Departmental Calendar ARCHIVE
Study Group: Applied Math Qualifier
Friday, August 8 at 3:00 p.m. in 308 Carver - Fernando Miranda-Mendoza.
Study Group: Numerical Analysis Qualifier
Friday, August 8 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in 160 Carver - Wen Zhou.
Computer Labs Closed
Saturday August 9 through Sunday, August 24 - Labs 250 and 449 will be closed for maintenance.
Commencement Ceremony
Saturday, August 9 at 9:30 a.m. in Hilton Coliseum - combined undergraduate and graduate
Study Group: Applied Math Qualifier
Monday, August 11 at 3:00 p.m. in 308 Carver - Fernando Miranda-Mendoza.
Study Group: Numerical Analysis Qualifier
Monday, August 11 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in 160 Carver - Wen Zhou.
Help Room Closed
Monday August 11 through Tuesday, September 2.
Final Grades Due
Tuesday, August 12 to Registrar
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday, August 12 from 2:10 to 4:00 p.m. in Carver 0074.
Speak Teach Preparation
Wednesday, August 13 at 9:00 a.m. in 385 Carver.
Study Group: Applied Math Qualifier
Wednesday, August 13 at 3:00 p.m. in 308 Carver - Fernando Miranda-Mendoza.
Study Group: Numerical Analysis Qualifier
Wednesday, August 13 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in 160 Carver - Wen Zhou.
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday, August 14 from 2:10 to 4:00 p.m. in Carver 0074.
Study Group: Applied Math Qualifier
Friday, August 15 at 3:00 p.m. in 308 Carver - Fernando Miranda-Mendoza.
Study Group: Numerical Analysis Qualifier
Friday, August 15 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in 160 Carver - Wen Zhou.
Study
Group: Applied Math Qualifier
Monday, August 18 at 3:00 p.m. in 408 Carver - Fernando Miranda-Mendoza.
Math
Office Returns to Regular Office Hours
Monday, August 18 until further notice the Math office hours
are 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., M-F.
Study Group: Numerical Analysis Qualifier
Monday, August 18 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in 160 Carver - Wen Zhou.
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday, August 19 from 2:10 to 4:00 p.m. in Carver 0074.
Graduate
Student Orientation
Wednesday, August 20 at 2:00 p.m. in 449 Carver - for F08
and S08 incoming graduate students.
Study Group: Applied Math Qualifier
Wednesday, August 20 at 3:00 p.m. in 408 Carver - Fernando Miranda-Mendoza.
Mathematics Department Teaching Program
Thursday, August 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in 174 Carver. For incoming F08 TAs and F07 TAs entering classroom teaching.
Mathematics Qualifying Exam
Thursday, August 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in 305 Carver. Algebra, Applied Math, Numerical Analysis.
Graduate Student Pizza Lunch
Thursday, August 21 at 1:00 in174 Carver. RSVP to Melanie.
ISU Graduate Student Orientation
Friday, August 22 from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. in 1137 Pearson (and other rooms) MORE
Final
Defense: Xiaoliang Xie
Friday, August 22 at 1:00 p.m. in 390 Carver. Hailiang Liu, Major Professor.
Mathematics Test-Out Exam
Friday, August 22 at 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. in 305 Carver. Contact Elgin Johnston.
Calculus
Instructor/TA Meeting
Friday, August 22 at 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. 385 Carver Hall. Contact
Roger Alexander for individual class meeting times.
Math
142 Instructor/TA Meeting
Friday, August 22 at 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. 385 Carver. Contact
Alison Allen or Jim Ellis.
Mathematics Qualifying Exam
Saturday, August 23 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in 305 Carver. Analysis.
Matrix Groups Seminar
Tuesday, August 26 at 2:10 to 4:00 p.m. in 128 Carver
Departmental Photo Day
Wednesday, August 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in 398A Carver - All new students, visitors and new hires should have their photos taken this day.
Returning faculty and students: We will continue using your current photo; those who wish to have their photo retaken may participate as time permits.
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, August 27 at 2:10 p.m. in 282 Carver. Sunder Sethuraman on Large deviations for some urn and random graph models
Student
Disability Resource (SDR) Presentation
Wednesday, August 27 at 4:10 p.m. in 305 Carver - Learn about Disability Accommodations and SAAR forms. Especially important if you are new to teaching or if you didn't attend last year. John Hirschmann from SDR will be here give a presentation and answer questions. Math Office will be closed so staff can attend.
Graduate
Student Game Night
Thursday, August 28 from 7:00 p.m to 10:00 p.m. in Carver
305.
Applications
for Graduation for Fall 2008 Due (Graduate Students)
Friday, August 29 at 5:00 p.m. to Melanie in 396E Carver
Hall. Signed by Major Professor and Dr. Sacks.
University
Holiday
Monday, September 1
Foreign
travel grant requests
For travel through May 13, 2009 are due Tuesday, September 2 by 5:00 p.m. to Departmental Office
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, September 2 at 2:10 p.m. in 268 Carver - Olga Pryporova
Matrix Groups Seminar
Tuesday, September 2 at 2:10 p.m. in 128 Carver - Kenneth Driessel on The convolution of Algebra of SU(2)
Mathematics
Colloquia
Tuesday, September 2 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Professor Susan
Montgomery (USC) Orthogonal representation of Hopf algebras
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, September 3 at 2:10 p.m. in 282 Carver - Sunder Sethuraman will continue Large deviations for Urn Schemes and random graphs
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, September 3 at 4:10 p.m. in 160 Carver - Paul
Sacks on Degree Requirements . Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m.,
in 404 Carver Hall.
Interior-Point Methods Seminar
Thursday, Septebmer 4 at 2:10 p.m. in TBA - Ken Driessel on Derivatives, gradients and Hessians
Confidentiality
Presentation
Thursday, September 4 at 4:10 p.m. in 305 Carver - Kathy
Jones, Registrar, will talk to the department about FERPA and confidentiality issues involved with student records. Math office will be closed so
staff may attend. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m., in 404 Carver
Hall.
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, September 8 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Jonathan Smith The nonassociative projective line of order 5.
Matrix Groups Seminar
Tuesday, September 9 at 2:10 p.m. in 128 Carver - Kenneth Driessel on The convolution algebra of SU(2) (continued)
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, September 9 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver- Benjamin Sudakov (UCLA). Turan theorem: generalizations and applications. This is a joint colloquium with the Computer Science Department.
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, September 10 at 2:10 p.m. in 282 Carver - Alex Roiterstein on Random walks on Z in a cookie environment
Annual Departmental Meeting
Wednesday, September 10 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 305 - All
should attend: faculty members, lecturers, postdocs, graduate students,
staff members. Office closed so staff can attend.
