Graduate Student Seminar


Seminar:Spring 2012, Thursdays, Milner 216, 4:00-4:50 PM

Speakers:


 

January 26

Prof. Frank Sottile     

4:00 - 5:00


Galois groups of Schubert problems


 

February 2



* Prof. Colleen Robles

* Prof. Peter Howard
     Mini-talks

4:00 - 5:00


Mini-talks


 

February 9


* Prof. Maurice Rojas

* Prof. Andrew Comech
     Mini-talks

4:00 - 5:00


Mini-talks


 

February 16

Nick Hein     

4:00 - 5:00


Real solutions for the discriminating mathematician!


 

February 23

Mustafa Benli     

4:00 - 5:00


L-Presentations of Groups


 

March 2

Korben Rusek     
-- Note the change of date, time and room!! --

5:00 - 6:00, Milner 317


Polynomials Systems and Computational Complexity
(Visiting Prospective Students)


 

March 8

Corey Irving     

4:00 - 5:00


Barycentric Coordinates for Convex Polytopes


 

March 15

     -- Spring Break (No Talk) --

4:00 - 5:00



 

March 21

Prof. Edray Goins   Purdue University   
-- Note the change of date and room!! --

4:00 - 5:00, Milner 317


Ellipses and Pendulums and Groups, Oh My! From Elliptic Integrals to Elliptic Curves


 

March 29

Mitch Phillipson     

4:00 - 5:00


Pattern Avoidance in Various Structures


 

April 5

Prof. N. Sivakumar     

4:00 - 5:00


On the sampling and recovery of bandlimited functions via interpolation by splines and radial-basis functions


 

April 12

Prof. Riad Masri     

4:00 - 5:00


Equidistribution on homogeneous varieties and applications to number theory


 

April 19

Prof. Alethea Barbaro   University of California, Los Angeles   
-- Note the change of time and room!! --

11:00 - 12:00, Milner 317


From flocking to phase transitions: the mathematics of social dynamics


 

April 26

     -- Maxson Lecture Series (No Talk) --

4:00 - 5:00