2005-2006 Colloquium
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
