Colloquium Schedule


Spring 2018



April 26 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00pm) Luise-Charlotte Kappe (Binghamton University) will speak on "Cantor's Diagonalization Revisited: Constructing Transcendental Numbers."


April 19 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00pm) Sofya Lyakhova (Swansea University) will speak on "The Future of Mathematics Education in Wales."


April 12 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00pm) Qiang Ye (University of Kentucky) will speak on "Preconditioning for Accurate Solutions of Linear Systems and Eigenvalue Problems."


April 5 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00pm) Yanir Rubinstein (University of Maryland) will speak on "Real/complex Legendre/interpolation."


March 20 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00pm) Frank Sottile (Texas A&M University ) will speak on "Galois groups in Enumerative Geometry and Applications."


March 15 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00pm) Daniel L. Dietrich (NASA John H. Glenn Research Center) will speak on "Low Temperature Burning of Fuel Droplets in Microgravity - Results from the International Space Station."


March 13 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00pm) Anna Bogomolnaia (University of Glasgow) will speak on "Competitive division of a mixed manna."


March 8 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00pm) Adriana Nenciu (Otterbein College) will speak on "Brauer pairs of nested GVZ-groups."


February 22 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00pm) Shawn Burkett (University of Colorado) will speak on "A generalized version of nilpotence arising from supercharacter theory."


February 1 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00pm) Peter Brooksbank (Bucknell University) will speak on "Group Isomorphism: Past, Present, and Future."


January 18 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00pm) Matthias Beck (San Francisco State University) will speak on "Classification of combinatorial polynomials (in particular, Ehrhart polynomials of zonotopes)."


January 16 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00pm) Susanna Dann (Vienna University of Technology) will speak on "Bounding marginal densities via affine isoperimetry. "



Fall 2017



November 30 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00pm) Alexander Magazinov (Tel Aviv University) will speak on "The second moment of the distance to a lattice and the Minkowski Conjecture."


November 21 (MSB 228, 3:45-4:30 pm) Ricardo Moena and Sergio Molina (University of Cincinnati) will speak on "An Alternative Stem Pathway to Calculus".


November 7 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00 pm) Mark Lawrence (Nazarbayev University) will speak on "What can you get from knowing Fourier coefficients on a moving curve?"


November 2 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00 pm) Alexei Poltoratski (Texas A&M University) will speak on "Gap and type problems."


October 19 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00 pm) Stefanie Petermichl (University of Toulouse) will speak on "Higher order JournÈ commutators."


October 5 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00 pm) Mikhail Sodin (Tel Aviv University) will speak on "Spectra of stationary processes on Z."


September 21 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00 pm) Michal Wojciechowski (Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences) will speak "On the Auerbach-Mazur-Ulam problem."


September 14 (MSB 228, 4:15-5:00 pm) Irina Holmes (Michigan State University) will speak on "Two-weight inequalities for commutators with Calderon-Zygmund operators."