Week of October 1, 2007
LAS Open Forum
Thursday, October 4 in 101 Carver Hall at 4:00 p.m. Reception to follow
President Gregory Geoffroy and Provost and Executive Vice President Elizabeth Hoffman
Computational Materials Science Meeting at ISU
On Friday/Saturday, October 5-6, there will be a workshop held on the ISU campus focusing on "Multiscale studies in computational materials science" featuring around 20 speakers. Details.
The Putnam Exam
Every year, thousands of students in the U.S. and Canada take an exam in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition. This year's exam will take place on Saturday, December 1 in 408 Carver Hall. Interested students may pick up an application from Elgin Johnston (396C Carver) by noon on Tuesday, Oct. 9. Practice sessions will be held on Thursdays, 4:00 to 5:30, beginning October 18.
Free online seminars to develop mathematics skills
Wolfram Education Group offers a series of free online seminars each week on topics of interest to Mathematica newcomers as well as experienced users.
Seminars are taught live by senior Wolfram staff and provides a convenient way for you to develop your Mathematica skills. No background or previous experience is necessary, but registration is required. Please note all times are U.S. Eastern Daylight, GMT -04:00: View schedule and sign up here.
Deadlines
Office Hours - ASAP!
Office Hour schedules need to be
turned into the office AND posted on your door ASAP. Find the blank forms online.
Cell phone etiquette
Please do not use the Math Reading Room to talk on your cell phones. It's very disruptive to those seeking a quiet room.
Colloquium this week
Tuesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 150
Leif Jorgensen, Aalborg University of Denmark, on "Directed and strongly regular graphs"
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Richard Kramer on "Consequences of the product rule for derivations"
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
Rodney Fox on "A quadrature-based solver for the Boltzmann equation"
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 074
Ryan Martin on "Edit distance in graphs: Colored regularity graphs"
Probability
Wednesday 12:10 p.m. Carver 232
Jiyeon Suh on "Uniform learnability and VC dimension"
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 232
James Wilson on "Contiguous relations II"
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Cliff Bergmann on " TeX"
