WSU
Department of Mathematics
Student Seminar 2011-2012
Wayne State University
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences


Talks are held Fridays at 2:00 PM in the Mathematics Resource Center unless otherwise noted.

All seminars
Colloquium
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Winter 2012

Date Speaker and Title
 
Feb. 10 Kyungyong Lee,
Catalan Numbers (Abstract)
Feb. 17 Daniel Frohardt,
Mathematics and the Calendar (Abstract)
Feb. 24 Robert Bruner,
Differential Equations and the Projective Plane (Abstract)
Mar. 2 Dan Isaksen,
A cohomological viewpoint on elementary school arithmetic (Abstract)
Mar. 30 John Breckenridge,
The Riesz Representation theorem (Abstract)
Apr. 6 Andrew Salch,
Norms in number theory (Abstract)



Fall 2011

Date Speaker and Title
 
Oct. 28 Mike Catanzaro,
The Topology of Spaces of Triads (Abstract)
Nov. 4 John Peter,
What is a Manifold? (Abstract)
Nov. 11 Eric Hetland, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan
Earthquakes in the 21st Century: Developing a Mathematical Understanding of
the Earthquake Cycle Opportunities for Math, Science,
and Engineering Students in the Earth Sciences
(Abstract)
Nov. 18 Sean Tilson,
Simple Moduli Spaces (Abstract)
Dec. 2 Luis Sordo Vieira,
Bees, Tilings, and Isoperimetry in the Plane (Abstract)