Departmental Colloquium - Fall 2008
Usually meets Friday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.
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August 25
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Marshall Hampton
University of Minnesota Duluth |
Finiteness and enumeration of polynomial systems |
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August 29
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September 5
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September 12
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September 19
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Josephine Yu
MIT |
Tropical Implicitization and Mixed Fiber Polytopes |
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September 26
|
Shanyu Ji
University of Houston |
Application of the moving frame theory to holomorphic mappings between balls |
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October 3
|
János Kollár
Princeton University |
Cremona transformations and homeomorphisms of topological surfaces. |
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October 10
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October 13
(2:00 pm; SEO 636)
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Volker Mehrmann
Technische University in Berlin |
Differential algebraic equations: analysis, algebra, geometry and numerical solution |
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October 13
(4:00 pm; Lecture Center D4)
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Karen Vogtmann
Cornell University |
Symmetries, ping-pong and Outer space |
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October 17
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October 24
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Guershon Harel
University of California, San Diego |
Intellectual Need and Its Application in Mathematics Instruction |
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October 31
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Dan Mauldin
University of North Texas |
Ergodic theory and homeomorphic Bernoulli trial measures on the Cantor space |
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November 7
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Laura Matusevich
Texas A \& M |
Hypergeometric equations and algebraic geometry |
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November 14
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November 20
(2:00 pm; LC A1)
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Brad Efron
Stanford University |
Learning from the experience of others |
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November 21
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Alexander Razborov
University of Chicago and TTI-C |
Feasible Proofs and Computations |
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November 28
|
No seminar
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Thanksgiving |
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December 5
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