Colloquia - Fall 2008/Spring 2009

Default Time: Thursdays 4.20-5.20 p.m. Default Location: PSA 309 (Refreshments in PSA 206 at 3:50 p.m. or 30 minutes prior to the talk) Contact: Susanna Fishel Wenbo Tang
Date	Speaker	Title
September 12, 2008 Time: 3:40 p.m. Room: PSA 309	Sebastian Schreiber Department of Evolution and Ecology University of California Davis	Persistence of structured populations in random environments
September 26, 2008 Time: 4:00 p.m. (DLS)	Cleve Moler Chief Scientist / Founder The MathWorks	Evolution of MATLAB
October 23, 2008	Alex Berkovich University of Florida	On Some Positive Infinite Products
October 30, 2008	Alex Iosevich University of Missouri - Columbia	Geometric configurations in Euclidean, discrete and arithmetic settings
November 6, 2008	Robert Guralnick University of Southern California	Generation, Presentation and Cohomology of Finite Groups
November 12, 2008 Day: Wednesday Time: 1:00- 2:00 p.m. Room: PSA 106 Refreshments: Time: 12.30-1.00 p.m. Room: outside PSA 106	Alexander Its IUPUI	Special Functions and Integrable Systems
November 14, 2008 Day: Friday Time: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Refreshments: Time: 1:30-2:00 p.m. Room: PSA 206	Robert Finn Dept of Mathematics Stanford University	Magnitude and gradient estimates for stationary solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations; a computer-aided study
November 20, 2008	Leonid Gurvits Los Alamos National Laboratory	Van der Waerden/Schrijver-Valiant like Conjectures and Stable (aka Hyperbolic) Homogeneous Polynomials : One Theorem for all
December 4, 2008 (DLS)	Odo Diekmann University of Utrecht	On Delay Equations and Population Dynamics
December 10, 2008 Day: Wednesday	Ambar Sengupta	Quantum Yang-Mills in Two Dimensions: Mathematical Problems and Directions
January 22, 2009 (DLS)	Karl Rubin University of California, Irvine	Ranks of elliptic curves
February 10, 2009 Day: Tuesday Room: PSA 106 Time: 4:20 -5:20 p.m. (DLS)	Roger Temam Indiana University Bloomington	Some theoretical and computational problems in geophysical fluid dynamics
February 19, 2009	William Velez	Increasing the number of mathematics majors
February 26, 2009	Rodney Canfield	Problems and results in asymptotic combinatorics
March 17, 2009 Room: PSA 206 Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m. Refreshments start at 12:30 p.m.	Sean Larsen	A Local Instructional Theory for the Guided Reinvention of the Quotient Group Concept
March 19, 2009 Room: PSA 309 Time: 4:20-5:20 p.m. Refreshments start at 3:50 p.m. (DLS)	Dave Bressoud	The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture
"Additional Talk" March 20, 2009 Room: PSA 203 Time: 2:00-3:00 p.m. (DLS)	Dave Bressoud	Challenges Facing Undergraduate Mathematics
March 26, 2009	Roger Berger	The Exact Size of the Chi-Squared Test for Comparing Two Binomial Proportions
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Colloquia - Fall 2008/Spring 2009