Week of January 28, 2008
Provost Betsy Hoffman
to visit department
Thursday, January 31
4:10 p.m.
Carver 202
Deadlines
- Sign up for free seminar (held 2/5) Technical Computing with MATLAB and Simulink
- February 1 Grant applications for 2008-09 Miller Faculty Fellowships due
- February 1 AWM travel grants for women researchers due
Tuesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 268
Nikolaos Zygouras on Pinning-depinning transition in random polymers
Hospitality in Carver 404 from 3:30 to 4:00 p.m.
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Mehmet Haluk Sengun (UW-Madison) on The abstract Galois group of quadratic fields
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
Paul Durbin on Transition to turbulent by free-stream vortical disturbances
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 1:10 p.m. Carver 294
Luz De Alba on Q-matrix completion problems
Probability
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 294
To be announced
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 3:10 p.m. Carver 190
Tim Huber, More snakes on a plane
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 204
Jennifer Davidson, A few mathematical imaging problems
Computational Invariant Theory
Thursday 2:10 p.m. Carver 298
Jim Murdock, Elimination ideals, ideal of relations, and Stanley decompositions
Optional second hour for discussion, proof details, examples, etc.
Analysis
Thursday 3:10 p.m. Carver 204
To be announced