Graduate
Committee Meeting
Monday, September 15 from 12:10 to 1:00 p.m. in 390 Carver
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, September 15 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Jonathan Smith on The nonassociative projective line of order 5
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Monday, September 15 at 4:10 p.m. in 260 Carver - Howard Levine on Classical properties of solutions of some elliptic boundary value problems
GWSW grant writing workshop registration due
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, September 16 at 2:10 p.m. in 268 Carver - Jake Manske on Sunshine, lollipops and rainbow subsets of the Boolean Lattice
Matrix Groups Seminar
Tuesday, September 16 at 2:10 p.m. in 128 Carver - Kenneth Driessel on The Casimir operator
Mathematics
Colloquia
Tuesday, September 16 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 298- Stephen
Willson (ISU)
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, September 17 at 2:10 p.m. in 282 Carver - Alex Roiterstein on Random walks on Z in a cookie environment (continued)
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, September 17 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver - Geoff Tims on Introduction to elliptic curves
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, September 17 at 4:10 p.m. in 160 Carver - Jennifer
Davidson on The POMM: A probabilistic model for image processing . Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m., in 404 Carver Hall.
Mathematics Graduate
Student Council
Wednesday, September 17 from 3:00 p.m to 4:00 p.m. in Carver
390. Chair: Andrew Wells.
Interior-Point Methods Seminar
Thursday, September 18 at 2:10 p.m. in 118 Carver - Kenneth Driessel on Self-concordant functionals
ISU Freshman Honors Mentor Program application deadline is Friday, September 19
REMEMBER: DEPARTMENTAL PICNIC SUNDAY
Departmental
Picnic
Sunday, September 21 at 4:10 p.m. in Butternut Shelter at
McCarthy Lee Park. All are invited: faculty members, lecturers, postdocs,
graduate students, staff members.
Thesis
Seminar
Tuesday, September 23 from 12:15 p.m to 2:15 p.m.
in Pearson 2120. Email lthorson@iastate.edu to reserve a place.
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, September 23 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 298- Professor Arka Ghosh (ISU Statistics)
FPDA applications due in the Mathematics office Wednesday, September 24
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, September 24 at 4:10 p.m. in 250 Carver - Roger
Alexander on Web Pages at ISU. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m.,
in 404 Carver Hall.
EASE
forms due Friday, September 26 to Ellen
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, September 30 at 2:10 p.m. in 268 Carver - Jason Smith
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, September 30 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Mike Hilgemann on Classifying finite-dimensional Hopf algebras
Graduate
Committee Meeting
Tuesday, September 30 at 11:00 a.m. in 390 Carver Hall. Chair:
Ryan Martin.
Mathematics
Colloquia
Tuesday, September 30 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 298- Eric Weber
(ISU)
Subvention Grant applications due to Mathematics office Wednesday, October 1
NSF-AWM Travel grants next application deadline is Wednesday, October 1.
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, October 1at 2:10 p.m. in 282 Carver - Ananda Weerasinghe on Optimal control of a stochastic network driven by fractional Brownian motion input
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, October 1 at 4:10 p.m. in 305 Carver - Travis
Kramer on WebCT. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m., in 404 Carver
Hall.
Thesis
Seminar
Thursday, October 2 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
in Pearson 1115. Email lthorson@iastate.edu to reserve a place.
Interior-Point Methods Seminar
Thursday, October 2 at 2:10 p.m. in 118 Carver Kenneth Driessel on Self-concordancy and Newton's method
CELT:
Graduate Student Programming -- Preparing for Academic Interviews
Thursday, October 2 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
in 169 Hamilton. Register via AccessPlus.
Early Evaluations due in the main office Friday, October 3
Disability
Awareness Week
Monday, October 6 through Friday, October 10
Student
Disability Resources Open House
Monday, October 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in 1076 Student
Services Building.
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, October 6 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Andrew Wells on The structure of Moufang loops arising from Zorn vector matrix algebras
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Monday, DATE at 4:10 p.m. in 160 Carver - Krishna Athreya on Probabilistic model for population growth and migration
Thesis
Seminar
Monday, October 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in
Pearson 3149. Email lthorson@iastate.edu to reserve a place.
Graduate
Committee Meeting
Tuesday, October 7 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in 390 Carver.
Chair: Ryan Martin.
Disability
Awareness -- Step Into My World: Obstable Course Navigation on Campus
Tuesday, October 7 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in front
of the Parks Library.
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, October 7at 2:10 p.m. in 268 Carver - Maria Axenovich
Mathematics
Colloquia
Tuesday, October 7 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 298- Ling Long
(ISU) Finite index subgroups of the modular group and their modular forms
2008-09 CEAH
Fellowships for Scholarship and Creative Activity application
deadline to Mathematics office is Tuesday, October 7. REMINDER
FY 2008-09 IS A SINGLE CALL
Disability
Awareness -- Goalball: Adaptive Sports Experience
Tuesday, October 7 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in Beyer Gym.
Disability
Awareness -- Assistive Technology Lab Demos/Tours
Wednesday, October 8 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in 139
Durham.
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, October 8 at 4:10 p.m. in 250 Carver - Cliff Bergman
on TeX. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m., in 404 Carver Hall.
Disability
Awareness -- Universal Design Workshop/Discussion
Wednesday, October 8 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in 136 UDCC.
Disability
Awareness -- Assistive Technology Lab Demos/Tours
Thursday, October 9 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in 139
Durham.
Thesis
Seminar
Thursday, October 9 from 4:00 p.m to5:00 p.m. in
Pearson 2125. Email lthorson@iastate.edu to reserve a place.
Graduate Student Outdoor Activity Day
Saturday, October 11 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the ISU Intramural Fields across the Jack Trice Stadium.
ON/NEAR CAMPUS SATELLITE VOTING Monday, October 13 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in ground floor lobby Curtiss Hall and the student lobby of St. Thomas Aquinas Church
Combinatorics,
Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, October 13 at 4:10 p.m. in 298
Carver - John Gillespie on Applying the Diamond Lemma in ring
theory
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Monday, October 13 at 4:10 p.m. in 160 Carver - Xinwei Wang on Shock waves in laser-material interaction: atomistic to macroscale study
ON/NEAR CAMPUS SATELLITE VOTING Tuesday, October 14 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Memorial Union (open area from Main desk) and the community center at Frederiksen Court
Graduate
Committee Meeting
Tuesday, October 14 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in 390
Carver. Chair: Ryan Martin.
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, October 14 at 2:10 p.m. in 268 Carver - Jeremy Alm on The logical roots of Ramsey's theorem
Matrix Groups Seminar
Tuesday, DATE at 2:10 p.m. in 128 Carver - Kenneth Driessel on The Casimir Operator and representations (continued)
Mathematics
Colloquia
Tuesday, October 14 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 298 -- Bo Su (ISU) - Gamma-limit of fold energy problem
ON/NEAR CAMPUS SATELLITE VOTING Wednesday, October 15 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Room 136 of the Union Drive Community Center
Mathematics Graduate
Student Council
Wednesday, October 15 from 3:00 p.m to 4:00 p.m.
in Carver 390. Chair: Andrew Wells.
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, October 15 at 2:10 p.m. in 282 Carver - Ananda Weerasinghe
Optimal control of a stochastic network driven by fractional Brownian motion input (continued)
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, October 15 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, October 15 at 4:10 p.m. in 305 Carver - Jeremy Alm on The agony and the ecstacy: 5 interviews, 3 jobs, and one tough choice . Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m., in 404 Carver
Hall.
ON/NEAR CAMPUS SATELLITE VOTING Thursday, October 16 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the main floor lobby of Parks Library and the Gathering Space of Collegiate United Methodist Church.
