Speakers connected to the RTG faculty or associated post docs are indicated in red.
Fall 2006 Colloquium Schedule
Except as noted, all talks are on Friday, from 4:00 to 4:50pm, in Avery
Hall 115, to be preceded by coffee and cookies at 3:30 in Avery
Hall 348.
September 15 2006:
Speaker: Mara Neusel (Texas Tech)
Local Host: Luchezar Avramov
September 22 2006:
Speaker: Christine Heitsch
Local Host: Judy Walker and John Meakin
September 29 2006:
Speaker: Stuart Townley (University of Exeter)
Local Host: Richard Rebarber
October 6 2006:
Speaker: Larry Levy (University of Wisconsin)
Local Host: Roger Wiegand
October 20 2006:
Speaker:
October 27 2006:
Speaker: (Regional Workshop)
November 3 2006:
Speaker: Tony Geramita (Queen's University & University of Genoa)
Local Host: Brian Harbourne
November 10 2006:
Speaker: Andre Konopka
Local Host: David Logan, Hendrik Viljoen
Spring 2006 Colloquium Schedule
January 13 2006 (AMS meeting):
Speaker:
January 16 2006 (Martin Luther King Day):
Speaker: None
January 20 2006:
Norms of Schur multipliers
Speaker: Ken Davidson (University of Waterloo and UNL)
Local Host: Allan Donsig, John Orr and David Pitts
Abstract
January 27 2006:
Matrix problems
Speaker: Lee Klingler (Florida Atlantic University)
Local Host: Roger Wiegand
Abstract
February 2 2006, 4:00 p.m. Computer Science colloquium in 115 Avery Hall,
Reception 3:30 p.m., 348 Avery Hall:
Transforming the Culture of Computing: The Carnegie Mellon Experience
Speaker: Lenore Blum (Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University)
Abstract
February 3 2006, 3:30 pm (NCUWM)
City Campus Nebraska Union Auditorium, Rm. 211:
Computing over the reals: where Turing meets Newton
Speaker: Lenore Blum (Carnegie Mellon Univ)
(This is the opening plenary lecture for the
Nebraska Conference
for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics,
February 3-5 2006, on City Campus.
Friday events in Nebraska Union Auditorium, Rm. 211,
Registration 02:30 pm
Opening 3:30 pm.
Saturday, Sunday events in CBA and Love Library auditorium
See NCUWM homepage for more information.)
Abstract
February 4 2006, 02:00 to 02:50 pm, in Love Library auditorium (NCUWM):
From fixed points to dynamics
Speaker: Krystyna Kuperburg (Auburn Univ)
(Plenary Lecture II of the NCUWM)
Abstract
February 10 2006:
Patterns of Research in Mathematics
Speaker: Jerry Grossman (Oakland University)
Local Host: Steve Dunbar
Abstract
February 17 2006:
Integral Manifolds under One-Step Discretization
Speaker: Christian Poetzsche (University of Minnesota)
Local Host: Allan Peterson
Abstract
February 24 2006:
What do your DNA and DSL have in common?
