Spring 2008 SCHEDULE

February 21, 2008: Jianyun Shan will speak on the method of coefficients from an article in a recent AMS Monthly.

February 28, 2008: Jeff Schlaerth

March 6, 2008: Jeff Schlaerth

March 13, 2008: Ramiro Fontes. A quantitative analyst is a person who applies mathematics to finance in industry. We'll look at some basic math brain teasers that have been asked during interviews for these positions.

March 20: No seminar

March 27: Spring Break

April 3, 2008: Jeff Schlaerth will be speaking on "The measurability of Hamel bases and non-measurable sums of measurable sets."

April 10, 2008: Daniele Puglisi will speak on "Topological Characterization of Cantor space and Baire space."

April 17, 2008: Jeff Denniston will speak on "What is a topological system?"

April 24, 2008: Daniele Puglisi will speak on "In the range of a vector measure"

Fall 2007 SCHEDULE

September 20, 2007: Ramiro Fontes "Various enrichment topics for your students."

September 27, 2007: Daniele Puglisi will discuss "The axiom of choice."

October 4, 2007: Greg Richards "Numerical Calculations for Lattice Packings of Bent-Core Molecules."

October 11, 2007: Ramiro Fontes will discuss "Proof of Ito's formula and examples."

October 18, 2007: Jeff Schlaerth will be speaking on "Brunn's Theorem: Central sections of symmetric convex bodies are maximal."

October 25, 2007: Ramiro Fontes will show that Brownian motion can be used to uniquely solve the heat equation.

November 1, 2007: Jeff Schlaerth will discuss central hyperplane sections of the cube.

November 8, 2007: Yenny will be speaking on "Algebra of differentiable functions on infinite dimensional Riemannian varieties".

November 15, 2007: Yenny will continue her talk on "Algebra of differentiable functions on infinite dimensional Riemannian varieties".

November 29, 2007: Daniele Puglisi will discuss "When integral operators are nuclear."

December 6, 2007: Jeff Schlaerth, who will provide an example of a function that "locally has non-negative Fourier coefficients" but yet has at least one negative Fourier coefficient.

Spring 2007 SCHEDULE

February 8, 2007, 2:15: Daniele Puglisi will discuss "An ordering for the Banach space."

February 15, 2007, 1:30: Paco Garcia will be discussing "Complexifications and related questions."

February 22, 2007: Tom Wakefield will be talking "on a simpler proof of the Jordan-Holder Theorem."

March 1, 2007, 2:00: Daniele Puglisi will be speaking.

March 8, 2007, 1:30: Hongcheng Li will be speaking.
Abstract: In statistical quality control, ARL(Average Run Length) is used to measure the effectiveness of a control procedure. I will talk about the approaches to calculate the ARL. One of them is the integral inquetion method, and the second one is Markov chain method.

March 15, 2007, 1:30: Mienie DeKock will speak on the Bourgain Property.
Abstract: We look at conditions under which the Bourgain property and sequential Bourgain property are equivalent. We find an example of a set that has the Bocce criterion but not the Bourgain property.

March 22, 2007, 1:30: Ramiro Fontes will be speaking on "Completeness of the Black-Scholes Model."

April 5, 2007, 1:00: Oleksiy Ignatyev will speak on "Ito formula and some examples."

April 12, 2007, 1:30: Ramiro Fontes.

April 19, 2007, 1:30: Tom Wakefield will be speaking on Goldbach's Conjecture for Integer Polynomials.

April 26, 2007, 1:30: Ramiro Fontes will speak on "Deriving Brownian Motion using symmetric random walks."

May 3, 2007, 1:30: Hongcheng Li

Fall 2006 SCHEDULE

September 28, 2006: Paco Garcia will discuss "Topics on the Geometry of Banach Spaces I: Convexity Theory."

October 5, 2006: Paco Garcia will continue his talk on "Topics on the Geometry of Banach Spaces" with a discussion of Differentiability Theory

October 12, 2006: Daniele Puglisi will be speaking on "The Approximation Property Problem."

October 19, 2006: Daniele Puglisi will continue his talk on the approximation property problem

October 26, 2006: Joel Beil

November 2, 2006: CX due to conflicting colloquium

November 9, 2006: Alejandro Miralles will be speaking on some problems from the International Math Olympiad.

November 16, 2006: Ramiro Fontes

November 30, 2006: Tom Wakefield will be speaking on some results concerning the sets of character degrees of finite simple groups.

December 7, 2006: Mienie DeKock

Spring 2006 SCHEDULE

February 16, 2006: Tom Wakefield will speak on "A Short Proof of the Continued Fraction Expansion of e."

February 23, 2006: Daniele Puglisi will speak on the "Liapounoff and Near Liapounoff property."

March 2, 2006: Oleksiy Ignatyev will discuss "The main theorems of Lyapunov direct method in stability theory."

March 9, 2006: Yuriy Kolomiyets will be speaking this week in seminar on "Preservation of the second order" for diffusion approximation.

March 16, 2006: No seminar

March 23, 2006: Juan Seoane will be speaking on "An approach to the Twin-Prime conjecture and some elementary number theory result on prime numbers".

March 30, 2006: Spring Break

April 6, 2006: Tom Wakefield will speak on "Groups determined by the set of their character degrees."

April 13, 2006: Our Graduate Secretary, Misty, will be talking about "Resources?... What Resources?".

April 20, 2006: Greg Richards will speak on 'Electric Induced Freedericksz Transitions in the Bend Geometry.'

April 27, 2006:  TBA will be talking about "TBA."

May 4, 2006:  Day of Remembrance.