Week of September 14, 2009 xxxxxx
MORE 2009
Monday, September 14 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Keystone AEA in Dubuque
Ames Symposium in Probability and Statistics
September 18-19 - Ames Symposium on Probability and Statistics. A conference in honor of Krishna B. Athreya's 70th birthday.
Departmental Picnic
Sunday, September 20 from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in Butternut Shelter at Emma McCarthy Lee Park in Ames. Meat and drink provided; please bring a dish or item to share. All faculty members, staff members and graduate students and their families are welcome to join us.
Look at the numbers: Workshop a huge success!
Eighty-eight participants registered for Friday's Should we trust the numbers? workshop - and then 37 more walked in to hear Susan Haack (University of Miami) and Jay Kadane (Carnegie Mellon Emeritus) talk about numbers in the Court of Law. Other presenters included David Alexander (ISU), Stephen Vardeman (ISU) and Joseph Kupfer (ISU).
Susan Haack proposed that numbers used in Court must be accurate, meaningful and in context.
Jay Kadane emphasized that accurate numbers, absent context, may imply erroneous conclusions.
Wolfgang Kliemann moderates a panel comprised of Kevin de Laplante (Philosophy), Haack, Kadane and Alicia Carriquiry (Statistics).
Evening panel will be available on podcast on the ISU Lectures site shortly.
Hold this date:
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
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Colloquia and Seminars this week
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
Monday, September 14 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 124. Facilitator: Ling Long
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, September 14 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Facilitator: J.D.H. Smith Commutators and associators in groups and Catalan loops
Computational & Applied Math
Monday, DATE at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 202. Zhijun Wu, Solving Distance Geometry Problems via Successive Subspace Optimization, (ISU) Facilitator: Paul Sacks & Hailiang Liu
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall. Kenneth Driessel, The matrix exponential and the Lie algebra of a matrix lie group
Discrete Mathematics Seminar - COLLOQUIA REPLACES SEMINAR
Tuesday, September 15 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, September 15 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver- Leslie Hogben (ISU).Sign patterns that require eventual positivity of require eventual nonnegativity
Graduate
Student Seminar Series
Wednesday, September 16 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver - Yiu-Tung Poon, Quantum error correction and generalized numerical ranges. Tea & cookies served at 3:45 p.m.,
in 404 Carver Hall.
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Thursday 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Kenneth Driessel, The matrix exponential and the Lie algebra of a matrix lie group
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Friday, DATE at 3:10 p.m. in 290 Carver
Ames Symposium on Probability and Statistics
September 18-19 A conference in honor of Krishna B. Athreya's 70th Birthday. Organized by A. Ghosh, A. Roitershtein, S. Sethuraman, A. Weerasinghe.
Transitions
Graduate student birthdays this week:
9/14 Qi (Dave) Gan
9/15 Jyy-I Hong, Jason Smith, Lucas Kramer
9/18 Min 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
