WSU

Department of Mathematics
Colloquium 2008-09

Wayne State University
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences


The Mathematics Department Colloquium meets every Monday at 2:45 PM, in 169 Education, with tea at 2 PM in 1216 FAB. Occasionally, the meeting will be moved to another room and/or day to accomodate special circumstances. For information, contact Robert Bruner (rrb) or Zhimin Zhang (zzhang) at math.wayne.edu.

Fall 2008 Schedule
All seminars
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Date Speaker and Title
Jan 12
G.N. Milstein, Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Layer Methods for Navier-Stokes Equations Using Local Probabilistic Representations (abstract)
Wed, Jan 14
3 PM
Kazuhiko Shinki, University of Wisconsin
GARCH Model with Ergodic and Stationary Rescaled Errors (abstract)
Fri, Jan 16
2 PM
Adriana Nenciu, University of Wisconsin
On p-groups and Their Representations (abstract)
Jan 19
Martin Luther King Day
Wed, Jan 21
3 PM
Vigleik Angeltveit, University of Chicago
The cyclic bar construction on A-infinity H-spaces and THH (abstract)
Fri, Jan 23
2 PM
Leonid Slavin, University of Missouri
The Bellman function method in harmonic analysis (abstract)
Jan 26
Pinhas Grossman, Vanderbilt University
Quadrilaterals of factors (abstract)
Fri, Jan 30
2 PM
Xinwei Deng, Georgia Tech
Research in Machine Learning: Active Learning and Covariance Matrix Estimation (abstract)
Feb 2
Rong Liu, Michigan State University
Spline-Backfitted Kernel Smoothing of Additive Coefficient Model (abstract)
Feb 9
Philip Kutzko, University of Iowa
Smooth representations: an introduction to types (abstract)
Fri, Feb 13
Dmitry Novikov, Weizmann Institute of Science
Constructive solution to Infinitesimal HIlbert 16th problem (abstract)
Feb 16
Hector Salas, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Gershogorin theorem for matrices of operators (abstract)
Feb 23
John Greenlees, University of Sheffield
Brave new commutative algebra for rings, groups and spaces (abstract)
Mar 2
Nicolai Krylov, University of Minnesota
A new development in the theory of second-order elliptic and parabolic equations with rough coefficients (abstract)
Mar 9
David J. Gorsich, US Army Tank-automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center
Challenges Analytically Modeling Ground Vehicle Systems to Predict Performance and Reliability (abstract)

Spring Break
Mar 23
Yifeng Yu University of California, Irvine
Maximal and minimal solutions of an Aronsson equation: L-infinity variational problems versus the game theory (abstract)
Mar 30
Claudio Morales, University of Alabama, Huntsville
A voyage from Contraction to Accretive Operators in Banach Spaces (abstract)
Apr 1
3 PM
Bernath
Owens Lecture: John Milnor, Stony Brook University
The Geometry of Growth and Form (abstract)
Apr 6
No colloquium today.
Apr 13
Graeme Fairweather, Mathematical Reviews
Mathematical Reviews in Its 70th Year (abstract)
Apr 20
Michal Krizek, Inst. of Math., Acad. of Sci., Prague
On nonobtuse simplicial partitions (abstract)
Apr 27
Eric T. Sawyer, McMaster University
The Corona Theorem for the Drury-Arveson Hardy space and other holomorphic Besov-Sobolev spaces on the unit ball in C^n (abstract)

Fall 2008 Schedule
Sept 8
Yang Wang, Michigan State University
The Mathematics of Analog-to-Digital Conversion and the Golden Ratio Encoder (abstract)
Sept 15
Vigleik Angeltveit, University of Chicago
On the K-theory of truncated polynomial algebras over Z (abstract)
Sept 22
Francis Castro, University of Puerto Rico
Solutions of Systems of Polynomials Equations over Finite Fields. (abstract)
Wed
Sept 24
Francis Castro, University of Puerto Rico
Exponential Sums over Finite Fields (abstract)
Sept 29
Chao Zhu University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Competitive Lotka-Volterra Ecosystems in Random Environments (abstract)
Oct 6
Ronald Hoppe, University of Houston
Adaptive Finite Element Methods for Elliptic Boundary Value Problems (abstract)
Oct 13
Tatiana M. Bandman, Bar Ilan University
Arithmetic Dynamics and the Characterization of Finite Solvable Groups (abstract)
Oct 20
Thomas Seidman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Feedback for modal control (abstract)
Nov 3
Long Chen, University of California, Irvine
Optimal Delaunay Triangulation and related problems (abstract)
Nov 10
Thomas Fiore, University of Chicago
Algebra and Topology in Music Theory (abstract)
Nov 17
Andrea Malchiodi, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy
Higher order equations in conformal geometry (abstract)
Nov 24
Thanksgiving Week
Dec 1
Jon Hall, Michigan State University
Randomness and merit of binary sequences (abstract)
Dec 8
Xinan Ma, University of Science and Technology of China
Convexity and partial convexity of solutions of elliptic equations (abstract)