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Colloquium 2012-2013


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 Ih,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