UNL MATHEMATICS and BIOLOGY Seminar, Fall 2009 Thursdays, 2:30-3:20, Avery 19 Note: The October 22 seminar will be 3:30-4:30 in Hamilton 110. This seminar is in the School of Biological Sciences.
| September 3 | Glenn Ledder, UNL Mathematics | A Model of Plant Life History Optimization: Annual or Perennial? |
| September 10 | Adam Schapaugh, UNL Fisheries and Wildlife | The Dynamics and Viability of the Endangered Streaked Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris strigata) |
| September 17 | Eric Eager, UNL Mathematics | |
| September 24 | Bo Deng, UNL Mathematics | Simulating Biodiversity -- from random mutation to natural selection to ecological stability |
| October 1 | Anthony DeLegge, UNL Mathematics | |
| October 8 | no seminar | |
| October 15 | Tobi Louw | Oligonucleotide Optimization for DNA synthesis |
| October 22 | Brigitte Tenhumberg | Keeping pests down and endangered species up: the impact of unstable stage structures |
| October 29 | Michelle Swenson, University of Texas-Austin Mathematics | SuperFine: a fast and accurate phylogenetic supertree method |
| November 5 | Carina Curto, UNL Mathematics | Geometry of stable cliques in neural networks |
| November 12 | seminar canceled because of Math Day | |
| November 19 | Travis Hinkelman, UNL Biology | Does area-restricted search lead to density-dependent foraging? A spatially-explicit simulation model in Netlogo |
| December 3 | open | |
| December 10 | RUTE project presentations |