Spring 1999
Colloquium Schedule
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
The previous semester's colloquium schedule is
here.
Here
is a discussion of what to expect at Colloquium talks.
Jan. 21: Deborah Ball,University Michigan, and Hyman Bass, Columbia University
Crossing Boundaries: Probing the Mathematical Entailments
of Teaching Elementary School Mathematics
Burnett Hall 115, 4pm
Jan. 22: Hyman Bass, Columbia University
Tree Lattices
Jan. 28: David A. Edwards, University of Delaware
Transport effects in surface-volume biochemical reactions
Feb. 4: Alexandre Denisov, Moscow State University
Inverse Problems
Feb. 5 (FRIDAY): George Avalos, Texas Tech University
Exact controllability of thermoelastic systems
Oldfather Hall 303, 3:30pm
Feb. 11: William Heinzer, Purdue University
Finite generation of powers of ideals
Feb. 18: Alan Hopenwasser, University of Alabama
Direct Limit Algebras
Feb. 25: John Meier, Lafayette College
What's at the end of an infinite group?
Mar. 4: Roger Wiegand, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Representations, diagrams and singularities
Mar. 11: Bettina Klaus, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
An Axiomatic Approach to Fair Allocation and Location Problems
Mar. 25: Bradley Efron, Stanford University
Shakespeare and the Case of the Suspicious Statistician
104 Bessey Hall
Apr. 1: B. Purnaprajna, University of Kansas
Syzygies and Vector Bundles
Apr. 8: Sharon Lohr, Arizona State University
Conditional Probabilities of Crime Victimization Using Respondents and
Partial Nonrespondents
Apr. 15: Liming Ge, University of New Hampshire
An Introduction to Free Probability Theory
Apr. 21 (TUESDAY): Daryl Cooper, University of Santa Barbara
The Study of Symmetry via Orbifolds
3:30pm in OldH 209
Apr. 27 (TUESDAY): Myron Allen, University of Wyoming
Two-grid methods for fixed finite element methods of solution to
reaction-diffusion equations
Room and Time TBA