This Colloquia Archive includes a complete list of all Department of Mathematical Sciences colloquia titles, abstracts and speakers going back to 1997.
Submissions from 2000
The Latest Thinking in Japanese Mathematics Education, Professor Rick Billstein
How Do They Determine That the Earth Has A Diameter of 7,930 Miles?, Professor Richard Paul
A Statistical Analysis of Spatial Classifiers for a Landsat TM Mapping Problem with Incomplete Spatial Coverage, Professor Brian Steele
The Inverse Problem of Parameter/Protein Identification Using the Ultracentrifuge Sedimentation Velocity Experiment, Professor Hashim Saber
Which Tanks Empty Faster?, Dr. Leonid Hanin
Mathematical life in Kazan State University, Professor Suren Grigoryan
Data Analysis of The Aortic Valve Complex Measured by Digital Sonomicrometry, Nolan Thomas Rice
Mathematics in Airport Literature, Professor Johnny W. Lott
Bivariate Cauchy Regression, Professor Rudy Gideon
The Interplay between Graphs and Matroids, Professor James Oxley
The Mysterious Arithmetic of Integral Lexicographic Codes, John Horton Conway
Non-commutative Projective Geometry as a Tool, Professor Michaela Vancliff
Exchange of Stability and Singularly Perturbed Differential Equations, Professor Klaus R. Schneider
Multi-Parameter Optimization in Plasma Physics, Professor Andrew Ware
Representations of Bicircular and Transversal Matroids, Professor Nancy Ann Neudauer
Visualization and the Fubini Principle, Professor Roger Nelsen
Asymptotics of multivariate sequences, Assistant Professor Mark Wilson
Models of steady state evolutionary algorithms, Professor Alden Wright
Operator Spaces and Convolution of Multilinear Forms, Professor Bert Schreiber
Compartmental Models of Biological Fluid Dynamics, Dr. Scott Stevens
Numerical evidence of stationary and breathing concentration patterns in the Oregonator with equal diffusivities, Professor Richard J. Field
Iteration Techniques for Convection Dominated Flow Problems, Dr. Jayathi Raghavan
Multicomponent Gas Transport in Fuel Cell Electrodes, Dr. John Stockie
Information Transformers and the Concept of Informativeness, Dr. Peter Golubtsov
Submissions from 1999
Market Offering Strategies for Hydro-electric Generators, Dr. Golbon Zakeri
Random Ramblings on Graph Pebbling, Professor Mark Kayll
Using Interdisciplinary Applications to Integrate Mathematical Topics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Professor John Scharf and Professor Marie Vanisko
Mineral Leaching, and Clean Green Applied Mathematics, Dr. Larry K. Forbes
An Algorithmic Approach to Multicolouring, Professor Jeannette Janssen
Mathematics, Computer Games and Gender, Dr. Maria M. Klawe
The Impact of User Interfaces in Educational Software, Dr. Maria M. Klawe
Topological Structure of the Space of Composition Operators on Hinfinity, Dr. Ruhan Zhao
The mathematics of problem solving in sport and nature, Professor Neville de Mestre
Controllability of Excitable Cells, Dr. Mark Pernarowski
Introduction to Cellular Automata (CA), Dr. William Derrick
Invertible Polynomial Transformations, Dr. Gene Freudenburg
Connectivity for Binary Matroids and Graphs, Dr. Haidong Wu
A Non-commutative Version of Polynomial Rings, Thomas Cassidy
Pattern formation in the Extended Fisher Kolmogorov equation, Dr. William C. Troy
On the numerical solution of differential equations with algebraic constraints, Dr. Raymond Spiteri
Dual Model Robust Regression, Dr. Timothy Robinson
Superalgebras and their uses, Dr. Mark Wilson
Exact Bootstrap Moments of an L-estimator, Dr. Michael D. Ernst
How quickly do we generate the matrix algebra?, Dr. Christopher Pappacena
Computing Geodetic Coordinates, Dr. Yves Nievergelt
Isometries and Biholomorphy in Several Complex Variables (Cancelled), Professor Farhad Jafari
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