Interior-Point Methods Seminar
Thursday, October 16 at 2:10 p.m. in 118 Carver - Kenneth Driessel on Self-concordancy and Newton's method (continued)
Putnam Exam Seminar
Thursday, October 16 from 4:00 p.m to 5:30 p.m.
in Carver 408.
Mathematics Colloquia
Thursday, October 16 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 305- Amy R. Ward (Marshall School of Business, USC) Optimal control of a high-volume assemble-to-order program
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, October 20 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Monday, October 20 at 4:10 p.m. in 160 Carver
Graduate
Committee Meeting
Tuesday, October 21 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in 390
Carver. Chair: Ryan Martin.
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, October 21at 2:10 p.m. in 268 Carver - Ji-Hyeok Choi
Matrix Groups Seminar
Tuesday, October 21 at 2:10 p.m. in 128 Carver
Central Iowa Middle School Math Teachers' Circle
Tuesday, October 21 from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. in 290
Carver.
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, October 22 at 2:10 p.m. in 282 Carver
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, October 22 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver - Ling Long on Isogeny
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, October 22 at 4:10 p.m. in 160 Carver
- Cliff Bergman on TeX. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m., in
404 Carver Hall.
Interior-Point Methods Seminar
Thursday, October 23 at 2:10 p.m. in 118 Carver
Putnam Exam Seminar
Thursday, October 23 from 4:00 p.m to 5:30 p.m.
in Carver 408.
Mathematics
Colloquia
Monday, October 27 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 298 - Ryan Martin (ISU) The edit distance in graphs
Graduate
Committee Meeting
Tuesday, October 28 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in 390
Carver. Chair: Ryan Martin.
Discrete
Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, October 28 at 2:10 p.m.
in 268 Carver - Tracy McKay
Matrix Groups Seminar
Tuesday, October 28 at 2:10 p.m. in 128 Carver - Kenneth Driessel on Semi-simple and nilpotent matrices
Mathematics
Colloquia
Tuesday, October 28 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Khalid Boushaba
(ISU) on A mathematical model for cell signaling and endothelial migration in living zebra fish embryos
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, October 29 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver - Ling Long Isogeny II
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, October 29 at 4:10 p.m. in 160 Carver
- Melanie Erickson on Graduate Paperwork Requirements. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m., in
404 Carver Hall.
PhD
Preliminary Exam -- Mike Hilgemann
Thursday, October 30 from 2:10 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Carver
128.
Putnam Exam Seminar
Thursday, October 30 from 4:00 p.m to 5:30 p.m.
in Carver 408.
Mathematics
Colloquia
Thursday, October 30 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Zhijian Wang, Aerospace Engineering (ISU) on High order methods for the Navier-Stokes equations on unstructured grids. Host: Jue Yan
Election Day
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, November 4 at 2:10 p.m. in 268 Carver - Ryan Martin
P
& T Meeting EW/RM
Tuesday, November 4 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in 305 Carver
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, November 5 at 2:10 p.m. in 282 Carver - Steve Willson on Using Markov models on trees to reconstruct evolutionary history
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, November 5 at 4:10 p.m. in 160 Carver
- Cliff Bergman on TeX. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m., in
404 Carver Hall.
P
& T Meeting KB/LL
Thursday, November 6 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in 305 Carver
Putnam Exam Seminar
Thursday, November 6 from 4:00 p.m to 5:30 p.m.
in Carver 408.
Mathematics
Colloquia
Thursday, November 6 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver TBA
MSM
Final Defense -- Courtney Wahlstrom
Friday, November 7 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Carver
390, Major Professor: Amy Froelich, "Beta: A Statistical
Analysis of a Stock’s Volatility"
Mathematics
Colloquia
Friday, November 7 at 3:10 p.m. in Carver 298 - Nathaniel
Dean (Texas State University) Host: Leslie Hogben.
Iowa Mathematical Field of Dreams Conference
Saturday/Sunday, November
8-9.
Mathematics
Colloquia
Monday, November 10 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 298 - Mahamadi
Warma (University of Puerto Rico) The heat equation with nonlinear
generalized robin boundary conditions. Host: Wolfgang Kliemann.
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, November 11 at 2:10 p.m. in 268 Carver - Luz DeAlba on Minimum skew rank and the diameter of a graph.
Matrix Groups Seminar
Tuesday, November 11 at 2:10 p.m. in 128 Carver - Calin Chindris, (UI) on Quiver invariant theory.
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, November 11 at 4:20 p.m. in 298 Carver - Peter Polacik (University of Minnesota) Parabolic Liouville theorems and their applications. Host: Bo Su
P & T Meeting - reserve
Tuesday, November 11 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in 305 Carver
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, November 12 at 2:10 p.m. in 282 Carver - - Vivek Roy on Haggstrom and Rosenthal's Variance condition for Markov Chain CLT
Mathematics Graduate
Student Council
Wednesday, November 12 from 3:00 p.m to 4:00 p.m. in Carver
390. Chair: Andrew Wells.
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, November
12 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver - Hailiang Liu on Partial
differential equations: analysis and computation . Tea &
cookies served at 3:45 p.m., in 404 Carver Hall.
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, November 12 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver - Tim Huber on Torsion points of elliptic curves II
P
& T Meeting DD
Thursday, November 13 from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in 305 Carver
Putnam
Exam Seminar
Thursday, November 13 from 4:00 p.m to 5:30 p.m.
in Carver 408.
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, November 17 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Siu-Hung (Richard) Ng: Congruence subgroups and generalized Frobenius-Schur indicators.
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Monday, November 17at 4:10 p.m. in 160 Carver - Jue Yan on The Direct Discontinuous Galerkin (DDG) Methods for Diffusion with interface correction
MS
Final Defense -- Bryce Allen
Tuesday, November 18 at 9:00 a.m. in Carver 390, Implementing several attacks on plain ElGamal encryption, Major Professor: Cliff Bergman.
Discrete
Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, November 18 at 2:10 p.m.
in 268 Carver - Rana Mikkelson
Matrix Groups Seminar
Tuesday, November 18at 2:10 p.m. in 128 Carver - Kenneth Driessel on The Reynolds operator
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, November 18 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Joan Hutchinson (Macalester College) on Extending precolorings of graphs, list colorings, and how these concepts are related Host: Maria Axenovich
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, November 19 at 2:10 p.m. in 282 Carver
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, November
19 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver - MGSC (Math Graduate
Student Committee). Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m., in 404
Carver Hall.
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, November 19 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver - Chris Kurth on Schoof's algorithm
Interior-Point Methods Seminar
Thursday, November 20 at 2:10 p.m. in 118 Carver - Kenneth Driessel on Constructing self-condordant functionals
Final Defense: Rana Mikkelson
Thursday, November 20 from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Carver
390, Minimum rank of graphs that allow loops, Major Professor: Leslie Hogben.
Putnam
Exam Seminar
Thursday, November 20 from 4:00 p.m to 5:30 p.m.
in Carver 408.
MSM
Final Defense: Dan Sarasio Meyer
Friday, November 21 at 3:00 p.m. in Carver 390, Steganography
and SVD, Major Professor: Leslie Hogben.
