Week of October 26, 2009 xxxxxx
Join the fun
On Saturday, a group from the Mathematics Department played indoor soccer. They had so much fun, they want you to play, too.
Interested players (any member of the Mathematics Department) may email captain Youngsoo Seol to let him know you want to play.
This semester, the group plans to pay on Saturdays at 4:00 p.m. at the Lied Recreation Athletic Center.
Current students may access LRAC with their valid ISU Card. Faculty and staff members must purchase a pass to enter.
At left: Taking a break between matches is more essential for some than for others.
At right: Clearly a post-play photo.
Front row: Zhen Li, Maksym Pryporov, Youngsoo Seol, Yiping Hao.
Back row: Jose Ponce, Dominic D'Alessandro, Ahmet Ozer, Humberto Verdejo, Dominic Kramer, Tong Zhao, Sunder Sethuraman.
Reminder to change your clocks this weekend
Daylight Savings Time begins at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 1. Set your clocks back one hour.
Undergraduates: Pi Mu Epsilon meeting
Undergraduate mathematics majors are invited to join members of Pi Mu Epsilon - ISU Math Club at a meeting on Sunday, November 8 at 5:00 p.m. in 232 Carver Hall. Paul Sacks will talk about graduate school and admissions. Free Pizza following the meeting.
Faculty fee
All faculty members are asked to pay Ellen $10 for Mathematics colloquiums by Friday, October 30.
Ease reports past due
If you have not yet turned in your EASE report to Ellen, please do so as soon as possible.
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 this week
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
Monday, October 26 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 124. Facilitator: Ling Long
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, October 26 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Oktay Olmez on Directed strongly regular graphs
Computational & Applied Math
Monday, October 26 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 202. James Evans on Statistical mechanical and multiscale modeling of non-equilibrium processes at surfaces
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday, October 27 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Kenneth Driessel on Schur's Lemma and complete reducibility
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, October 27 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Jake Manske on A proof from the Bukh: a proof of a special case of an analogue of the Erdos-Stone theorem for posets
Mathematics Colloquia
Tuesday, October 27 at 4:10 p.m. in 290 Carver. Jennifer Paulhus (Kansas State University) Using algebra to study curves.
Graduate Student Seminar Series
Wednesday, October 28 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver. Cliff Bergman on TeX.
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday, October 29 at 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Thursday, October 29 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Kenneth Driessel on Representations of the Special Unitary Group SU(2) and Special Orthogonal Group SO(3)
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Thursday, October 29at 3:10 p.m. in 196 Carver. Character tables of m-flat association schemes.
Transitions
Graduate student birthdays this week:
10/26 Steven Osborne
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