Speaker: Bo Deng (UNL)
Abstract
March 3 2006:
Mixed problems for linear and non-linear Schrodinger equations on
a
bounded domain
Speaker: Roberto Triggiani (University of Virginia, Charlottesville)
Local Host: Petronela Radu
Abstract
Mar 10 2006:
C-Star-algebras of directed graphs
Speaker: Mark Tomforde (College of William & Mary)
Local Host: Cynthia Farthing, John Orr
Abstract
Mar 12-19 2006, SPRING BREAK:
Speaker: none
March 22 2006 3:30 to 05:00 pm in Room 348 Avery:
Bill Leavitt's 90th Birthday
Speaker: Reception/celebration
March 23 2006 02:30 to 03:20 pm in Hamilton Hall 102:
The mathematical legacy of William G. Leavitt
Speaker: Gene Abrams (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs)
Abstract
Mar 24 2006:
Topology and combinatorics of hyperplane complements
Speaker: Graham Denham (Univ. of Western Ontario)
Local Host: Sri Iyengar
Abstract
Mar 31 2006:
Some Aspects of Noncommutative Convexity
Speaker: Doug Farenick (University of Regina)
Local Host: David Pitts, Allan Donsig
Abstract
April 7 2006:
Interactions between algebra and topology
Speaker: Peter Jorgensen (University of Leeds)
Local Host: Lars Winther Christensen
Abstract
April 14 2006:
Intersection Theory and
Commutative Algebra
Speaker: Paul Roberts (University of Utah)
Local Host: Greg Piepmeyer
Abstract
April 21 2006:
SURFING WITH WAVELETS
Speaker: Ingrid Daubechies, Rowlee Lecturer (Princeton University)
Local Host: Steve Cohn, John Meakin
Abstract
April 28 2006:
Boundary Value Problems Arising From
Monge-Ampere Equations
Speaker: Shouchuan Hu (Southwest Missouri State University)
Local Host: Lynn Erbe
Abstract
May 5 2006 (EXAM Week):
Speaker:
Fall 2005 Colloquium Schedule
August 26:
Algebraic extensions of finitely generated subgroups of free groups
Speaker: Pascal Weil (CNRS, LaBRI, Bordeaux)
Local Host: John Meakin
Abstract
September 2:
Speaker: No colloquium scheduled
September 9:
From idempotent-generated semigroups to squared two-complexes
Speaker: John Meakin (UNL)
Local Host: Sylvia Wiegand
Abstract
September 16:
Entropy Methods in Combinatorics
Speaker: Jamie Radcliffe (University of Nebraska Lincoln)
Abstract
September 23:
The Ranks of the Homotopy Groups of a Finite Complex
Speaker: Steve Halperin (University of Maryland)
Local Host: Lucho Avramov
Abstract
September 30:
Finding interesting curves on
three-dimensional algebraic manifolds: Some special
properties and interesting examples
Speaker: Herb Clemens (Ohio State University)
Local Host: Jim Lewis
Abstract
October 7:
The UNL Foundation is hosting a ceremony with refreshments to honor
Walter Mientka, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics,
and to announce a special gift in Professor Mientka's name. The event
will be held in Room 348 Avery Hall from 3:30 pm to 5:00pm.
Speaker:
October 14:
Chaos in the solar system
Speaker: Mario Martelli (Claremont-McKenna University)
Local Host: Richard Rebarber
Abstract
October 21:
"The Nature of Space" Location: Kimball Recital Hall, to be followed by a reception at the Van Brunt Visitor Center
Speaker: Sir Michael Atiyah (University of Edinburgh)
Local Host: John Meakin, AMS
Abstract
October 21-23:
AMS Sectional Meeting in Lincoln
Speaker: 22 special sessions, 4 hour addresses
Abstract
October 28:
From Matroids to equations and back
Speaker: Peter Vamos (University of Exeter)
Local Host: Roger Wiegand
Abstract
November 4:
Detecting finiteness of Gorenstein homological dimensions
Speaker: Lars Winther Christensen (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Local Host: Lucho Avramov
Abstract
November 11:
Problems in Combinatorial Coding Theory Arising from Problems in Molecular biology
Speaker: Vyacheslav Rykov (University of Nebraska-Omaha)
Local Host: Bo Deng
Abstract
Monday November 14 2005:
On the cohomological dimension of algebraic varieties
Speaker: Gennady Lyubeznik (University of Minnesota)
Local Host: Lucho Avramov
Abstract
December 2:
Mathematical Conceptualism
Speaker: Nik Weaver (Washington University in St. Louis)
Local Host: Allan Donsig
Abstract
Spring 2005 Colloquium Schedule
January 14:
Factoring the Adjoint and modules over the generic determinant
Speaker: Graham Leuschke (Syracuse University)
Local Host: Srikanth Iyengar
Abstract
January 21:
Linking wild and captive populations: optimal translocation strategies
Speaker: Brigitte Tenhumberg
Local Host: David Logan
Abstract
January 28:
The structure of maps into homogeneous spaces
Speaker: David Auckley (Kansas State University)
Abstract
February 4:
A World of Instabilities
Speaker: Susan Friedlander (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Local Host: Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics
Abstract
February 11:
On the cycle double cover conjecture
Speaker: Jonathan Cutler (UNL)
Local Host: Jamie Radcliffe
Abstract
February 18:
Direct-sum cancellation of modules
Speaker: Roger Wiegand (UNL)
Abstract
February 25:
An Introduction to the Theory of Non-Unique Factorizations in Integral Domains and Monoids
Speaker: Scott Chapman (Trinity University - San Antonio, TX)
Local Host: Roger Wiegand
Abstract
March 1:
The Regularity Problem in Nonlinear Elasticity
Speaker: Mikil Foss (Kansas State University)
Local Host: John Meakin
Abstract
March 4:
Controlled Matrix Factorizations and Birational Maps
Speaker: Hema Srinivasan (University of Missouri at Columbia)
Local Host: Srikanth Iyengar
Abstract
March 11:
Coordinates and Operator Algebras
Speaker: Allan Donsig (UNL)
Abstract
March 25:
Representation Theory and the Theory of Automata and Regular Languages
Speaker: Stuart Margolis (Bar-Ilan University, Queens College (NY) and
Hunter College)
Local Host: John Meakin
Abstract
April 1 2005:
CUPM Curriculum Guide 2004 : What does it say and how do I use it?
