Colloquium Speakers and Distinguished Visitors
Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
in 2003 - 2004
Fall 2003 -- Spring 2004
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June
Thursday, June 10, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Takeshi Katsura University of Hokaido, Hokaido, Japan Scaling Elements and Topological Graphs Room: 105 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. May
Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Joshua Lansky, Bucknell University The Base Change Lifting Host: A. Raghuram Room: 217 MLH (NOTE room change) Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday, May 13, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Chia-Fu Yu, Columbia University Mass formula for supersingular Drinfeld modules Host: Yangbo Ye and Lihe Wang Room: 221 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Tuesday, May 11, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Fahuai Yi, South China Normal University A parabolic variational inequality arising from valuation of fixed rate mortgages Host: Lihe Wang Room: 221 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Monday, May 3, 2004 3:30 Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series Iain Raeburn, University of Newcastle, Australia Involutive Algebras in Algebra and Analysis Host: Paul S. Muhly Room: 205 MLH Refreshments: H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm Wednesday, May 5, 2004 3:30 Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series Iain Raeburn, University of Newcastle, Australia Involutive Algebras in Algebra and Analysis Host: Paul S. Muhly Room: 205 MLH Thursday, May 6, 2004 3:30 Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series Iain Raeburn, University of Newcastle, Australia Involutive Algebras in Algebra and Analysis Host: Paul S. Muhly Room: 221 MLH Friday, May 7, 2004 3:30 Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series Iain Raeburn, University of Newcastle, Australia Involutive Algebras in Algebra and Analysis Host: Paul S. Muhly Room: 205 MLH April Friday, April 30, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Oliver T. Dasbach, Louisiana State University The Geometry of the Jones polynomial Host: Charles Frohman Room: 205 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday, April 29, 2004 3:30 Joint AMCS-Mathematics Colloquium Janet Best, Ohio State University Mathematical modeling of Parkinsonian rhythms Host: Herb Hethcote Room: 113 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Wednesday, April 28, 2004 2:30 Mathematics Colloquium Jeff Selden, University of Arizona The Density of States in a Quasi-Gap Host: Gerhard Strohmer Room: 110 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Friday, April 23, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Zhaoli Liu Multiplicity and nodal properties of solutions of semilinear elliptic equations Host: Yi Li Room: 205 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:30 Joint AMCS-Mathematics Colloquium Walter A. Illman, Department of Geoscience, University of Iowa Transient radial flow to a well in an infinite randomly heterogeneous aquifer Host: Herbert Hethcote Room: 113 MLH (PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE) Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Monday, April 19, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium A. Rod Gover, University of Auckland, New Zealand Conformally invariant Maxwell type operators on forms and global conformal invariants Host: Thomas Branson Room: 205 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Friday, April 16, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Wojciech Kozlowski, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw Purely Algebraic Solution to the Dirichlet Problem Host: Antoni Pierzchalski Room: 205 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday, April 15, 2004 2:00 Mathematics Colloquium Guowei Wei, Michigan State University Wavelet methods for solving some challeging high frequency problems Host: Yangbo Ye Room: 140 SH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Alexander Katsevich, University of Central Florida Image reconstruction in cone beam computer tomography Host: Yangbo Ye Room: 221 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday, April 1, 2004 3:00 Mathematics Colloquium Jon Davis, University of Minnesota Painting a Portrait of Student Achievement in Middle School Standards-based Classrooms with Hierarchical Linear Modeling and Longitudinal Analyses Host: Carolyn Colvin Room: 301 Lindquist Center March Monday, March 29, 2004 10:00 Mathematics Colloquium Luis Saldanha, University of Quebec, Students' Reasoning About Sampling Distributions and Statistical Inference" Host: Carolyn Colvin Room: 301 Lindquist Center Thursday, March 25, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Seick Kim, University of Missouri Gaussian estimates for fundamental solutions to certain parabolic systems Host: Lihe Wang Room: 221 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. February Friday, February 27, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Thomas Weston, Amherst Families of Galois representations Host: Kent Fuller Room: 214 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday, February 26, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Rob Scharein, Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics, Burnaby, BC On Knotting with KnotPlot Host: Isabel Darcy Room: 113 MLH (PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE) Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Tuesday, February 24, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Heather Russell, Oklahoma State University Plane Curve Singularities and the Adjacency Problem Host: Kent Fuller Room: 221 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. 12/22 Monday, February 23, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium David Swigon, Rutgers University DNA elasticity and its role in gene regulation Host: Herb Hethcote Room: 205 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Friday, February 20, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Urmila Malvadkar, University of California at Davis How dispersal affects the success of marine reserves: insights from diffusion models and optimal control Host: Herbert Hethcote Room: 205 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00pm. Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:30 Mathematics Colloquium (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE) Dehao Yu, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing Chinese Academy of Sciences Natural Boundary Integral Equations and Related Computational Methods Host: Weimin Han Room: 113 MLH (PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE) Refreshments: Muhly Lounge after the colloquium. 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Dan Knopf, University of Iowa Anatomy of a Ricci flow neckpinch Host: Kent Fuller Room: 221 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00pm. Wednesday, February 18, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Patrick De Leenheer, DIMACS - Rutgers University Crowding effects promote coexistence in the chemostat Host: Herbert Hethcote Room: 205 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00pm. Tuesday, February 17, 2004 2:30 Mathematics Colloquium (PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE) Tian Ma, Indiana University and and Sichuan University Dynamic Bifurcation of Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Rayleigh-Benard Convection Host: Lihe Wang Room: 113 MLH (PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE) Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 2 pm. Thursday February 5, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Mark Davidson, Louisiana State University Generalized Laguerre Functions and Differential Recursion Relations Host: Tuong Ton-That Room: TBA Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. January Thursday January 29, 2004 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Judy Packer, University of Colorado, Boulder Generalized filters for wavelets and Parseval frames Host: Palle Jorgensen Room: 221 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. December Tuesday December 2, 2003 2:30 Mathematics Colloquium Michael Skeide, University of Molise, Italy Independence, Conditional Independence and Hilbert Modules Host: Paul Muhly Room: 301 VAN Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at ? pm. November Thursday November 20, 2003 3:30 Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series Professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Ulam Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory Epidemics in Complex Landscapes: The impact of demography, social and network structure on disease dynamics. Host: Herb Hethcote Room: 214 MLH Wednesday November 19, 2003 3:30 Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series Professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Ulam Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory Disease Evolution in Dynamic Landscapes Host: Herb Hethcote Room: 214 MLH Tuesday November 18, 2003 3:30 Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series Professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Ulam Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory Mathematics meets epidemiology: The case of tuberculosis (TB). Host: Herb Hethcote Room: 214 MLH Monday November 17, 2003 3:30 Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series Professor Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Ulam Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory Bioterrism: Mathematical Modeling Applications in Homeland Security Host: Herb Hethcote Room: W151 Pappajohn Business Building Refreshments: H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm Thursday November 13, 2003 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Gary Ebert, University of Delaware Partial Ovoids and Spans of the Hermitian Surface Host: Norm Johnson Room: 214 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Tuesday November 11, 2003 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Xin Zhou, Duke University Riemann-Hilbert problems and applications Host: Lihe Wang Room: 214 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday November 6, 2003 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Ovidiu Pasarescu, Institute of Mathematics, Romanian Academy On the Classification of Embedded Projective Curves Host: Florin Radulescu Room: 214 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Tuesday November 4, 2003 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium C. Chao, Nebraska 3D Planetary Geostrophic Models ----- global regularity and attractors Host: Lihe Wang Room: 214 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. October Thursday, October 30, 2003 3:30 Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series Cameron Gordon, University of Texas at Austin Dehn Surgery on Knots, III Host:Ying-Qing Wu Room: 214 MLH Refreshments: H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm Wednesday, October 29, 2003 3:30 Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series Cameron Gordon, University of Texas at Austin Dehn Surgery on Knots, II Host:Ying-Qing Wu Room: 221 MLH Refreshments: H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm Tuesday, October 28, 2003 3:30 Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series Cameron Gordon, University of Texas at Austin Dehn Surgery on Knots, I Host: Ying-Qing Wu Room: 221 MLH Refreshments: H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm Monday, October 27, 2003 3:30 Distinguished Visitor's Lecture Series Cameron Gordon, University of Texas at Austin The Classification of Knots Host:Ying-Qing Wu Room: 221 MLH Refreshments: H.T. Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm Thursday October 16, 2003 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Luis Fernando Gatica, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción - Chile A FEM-DtN formulation for a non-linear exterior problem in incompressible elasticity Host: Juan Gatica Room: 214 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday October 9, 2003 3:30 Mathematics Colloquium Jianya Liu, Shandong University Subconvexity for Rankin-Selberg L-functions of Maass Forms Host: Yangbo Ye and David Manderscheid Room: 214 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm. Thursday, October 2, 2003 3:30pm Mathematics Colloquium Jozef Przytycki, George Washington University Old problems -- new solutions in the Knot Theory Host: Marta Asaeda and Charles Frohman Room: 214 MLH Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00pm.