Seminars for 2005

Talks and Presentations

Coffee and cookies are served before each talk. The talks are designed for everybody, students as well as faculty members. Some talks may be more challenging than others. Some talks will be related to technology and its use in the teaching of mathematics.

Unless specified otherwise, all talks are on Thursdays, 12:30 - 1:45, in CL 2007

Thursday April 20, 2006.
- Title: The Longest and Shortest Crease
- Speaker: Dr. Sean F. Ellermeyer
- Location: CL 1009
- Time: 12:30 - 02:00
- Slides for the talk
Thursday April 13, 2006.
- Title: A Study of the Type I and Type II Error Rates of a Test Based on Shannon’s Index of Species Diversity
- Speaker: Kristina Corts
- Location: CL 1009
- Time: 12:30 - 02:00
Thursday March 23, 2006.
- Title: Demonstration of the Thinkwell products
- Speaker: Mark Schnug
- Location: CL 1009
- Time: 12:30 - 02:00
Thursday March 16, 2006.
- Title: New Connections between Subset Selection Criteria and Convex Optimization
- Speaker: Dr. Xuelei Ni
- Location: CL 1009
- Time: 12:45 - 02:00
Monday March 13, 2006.
- Title: Optimal Control for Discrete Time Mathematical Models in Ecology
- Speaker: Dr. Andrew Whittle
- Location: CL 1009
- Time: 02:00 - 03:00
Thursday March 2, 2006.
- Title: Isoperimetric Problems
- Speaker: Dr. Michael Bleicher
- Location: CL 1009
- Time: 12:30 - 02:00
Friday February 24, 2006.
- Title: Paper Football, Vending Machines, and Chicken McNuggets
- Speaker: Vadim Ponomarenko
- Location: CL 1009
- Time: 02:00 - 03:00
Thursday February 16, 2006.
- Title: Analyzing the structure of the automorphism group of a free group
- Speaker: Dr. Chirashree Bhattacharya
- Location: CL 2007
- Time: 12:30 - 02:00
Friday February 10, 2006.
- Title:Stochastic optimization models with applications to mechanics, population dynamics, aerodynamic
- Speaker: Ana-Maria Croicu
- Location: CL 1003
- Time: 02:00 - 03:00
Monday February 6, 2006.
- Title: Character Tables of Finite Groups
- Speaker: Adriana Nenciu
- Location: CL 1009
- Time: 02:00 - 03:00
Tuesday January 31, 2006.
- Title: Some Remarks on Global Invertibility
- Speaker: Dr. Eduardo Balreira
- Location: CL 1009
- Time: 02:00 - 03:00
Monday January 23, 2006.
- Title :Benchmark Analysis Under Abbot-Adjusted Quantal Response Models
- Speaker: Dr. Brooke Buckley
- Location: CL 1009
- Time: 12:30 - 02:00
Tuesday January 24, 2006.
- Title: Multiscale Modeling: Blood Flow in Tissues With Microcirculation
- Speaker: Dr. Natalie Kleinfelter
- Location: CL 1009
- Time: 02:00 - 03:00
Tuesday December 6, 2005.
- Title: Feedback-Mediated Oscillatory Coexistence in the Chemostat
- Speaker: Dr. Sergei Pilyugin
- Location: CL 1009
- Time: 02:00 - 03:00
Thursday December 1, 2005.
- Title: The Role and Function of Proof in Dynamic Geometry
- Speaker: Michael de Villiers
- Location: CL 2007
- Time: 12:30 - 1:45
Thursday November 17, 2005.
- Title: A Knight's Tour for all Rectangular Boards with Minimal Square Removal
- Speaker: Liancheng Wang
- Location: CL 2007
- Time: 12:30 - 1:45
Thursday November 03, 2005.
- Title: Convex Functions and their Properties
- Speaker: Liancheng Wang
- Location: CL 2007
- Time: 12:30 - 1:45
Friday October 28, 2005.
- Title: Statistical Applications in the Steel Industry
- Speaker: Akira Morita
- Location: CL 1009
- Time: 12:30 - 1:45
Thursday October 20, 2005.
- Title: Group Management and WebCT Workshops
- Speaker: Marlene Sims and Gordon Shumard
- Location: CL 2007
- Time: 12:30 - 1:45
Thursday October 13, 2005.
- Title: The Analytic Geometry of Parabolas in Three-Dimensional Space
- Speaker: Sean Ellermeyer
- Location: CL 2007
- Time: 12:30 - 1:45
- Power Point slides of the talk.
Thursday October 06, 2005.
- Title: Generalized Viète Formulas
- Speaker: Josip Derado
- Location: CL 2007
- Time: 12:30 - 1:45
Thursday September 29, 2005.
- Title: Green's Functions
- Speaker: Bo Yang
- Location: CL 2007
- Time: 12:30 - 1:45
- Slides of the talk (pdf)
Thursday September 22, 2005.
- Title: Spaceflight and Life Sciences Trainee Program 2005: NASA and Tuskegee University
- Speaker: Michael Ask
- Location: CL 2007
- Time: 12:30 - 1:45
Thursday September 15, 2005.
- Title: Writing and Assessing Learning Outcomes
- Speaker: DR. Virginia Watson
- Location: CL 2007
- Time: 12:30 - 1:45
Thursday September 8, 2005.
- Title: Matlab Fundamentals
- Speakers: Huy Ngoc Quoc Huynh and Catherine Small
- Location: CL 2007
- Time: 12:30 - 1:45
- Slides of the talk.
Thursday September 1, 2005.
- Title: Students' Little Helpers
- Speakers: Ron Hoover, Brad Feldser, Dr. Jonathan Lewin
- Location: CL 2007
- Time: 12:30 - 1:45