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Disability Awareness Week
Student Disability Resources is hosting a number of activities during October 6 through 10, starting today with an open house from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. at 1076 Student Services Building.
Levine invited
Howard Levine spent Saturday, October 4 at a symposium--Differential Equations: Analysis, Applicatioins and Computation--in honor of Hans Weinberger's 80th birthday. Levine was one of four invited speakers at the event hosted by the University of Minnesota.
A natural, but twisted, opportunity
Resident Artist Patrick Dougherty is leading a collaborative community art project at Ada Hayden Park in Ames now through October 17. Volunteers are invited to join this internationally recognized artist using primitive building techniques to weave truckloads of indigenous tree saplings into an organic, free-standing sculpture inspired by our local entironment. The installation will take on new shapes and characteristics as it develops every day. More about the artist. xx Current local schedule of events.
Hear Dougherty lecture on Wednesday, October 8, in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union: Buiilding sculpture on location: A melding of design and community at 7:00 p.m.
Vote early, vote absentee, or vote on Election Day
Vote early at one of the Satellite Voting Stations that will be open between 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on or near the Iowa State Univeristy campus next week, October 13-16.
Voting Absentee: Friday, October 31 is the last day the Story County Auditor's office can mail out an absentee ballot. Absentee ballots must be returned in person by Monday, November 3 or postmarked by Monday, November 3 and received by Monday, November 10.
Election Day is Tuesday, November 4. Exercise your right and responsibility to vote. For more information, see: Voter registration and College students voting.
Deadlines
Remember to check the departmental calendar for deadlines.
Colloquia and Seminars
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, October 6 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Andrew Wells on The structure of Moufang loops arising from Zorn vector matrix algebras
Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminar
Monday, October 6 at 4:10 p.m. in 160 Carver - Krishna Athreya on Probabilistic model for population growth and migration
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, October 7 at 2:10 p.m. in 268 Carver - Maria Axenovich on On voting games and 3-chromatic hypergraphs
Matrix Groups Seminar
Tuesday, October 7 at 2:10 p.m. in 128 Carver - Kenneth Driessel on The Casimir Operator and respresentations
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, October 7 at 4:10 p.m. in 298 Carver - Ling Long (ISU) on Finite index subgroups of the modular gruop and their modular forms
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, October 8 at 2:10 p.m. in 282 Carver-
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, October 8 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver - Chris Kurth on Elliptic functions II
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, October 8at 4:10 p.m. in 250 Carver - Cliff Bergman on TeX
Interior-Point Methods Seminar :
Thursday, October 9 at 2:10 p.m. in 118 Carver - No meeting this week.
Transitions
Graduate student birthdays this week:
Travis Peters 10/6; Anchalee Khemphet 10/7; Chris Kurth 10/10
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
