UG VEISHEA Volunteers needed
We need three more undergraduate student volunteeers to help host our Math and Voting display on Saturday. Sue Ellen will be stopping in classes to ask for volunteers.
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.
Ming Preliminary Exam
Ju Ming; Major Professor is Steve Hou. Tuesday, April 8 at 1:40 p.m. in
032 Carver Hall.
Dagli Final Defense
Mehmet Dagli will give his final defense on Wednesday, April 9, at 4:00 p.m.
in 390 Carver. The title of his dissertation is Lie Algebra Decompositions with Application to Quantum Dynamics. Domenico D'Alessandro and Jonathan Smith serve as Dagli's Major Professors.
Manske Preliminary Exam
Jacob Manske; Major Professor is Maria Axenovich. Thursday, April 10 at 3:00 p.m. in
202 Carver Hall.
Colloquia this week
Tuesday 4:10 in Carver 268
Roger Lui, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, on Mathematics of molecular and cellular biology
Thursday 4:10 in Carver 268
Rakesh, University of Delaware, on The spherical mean value operator for functions supported in a ball
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Zhu Cao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Product identities for theta functions
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
James Evans, ISU, on Modeling of coarsening processes on surfaces Ostwald vs. Smoluchowski vs. Anomalous ripening
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 1:10 p.m. Carver 294
Rana Mikkelson and Kaela Rasmussen on Universally optimal maatrices and field indepencdence of the minimum rank of a graph
Probability
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 294
TBA
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 3:10 p.m. Carver 190
Ling Long on Zeros of Einstein series II
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 204
TBA
Computational Invariant Theory
Thursday 2:10 p.m. Carver 298
Irv Hentzel, The integral representations of the symmetric groups
Optional second hour for discussion, proof details, examples, etc.
Analysis
Thursday 3:10 p.m. Carver 204
TBA
