Math & Computer Science Research Seminar

A forum for the department faculty and visiting scholars to present their current work. A listing of our current and past seminar topics:

Fall 2005

Date Speaker Title Time Room Misc
Tuesday 09/27/05
 Jerry Bona
 Wave Theory
 4:10
 TBA
  
Tuesday 10/25/05
 Chuck Adler
 Atom Chambers
 4:10 TBA  
Monday 11/21/05
 Alex Meadows
 Geometry and/or PDEs
 4:10 TBA  
Tuesday 11/29/05 Sandy Ganzell
 Knots and/or Topology
 4:10 TBA
Tuesday 12/13/05 Angela Johnson
 Math Education
 4:10 TBA


Spring 2005

Date Speaker Title Time Room Misc
Friday 2/18/05
 Simon Read
 Computer Science
 Noon
 SH164
  
Friday 3/4/05
 Dave Kung
 Math Education
 Noon SH164  
Friday  3/25/05
 Katherine Socha
 Water Waves
 Noon SH164  













Fall 2004

Date Speaker Title Time Room Misc
Friday 9/10/04
 Chuck Adler
 Once in a Blue Moon
 2:40
 SH164
  
Friday 10/08/04
 Susan Goldstine
 Number Theory 2:40
 SH164  
Friday  11/12/04
 Matthew Burke
 Computer Science
 2:40
 SH164  
Friday 12/03/04
 Simon Read
 Computer Science
2:40
 SH164  








Spring 2004

Date Speaker Title Time Room Misc
Friday 2/20/04 Walter Carlip Number Theory 12:00
 SH164
  
Friday 3/5/04 Holly Rosson Number Theory 12:00
 SH164  
Wednesday 3/10/04 Paul Hewitt Algebra 12:00
 SH222  
Friday 3/26/04 Joy Dorethy IRIG Chapter 10 File Reader Input Component 12:00
 SH164  
Friday 4/9/04
 Simon Read
 Computer Science
 12:00
 SH109


Fall 2003

Date Speaker Title Time Room Misc
Monday 10/03/03 Katinori Mita Quasi Newtonian formulation of Quantum Mechnacs 12:00
 Physic
  Lab
Friday 10/31/03 David Kung Math Education 12:00
 SH164  
Monday 11/17/03
 Konrad Polthier
 Discrete Weingarten Operator and Surface Optimization
 12:00
 SH109

Spring 2003
Date Speaker Title Time Room Misc
Monday 01/27/03 Susan Goldstine Polynomial Dynamics 4:40 SH161  
Friday 04/04/03 Matthew Burke A Particle-System Model for Plant Invasions 2:40 SH161  
Friday 04/11/03 George Stefan CS and Linear Algebra 2:40 SH161  
Friday 04/18/03 Jeff Lawson Multi-symplectic Geometry 3:40 SH161  
Friday 05/02/03 Joy Dorethy Are Software Engineers Really Engineers? 2:40 SH161  

 

Fall 2002

Date Speaker Title Time Room Misc
Friday 9/27/02 Simon Read Scheduling In Beowulf Clusters 2:40 SH134  
Friday 10/11/02 Holly Rosson L-Series and Half-Integer Weight Modular Forms 2:40 SH134  
Friday 10/25/02 Chuck Adler The  beat of a different drum:  inverse scattering problems in physics 2:40 SH134  
Thursday11/07/02 Herbert Edelsbrunner 3D Printers I 4:00 SH106 Reception in Lobby

afterwards at 5:00
Friday 11/08/02 Herbert Edelsbrunner 3D Printers II 12:00 SH106  
Friday 11/22/02 Dave Kung Analysis 2:40 SH134  
Friday 12/06/02 Matthew Burke A Particle System Model for the Spread of Invading Plants 2:40 SH134  

Spring 2002 (We had some candidate lectures, including Holly Rossen & Matthew Burke)

01/21/02:   Matthew Burke     "Forth"
02/18/01:   Holly Rossen     "All Triangles are Isosceles"

Fall 2001
10/04/01:   George Stefan,     "String Search in Bioinformatics and Some Architectural Solutions"
10/18/01:   Tim McCleaf,     "Reconfigurable Field Research Vehicle for Human Factors Experiments"
11/01/01:   Ramendra Bose,     "Variational Inequality Problems"
11/15/01:   Mihaela Malita,     Computing with Membranes
11/29/01:   Matthias Stark,     Riesz Kernels and Hypersingular Integrals

Spring 2001
01/25/01:   Chuck Adler,     "Pi"
02/08/01:   Dave Kung,     "Mathematical Education"
03/01/01:   Andy Oh,     "Transmissions in Wavelength Network, Part II"
03/08/01:   John Sullivan,     "The Second Hull of a Knotted Curve"
03/22/01:   Andreia Mahler,     "Computational Aspects of the Classical Bianchi-Baecklund Transformation"
04/05/01:   Katsunori Mita,     "Hypergeometric Series and Normalization Integrals in Quantum Mechanics"
04/12/01:   Annalisa Callini,     "Curve Geometry and Soliton Theory"
04/19/01:   Amy Pollard,     "SMP: Computers and ODEs"
04/26/01:   Abbe Herzog,     "The Role of the Intellectual Culture of Mathematics in Doctoral Student Attrition"

Fall 2000
09/14/01:   Dave Kung,     "Harmonic Analysis"
09/28/01:   Ivan Sterling,     "Lorentz Harmonic Maps"
10/12/01:   Andy Oh,     "Transmissions in Wavelength Network, Part I"
10/26/01:   Fozia Qazi,     "Probability"
11/09/01:   Scott Hunter,     "A Topic from Computer Science"
12/07/01:   Sue Strickland,     "A Topic from Mathematical Education"