(Opening talk for the Mathematical Association of America
Regional meeting in Lincoln)
Speaker: Herbert E. Kasube (Bradley University)
Local Host: Steve Dunbar
Abstract
April 8:
Control and stability properties of layered composite beams
Speaker: Scott Hansen (Iowa State University)
Local Host: George Avalos
Abstract
April 14:
(2005 Rowlee Lecture): Cellular Measure Theory: How cells make measurements
Speaker: James Keener (University of Utah)
Local Host: Steve Cohn
Abstract
April 15 in 106 Avery Hall:
Vector bundles and group representations
Speaker: Dan Edidin (University of Missouri)
Local Host: Brian Harbourne,Srikanth Iyengar
Abstract
April 22:
An Asymptotic Formula for the t-core
Partition Function and a Conjecture of Stanton
Speaker: Jaclyn Anderson (University of Wisconsin)
Local Host: Sylvia Wiegand
Abstract
April 29:
Investigation of mechanical properties of cell membranes
Speaker: Eveline Basu (Mechanical Engineering, UNL)
Local Host: Steve Cohn
Abstract
May 5:
A Survey on the Weak Krull-Schmidt Theorem
Speaker: Alberto Facchini (University of Padova, Italy)
Local Host: Roger Wiegand
Abstract
Fall 2004 Colloquium Schedule
September 10:
Finitely generated ideals in rings of integer-valued
polynomials
Speaker: Lee Klingler (Florida Atlantic University and UN-L)
Local Host: Roger and Sylvia Wiegand
Abstract
September 17:
Robust Control: A New Empirical Tool For Population Ecology
Speaker: Stuart Townley
Local Host: Richard Rebarber
Abstract
September 24:
Are hyperbolic groups star-free?
Speaker: Sarah Rees (University of Newcastle, UK)
Local Host: Susan Hermiller
Abstract
October 1:
A natural Hilbert space for the Feynman formulation of quantum theory
Speaker: Tepper Gill (Howard and Minnesota)
Local Host: Jerry Johnson
Abstract
October 8:
Algebraic mappings of 3-folds
Speaker: Dale Cutkosky (Missouri-Columbia)
Local Host: Lucho Avramov
Abstract
October 15:
Groups, Codes, and Graphs
Speaker: Clarence Wilkerson (Purdue)
Local Host: Lucho Avramov
Abstract
October 22:
Vanishing of functions on intersections of algebraic varieties
Speaker: Sean Sather-Wagstaff (Illinois and UN-L)
Abstract
October 29:
On Higher Rank Graphs
Speaker: Alex Kumjian (Nevada-Reno)
Local Host: David Pitts and Allan Donsig
Abstract
November 12:
Transition Matrices and Generalized Matrix Exponentials via the Peano-Baker Series on Time Scales
Speaker: Jeff DaCunha (United States Military Academy)
Local Host: Al Peterson and Lynn Erbe
Abstract
November 19:
From Linear to Semilinear Wave Equations
Speaker: Petronela Radu (UN-L)
Local Host: Mohammad Rammaha and George Avalos
Abstract
December 3:
Green's Functions for Heat Transfer Applications
Speaker: Kevin Cole (UN-L Department of Mechanical Engineering)
Local Host: David Pitts
December 10:
Recent Examples of the Lavrentiev Phenomenon
Speaker: Mikil Foss (Kansas State and UN-L)
Abstract
Prior to Fall 2004