Week of October 15, 2007
External Review
Last week faculty, staff members and students spent two days meeting with the five-member external review team. Clockwise from left: Krishna Athreya, Richard Brualdi (UW-Madison), Zhijun Wu, Suzanne Lenhart (UT-Knoxville), Tom Trotter (Georgia Tech), Ken Davidson (Waterloo), Mitchell Luskin (U Minn), Jim Evans, Ananda Weerasinghe, Maria Axenovich.
Deadlines
Colloquium this week
Tuesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 150
Ivan Correa, Metropolitan University of CS
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Gargi Bhattacharyya on "Terwilliger algebras in wreath products of association schemes "
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
Sunder Sethuraman on "On a scaling limit in a zero-range interacting particle system "
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 074
Chad Brewbaker on "An introduction to computational genetics for the graph theorist"
Probability
Wednesday 12:10 p.m. Carver 232
K. B. Athreya on "Growth rates for pure birth Markov chains "
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 232
Tim Huber on "The Jacobi-Ramanujan inversion formula "
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Cliff Bergmann on "TeX"
Analysis
Thursday 3:10 p.m. Carver 204
Erik Weber on "The Kadison-Singer problem, Part I"