Mathematics Colloquia Double feature
Friday, November 21 at 3:10 p.m. Joint colloquium and CAM seminar: Tong Li (Univeristy of Iowa) on Critical thresholds in hyperbolic relaxation systems. Host: Hailiang Liu. Carver 294
Mathematics Colloquia Double feature
Friday, November 21 at 4:00 p.m. Joint colloquium and CAM seminar: Lihe Wang (Univeristy of Iowa) on Estimates on Quasi-convex domains. Host: Hailiang Liu. Carver 294
Mathematics office holiday hours
Monday and Tuesday, November 24-25 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
NSF Mathematical and Statistical research for threat detection proposals
due in department by November 24, 2009
AMS Centennial Fellowship applications
due in department by November 24, 2009
Final course evaluations
Evaluations may be comleted and turned in to the Main Office by Friday, December 5.
Mathematics office closes at noon
Wednesday, November 26
University
Holiday
Thursday, November 27
University Holiday
Friday, November 28
NSF PIRE preproposals
due in department by December 1, 2009
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, December 1 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Monday, December 1 at 4:10 p.m. in 160 Carver
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, December 2 at 2:10 p.m. in 268 Carver - Jason Grout
Faculty meeting
Tuesday, December 2 at 4:10 p.m. in 305 Carver
Probability Seminar - not meeting this week
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, December 3 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, December 3 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver - Krishna Athreya. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m., in
404 Carver Hall.
Putnam
Exam Seminar
Thursday, December 4 from 4:00 p.m to 5:30 p.m.
in Carver 408.
Final
course evaluations
Evaluations may be conducted between Monday, November 17
and Friday, December 5 and must be turned in
to the Main Office by Friday, December 5. This is earlier
than last year.
Mathematics
Colloquia
Friday, December 5 at 4:10 p.m. in 202 Carver
- Yannis Kevrekidis (Princeton) on Coarse graining and the acceleration
of complex/multiscale computations
Putnam
Exam
Saturday, December 6 Carver 298
Mathematics
Graduate Student Council
Saturday, December 6 at 11:00 a.m. Meet in 1st floor lobby.
Contact: Andrew Wells.
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, December 8 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Chris Kurth on Modular forms for some noncongruence subgroups of SL (2Z)
Computational
and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Monday, December 8 at 4:10 p.m. in 160 Carver
Discrete
Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, December 9 at 2:10 p.m.
in 268 Carver - Michelle Lastrina
Mathematics
Colloquia
Tuesday, December 9 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Iddo Ben-Ari (University of Connecticut) Host: Alex Roitershtein
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, December 10 at 2:10 p.m. in 282 Carver
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, December 10 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver - Ling Long on Supersingular elliptic curves.
Retirement celebration
Wednesday, December 10, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in 404 Carver. Please join us to celebrate with Arthur Gautesen and Pauline Hall, whose retirements become effective on December 31.
Mathematics
Graduate Student Council
Wednesday, December 10 from 3:00 p.m to 4:00 p.m. in Carver
390. Chair: Andrew Wells.
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, December 10 at 4:15
p.m. in 232 Carver - Domenico D'Alessandro
on An introductioni to quantum walks on graphs
PhD
Prelim Exam: Wen (Rick) Zhou
Friday, December 12 at 3:00 p.m. in Carver 390. Major Professor:
Bo Su.
Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research
2010 Competitions Bioenergy and Environment preproposals and symposium registrations due
PhD
Prelim Exam: Ahmet Alturk
Tuesday, December 16 at 2:00 p.m. in Carver 390. Major Professor:
Fritz Keinert.
Foreign
travel grant requests
For travel January 17 through August 15, 2009 are due Tuesday,
December 16 by 5:00 p.m. to Departmental Office
PhD
Prelim Exam: Fernando Miranda-Mendoza
Thursday, December 16 at 1:00 p.m. in Carver 390. Major Professor:
L. Steven Hou
Graduate
Commencement Ceremony
Friday, December 19 at 8:00 p.m. in C.Y. Stephens Auditorium
Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony
Saturday, December 20 at 1:30 p.m. in Hilton Coliseum
Mathematics
office holiday hours
Monday, December 22 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Mathematics
office holiday hours
Tuesday, December 23 from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. ONLY
Administrative
staff meeting
Tuesday, December 23, at 10:00 with lunch following
Mathematics
office holiday hours
Wednesday, December 24 from 8:00 a.m. to Noon. The office
will remain closed until Monday, January 5, 2009.
University
Holiday
Thursday, December 25
University Holiday
Friday, December 26
University Holiday
Thursday, January 1
Mathematics
office holiday hours
Friday, January 2. The office will remain closed until Monday,
January 5, 2009.
Qualifying
Exams: Analysis, Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics
Thursday, January 8 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., 305 Carver
Hall.
Qualifying Exam: Algebra
Saturday, January 10 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., 305 Carver
Hall.
Classes resume
Monday, January 12
PhD
Prelim Exam: Yeon Jung Seo
Tuesday, January 13 at 2:00 p.m. in Carver 390. Major Professors:
Howard Levine & Marit Nilsen-Hamilton.
PhD
Prelim Exam: Cory Howk
Friday, January 16 at 9:00 a.m. in Carver 390. Major Professors:
Howard Levine & Michael Smiley.
University Holiday
Monday, January 19
Mathematics
Colloquia
Tuesday, January 20 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver
- Tracy Hall (Princeton) on Title here Hosts: Jason Grout and Leslie Hogben.
HARD PROBLEMS movie and pizza
Tuesday, January 20 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Two free tickets available to all undergraduate, graduate, faculty and staff in mathematics while supplies last. See Sue Ellen in 398A Carver by Friday, January 16, for tickets.
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, January 21 at 4:10 p.m. in 305 Carver. Panel: The Academic Mathematics Job Market in the U.S.
Big 12 Fellowships
Departmental deadline January 21, 2009.
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, January 21 at 4:10 p.m. in 118 Carver. Ling Long on Congruences and supercongruences related to elliptic curves.
Mathematics Graduate Student Council
Friday, January 23 at 3:00 p.m. in 390 Carver.
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, January 26 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver. Yi Lin Cheng. On some Hopf algebras of even dimension.
MORE 2009
Monday, January 26 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Urbandale Public Library
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, January 27at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver - Roger Maddux
Central Iowa Middle School Math Teachers' Circle
Tuesday, January 27 from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. in 274
Carver
Mathematics Colloquia
Wednesday, January 28 at 4:10 p.m. in 305 Carver - Tathagata Basak (Dickson Instructor, University of Chicago) on A complex hyperbolic reflection group and the bimonster
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, January 28 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 282. Ananda Weerasinghe (ISU) Solvable stochastic control problems.
Faculty Meeting
Thursday, January 29 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 101.
Mathematics
Colloquia
Friday, January 30 at 3:10 p.m. in Carver 202 - Ameya Pitale (University of Oklahoma) L-functions and special value results
Diversity
Grants
due in department by February 2, 2009
Graduate Student Progress Reports
due to Melanie by 5:00 p.m. on February 2, 2009
Mathematics
Colloquia
Monday, February 2 at 4:10 p.m. in 294 Carver - Alexandr Labovschii (University of Missiouri)
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, February 2 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver - Roger Maddux
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, February 3 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver - Roger Maddux
Mathematics
Colloquia
Tuesday, February 3 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232 - Marta Lewicka (University of Minnesota) The matching property of infinitesimal isometries on elliptic surfaces and elasticdity of thin shells
Computational Fluid Dynamics Seminar Series
Tuesday, February 3 at 4:10 p.m. in 1235 Howe Hall. Jue Yan on The Direct Discontinuous Galerkin (DDG) methods for diffusion with interface correction.
