This Colloquia Archive includes a complete list of all Department of Mathematical Sciences colloquia titles, abstracts and speakers going back to 1997.
Submissions from 1998
The meaning of modularity, Dr. Scott Ahlgren
On the Foundations of Operator Algebra, Professor Paul Muhly
Comments on the Educational System in Japan, Professor Leonid V. Kalachev
Where undergraduate mathematics education has been and where it must go, Professor Jerry Uhl
What is a Hopf algebra and what is it good for?, Professor Davida Fischman
The history of manifold topology in the last 50 years, Professor William Browder
Combustion Waves in Gases, Professor Larry Forbes
Removing Circuits and Contracting Bonds in Graphs and Matroids, Professor Luis Goddyn
Juggling Permutations of The Integers, Dr. Ronald L. Graham
On the Foundations of Operator Algebra, Professor Paul Muhly
Technology as a Tool: Modeling for Preservice Teachers, Professor Blake Peterson
The Atmospheric Image Deblurring Problem, Professor Curt Vogel
A Topological Approach to Computability in Distributed Computing, Dr. Michael Saks
Recent Results in Extremal Matroid Theory, Dr. Joseph E. Bonin
Undergraduate Mathematics Majors Understanding and Use of the Definitions in Real Analysis: "The Next Step", Professor Barbara Edwards
Division Algebras and Galois Groups, Dr. Steven Liedahl
How to VU a Convex Function, Professor Robert Mifflin
The Ramsey number R(3,t) has asymptotic order of magnitude t2/log t, Jeong Han Kim
Using Catastrophe Theory to Model the Economic Effects of Wildfire Behavior, Hayley Hesseln
Blue-Greens and Their Toxins (Dynamical model of cyanobacteria population development in a lake), Dr. Alexander Belov
New Programs at NSF, Sidney Graham
Submissions from 1997
Regression Without Calculus, Professor Rudy Gideon
A duality for the category of directed multigraphs, Dr. Richard Squire
COMPASS: Computerized Adaptive Placement Assessment and Support System, Mat Matson
Toward an Elementary Axiomatic Theory of a Category of Matroids, Talal Al-Hawary
Finite fields, codes and quasirandomness, Dr. Mihai Caragiu
Homomorphic Compactness of Infinite Graphs, Dr. Bruce L. Bauslaugh
Cycle Decompositions and Double Covers of Graphs, Dr. Karen Seyffarth
The representation theory of graded Hecke algebras, Professor Catherine Kriloff
Escher's Combinatorial Patterns, Professor Doris Schattschneider
Generic Polynomials, Professor Zinovy Reichstein