Week of November 5, 2007
Flu shots available to faculty and staff
Flu shots will be provided to faculty and staff from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays Nov. 6 through Nov. 20 in 205 Technical Administrative Service Facility (TASF). Each ISU employee will be required to have his/her ISU ID no. to obtain a shot. Limited parking is available in front of TASF. Occupational Medicine staff will administer the immunizations, which are provided by ISU at no cost to the employee. For more information regarding the flu shots, call 4-0874.
Deadlines
- November 15 IMA Participating Institution Conferences applications
- December 1 Reserve a table to participate in the graduate school fair at the joint AMS/MAA meetings.
Tutors needed
The Academic Success Center needs tutors for undergraduate math assistance. This is an opportunity to earn extra money, build your resume and meet new people. Hours are flexible. More information available at www.dso.iastate.edu/asc or 294-6624.
Colloquia this week
Tuesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 150
Mathieu Merle, University of British Columbia, on "Voter, Lotka-Volterra models and super-Brownian motion"
Friday 2:10 p.m. Carver 232
Ofer Zeitouni (University of Minnesota and Weizmann Institute) on "Some challenges in the study of motion in random media"
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Tim Huber on "An application of Lie groups to Ramanujan's differential equations for Eisenstein series"
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
Haseena Ahmed
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 074
Details posted as they become available.
Probability
Wednesday 12:10 p.m. Carver 232
Mathieu Merle, University of British Columbia on "The continuous limit of invasion percolation on a regular tree"
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 232
Tim Huber on "Snakes & zeros of generalized Rogers-Ramanujan series"
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Leslie Hogben on "Minimum Rank Problems and the Early Graduate Research seminar for Spring 08"
Analysis
Thursday 3:10 p.m. Carver 204
Brody Johnson, St. Louis University on "Charaacterizations of finite-dimensional tight frames"
