Graduate Student Seminar Fall 2009

Department of Mathematics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Meeting Time: Wednesdays 5:00-6:00pm in 108 Avery Hall

Maintained by: Brian Johnson

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Talks

Aug 26: Brian Johnson, So you thought you knew how to integrate!
Sept 2: Derek Boeckner, Markov chains and some applications.
Sept 9: Michael Uhrig, Newcomb's proof of Benford's Law.
Sept 16: Jared Ruiz, The Mathematics of Special Relativity.
Sept 23: Tyler Seacrest, The infinite random graph.
Sept 30: Courtney Gibbons, The determinant trick.
Oct 7: Joe Geisbauer, Reducing differential operators and solving differential equations via systems of quadratic equations with the help of Fröbenius and others.
Oct 14: Derrick Stolee, A toast to three Russians.
Oct 21: Eric Eager, The mathematics of a zombie attack.
Oct 28: Katie Johnson, Erdös' proof of Bertrand's postulate.
Nov 4: Inês Henriques, Nicolas Bourbaki and other French mathematical legends.
Nov 11: Tom Clark, Reproducing kernels in Hilbert spaces.
Nov 18: Sara Reynolds, An overview of probability in gene sequence alignments and phylogeny.
Nov 25: Thanksgiving. No Seminar.
Dec 2: Brian Johnson, The hyperexponential function.
Dec 9: Derek Boeckner, TBA

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