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, February 4 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 202 Discussion of open questions about simple random walk on Z.
PhD
Prelim Exam: Yi-Lin Cheng
Wednesday, February 4 at 3:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Major Professor:
Richard Ng.
Analysis Seminar
Thursday, February 5 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 160
Mathematics
Colloquia
Friday, February 6 at 4:10 in Carver 202 - Nayantara Bhatnagar (Berkeley)
Faculty Meeting
Monday, February 9 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 294.
Mathematics
Colloquia
Tuesday, February 10 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 260 Gary M. Lieberman (ISU) Oblique derivative boundary conditions
Great Plains Math League high school competition
February 14
Mathematics
Colloquia
Monday, February 16 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Don Saari (UC Irvine) The evolution of the universe
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, February 16 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver. Anna Romanowska (ISU/Warsaw University of Technology): Dyadic geometry
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Monday, February 16 at 4:10 p.m. in 160 Carver
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, February 17 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Jake Manske on Frolicking in a butterfly-free meadow: on the largest set family without A \cup B \subset C \cap D
Miller Lecture
Tuesday, February 17 at 4:10 p.m. Carver 305. Don Saari (UC Irvine) We vote, we decide; but why can we get bad outcomes?
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, February 18 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Ryan Martin on Tight concentration of graph parameters and applications
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, February 18 at 3:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Ling Long on Formal groups of elliptic curves I
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, February 18 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Justin Peters on Analysis of norms in R^n
Groups and Physics Seminar
Thursday, February 19 at 1:10 p.m. in 0018 Carver. Ken Driessel on Some groups important in physics
Analysis Seminar
Thursday, February 19 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 160
Mathematics Graduate Student Council
Friday, February 20 at 3:00 p.m. in 390 Carver.
MORE 2009
Monday, February 23 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Prairie Lakes AEA in Pocahontas
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, February 23 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver. Tim Gillespie (University of Iowa): Automorphic L-functions and a prime number theorem
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Monday, February 23 at 4:10 p.m. in 160 Carver
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, February 24 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Darren Row on An introduction to number coloring: Some generalizations of Schur's Theorem
NSF Summer Institute
NSF Summer Institute: Multiscale Science Based-Modeling and Simulation and Experimental Validation on Enabling Materials More info Departmental deadline for fellowship application is February 25, 2009.
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, February 25 at 1:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Viatcheslav Dobrovitski (Ames Labs and Physics Dept.) on Measurement of quantum systems: Bayesian inference and state estimation
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, February 25 at 3:10 p.m. in 118 Carver. Ling Long on Formal groups of elliptic curves II
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, February 25 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Jonathan Smith on The universal algebra of gene expression
Groups and Physics Seminar
Thursday, February 26 at 1:10 p.m. in 0018 Carver. Ken Driessel on Some relations between groups important in physics
Analysis Seminar
Thursday, February 26 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 160
PhD Preliminary Oral Exam: Andrew Wells
Friday, February 27 at 3:10 p.m.. in Carver 202. Major Professor:
Jonathan Smith
15th Annual Iowa Intercollegiate Mathematics Competition
Saturday, February 28, in Carver Hall
PhD Preliminary Oral Exam: Andrew Wells
Friday, February 27 at 3:10 p.m.. in Carver 202. Major Professor:
Jonathan Smith
15th Annual Iowa Intercollegiate Mathematics Competition
Saturday, February 28, in Carver Hall
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, March 2 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver. Jonathan Smith, Catalan loops.
Foreign
travel grant requests
For travel May 16, 2009 through January 16, 2010 are due Tuesday, March 3 by 5:00 p.m. to Departmental Office
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, March 3 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Michelle Lastrina.
Bailey Awards
Due March 4
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, March 4 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 202
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, March at 4 3:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Ling Long, Formal groups of elliptic curves III
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, March 4 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Zhijun Wu, Bioinformatics and biocomputing
Groups and Physics Seminar
Thursday, March 5 at 1:10 p.m. in 0018 Carver. Kenneth Driessel, Classification of the finite subgroups of 0(3)
Analysis Seminar
Thursday, March 5 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 160
Computation Advisory Committee
Due March 6.
Mathematics
Colloquia
Friday, March 6, at 4:10 in Carver 202. Markus Mobius (Economics, Harvard) Consumption risk-sharing in social networks.
SUNDAY MARCH 8 at 2:00 a.m. - Daylight Savings Time - turn your clocks ahead.
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, March 9 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver. Jonathan Smith, Catalan loops
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, March 10 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Maria Axenovich.
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, March 10 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver. In-Jae Kim, On potentially nilpotent sign patterns
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, March 11 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 202
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, March 11 at 3:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Ling Long, The Weil conjectures
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, March 11 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Alex Roitershtein, Reinforced random walks and formation of social networks
Groups and Physics Seminar
Thursday, March 12 at 1:10 p.m. in 0018 Carver
Mathematics Colloquia
Thursday, March 12 in 305 at 4:10 p.m. Irina Mitrea Boundary value problems for higher order elliptic operators
Analysis Seminar
Thursday, March 12 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 160
Mathematics Graduate Student Council
Friday, March 13 at 3:00 p.m. in 390 Carver
McDonnell Foundation
Due March 17
Spring Break March 16-20 Offices closed.
Undergraduate scholarships
Monday, March 23. Nominations and/or applications for undergraduate scholarships due to Jim Wilson by noon.
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, March 23 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, March 24 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Luke Paben
Mathematics Colloquia ???
Tuesday, March 24 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, March 25 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 202
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, March 25 at 3:10 p.m. in 290 Carver
MS Final Defense: Jonathan Wrolstad, Information Assurance
Wednesday, March 25 at 3:10 p.m. in Carver 390. Major Professor:
Cliff Bergman, A differential cryptanalysis of Baby Rinjdael
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, March 25 at 4:10 p.m. in 305 Carver. Teaching Panel.
Departmental Faculty Meeting
Wednesday, March 25 at 4:10 in 294 Carver.
Groups and Physics Seminar
Thursday, March 26 at 1:10 p.m. in 0018 Carver
Mathematics
Colloquia
Thursday, March 26 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 305. Erik Kostelich on Data assimilation: finding the initial conditions in complex
dynamical systems
Analysis Seminar
Thursday, March 26 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 160
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, March 30 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver. Tim Huber and Jonathan Smith: Report from the AMS Sectional Meeting, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
MORE 2009
Monday, March 30 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the AEA 267 Conference Center in Cedar Falls
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, March 31 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Ryan Martin.
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, March 31 at 4:10 p.m. Alex Isoevich, Geometric configurations in discrete, continuous and arithmetic settings
MS Final Defense: Laura DeLoss
Wednesday, April 1 at 8:30 a.m. in Carver 390. Major Professor:
Leslie Hogben, Results on minimum skew rank of matrices described by a graph
Big 12 Fellowships
Departmental deadline April 1, 2009.
