Week of March 31, 2008
Congratulations, Team!
Teammates Qi "Dave" Gan, Hannah Park and Nicholas Allendorf scored 90 points to beat out 20 other teams competing at the fourteenth annual Iowa Collegiate Math Competition held on March 8, 2008 at Drake University. Kacy Messerschmidt also participated in the event as a member of the Graceland team. Dr. Stephen Willson advises the team.
Second and third places went to teams from Grinnell with 88 and 77 points respectively. Eleven colleges and universities participated in the event.
Congratulations to all the competitors. Later in April, the trophy, topped with a glass Klein bottle, will return to spend another year in Carver 396.
VEISHEA 2008: Math and Voting
The Math Department is joining with others in the College of LAS as they conduct a straw poll on Saturday, April 12, under the Big Top on Central Campus. We will have computers set up to allow visitors to experiment with different methods of voting. See www.mathaware.org for more informaion.
EASE reports
are due today, March 31. Turn them in to Ellen.
Wang Final Defense
Zhongming (Eric) Wang will give his final defense on Monday, March 31 at 1:00 p.m.
in 390 Carver. The title of his dissertation is Development of level set methods for computing semi-classical limit in Schrondinger equations with various potentials. Hailiang Liu is Wang's Major Professor.
AAllen Preliminary Exam
X Aaron Allen; Major Professor is Scott Hansen. Wednesday, April 2 at 2:00 p.m. in
zz204 Carver Hall.
YouTube video makes moebius meaningful to millions
More than one million viewers have seen the YouTube video revealing moebius transformations created by (new SIAM president) Doug Arnold and Jonathan Rogness of the University of Minnesota. View the high resolution widescreen version here.
Colloquia this week
Tuesday 4:10 in Carver 268
Ae Ja Yee, Penn State, on Rogers-Ramanujan identities and related particton problems
Thursday 4:10 in Carver 268
Raffaele Romano, on Introduction to quantum error correction codes
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Ae Ja Yee, Penn State, on Lecture hall partitions
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
Shankar Subramaniam, ISU, on Modeling and simulations of nanoparticle aggregation in liquid suspensions
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 1:10 p.m. Carver 294
Leslie Hogben on Minimum rank of not necessarily symmetric matrix patterns
Probability
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 294
TBA
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 3:10 p.m. Carver 190
Jim Wilson on Asymptotic, two techniques II
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 204
Paul Sacks, MathSciNet and other mathematics reference resources
Computational Invariant Theory
Thursday 2:10 p.m. Carver 298
Laura Cattaneo, Local invariants in quantum computing (continued)
Optional second hour for discussion, proof details, examples, etc.
Analysis
Thursday 3:10 p.m. Carver 204
TBA
