Report on VEISHEA 2008: Math and Voting
Cold. Snowy. Committed UG students: Kaela Rasmussen, Andrew conelly, Eric Wilson and Dustin Schmidt (THANK YOU!!). Around two dozen visitors to display. Displays came down early.
Jan Nyhus earns CAP rating
Jan Nyhus recently attained the Certified Administrative Professional rating sponsored by the International Association of Administrative Professionals. Nyhus sat with 1,023 other professionals to take the exam last fall; she was one of 567 who were successful in passing all parts of the exam.
In the hood: Marble bench by Beardshear removed in preparation for Class of '58 time capsule
Fifty years ago the class of 1958 buried a time capsule that is under the marble bench in front of Beardshear Hall. Around 8:30 a.m. this morning that bench was removed. According to alumni officer Julie Larson, this is in preparation for the capsule being retrieved on Friday, April 18. Committee members will watch the digging proceed at 1:00 p.m. that afternoon. The time capsule will be officially presented at Alumni Days on May 16. More.
Zhen Li MS Final Defense
Zhen Li will give his final defense on Tuesday, April 15 in 390 Carver Hall at 1:10 p.m. Major professor is Steve Hou. Numerical computation of an optimal control problem with homogenization in one-dimensional case.
Laura Walters MS Final Defense
Laura Walters will give her final defense on Wednesday, April 16, at 9:00 a.m.
in 390 Carver. Major professor is Ryan Martin. Investigation of the use of finite frame theory in cryptography.
Matt Halverson PhD Final Defense
Matt Halverson willl give his final defense on Friday, April 18 at 1:00 p.m. in 390 Carver Hall. Major professors are Howard Levine and Elgin Johnston. Asymptotic behavior of the solutions to a famiy of PDE's arising from the chemotaxis equations of Keller and Segal.
Colloquia this week
Tuesday 4:10 in Carver 268
Isabel Darcy, University of Iowa, on Modeling protein-DNA complexes using tangles
Thursday 4:10 in Carver 268
Weizhu Bao, University of Singapore, on Mathematical analysis and numerical simulation of Bose-Einstein condensation
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
John Gillespie, The Diamond Lemma in ring theory
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
TBA
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 1:10 p.m. Carver 294
Tracy McKay and Jason Smith on Software for computation of Minimum Rank
Probability
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 294
TBA
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 3:10 p.m. Carver 190
Chris Kurth on Transcendentality and the j-function
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 204
Panel on research in graduate school - student perspectives
Computational Invariant Theory
Thursday 2:10 p.m. Carver 298
Ken Driessel on Invariant theory for compact matrix groups
Optional second hour for discussion, proof details, examples, etc.
Analysis
Thursday 3:10 p.m. Carver 204
TBA
