Colloquia Scheduling Page

This page is intended to help UN-L Math faculty with colloquium scheduling. Let me know if you see changes or additions that would improve the process.

Procedures for reserving a colloquium slot:

• First come first served; let me know as soon as possible if you would like to reserve a slot.
• All colloquia dates are listed in the schedules linked below. If you would like to host a talk on a date other than one of the dates possible, feel free to make your own arrangements.
• There is a general feeling that local speakers should defer to visitors; if you reserve a spot for yourself to talk on a date that someone else, whom we shall call X, would like to have a visitor speak, I feel it is appropriate for X to talk to you about giving up your slot. Whether you do or not is between you and X.
• It is OK to request a slot before you have a specific speaker, but until I receive assurance that you have a specific speaker who will use that slot, I regard such a reservation as tentative, and I will direct inquiries about using the slot your way.
• In order to advertise your visitor's talk, I will need some information no later than early in the month preceding your visitor's talk. The information I need is listed below. (I have filled in default values for certain items; let me know if a default value needs to be changed---for example, if you need a bigger room):

To schedule a colloquium for Fall 2009, consult the Fall 09 Schedule for an open date, then email me (swiegand@math.unl.edu) the information below. Also please note the local host requests.

1. Information on Visitor: I need the following information as soon as possible for scheduling and advertising the talk.

•  Date:
• Time: 4:00-4:50
• Room: Avery  Hall 115
• Event: Colloquium, Department of Mathematics  
• Speaker(s): (give the name the way it should appear)
• Professional Title: Professor?
• Organizational Affiliation(s):
• Title of talk:
• Abstract: (optional, but strongly encouraged). Abstracts should be in plain text (ASCII), preferably without TeX or LATeX.
• Funding Source to acknowledge (are Research Council Funds are being used?):
• I would be happy to create a link to your visitor's home page or link the talk title to another site with additional resources. Let me know if your visitor would like such a link.

2. Funding Needs (I need this information as soon as possible). Limited funds are available for visitor expenses, however making use of other funding sources (e.g. grants, Research Council, etc) before requesting departmental support is strongly encouraged.
   Research Council Deadlines for Visiting Scholar Grants:
   1. approximately October 10, 2009 for Spring 2010 visitors, (provides funding for scholars from 1/1/2010-6/30/2010),
   2. March 23, 2009 for Fall 2009 visitors (provides funding for scholars from 7/1/2009-12/31/2009).
3. Special needs for the talk (e.g. a large room, etc.)

Current Schedule of Open Dates for Fall 09

Current Schedule of Open Dates for Spring 09

Requests regarding colloquia to local hosts:

First thanks for your help in arranging a colloquium! Our department is a better place with colloquia!

Here are various business details regarding colloquium speakers that need to be taken care of. A lot of these items are much easier for the inviter/sponsor for a speaker to do than the colloquium chair, plus in the interest of the inviter being sure they're done appropriately, safer for the inviter to do than leaving them up to the colloquium chair.

With apologies then, here is the list:

• Please try to get a title, maybe even an abstract, from your speaker well in advance of the talk. Tactfully explain that we like the colloquia to be understandable to grad students. I'd like to know the information as soon as possible, and so I can get it on various calendars.
• The Friday before the colloquium please could you check that the staff has the relevant data?
• Ahead of the talk, please ask whether she/he'd use transparencies, computer or whiteboard so we can get the room arranged suitably. Also it's wise for him/her to try out any transparencies. If it involves a computer hookup, it's especially wise to try it out first! (As we've all noticed!)
• Are you willing to introduce him/her, or whom would you recommend? (If I do it, I'd like to know the usual details about his mathematical career.)
  
  Thanks again for your help in reviving the intellectual atmosphere of our dept! (So that we're not after all merely a bunch of drones.)