Week of March 3, 2008
Evan's DOE Theoretical Chemical Physics Program renewed
Following submission of a proposal to DOE and an on-site review in 2007, funding has been renewed for the Chemical Physics program at Ames Laboratory for which Jim Evans is a lead-PI. Total support is $330K/year for 3 years with about $150K/year supporting research specifically in Evans' group (mainly salaries). In addition, a separate Catalysis progam was renewed on which Victor Lin is PI and which provides $16K/year to support Evans's research.
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. TODAY
- Preproposals for Iowa MAA meeting talks are due Friday, March 21.
Snacks and beverages
The snacks (candy, pop-tarts, nuts, chips) and beverages (water, pop, juice) available for purchse in the main office must be paid for at the time of purchase. IOU's are not permitted; please honor the system that allows us to offer convenient, lower-priced items to members of the department.
Friday 3:10 in Carver 202
Hemanshu Kaul, Illinois Institute of Technology, on Graph packing - conjectures and results
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Tim Huber, New q-Euler numbers arising from an expansion in Ramanujan's Lost Notebook.
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
Ju Ming on Optimal control of stochastic Burger's Equation with random forcing using Weiner Chaos Expansion
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 1:10 p.m. Carver 294
Jake Manske, Monochromatic subsets of the integer grid
Probability
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 294
TBA
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 3:10 p.m. Carver 190
Ling Long
, Zeros of Eisenstein series
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 204
Tim Huber, q-series in analytic number theory
Computational Invariant Theory
Thursday 2:10 p.m. Carver 298
Kenneth Driessel, Hilbert's theorem on the finiteness of the full invariant system (continued)
Optional second hour for discussion, proof details, examples, etc.
Analysis
Thursday 3:10 p.m. Carver 204
TBA