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, April 1 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 202
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, April 1 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Graduate Committee.
Groups and Physics Seminar
Thursday, April 2 at 1:10 p.m. in 0018 Carver
Analysis Seminar
Thursday, April 2 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 160
Mathematics
Colloquia
Thusday, April 2 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 260 - Henri Darmon (McGill University)
MS Final Defense: Lin Tong, Applied Mathematics
Monday, April 6 at 10:00 a.m. in Carver 390. Major Professor:
Steve Hou
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, April 6 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver. Elijah Stines, Valuation domains, pseudovaluation domains, and the group of divisibility
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, April 7 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Laura DeLoss, Determining minimum skew rank of matrices described by a graph
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, April 7 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Harm Derksen (University of Michigan) Invariant theory and Hilbert's fourteenth problem
PhD Final Defense: Aaron Allen
Wednesday, April 8 at 9:00 a.m. in Carver 202. Major Stability results for damped multi-layer composite beams and plates. Professor:
Scott Hansen
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, April 8 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 202
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, April 8 at 3:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Ling Long, Elliptic curves over local fields
Graduate Student Seminar RESCHEDULED for next week
PhD Final Defense: Olga Pryporova, Mathematics
Thursday, April 9 at 9:00 a.m. in Carver 390. Types of convergence of matrices. Major Professor:
Leslie Hogben
MSM Final Defense: Kristine Harwood, School Mathematics
Thursday, April 9 at 9:30 a.m. in Carver 260. Bezier Curves. Major Professors: Heather Bolles & Irvin Hentzel
MSM Final Defense: Rob Dengler, School Mathematics
Thursday, April 9 at 1:00 p.m. in Carver 390. Research-based Decision Making in a Community College Setting. Major Professor:
Amy Froelich
Groups and Physics Seminar
Thursday, April 9 at 1:10 p.m. in 0018 Carver. Kenneth Driessel, Molecular displacements and vector bundles
Analysis Seminar
Thursday, April 9 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 160. Eric Weber: Fourier series over singular measures V
MORE 2009
Monday, April 13 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Great Prairie AEA in Ottumwa
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, April 13 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver. Ling Long: Zeros of some level 2 Eisenstein series.
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, April 14 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Rich McBride
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, April 14 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, April 15 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Krishna Athreya will present, Convergence of Gibbs measures and Laplace's method.
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, April 15 at 3:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Chris Kurth: Good and bad reductions
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, April 15 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Paul Sacks, MathSciNet and other research resources
Groups and Physics Seminar
Thursday, April 16 at 1:10 p.m. in 0018 Carver. Kenneth Driessel, Induced representations and principle bundles
Mathematics Colloquia
Thursday, April 16 at 4:10 p.m. in 305 Carver. William Yslas Vélez (University of Arizona) Increasing the number of mathematics majors
Analysis Seminar
Thursday, April 16 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 160
PhD Preliminary Exam: Dimitrios Kontogiannis, Applied Mathematics
Friday, April 17 at 3:10 p.m. in Carver 390. Major Professor:
Bo Su
Monday, April 20 at 3:30 p.m. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com reception and Q&A session in the Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, April 20 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver - Domenico D'Alessandro: General methods for control of systems on compact Lie groups
Monday, April 20 at 4:10 p.m. in 3 Physics - we are co-sponsoring this colloquium: Thomas F. Mayer (Augustana College) Trying Galileo
Monday, April 20 at 8:00 p.m. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com, How Obama really won the election in the Sun Room, Memorial Union
MORE 2009
Monday, April 20 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Northwest AEA in Sioux City
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, April 21 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Laura DeLoss
Mathematics
Colloquia
Tuesday, April 21at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 260 - Susana Serna (UCLA) Analysis and numerics of the nonconvex hyperbolic system of magnetohydrodynamics.
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, April 22 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Eric Weber, Introduction to frames
Mathematics Graduate Student Council
Friday, April 24 at 3:00 p.m. in 390 Carver.
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, April 27 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver. Yi Lin Cheng.
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, April 28 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. JiHyeok Choi
Mathematics
Colloquia TO BE RESCHEDULED
Tuesday, April 28 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Codina Cotar, Technical University of Munich
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, April 29 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 202
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, April 29 at 3:10 p.m. in 118 Carver
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, April 29 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Anastasios Matzavinos, Applications of spectral graph theory to (biological) data clustering
Groups and Physics Seminar
Thursday, April 30 at 1:10 p.m. in 0018 Carver. Kenneth Driessel on Wigner's classification of the representations of the Poincare group
Analysis Seminar
Thursday, April 30 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 160
Richard Sprague Room dedication
Friday, May 1 at 2:00 p.m. in Carver 400
FINALS WEEK
PhD Final Defense: Chris Kurth, Mathematics
Tuesday, May 5 at 2:15 p.m. in Carver 390. Major Professor: Ling Long
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, May 6 at 1:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Krishna Athreya on Limit theorems for Gibbs measures.
PhD Final Defense: Ju Ming, Mathematics
Wednesday, May 6 at 3:00 p.m. in Carver 390. Major Professor: L. Steven Hou
PhD Preliminary Exam: Ji-Hyeok Choi, Mathematics
Thursday, May 7 at 3:00 p.m. in Carver 390. Major Professor: Maria Axenovich
Mathematics Advisory Board dinner
Thursday, May 7
Mathematics Advisory Board meeting
Friday, May 8 in the Conference Room.
Mathematics Department Honors and Awards program
Friday, May 8 in Carver 101 at 2:15. Reception following in Auditorium Lobby.
Commencement for Graduate Students
Friday, May 8, 8:00 p.m., CY Stephens Auditorium
Summer Session begins today, May 18.
MORE 2009
Monday, May 18 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Bend AEA in Bettendorf
University Holiday
Monday, May 25
Central Iowa Middle School Math Teachers' Circle summer workshop
Sunday, June 7 through Friday, June 12
Research Experience for Undergraduates
Sunday, June 7 through Saturday, August 1
MORE 2009 Secondary Guidance Counselors
Tuesday, June 9 from Noon to 4:00 p.m.
Increasing the Cognitive Demand of Mathematical Instructional Tasks in Middle Schools and High Schools
Wednesday, June 10 through Friday, June 12, 1106 Pearson Hall.
Mathematics
Colloquia
Tuesday, June 16 at 1:10 p.m. in Carver 290. Bangteng Xu (Eastern Kentucky University) IP-graphs of association schemes
MSM Final Defense: Katie Asplund, School Mathematics
Thursday, July 9 at 2:45 p.m. in Carver 390. Pascal's Triangle Patterns and Extensions. Major Professor: Irvin Hentzel.
PhD Final Defense: Xiaofang Guo, Applied Math & Physics
Friday, July 10 at 2:00 p.m. in Physics 18, Generic two-phase coexistence in quadratic contact process, Major Professors: Jim Evans & Alex Travesset
Final Grade Submission Deadline -- Summer Session I
Tuesday, July 14, 2:15 p.m. to Registrar via AccessPlus or WebCT.
PhD Final Defense: Ahmet Alturk, Applied Mathematics
Wednesday, July 15 at 10:00 a.m. in Carver 290. Boundary Functions for Wavelets and their Properties. Major Professor: Fritz Keinert.
