Week of September 15, 2008 xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Deparmental Picnic Sunday afternoon, September 21
At 4:10 p.m. in Butternut Shelter at McCarthy Lee Park. All are invited: faculty members, lecturers, postdocs, graduate students, staff members and family members. Meat, beverage and table service will be provided. Bring a side dish or salad or dessert to share. Also feel free to bring along table games or recreational equipment.
Mosaic of Peters symbolizes his tenure as Chair
Being photographed is not among Justin Peters' favorite things to do, explained Wolfgang Kliemann just before presenting Peters with this larger-than-life mosaic at the department's annual meeting last week.
But Peters admitted he was intrigued by this image of him created from a compilation of 147 tiny images of faculty members, graduate students and staff members in the department.
Several observers noted how the composite image paralleled Peters's leadership style over the past seven years that he served as Chair. Colleagues described Peters as an "excellent concensus builder," a "catalyst" and a "natural born leader."
Here, distinguished professor Krishna Athreya and graduate student Bryce Allen find themselves in the mosaic.
The photograph will be in Carver 404 this week to allow you to take a closer look.
Flower fund
Our flower fund is depleted. Please give contributions to Ellen Olson.
Upcoming deadlines
Monday, September 15 - GWSW grant writing workshop registrations due to lengleen@iastate.edu
Tuesday, September 24 - FPDA applications due in Mathematics office
Wednesday, October 1 - Subvention grant applications due in Mathematics office
Tuesday, October 7 - CEAH 2008-09 Fellowships for Scholarship and Creative Activity due to the Mathematics Office
Friday, October 31 - AAUP proposals due
Colloquia and Seminars
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, September 15 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Jonathan Smith on The nonassociative projective line of order 5 (continued)
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Monday, September 15 at 4:10 p.m. in 260 Carver - Howard Levine on Classical properties of solutions of some elliptic boundary value problems
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, September 16 at 2:10 p.m. in 268 Carver - Jacob Manske on Sunshine, lollipops and rainbow subsets of the Boolean Lattice
Matrix Groups Seminar
Tuesday, September 16 at 2:10 p.m. in 128 Carver - Kenneth Driessel on The Casimir operator
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, September 16 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Stephen Willson on Reconstruction of phylogenetic networks from data at their leaves
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, September 17 at 2:10 p.m. in 282 Carver - Alex Roiterstein on Random walks on Z in a cookie environment (continued)
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, September 17 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver - Geoff Tims on Introduction to elliptic curves
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, September 17 at 4:10 p.m. in 305 Carver - Jennifer Davidson on The POMM: A probabilistic model for image processing. Tea and cookies in 404 Carver at 3:45 p.m.
Interior-Point Methods Seminar :
Thursday, September 18 at 2:10 p.m. in 118 Carver - Kenneth Driessel on Self-condcordant functionals
Transitions
Graduate student birthdays this week:
9/15 Jyy-I Hong, Jason Smith
9/19 Ju Ming
Transitions is a new feature in Weekly Reader where announcements regarding life transitions, i.e., family, job, etc. of those associated with the Department may be published at the request of the individual. Send submissions to tuttle@iastate.edu
