Week of December 3, 2007
Ahmed and Kleiman receive peer awards
Last week t he Graduate and Professional Student Senate announced its peer research and teaching awards for Fall 2007. Recipients Haseena Ahmed (research) and Elizabeth Kleiman (teaching) joined other honorees at a ceremony where they were given a certificate and a $200 cash prize.
High School Math Contest
An anticipated 150-200 high school students are expected to participate in the departmental math contest on Saturday, December 8. Proctors are needed from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. This is a great recruiting tool. Please contact Elgin Johnston to volunteer.
Final course evaluations
Remember to conduct your final course evaluations this week; they are due on Friday.
Deadlines.
- December 3 by 10:00 a.m. to submit items for next Inside Iowa State to Sue Ellen.
- December 7 course evaluations due in main office
- December 17 by 5:00 p.m. Ames Lab proposals for new collaborative research.
- December 17 evaluation of IMA-PI conference proposals.
Colloquia this week
Tuesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 150
Margo Levine, James Franck Institute/University of Chicago, Modeling the self-assembly of quantum dots in thin solid films
Seminar topics this week
Combinatorics,
Algebra, Number Theory Seminar
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Bokhee ImRepresentations of trilinear products in comtrans algebras
Computational and Applied Mathematics
Monday 4:10 p.m. Carver 294
Margo Levine, James Franck Institute/University of Chicago,Step-flow growth of a crystal surface by Levy flights
Discrete Mathematics
Tuesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 074
Ryan Martin on Forbidden subgraphs of unit disk graphs
Probability
Wednesday 12:10 p.m. Carver 232
To be announced
Computational Algebraic Geometry
Wednesday 2:10 Carver 408
Will resume in January
Hypergeometric Series
Wednesday 2:10 p.m. Carver 232
James Wilson continues Some analytic capacities and Faber polynomials
Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday 4:10 p.m. Carver 290
Hailiang Liu on PDE-based modeling and computation: From image restoration to multi-phase capturing
Analysis
Thursday 3:10 p.m. Carver 204
To be announced
