Week of November 16, 2009 xxxxxx
On the road again
MORE team members will be on the Valley High School campus in West Des Moines all day on Friday, November 20. Team members will spend the day making presentations to more than 1,300 sophomore and junior students during regular mathematics classes, meeting with administrators and secondary counselors, and staffing an information center/exhibit.
MSM Final Defense - Joel Conn
The simplex lock problem
Wednesday, November 18 at 2:00 p.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Major Professors: Heather Bolles and Irvin Hentzel
Masters Final Defense - Jaikishan Jalan
Feature selection, statistical modeling and its applications to Universal JPEG Steganalyzer
Wednesday, November 18 at 2:30 p.m. in 223 Atanasoff Hall
Major Professors: Jennifer Davidson and Hridesh Rajan
MSM Final Defense - Catherine Kaspar
Using Bezier Curves for geometric transformations
Friday, November
20 at 1:00 p.m. in 390 Carver Hall
Major Professors: Heather Bolles & Irvin Hentzel
Masters Final Defense - John Gillespie
Friday, November
20 at 3:30 p.m. in 390 Carver Hall
Major Professor: Jonathan Smith
Reserving computer labs - Finals Week
Contact Jason Smith no later than Friday, November 20 to reserve computer labs for Final exams.
Main office closed
Administrative offices in the Mathematics Department will be closed November 23-27. There will be no mail delivery to Carver Hall this week.
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
Sprague Room Event - None
Monday, November 16 at 4:10 p.m.
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
Monday, November 16 at 2:10 p.m. in Carver 124.
Combinatorics & Number Theory Seminar
Monday, November 16 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 232. Jonathan Smith on Lambda-rings of automorphisms.
Computational & Applied Math - please attend Friday colloquia instead.
Monday, November 16 at 4:10 p.m. in Carver 202.
Matrix Group Seminar
Tuesday, November 17 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Kenneth Driessel on Representations of the special unitary group SU(3)
Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Tuesday, November 17 at 2:10 p.m. in 174 Carver. Darren Row on Cut-vertex reductioin for zero forcing numbers
Graduate Student Seminar Series
Wednesday, November 18 at 4:10 p.m. in 204 Carver. MathGSO members talk about the Mathematics Graduate Student Organization
Matrix Group Seminar
Thursday, November 19 at 10:00 a.m. in 204 Carver Hall
Thursday, November 19 at 1:10 p.m. in 190 Carver Hall
Kenneth Driessel on An application of the Representations of SU(3) in quantum mechanics
Algebraic Combinatorics Seminar
Thursday, November 19 at 3:10 p.m. in 196 Carver. Association schemes obtained from the action of
PGL(n, q) on non-incident projective point-line pairs.
Mathematics Colloquia- Double Header
Friday, November 20 in 268 Carver at 3:30 p.m. - Tong Li (U Iowa) Stability of traveling waves arising from chemotaxis.
Friday, November 20 in 268 Carver at 4:15 p.m. - Lihe Wang (U Iowa) Estimates for invariant classes of functions.
Transitions
Upcoming graduate student birthdays:
11/18 Yi-Lin Cheng; 11/26 John Batchelor
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
