Week of February 25, 2008
Costumed Cubic Contest
Mark your calendars for next week: come watch the fnals of Leslie Hogben's 489 students (History of Mathematics) as they participate in the annual Cubic Contest!
Deadlines
- NSF IGERT preproposals should be submitted to the VPR office by close of business on Monday, March 3, 2008.
- Preproposals for Iowa MAA meeting talks are due Friday, March 21.
Tuesday 4:10 in Carver 268
Faculty meeting; no colloquia
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Mike Hilgemann on Quasitriangular bialgebras and solutions of the Yang-Baxter Equation
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
TBA
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 1:10 p.m. Carver 294
Jason Grout
Probability
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 294
TBA
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 3:10 p.m. Carver 190
Tim Huber, Modular equations from Ramanujan's notebooks
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 204
Graduate Committee Information about and discussion with Graduate Committee
Computational Invariant Theory
Thursday 2:10 p.m. Carver 298
Kenneth Driessel, Hilbert's theorem on the finiteness of the full invariant system
Optional second hour for discussion, proof details, examples, etc.
Analysis
Thursday 3:10 p.m. Carver 204
To be announced
