Mathematics Department Colloquium Talks

• Steve Huntsman, Aug 21, IDA (Alexandria), "De Bruijn structures and analysis of DNA ensembles"
• Ed Burger, Aug 25, Williams College, "The Texas Cake Cutting Massacre: Can conflicts be resolved by making piece? "
  Midshipmen-Faculty Mathematics Colloquium
• Sarah Greenwald, Sep 4, Appalachian State University, "Geometric Properties of Spherical Orbifolds"
• Pablo Lejarraga, Sep 11, "Moduli schemes, in particular, moduli of elliptic fibrations"
• Mike Hoffman, Sep 18, USNA, "Categories, Groups, and Posets"
• Tony Gaglione, Oct 9, USNA, "Notions of Discrimination"
• Steve Casey, Oct 16, American U., "Deconvolution and Sampling on Non-Commensurate Lattices via Complex Interpolation Theory"
• Will Traves, Nov 6, USNA, "The algebra of optimization"
• Bilal Khan, Nov 21, NRL, Automorphisms of the Free Group of Rank Two: Microscopic and Macroscopic Structure
  Note this is on a Friday.
• Jason Levy, Nov 26, Univ. Ottawa, Trace formulas: interaction between algebra and spectral theory
  Note this is on a Wednesday and we have an early shifted schedule that day.
• Bill Wardlaw, Dec 4, USNA, "Two Problems Related to e"

• Amy Ksir, Jan 22, 2004, USNA., Representations of Finite Groups on Riemann-Roch Spaces
• Blair Kelly, Jan 29, 2004, NSA, How to earn $620 ... or .... What am I doing on Poseidon?
• Debbie Konkowski, March 25, USNA, "Singularities in General Relativity: Classical and Quantum"
• Gretchen Matthews, April 1, Clemson University, "Floors and ceilings of divisors with applications to codes"
• Bill Wardlaw, April 15, USNA, "Cardinality of GL(n,Z/mZ) and some of its subgroups"
• Stephen McMath, April 22, USNA, "Continued fractions, quadratic forms, and factorization"

Directions: From Baltimore, take I97 down to Rt50, follow the signs to Annapolis. From Singularities in General Relativity: Classical and QuantumDC, take Rt 50 east to Annapolis. Get off Rt 50 at the Rowe Blvd exit. Go straight on Rowe Blvd (through 3 lights) until you get to a T intersection. This will be Rowe+College Ave. Turn left and go to the next light. Turn right onto King George. Go straight. King George takes you to the visitors gate (also called gate 1). You must have DoD decals on your car or a pass from the Pass+Tag Office. Visitors parking is just inside the gate to the right. There is also a parking lot closer to the Math Dept. To get to the Math Dept, go straight as you pass through the gate and follow road as it hugs the sea wall, keeping the water on your right-hand side. Eventually, you will see some sail boats docked on your right. If you go about 500 yards further, you will see a blue running track on your left. The Math Dept is in Chauvenet Hall, which is the building besides the running track.

USNA Mathematics Department colloquium talks for 1996-7

USNA Mathematics Department colloquium talks for 1997-8

USNA Mathematics Department colloquium talks for 1998-9

USNA Mathematics Department colloquium talks for 2000-2001

USNA Mathematics Department colloquium talks for 2001-2002

USNA Mathematics Department colloquium talks for 2002-2003

Some local mathematics colloquium:

• Representation theory, UMCP
• General colloquium, UMCP
• Weekly Research Seminars, JHU

Last updated 3-7-2004
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