Week of March 24, 2008
Mathematics Awareness Month
April is Mathematics Awareness Month. The theme this year is Math and Voting. MAM is sponsored by The American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Visit www.mathaware.org to find or submit related activities.
JOIN US in promoting math awareness at VEISHEA, under the big LAS tent. Let Sue Ellen know if you can help out on Saturday, April 12 from approximately 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Colloquia this week
Tuesday 4:10 in Carver 268
Alan Paterson, University of Mississippi, on AThe index theorem from an analysis perspective
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Sungyell Song, Normally regular digraphs, Cayley graphs, and their automorphism groups
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
Xiaoliang Xie on Implicit smoothing methods for higher order time-dependent evolution equations
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 1:10 p.m. Carver 294
Not meeting this week.
Probability
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 294
Alex Roitershtein, Random walk in random environment
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 3:10 p.m. Carver 190
Jim Wilson on Asymptotic, two techniques
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
Laura Cattaneo, Local invariants in quantum computing
Optional second hour for discussion, proof details, examples, etc.
Analysis
Thursday 3:10 p.m. Carver 204
Alan Patterson, University of Mississippi on Asymptotic morphisms and the families index theorem
