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Fun in the Sum?
Watch for news about Fun in the Sum, i.e. summer undergraduate classes. And thanks to John Batchelor, Mike Hilgeman, Jake Manske and Andrew Wells for brainstorming what to call this program. After the group came up with a number of interesting possibilities, the committee settled on this offering made by Andrew Wells.
Conference room inherits "new" furniture
This week the conference room took on a new look with a large, wooden table and high back chairs that came from the Statistics department.
"This is the first of several installments of additional furniture," said Jan Nyhus, administrative specialist for the department.
Modular components for work stations and furniture for the undergraduate room will arrive in the next few weeks.
Award nominations sought
Write a letter recommending your best students for awards that will be made at our annual Scholarship and Awards ceremony on Friday, May 8. With the exception of the LAS scholarship, items listed are available only to students who are currently majoring in mathematics at ISU or will be mathematics majors in the fall. Mathematics may be a second major. Deadline is Monday, March 23, by noon.
GRADS and UNDERGRADS: Free lunch and career opps by IMSEP
MORE 2009
The MORE team is headed for Cedar Falls March 30 for the next Mathematics On the Road Experience.
Deadlines this week
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Seminars and Colloquia this week
Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar
Monday, March 9 at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver. Jonathan Smith on Catalan loops.
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, March 10 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Maria Axenovich
Mathematics
Colloquia
Tuesday, March 10 at 4:10 p.m. in 260 Carver. In-Jae Kim (Minnesota State Mankato) On potentially nilpotent sign patterns
Probability Seminar
Wednesday, March 11 at 1:10 p.m. in Carver 202.
Elliptic Curves and Related Topics
Wednesday, March 11 at 3:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Ling Long on The Weil conjectures
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, March 11 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Alexander Roitershtein on Reinforced random walks and formation of social networks
Groups and Physics Seminar
Thursday, March 12 at 1:10 p.m. in 0018 Carver. Ken Driessel on Representation theory of finite groups
Mathematics
Colloquia
Thursday, March 12 Irina Mitrea Boundary value problems for higher order elliptic operators
Analysis Seminar
Thursday, March 12 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 160
Transitions
Graduate student birthdays this week:
3/10 Jing Wang
Transitions features 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
