Department of Mathematics
Colloquium 2012-2013

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Wayne State University
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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The Department of Mathematics Colloquium meets every Monday at 2:45pm, in EDUCATION 155, with tea at 2:00pm in 1216 FAB.

Occasionally, the meeting will be moved to another room and/or day to accommodate special circumstances.

For information, contact Tao Mei (tmei) or Bert Schreiber (bert) @math.wayne.edu.

	FALL 2012 SCHEDULE
Sep. 3	Labor Day. No colloquium.
Sep. 10	No colloquium.
Sep. 17	ShuZhong Zhang, University of Minnesota New Probability Bounds, Randomized Algorithms, and Tensor Optimization
Sep. 24	Wayne M. Raskind, Wayne StateUniversity Algebraic K-Theory and Calabi-Yau Manifolds
Oct. 3 (Wed.)	Alexander A. Mikhalev, Moscow State Automorphisms and primitive elements of free algebras of Schreier varieties
Oct. 8	Jiguang Sun, Michigan Technological University Numerical Methods and Applications of Transmission Eigenvalues
Oct. 15	Alexander Volberg, Michigan State University On a problem of David Semmes
Oct. 22	Eric Finster, Institute for Advanced Study Homotopy Type Theory
Oct. 29	Peter Monk, University of Delaware(Cancelled) Discretization of Time Domain Integral Equations
Nov. 5	Javier Parcet, Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Spain Convergence of Fourier series over discrete groups
Nov. 12	ChangYou Wang, University of Kentucky Recent Developments on Nematic Liquid Crystal Flows (.pdf)
Nov. 19	Kyu-Hwan Lee, University of Connecticut Root multiplicities of hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras and Fourier coefficients of modular forms
Nov. 26	Oliver Roendigs, Universitaet Osnabrueck, Germany Homotopy Types of Curves
Dec. 3	Claude Schochet, Wayne State University Topological Invariants of Operator Algebras.
Dec. 10	Nathaniel Tymes, Jr., Marketing Department, Ferris State University Are Online Courses the Right Choice for You?

	WINTER 2013 SCHEDULE
Jan. 14	Dean Sandra Yee, WSU Libraries Open Access: What We Are Doing and How it Helps You
Jan. 21	Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. No colloquium.
Jan. 23	Ivan Shestakov, University of São Paolo, Brazil Nonassociative Lie Theory
Jan. 28	Gerard Awanou, University of Ilinois at Chicago New and Old Rectangular Mixed Finite Elements
Feb. 4	Zbigniew Jurek, University of Wroclaw, Poland Calculus on Random Integral Transforms I^h,r
Feb. 11	Ming-Jun Lai, University of Georgia Multivariate Splines and their Applications
Feb. 18	Avinash Sathaye, University of Kentucky On Some Polynomial Curves
Feb. 25	William Velez, University of Arizona Increasing the Number of Mathematics Majors
Mar. 4	Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University Topology and Data: The Shape of Data
Mar. 6	Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University Topology and Data: Measuring Shape
Mar. 11	Spring Break. No Colloquium.
Mar. 18	Petr Plechac, University of Delaware Multilevel Approximations and Coarse-Graining of Stochastic Particle Dynamics
Mar. 25	Lijing Sun, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee Asymptotic Estimates For Unimodular Fourier Multipliers On Modulation Spaces
Apr. 1
Apr. 3 (Wed.)	Owens Lecture: Neil Sloane What is the next number after 1, 2, 5, 14, 42? -- Confessions of a Sequence Addict
Apr. 4 (Thurs.)	Neil Sloane The sphere Packing Problem: Applications and Recent Developments
Apr. 8	Zhen-Qing Chen, University of Washington Jump-Diffusions and Nonlocal Operators
Apr. 15	Lajos Horváth, University of Utah Change Point Detection: Models and Approaches
Apr. 22	Thomas Hagstrom, Southern Methodist University Towards the Ultimate Solver for Wave Equations in the Time Domain