MGSO | Fall 2008, Thursdays, Milner 216, 4:00-4:50 PM

Graduate Student Seminar

Seminar:Fall 2008, Thursdays, Milner 216, 4:00-4:50 PM

		September 4	Nickolas Hein
		4:00-5:00	The Codimension-One Case of the Littlewood-Richardson Rule in Algebraic Geometry

		September 11	Valentina Vega
		4:00-5:00	Hypergeometric Functions over Finite Fields

		September 18	Daniel Redelmeier
		4:00-5:00	Hyperpfaffians in Combinatorics

		September 25	Abner Salgado
		4:00-5:00	Linear and Nonlinear Darcy Equations.

		October 2	Gabriel Tucci
		4:00-5:00	Haar Integration and Dimensionality Reduction for Covariance Estimates

		October 9	Luke Oeding
		4:00-5:00	The set theoretic defining equations of the variety of principal minors of symmetric matrices

		October 16	* Prof. Jay Walton * Prof. David Kerr Mini-Talks
		4:00-5:00	Mini-Talk

		October 23	* Prof. Ronald DeVore * Prof. Frank Sottile Mini-Talks
		4:00-5:00	Mini-Talk

		October 30	Corey Irving
		4:00-5:00	Generalized Barycentric Coordinates

		November 5	Jan Cameron -- Wednesday --
		4:00-5:00	What to do when quantized.

		November 13	Dr. Dimitrije Kostic Dept. of Defense
		4:00-5:00	How Probability Fuels Combinatorics--The Greene-Nijenhuis-Wilf Proof of the Hook-Length Formula

		November 20	Dimitar Trenev
		4:00-5:00	Space scaling for the numerical approximation of problems on unbounded domains

		November 27	-- Thanksgiving (No Talk) --