MSM Final Defense: Matt Heston, School Mathematics
Thursday, July 16 at 2:00 p.m. in Carver 390. An Analysis of APBA Baseball. Major Professor: Amy Froelich.
MS Final Defense: Jan Raasch, Mathematics
Friday, July 17 at 11:00 a.m. in Carver 390. Commutators and Associators in Catalan Loops. Major Professor: Jonathan D.H. Smith..
IMA workshop for graduate students
August 5-14
Commencement for Graduate Students
Saturday, August 8
Final Grades Submission Deadline -- Summer Session II
Tuesday, August 11 at 2:15 p.m. to Registrar via AccessPlus or WebCT.
Math
Office Returns to Regular Office Hours
Monday, August 17 until further notice the Math office hours
are 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., M-F.
Welcome for New Math Graduate Students
Wednesday, August 19 at 2:00 p.m. in 204 Carver - for 2009 incoming graduate students.
Analysis and Applied Mathematics Qualifying Exam
Thursday, August 20 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in 305 Carver.
Mathematics Department Teaching Program
Thursday, August 20 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in 184 Carver. For incoming F09 TAs and current TAs entering classroom teaching.
Graduate Student Pizza Lunch
Thursday, August 20 at 1:00 in Carver Lobby. RSVP to Melanie by Wednesday, August 19 at 5:00 p.m.
Departmental Photos
Thursday, August 20 and Friday, August 21 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in 398A Carver - Walk in; New grad students have priority.
Departmental Photos
Friday, August 21 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in 398A Carver - Walk in; New grad students have priority.
Math Test-Out Exams
Friday, August 21 from 1:30-3:00 p.m. in 290 Carver Hall.
Algebra Qualifying Exam
Friday, August 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in 401 Carver (Reading Room).
Numerical Analysis Qualifying Exam
Saturday, August 22 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in 401 Carver (Reading Room).
Student Disability Resources Presentation
Wednesday, August 26 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 204. For instructors and teaching assistants to learn about providing accommodations to students in Mathematics classes.
Algebraic Combinatoric Seminar
Friday, August 28 at 3:10 in 290 Carver. Facilitator: S. Y. Song
Applications
for Graduation for Fall 2009 Due (Graduate Students)
Friday, August 28 at 5:00 p.m. to Melanie in 396E Carver
Hall. Signed by Major Professor and Dr. Sacks.
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, August 31at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Anna Romanowska (ISU/Warsaw University of Technology) Topology, algebra and categories in logic.
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, September 1at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver
Welcome Math UG students
Wednesday, September 2 at 3:00 p.m. in the Sprague Room
LAS Fall Convocation
Wednesday, September 2 at 4:00 p.m. in the Sun Room, Memorial Union
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Friday, September 4 at 3:10 p.m. in 290 Carver - Oktay Olmez on Existence and construction of directed strongly regular graphs, Part I.
University
Holiday
Monday, September 7
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall. Matrix groups: Connectedness, homomorphisms, polar decompositions. Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, September 8 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Luz De Alba on Acyclic and unicyclic graphs whose minimum skew rank is equal to the minimum skew rank of a diametrical path.
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, September 8 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver
Chun Liu (IMA, University of Minnesota), Energetic variational approaches in calcium and sodium channels . Host: Hailiang Liu
Annual Departmental Meeting
Wednesday, September 9 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 305 - All
should attend: faculty members, lecturers, postdocs, graduate students,
staff members. Office closed so staff can attend.
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Thursday 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Matrix groups: Connectedness, homomorphisms, polar decompositions. Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Friday,September 11 at 3:10 p.m. in 290 Carver
Should we Trust the Numbers? A Workshop on Philosophy, Mathematics, Statistics and the Court of Law
September 11, Campanile Room in the Memorial Union. 2:00 p.m. Program, 7:00 p.m. Dessert Reception; 7;30 p.m. Panel Discussion
A one-day gathering of mathematical, statistical, philosophical and legal minds at Iowa State University will delve into whether we can—or should—or how we should—count on numbers in a Court of law.
Saturday: GO CLONES :)
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
Monday, September 14 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 124. Facilitator: Ling Long
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, September 14 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Facilitator: J.D.H. Smith Commutators and associators in groups and Catalan loops
Computational & Applied Math
Monday, DATE at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Zhijun Wu, Solving Distance Geometry Problems via Successive Subspace Optimization, (ISU) Facilitator: Paul Sacks
MORE 2009
Monday, September 14 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Keystone AEA in Dubuque
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall. Kenneth Driessel, The matrix exponential and the Lie algebra of a matrix lie group
Discrete Mathematics Seminar - COLLOQUIA REPLACES SEMINAR
Tuesday, September 15 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, September 15 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver- Leslie Hogben (ISU).Sign patterns that require eventual positivity of require eventual nonnegativity
Graduate
Student Seminar Series
Wednesday, September 16 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver - Yiu-Tung Poon, Quantum error correction and generalized numerical ranges. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m.,
in 404 Carver Hall.
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Thursday 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Kenneth Driessel, The matrix exponential and the Lie algebra of a matrix lie group
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Friday, DATE at 3:10 p.m. in 290 Carver
Ames Symposium on Probability and Statistics
September 18-19 A conference in honor of Krishna B. Athreya's 70th Birthday. Organized by A. Ghosh, A. Roitershtein, S. Sethuraman, A. Weerasinghe.
Departmental Picnic
Sunday, September 20 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in Butternut Shelter at Emma McCarthy Lee Park in Ames. Meat and drink provided; please bring a dish or item to share. All faculty members, staff members and graduate students and their families are welcome to join us.
Mathematics Colloquia
Monday, September 21 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver
MORE 2009
Monday, September 21 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Loess Hills AEA in Council Bluffs
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, September 22 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, September 23 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver - Fritz Keinert, Web Pages at ISU. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m.,
in 404 Carver Hall.
Faculty Professional Development Assignments (FPDA) Submit proposal to Wolfgang Kliemann by September 23, 2009.
CESMEE seminar
Monday, September 28 at 2:10 p.m. in 2030 Morrill Hall
David Bressoud will present Perspectives on the transition to college mathematics
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
Monday, September 28 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 124. Facilitator: Ling Long
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, September 28 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Eli Stines on Valuatiion domains.
Computational & Applied Math
Monday, September 28 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Facilitator: Paul Sacks & Hailiang Liu
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday, September 29 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Kenneth Driessel on The Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff Formula
Discrete Mathematics Seminar - Cancelled in favor of Griggs colloquium
Tuesday, September 29at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, September 29 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver
Carolina Distinguished Professor and Chair Jerrold R. Griggs (University of South Carolina), Venn diagrams, necklaces, and chain decompositions of posets
Graduate Student Seminar Series
Wednesday, September 30 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver. Elgin Johnston on Teaching do's and maybe a few don'ts: a discussion
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday, October 1 at 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Thursday, October 1 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Kenneth Driessel on The Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff Formula
Mathematics Colloquia
Thursday, October 1
Arash Rafiey (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Proper interval digraphs, min-max orderings, and their connection with minimum cost homomorphism problem
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Friday, October 2 at 3:10 p.m. in 290 Carver
Grad Student Ice Cream Social
Friday, October 2 at 3:30 p.m. in 404 Carver. Sponsored by MGSO.
