The colloquium is usually held from 3:30-4:30 pm every Thursday. Refreshments will be served in the Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm before the colloquium. There will be no colloquium talks when the Department is holding the Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series.

 Schedule for 2007- 2008
Organizers: Bruce Ayati, Rodica Curtu, Julianna Tymoczko

September| October| November| December

January | February | March | April | May
 

Colloquia in 2006 - 2007
Colloquia in 2005 - 2006
Colloquia in 2004 - 2005

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Information for speakers: Here is a guide which contains useful information.

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September
October
October 11, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Linda Chen (Ohio State University)
Title	Orbifold Cohomology and Toric Varieties
Host	Julianna Tymoczko
Room	118 MLH
October 18, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Pablo Negron (University of Puerto Rico at Humacao)
Title	Local Bifurcation Analysis of a Second Gradient Model for Deformations of a Rectangular Slab
Host	Juan Gatica
Room	118 MLH
October 25, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Michael Greene (Intel Corporation)
Title	Preparing to work for industry: an employer's perspective
Host	Department of Mathematics, The Office of Ethnic Inclusion and Department of Computer Science
Room	Bijou Theater, 166 IMU
November
November 8, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Zeljko Cuckovic (University of Toledo)
Title	Weighted Composition Operators Between Bergman Spaces on Strongly Pseudoconvex Domains
Host	Raul Curto
Room	118 MLH
November 29, 2007
3:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor - Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series ( 11/28, 11/29, 11/30 )
Speaker	James Keener (University of Utah)
Title	How cells make measurements
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	118 MLH
December
December 6, 2007
2:30 pm	Mathematics and AMCS Joint Colloquium
Speaker	Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Arizona State University)
Title	Disease Dynamics and Evolution: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century
Host	Department of Mathematics and The Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences
Room	Pomerantz Center, C20
December 6, 2007
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Pranay Goel (Laboratory of Biological Modeling NIDDK, NIH)
Title	Microdomains in the cell: how calcium mediates stimulus-function coupling in excitable tissues. A multiscale approach
Host	Rodica Curtu
Room	Pomerantz Center, C20
January
February
February 5, 2008
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Stefan Wenger (Courant Institute)
Title	Isoperimetric inequalities and the large scale geometry of metric spaces
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	221 MLH
February 6, 2008
3:30 pm	Mathematics and AMCS Joint Colloquium
Speaker	Paula Budu-Grajdeanu (The Ohio State University)
Title	The LifeLine-Vascular Access for Hemodialysis
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	221 MLH
February 7, 2008: DONG LI RESCHEDULED FOR FEB. 13
February 8, 2008
3:30 pm	Mathematics and AMCS Joint Colloquium
Speaker	Yongcheng Zhou (University of California, San Diego)
Title	Continuum modeling of macromolecular electrostatics and conformal change: mathematical analysis and simulations
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	217 MLH
February 11, 2008
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Maggy Tomova (Rice University)
Title	Bridge surfaces, distance and thin position
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	221 MLH
February 12, 2008
2:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Caroline Klivans (University of Chicago)
Title	A simplicial matrix tree theorem
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	218 Phillips Hall
February 12, 2008
3:30 pm	Mathematics and AMCS Joint Colloquium
Speaker	Pranay Goel (NIDDK, National Institues of Health)
Title	Diabetes and dynamics: The mathematical physiology of beta-cells and the Islets of Langerhans
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	221 MLH
February 13, 2008
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Dong Li (Institute for Advanced Studies)
Title	Singularities in some fluid dynamics equations
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	221 MLH
February 14, 2008
3:30 pm	Mathematics and AMCS Joint Colloquium
Speaker	Samuel Isaacson (University of Utah)
Title	Mathematical Problems From Molecular Cell Biology
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	221 MLH
February 18, 2008
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Calin Chindris (University of Minnesota)
Title	Littlewood-Richardson coefficients and Quivers
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	221 MLH
February 25, 2008
2:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor - Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series ( 02/25, 02/26, 02/27, 02/28 )
Speaker	Bernard Shiffman (Johns Hopkins University)
Title	Random polynomials and waves
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	113 MLH
March
March 27, 2008
2:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Hans Kaper (Division of Mathematical Sciences, NSF)
Title	Reduction methods for systems of ordinary differential equations
Host	Yi Li
Room	3505 SC (Seamans Center for Eng.)
March 27, 2008
3:30 pm	Distinguished Visitor - Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series ( 3/25, 3/26, 3/27 )
Speaker	David Jerison (MIT)
Title	Elliptic Variational Problems
Host	Department of Mathematics
Room	221 MLH
April
April 1, 2008 (Tuesday)
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Suzanne Lenhart (University of Tennessee)
Title	Rabies in Raccoons: Optimal Control for a Discrete Time Model on a Spatial Grid
Host	Bruce Ayati
Room	221 MLH
April 10, 2008
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Jianguo Cao (University of Notre Dame)
Title	An extension of Perelman's soul theorem for singular spaces
Host	Hao Fang
Room	TBA
April 17, 2008
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Vik Jha (Glasgow College of Technology)
Title	A Finite Analogue of the Hall-Mendelsohn Theorem
Host	Norm Johnson
Room	221 MLH
April 24, 2008
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Brian E. Moore (The University of Central Florida)
Title	Propagation Failure of Traveling Fronts in Discrete Inhomogeneous Media
Host	Laurent Jay
Room	221 MLH
May
May 8, 2008
3:30 pm	Mathematics Colloquium
Speaker	Roman Borisyuk (University of Plymouth, UK)
Title	Partial synchronization of neural activity and modelling of visual perception and attention
Host	Rodica Curtu
Room	221 MLH
May 15, 2008
2:30 pm	Mathematics and AMCS Joint Colloquium
Speaker	Seung-Yeal Ha (Seoul National University, Korea)
Title	Kinetic and fluid models for flocking phenomena
Host	Tong Li
Room	114 MLH