu Kar (kkar2@lsu.edu).

Friday, January 23, 2026

Posted December 1, 2025

Control and Optimization Seminar Questions or comments?

9:30 am – 10:20 am Zoom (click here to join)

Jameson Graber, Baylor University NSF CAREER Awardee
TBA

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Posted November 15, 2025

Algebra and Number Theory Seminar Questions or comments?

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Lockett 233 or click here to attend on Zoom

Olivia Beckwith, Tulane University
TBA

TBA

Friday, January 30, 2026