Colloquia
The Department of Mathematics Colloquia are normally held in 4010 University Hall on Fridays at 3:00pm. Any departures from this are indicated below.
Light refreshments are served after the colloquia in 2040 University Hall.
Driving directions, parking information, and maps are available on the university website.
2007-2008 Colloquia
What follows is a list of speakers and talk titles for the current academic year. Abstracts for the talks are posted in the hallways around the departmental offices.
- September 21, 2007
Sam B. Nadler, Jr. (University of Toledo)
Pointwise Products of Uniformly Continuous Functions
- October 5, 2007 (McMaster Hall 1005)
Firas Hindeleh (Grand Valley State University)
Teaching Calculus with Technology
- October 19, 2007
Piotr Minc (Auburn University)
Embedding graphs into the plane to approximate simplicial maps
- October 26, 2007
Patrick Ahern (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Germs of Real Analytice Functions and the question of their equivalence
- October 31, 2007 (Wednesday at 4:00pm in HH 3204)
Shoemaker Series: Lecture 1
Daniel Luecking (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville)
What are Toeplitz Operators, and Why
- November 1, 2007 (Thursday at 4:00 pm in UH 3800)
Shoemaker Series: Lecture 2
Daniel Luecking (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville)
Toeplitz Operators in Operator Ideals
- November 2, 2007
Shoemaker Series: Lecture 3
Daniel Luecking (University of Arkansas at Fayetteville)
Finite Rank Toeplitz Operators
- November 16, 2007
Tom Mestdag (University of Michigan)
Routh reduction of a Lagrangian system with a non-Abelian symmetry group
- November 30, 2007
Mark M. Meerschaert (Michigan State University)
Fractional Calculus, heavy tails, and applications
- February 15, 2008
Konstantine Zelator (University of Toledo)
Diophantine Curiosities
- February 22, 2008
Catalin Trenchea
Title: to be announced
Host: Denis White
- February 29, 2008
Lee Jones (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
Real algebraic geometry and normed linear spaces in the theory of learning
Host: Henry Wente
- March 14, 2008
Firas Hindeleh (Grand Valley State University)
Seven-Dimensional Lie Algebras with a Four-Dimensional Nilradical
Host: Gerard Thompson
- March 28, 2008
Diem M Nguyen (Bowling Green State University)
Online Math Teaching and Assessment With an Open Source Software – Moodle
Host: Friedhelm Schwarz
- April 4, 2008
Ji Zhu (University of Michigan)
Group Variable Selection via Hierarchical Lasso and Its Oracle Property
Host: Qin Shao
- April 11, 2008
Vitaly Vologodsky (University of Toledo)
Maps between Moduli Spaces in Algebraic Geometry
- April 18, 2008
Khristo N. Boyadzhiev (Ohio Northern University - Ada)
A series transformation formula and related polynomials
- April 25, 2008
Nanshan Liu (University of Toledo)
Theory and Applications of Legendre Polynomials and Wavelets