Week of March 10, 2008
Promotions
Melanie Erickson was recently promoted to Record Analyst.
Four faculty members will be promoted on August 16, as follows:
Siu-Hung (Richard) Ng to Associate Professor
Sunder Sethuramun to Professor
Ananda Weerasinghe to Professor
Zhijun Wu to Professor
Hogben's "A Public Contest" winners
Finalists in the "by hand" division work furiously, using calculators only for artithmetic (including the extraction of roots). From left: Kristy Olsen, Kellie Kendrick, Hannah Park, Adam Venem and Lyndee Heemstra. Park and Venem tied for second place.
Hogben's contest, which had 18 contestants, saw two winners: Lyndee Heemstra, who used Viete's method to successfully solve four of six cubics in the "by hand" division, and Gandharv Kashinath, who programmed Cardano's method and successfully solved all 12 cubic equations presented.
Spring Break
No classes will meet March 17-21.
Deadlines
- Preproposals for Iowa MAA meeting talks are due Friday, March 21.
Moved to new office
Sue Ellen has moved to 398A Carver. Her new phone number is 4-8680.
Colloquia this week
Tuesday 4:10 in Carver 268
Peter Olver, University of Minnesota, on Applications of moving frames
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Chris Kurth, Farey symbols and modular symbols
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
Laura Cattaneo on A representation of the Feynman-Vernon influence functional based on Fresnel integrals
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 1:10 p.m. Carver 294
No seminar this week.
Probability
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 294
Alex Roitershtien on Multiple points for random walk in random environments
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 3:10 p.m. Carver 190
Jim Wilson
, Hypergeometric series
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 204
Sung Yell Song, Algebraic tools in combinatorics: Regular graphs, tournaments, Hadamard matrices and beyond
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
