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Colloquia in 2006 - 2007

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September 2007           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 Negrón (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         June June 30, 2008   3:30 pm Mathematics Colloquium Speaker Jürgen Batt (Mathematisches Institut der Universität München, Germany) Title An introduction into mathematical investigation of the nonlinear Vlasov-Poisson system of partial differential equations with special consideration of the ''flat'' case Host Yi Li Room TBA