Departmental Calendar
MORE 2009
Friday, November 20 - MORE team to Valley High School
MSM Final Exam -- Cathy Kaspar
Friday, November 20 at 2:00 p.m.. in Carver
390. Using Bezier Curves for Geometric Transformations, Major Professors: Heather Bolles & Irvin Hentzel
MS Final Exam -- John Gillespie
Friday, November 20 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Carver
390. The Galois Connection between sequences and ideals, Major Professor: Jonathan Smith.
Mathematics Colloquia - Double header
Friday, November 20 in 268 Carver at 3:30 p.m. - Tong Li (U Iowa) Stability of traveling waves arising from chemotaxis
Friday, November 20 in 268 Carver at 4:15 p.m. - Lihe Wang (U Iowa) Estimates for invariant classes of functions
Mathematics Department Offices Closed
Monday-Wednesday, November 23-25. There will be no mail delivery or Weekly Reader this week.
University
Holiday
Thursday-Friday, November 26-27 (Classes recessed November 23-27)
Computational & Applied Math
Monday, November 30 at 11:00 a.m. in Carver 118. Wen Zhang (Oakland Univ) on The effect of imposing a corner condition on the evolution of two-dimensional crystal morphologies by surface diffusion withanisotropic surface free energies
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
Monday, November 30 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 124. Facilitator: Ling Long
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, November 30 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Geoff Tims on An introduction to elliptic curves and their applications
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday, December 1 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, December 1 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Maria Axenovich
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, December 1 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver - Marshall Slemrod (UW-M) Compensated compactness and isometric embedding
Graduate Student Seminar Series
Wednesday, December 2 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver. Jennifer Davidson, Open problems in mathematics for staganalysis for MS and PhDs. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m.,
in 404 Carver Hall
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday, December 3at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Thursday, December 3 at 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Thursday, December 3at 3:10 p.m. in 196 Carver
PhD Preliminary Exam -- Atilla Sit
Friday, December 4 at 1:30 p.m.. in Carver
390. Major Professor: Zhijun Wu.
Putnam Exam
Saturday, December 5 in Carver 305 from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
Monday, December 7 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 124. Facilitator: Ling Long
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, December 7 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. John Gillespie/Christian Roettger
Computational & Applied Math
Monday, December 7 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Wen Zhou
Mathematics Faculty Meeting
Wednesday, December 9 at 4:10 p.m. 305 Carver Hall.
PhD Preliminary Exam -- Sijia Liu
Tuesday, December 8 at 9:00 a.m., in Carver
390. Major Professor: Anastasios Matzavinos
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday, December 8 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, December 8 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Jason Smith
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, December 8 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Ulrica Wilson (Morehouse College)
Graduate Student Seminar Series
Wednesday, December 9 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver. Thinking ahead about what to do in summer. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m.,
in 404 Carver Hall
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday, December 10 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Thursday, December 10 at 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Thursday, December 10 at 3:10 p.m. in 196 Carver
LAS Open Forum with President Geoffroy and Provost Hoffman
Friday, December 11, Campanile Room of MU, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
PhD Preliminary Exam -- Sukjung Hwang
Monday, December 14 at 2:00 p.m.. in Carver
390. Major Professor: Gary Lieberman.
PhD Final Defense -- Cory Howk
Thursday, December 17 at 9:00 a.m., in Carver
390. Major Professors: Howard Levine & Michael Smiley.
MS Final Defense -- Volodymyr Sukhoy
Friday, December 18 at 1:00 p.m.. in Carver
390. Major Professor: Zhijun Wu.
Graduate
Commencement Ceremony
Friday, December 18 at 8:00 p.m. in C.Y. Stephens Auditorium
Mathematics Department Offices Closed
December 24 through January 1. There will be no mail delivery or Weekly Reader this week.
University
Holiday
Thursday-Friday, December 24-25
University
Holiday
Monday, January 18
Mathematics Colloquia
Thursday, April 15 Yiannis Moschovakis (UCLA) The axiomatic derivation of absolute lower bounds
2010 April 24-25 : Midwest Numerical Analysis Day
Mathematics Colloquia
Monday, April 19 Chihoon Lee (Colorado State)
University
Holiday
Monday, May 31
University
Holiday
Monday, July 5
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
Monday, DATE at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 124. Facilitator: Ling Long
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, DATE at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Facilitator: J.D.H. Smith
Computational & Applied Math
Monday, DATE at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Facilitator: Paul Sacks & Hailiang Liu
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, September at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Facilitators: Leslie Hogben and Ryan Martin
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, DATE at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver
Graduate Student Seminar Series
Wednesday, DATE at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday, November x at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Thursday, November x at 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Thursday, DATE at 3:10 p.m. in 196 Carver
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