MORE 2009
Monday, October 5 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel on The Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff Formula
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, October 6 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver - JiHyeok Choi On combinatorial discrepency
Mathematics Colloquia - Yekaterina Epshteyn, Department of Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University. Tuesday, October 6 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver
Graduate Committee Meeting
Wednesday, October 7 at 3:00 p.m. in 390 Carver Hall. Leslie Hogben, Chair.
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, October 7 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver - Jim Evans, Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems: From Stochastic Models to ODEs and PDEs. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m.,
in 404 Carver Hall.
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Thursday 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel on The Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff Formula
Undergraduate lecture: Robert Antol
Thursday, October 8 at 4:10 p.m. in the Sprague Undergraduate Math Majors Resource Room (400 Carver). Life before, during and after mathematics... or π r 2 - No, pie are round.
National Science Foundation workshop at University of Iowa October 8
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Friday, October 9 at 3:10 p.m. in 290 Carver
Mathematics Colloquia
Friday, October 9 - Jim Ralston (UCLA)
Fall 2009 Iowa PDE Seminar
October 10, 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. in 298 Carver Hall
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
Monday, October 12 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 124. Facilitator: Ling Long
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, October 12 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Facilitator: J.D.H. Smith. Andrew Wells: Work on the subloop lattice of the Moufang loop of Zorn vector matrices over the integers modulo 4.
Computational & Applied Math
Monday, October 12 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Facilitator: Paul Sacks & Hailiang Liu
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday, October 13 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel Applications of the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula
Discrete Mathematics Seminar - Tracy Hall Colloquium replaces seminar
Tuesday, October 13 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, October 13 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver - Tracy Hall (Brigham Young University) What is Quantum computation? Host: Leslie Hogben
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, October 14 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver -Clifford Bergman, TeX. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m.,
in 204 Carver Hall.
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Thursday 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel Basic Representation Theory
Math in the Workplace
Thursday, October 15 at 4:10 p.m. Alum Christie (Shuster) Hochstein (2004) will present The value of critical thinking and structured analysis in the work place. Hochstein is a technology security designer with the National Security Agency.
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
Monday, October 19 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 124. Facilitator: Ling Long
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, October 19 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Facilitator: J.D.H. Smith.
Computational & Applied Math
Monday, October 19 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Facilitator: Paul Sacks & Hailiang Liu
Mathematics Colloquia - Joint with Statistics
Monday, October 19 at 4:10 p.m. in 3105 Snedecor. Vanja Dukic (University of Chicago) Tracking Flu Epidemics Using Google Trends and Particle Learning Algorithms
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday, October 20 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel on Simply connected Lie Groups and their representations
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, October 20 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, October 20 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carve Chiu-Yen Kao (Ohio State University). A spectral method with window technique for the initial value problems of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation.
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, October 21 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver -Clifford Bergman, TeX. Tea & cookies served at 3:45
Mathematics Colloquia
Wednesday, October 21at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver David Bortz (University of Colorado) Fragmentation and aggregation of bacterial emboli
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday, October 22 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Thursday, October 22 at 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel on Basic representation theory
Mathematics Colloquia
THURSDAY, October 22 in 204 - Ramiro Lafuente (UMSA) Strongly clean matrix rings over C(X)
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Thursday, October22 at 3:10 p.m. in 196 Carver. Parameters of m-flat association schemes
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
Monday, October 26 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 124. Facilitator: Ling Long
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, October 26 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Facilitator: J.D.H. Smith
Computational & Applied Math
Monday, October 26 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Facilitator: Paul Sacks & Hailiang Liu
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday, October 27 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, October 27 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, October 27 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver -Jennifer Paulhus (Kansas State University) Using algebra to study curves
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, October 28 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver -Clifford Bergman, TeX. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m.,
in 204 Carver Hall
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday, October 29 at 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Thursday, October 29 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Thursday, October 29 at 3:10 p.m. in 196 Carver
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
Monday, November 2 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 124. Facilitator: Ling Long
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, November 2 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Facilitator: J.D.H. Smith
Computational & Applied Math
Monday, November 2 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Facilitator: Paul Sacks & Hailiang Liu
Sprague Room Events
Monday, November 2 at 4:10 p.m. Brian Estervig on his experience being an actuary
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday, November 3 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, November 3 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Brendon Stanton
Mathematics Colloquia
Wednesday, November 4 at 3:10 p.m. in 290 Codina Cotar (Technical University of Munich) Random interface models.
Graduate
Student Seminar
Wednesday, November 4 at 4:10 p.m. in 305 Carver - Panel Discussion regarding The Mathematics Job Market. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m.,
in 404 Carver Hall
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday, November 5 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Thursday, November 5 at 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Thursday, November 5 at 3:10 p.m. in 196 Carver
Mathematics Colloquia
Thursday, November 5 at 4:10 p.m. in 305 Carver - Dale Olesky (University of Victoria) Mv-matrices: A generalization of M-matrices based on eventually nonnegative matrices
Pi Mu Epsilon meeting
Sunday, November 8 at 5:00 p.m. in 232 Carver. Paul Sacks will talk with undergraduate mathematics majors about graduate school and admissions. Free pizza following meeting.
Sprague Room Event
Monday, November 9 at 4:10 p.m. Global ambassador Devon Bilsing on Study Abroad
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
Monday, November 9 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 124. Facilitator: Ling Long
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, November 9 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Eli Stines on Lattices of ideals of restricted power series
Computational & Applied Math
Monday, November 9 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Facilitator: Paul Sacks & Hailiang Liu
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday, November 10 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Kenneth Driessel on Representations of special unitary groups SU(2)
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, November 10 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Michelle Lastrina
PhD Preliminary Exam -- Brendon Stanton
Tuesday, November 10 at 3:00 p.m. in Carver
390. " Major Professor: Ryan Martin
Graduate Student Seminar Series
Wednesday, November 11 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver. Melanie Erickson, Graduate Paperwork. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m.,
in 404 Carver Hall
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday, November 12 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Thursday, November 12 at 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Kenneth Driessel on Representations of SU(3)
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Thursday, November 12 at 3:10 p.m. in 196 Carver
MS Final Exam -- John Batchelor
Friday, November 13 from 2:10 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in Carver
390. A study of permutation groups and coherent configurations. Major Professor: Sung Yell Song
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
Monday, November 16 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 124. Facilitator: Ling Long
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, November 16 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Facilitator: J.D.H. Smith
Computational & Applied Math
Monday, November 16 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Facilitator: Paul Sacks & Hailiang Liu
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday, November 17 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, November 17 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Darren Row
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, November 17 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver
MSM Final Exam -- Joel Conn
Wednesday, November 18 at 2:00 p.m.. in Carver
204. The Simplex Lock Problem, Major Professors: Heather Bolles & Irvin Hentzel
Graduate Student Seminar Series
Wednesday, November 18 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver. MGSO, The Mathematics Graduate Student Organization. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m.,
in 404 Carver Hall
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday, November 19 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Thursday, November 19 at 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Facilitator: Kenneth Driessel
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Thursday, November 19 at 3:10 p.m. in 196 Carver
