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Speakers (in reverse chronological order)
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Refreshments will be served in the Conference Room before each talk.

Schedule for 2011-2012


Frank Stenger
Title: "Approximating indefinite convolutions"
Date: Friday, 4 May 2012
Time: 1:40-2:30pm
Room: ILC 402
 
Hirotachi Abo
Title: "Counting the number of complete subgraphs in the Paley graph"
Date: Thursday, 8 March 2012
Time: 1:40-2:30pm
Room: ILC 204
 
Jacek Kierzenka
Title: "Developing BVP solvers for MATLAB"
Date: Monday, 5 March 2012
Time: 2:40-3:30pm
Room: ILC 401
 
Lawrence C. Washington
Title: "Manipulating Encrypted Data"
Date: Thursday, 1 March 2012
Time: 1:40-2:30pm
Room: ILC 301
 
Michael Starbird
Title: "Geometric Gems: Appreciating the Timeless Beauty of Mathematics"
Date: Thursday, 15 September 2011
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Room: SUB Lookout Room
 
Andres Caicedo
Title: "Sets and Games"
Date: Thursday, 1 September 2011
Time: 1:40-2:30pm
Room: MG 120
 

Schedule for 2010-2011


Christine Escher
Title: "Classifying families of manifolds"
Date: Thursday, 14 April 2011
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: ILC 302
 
Thomas Foster
Title: "Church-Oswald Models for Set Theory"
Date: Thursday, 7 April 2011
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 108
 
Uwe Harlander
Title: "The differentially heated rotating annulus as a laboratory analogue of the atmospheric circulation"
Date: Thursday, 17 March 2011
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 108
 
Lyudmyla Barannyk
Title: "Spatially averaged dynamics, closure method and dimension reduction for discrete models of heterogeneous continua"
Date: Monday, 7 Feb. 2011
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 124
 
Dik Dummar
Title: "Uncertainty Quantification of a chemical kinetic process internship at Idaho National Laboratory"
Date: Thursday, 27 Jan. 2011
Time: 4:40-5:30
Room: MG 120
 
Michael Pernice
Title: "Modeling and Simulation at Idaho National Laboratory"
Date: Thursday, 27 Jan. 2011
Time: 3:40-4:30
Room: MG 120
 
Jim Wolper
Title: "Computational Complexity of Quadrature Rules"
Date: Thursday, 27 Jan. 2011
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 124
 
Timothy Barth
Title: "A Survey of Techniques for Uncertainty Propagation with Application to Computational Fluid Dynamics"
Date: Wednesday, 17 Nov. 2010
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room ILC 213
 
J. Scott Carter
Title: "An Introduction to Quandles"
Date: Thursday, 11 Nov. 2010
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room MG 124
 
Piotr Kokoszka
Title: "Two sample inference in functional linear models"
Date: Thursday, 14 Oct. 2010
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room MG 124
 
Grady Wright
Title: "Geophysical Modeling on the Sphere with Radial Basis Functions"
Date: Thursday, 09 Sept. 2010
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room MG 124
 
Liljana Babinkostova
Title: "Games and Dimension"
Date: Thursday, 02 Sept. 2010
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room MG 124
 

Schedule for 2009-2010


Diarmuid Crowley
Title: "The Mapping Class Groups of (n-1)-connected 2n-Manifolds" and "An Introduction to the Manifold Atlas Project: www.map.him.uni-bonn.de"
Date: Tu. 11 May 2010
Time: 3:30-4:45
Room MG 118
 
Gary Hagerty
Title: "Using Technology to Reach Out to the Individual Student Creating Success in Mathematics for All"
Date: Mo. 12 April 2010
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room ILC 404
 
Xinyu Sun
Title: "Several Games and Things we can learn from them"
Date: Mo. 17 March 2010
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room ILC 201
 
Scott MacLachlan
Title: "Fast Solvers for Geodynamic Flows"
Date: Tu. 16 March 2010
Time: 2:00-3:00
Room tba
 
Zach Teitler
Title: "Ranks of Polynomials"
Date: Mo. 15 March 2010
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room MG 226
 
Peter Scheiblechner
Title: "A Quick Tour through Algebra and Geometry"
Date: Fr. 12 March 2010
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room MG 226
 
Jens Harlander
Title: "Groups as Geometric Objects"
Date: Fri. 11 September 2009
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room MG 120
 
Tevian Dray and Corinne A. Manogue
Title: "Bridging the Gap between Mathematics and the Physical Sciences"
Date: Fri. 4 September 2009
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room MG 120

Schedule for 2008-2009


Inanc Senocak
Title: "Rapid-Response Simulation of Forward and Inverse Problems in Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion"
Date: Thu. 19 March 2009
Time: 3:40-4:30
Room: MG 139
 
Longin Jan Latecki
Title: "Multiscale Random Fields with Application to Contour Grouping"
Date: Fri. 5 December 2008 cancelled
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 120
 
Charles Livingston
Title: "A survey of knot invariants"
Date: Fri. 21 November 2008
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 120
 
Uwe Kaiser
Title: "Three-manifold Topology after Perelman"
Date: Fri. 14 November 2008
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 120
 
Rosemary A. Renaut
Title: "Statistical properties of the regularized least squares functional and a hybrid LSQR Newton method for finding the regularization parameter: application in image deblurring and signal restoration"
Date: Wed. 29 October 2008
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 120
 
Barbara Zubik-Kowal
Title: "Numerical solutions of thalamo-cortical systems"
Date: Fri. 17 October 2008
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 120
 
Mike Hitchman
Title: "Cosmic topology"
Date: Fri. 10 October 2008
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 124
 
Jeffrey Boerner
Title: "An introduction to knot invariants"
Date: Fri. 3 October 2008
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 120
 
Stefan Geschke
Title: "Extensions of Ramsey's Theorem"
Date: Fri. 26 September 2008
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 120
 
Andres Caicedo
Title: "Intersecting families and definability"
Date: Fri. 19 September 2008
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 120
 
Kyungduk Ko
Title: "Wavelet-based Bayesian estimation of partially linear regression models with long memory errors"
Date: Fri. 12 September 2008
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 124
 
Jaechoul Lee
Title: "A Reformulation of Weighted Least Squares Estimators in Autocorrelated Regressions"
Date: Fri. 5 September 2008
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 120
 
Stephan Rosebrock
Title: "The Whitehead Conjecture-An Overview"
Date: Fri. 29 August 2008
Time: 2:40-3:30
Room: MG 120
 
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