Mathematics Department Weekly Reader

Calendar

Up-to-date information is posted in the Mathematics extended calendar. If you have information to put on the calendar, please contact Sue Ellen.

Week of August 31, 2009 xxxxxx

 

 

Nominations sought for Department committees

 

Nominations for committee members for the Adivsory Committee, Tenured Faculty Review and Evaluation Committee, Untenured Faculty Review and Evaluation Committee, Graduate Committee and Undergraduate Committee are being taken this week. Elections will be held the week of September 7.

 

Hold these dates:

 

September 9 - Department annual meeting at 4:10 p.m.

 

September 11- Should we Trust the Numbers? A Workshop on philosophy, mathematics, statistics and the Court of Law 2:00 - 9:00 p.m.

 

September 18-19 - Ames Symposium on Probability and Statistics. A conference in honor of Krishna B. Athreya's 70th birthday.

 

National Science Foundation workshop at UI on October 8.

 

Funding opportunities

 

Internal and external grant opportunities will be listed here throughout the year. A link to this page is located on the departmental home page: Funding Opportunities.

 

Deadlines this week

 

Remember to check the departmental calendar for deadlines. e

 

Colloquia and Seminars

 

 

Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms

Monday, August 31 at 2:10 p.m. in 124 Carver Hall

 

Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory

Monday, August 31at 4:10 p.m. in 232 Carver Hall

 

Computational & Applied Math

Monday, August 31at 4:10 p.m. in 202 Carver Hall

 

Matrix Groups Seminar

Tuesday/Thursday, September 1 & 3 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall

Thursday, September 3 at 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall

 

Discrete Mathematics

Tuesday, September 1 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver Hall

 

Graduate Student Seminar Series

Wednesday, September 2 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver Hall

 

Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Friday, September 4 at 3:10 p.m. in 290 Carver - Oktay Olmez on Existence and construction of directed strongly regular graphs, Part I.

Colloquia: Tuesday, September 8 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 290 - Chun Liu (IMA, University of Minnesota), Energetic variational approaches in calcium and sodium channels

 

Transitions

Graduate student birthdays this week:

Coming soon... :)

 

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