Colloquium Speakers and Distinguished Visitors
in 2005 - 2006

Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
Fall 2005 -- Spring 2006
Organizers: Hao Fang
, Colleen Catharine Mitchell

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Colloquia in 2004 - 2005
Colloquia in 2003 - 2004
Colloquia in 2002 - 2003
Colloquia in 2001 - 2002


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 September      

Thursday, September 22, 2005
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  Lilach Hadany, University of Iowa
  Fitness-Associated Recombination: A new approach to the evolutionary advantages of sex
 Host: Colleen Catharine Mitchell
 Room: 114 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
Monday, September 26, 2005
 
3:30  Mathematics/AMCS Colloquium
  Sookkyung Lim, Ohio State University
  Mathematical models in biofluids using the immersed boundary method
 Host: Herbert Hethcote
 Room: 214 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 October      

Monday, October 17, 2005
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  A. Q. M. Khaliq, Middle Tennessee State University
  Computational PDE Approach for Pricing Exotic Options
 Host: Weimin Han
 Room: 214 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 November  
 
Thursday, November 3, 2005
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  Nik Weaver, Washington University, St. Louis
  Mathematical Conceptualism
 Host: Palle Jorgensen
 Room: 114 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
Thursday, November 17, 2005
 
3:30  Mathematics/AMCS Joint Colloquium
  Tran van Trung, Universitat Duisburg-Essen
  New approach to designing public key cryptosystems based on finite groups
 Host: Ton-That Tuong
 Room: 114 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 December  
 
Thursday, December 1, 2005
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  Jim Coykendall, the North Dakota University
  On Unique Factorization in Domains and Monoids
 Host: Dan Anderson
 Room: 114 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
Thursday, December 8, 2005
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  Suzanne Shontz, University of Minnesota
  Numerical Methods in Electronic Structures Calculations
 Host: Laurent Jay
 Room: 114 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
Thursday, December 15, 2005
 
3:30  Mathematics/AMCS Joint Colloquium
  Changfeng Gui, University of Connecticut
  Some entire solutions related to phase transitions
 Host: Yi Li
 Room: 114 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 January  
 
January 19, 2006
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  Tai Melcher, University of California, Berkeley
  Malliavin calculus and gradient estimates
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: 205 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
January 23, 2006
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  Timothy C. Reluga, Yale University
  Spatial Models of Invasion in Epidemiology and Ecology
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: 205 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
January 26, 2006
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  Malabika Pramanik , California Institute of Technology
  Optimal Sobolev Regularity of a Class of Fourier Integral Operators
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: 205 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
January 30, 2006
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  Laura Miller, University of Utah
  The Significance of Intermediate Reynolds Number Flows To Biological Form and Development
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: 205 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
January 31, 2006
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  M. KRISHNAMURTHY , California Institute of Technology
  LANGLANDS FUNCTORIALITY AND L-FUNCTIONS
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: 205 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 February  
 
February 7, 2006
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  Janet Best, Ohio State University
  A minimal neuronal model that separates frequencies
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: 205 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
February 9, 2006
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  Dongwoo Sheen, Purdue University
  A Parallel Method for Backward Parabolic Problems
 Host: Lihe Wang
 Room: 205 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
February 27, 28, 2005
 
3:30  Distinguished Vistor Lectures
  Pere Ara, Universitat Aut`onoma de Barcelona, Spain
  Leavitt path algebras and related rings I, II
 Host: Vic Camillo
 Room: 205 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge on Monday at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 March  
 
March 1 and 2, 2005
 
3:30  Distinguished Vistor Lectures
  Pere Ara, Universitat Aut`onoma de Barcelona, Spain
  Leavitt path algebras and related rings III, IV
 Host: Vic Camillo
 Room: 205 MLH
  
March 9, 2006
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  Ye Tian, McGill University
  Rational Points on Twisted Fermat Curves
 Host: Yangbo Ye
 Room: 205 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
March 23, 2006
 
3:30  Distinguished Visitor Lecture
  Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin
  Freeman Dyson's "Challenge for the Future": The mock theta functions
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: TBA
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
March 24 , 2006
 
3:30  Distinguished Visitor Lecture
  Ken Ono, University of Wisconsin
  Modular forms, infinite products and singular moduli
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: TBA
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 April  
 
April 6, 2006
 
3:30  Mathematics/AMCS Joint Colloquium
  Yuanwei Qi, Central Florida University
  Universality and Dynmaics of an Auto-catalytic Chemcial Reaction
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: 205 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
April 13, 2006
 
3:30  Mathematics/AMCS Joint Colloquium
  Boris Mordukhovich, Wayne State University
  VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS AND GENERALIZED DIFFERENTIATION: NEW TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: 205 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
April 20, 2006
 
2:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  Pierre Albin, MIT
  Index theory on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds
 Host: Fang
 Room: 71 SH
  
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  Gisela Garcia-Ramos, Department of Biology, University of Kentucky
  Mathematical approaches in the study of invasions: relevance to population expansion and HIV infection
 Host: Department of Mathematics,
 Room: 205 McLean
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
April 27, 2006
 
3:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  Marty Scharlemann, UCSB
  Indecision and Its Uses
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: 205 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
 
 May  
 
May 3, 2006
 
3:30  Distinguished Speaker Lectures
  Andrzej Stasiak, University de Lausanne
  DNA topology
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: 205 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
May 4, 2006
 
3:30  Distinguished Speaker Lectures
  Andrzej Stasiak, University de Lausanne
  Ideal Knots
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: 205 MLH
  
May 4, 2006
 
2:30  Mathematics Colloquium
  William Yslas V{\'}elez, University of Arizona
  Increasing the numbers of mathematics majors
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: 071 SH   
May 4, 2006
 
4:30  ACMS Colloquium
  Frederic Noo, Utah Center for Advanced Imaging research and Department of Radiology, University of Utah
  A general filtered-backprojection reconstruction formula for cone-beam tomography
 Host: Ye
 Room: 110 MLH
 Refreshments: Muhly Lounge at 3:00 pm.
  
May 5, 2006
 
3:30  Distinguished Speaker Lectures
  Andrzej Stasiak, University de Lausanne
  Natural Classification of Knots
 Host: David Manderscheid
 Room: 071 SH
  
May 8, 2006
 
3:30  Distinguished Speaker Lectures
  Andrzej Stasiak, University de Lausanne
  Scaling behavior, equilibrium lengths and probabilities of knotted polymers
 Host: Department of Mathematics
 Room: 213 MLH