Colloquium Speakers and Distinguished Visitors
Department of Mathematics, University of Iowa
in 2005 - 2006
Fall 2005 -- Spring 2006
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Colloquia in 2004 - 2005
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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