Colloquia


2007-2008

"Knowing Your Limits"

Joseph Rosenblatt
National Science Foundation
University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign

Thursday - May 1, 2008 - 2:30PM in 129 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Some Geometric Tools in the Analysis of Image Data"

Chris Peterson
Department of Mathematics
Colorado State University

Tuesday - April 29, 2008 - 2:30PM in 118 DeBartolo
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Independent Sets in Graphs"

David Galvin
Department of Mathematics
University of Notre Dame

Monday - April 28, 2008- 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"On Robustness of Morphogen Gradient"

Jinzhi Lei
Tsinghua University and University of California - Irvine

Monday - April 21, 2008- 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"The Generalization of Numerical Algebraic Geometry to Partial Differential Equations"

Greg Reid
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Western Ontario, Canada

Monday - April 14, 2008- 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Size Change and Robust Biological Development"

Frederic Yui-Ming Wan
Department of Mathematics
University of California - Irvine

Monday - April 7, 2008- 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"On Realizing All Simple Graphs with a Given Degree Sequence"

Zoltan Toroczkai
Department of Physics
University of Notre Dame

Monday - March 31, 2008- 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Bounding and Finding the Real Solutions of Fewnomial Systems"

Dan Bates
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)
University of Minnesota

Monday - March 10, 2008- 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Galois Groups of Schubert Problems Via Homotopy Computation"

Frank Sottile
Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University

Tuesday - February 26, 2008- 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy Center
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Computation of Fixed Points for Nonexpanding Functions"

Christopher Sikorski
School of Computing
University of Utah

Monday - November 26, 2007- 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Detonation Failure in the Ignition and Growth Model"

Ashwani Kapila
Mathematical Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Presently, Division of Mathematical Sciences, NSF

Monday - October 29, 2007- 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"A New Type of Bootstrapping Based on Almost Sure Limit Theorems"

Manfred Denker
Institut fur Mathematische Stochastik
Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany

Monday - October 15, 2007- 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Quadrature-Free WENO Finite-Volume Schemes for Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems on Unstructured Triangular and Tetrahedral Meshes in Two and Three Dimensions"

Michael Dumbser
Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Engineering
University of Trento, Italy

Wednesday - September 26, 2007- 4:00PM in 231 Hayes-Healy
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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"Computational Fluid Dynamics"

James Glimm
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Stony Brook University
President, American Mathematical Society

Monday - September 17, 2007- 4:00PM in 127 Hayes-Healy
*TEA AT 3:30PM in the Math Lounge - 257 Hurley*

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