Mathematics Department Colloquium Talks

The talks for the academic year 2006-2007 are held Wednesdays at 3:45 pm in the 3rd floor seminar room of Chauvenet Hall.

FALL

Prof. Gary Weiss, University of Cincinnati, Traces, ideals, commutators and arithmetic means, 1971-2006, August 30
T. S. Michael, Duplicate Bridge Ratings and Wrestling Tournaments Sep 6, 2006
David Joyner, "An introduction to SAGE" Sep 13, 2006
Bill Wardlaw, "The Extended Euclidean Algorithm" Sep 27, 2006
Vrej Zarikian, "Paving, small matrices, and the Kadison-Singer extension problem" Oct 4, 2006
Prof. Felix Lazebnik, University of Deleware, Oct 17, 2006 Tuesday, Title: "Es steht schon bei Dedekind"
Amy Ksir, Oct 25, 2006, Title: Rationality of the ramification module and cyclotomic characters.
Will Traves, Nov 15, 2006, Title: The fundamental theorem of invariant theory

SPRING

Group theory Day
1. Dennis Spellman (Temple), The Borda count with three candidates, Jan 25, 2007, noon.
2. Chris Shaw (UMCP), Weakly o-minimal structures, Jan 25, 2007, 3:45.
Steve Casey (American) , Jan 31, 2007, Title: Cauchy's equation, continuity and Hamel bases (or A harmonic analyst looks at continuity)
Mike Hoffman, Feb 14, 2007, Title: Hopf Algebras of Forests
Lauren Kennell, The Bergman kernel, Feb 21, 2007.
Angel V. Kumchev (Towson), Small Gaps Between Primes: The Ideas of Goldston-Pintz-Yildirim, Feb 28, 2007.
David Roberts (USNA), March 21, 2007, A Brief History of Graph Paper and Linkages as Used by Engineers, Mathematicians, and Educators.
Nate Brown (Penn State), Applications of finite-dimensional C*-approximation theory, March 28, 2007.
Tony Gaglione, Some finiteness properties of infinite groups, April 4.
Caroline Melles, noon, Title: Elementary Examples of Multiplier Ideals, April 25.

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Directions: From Baltimore, take I97 down to Rt50, follow the signs to Annapolis. From DC, 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 and turn left at the first light onto Maryland Ave. You must have DoD decals on your car or a pass from the Pass+Tag Office. Chauvenet Hall is the building opposite the church across the large grassy area. You can find parking in one of the lots nearby.

Directions to the Pass+Tag Office: From DC, 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 and continue to Gate 1 (visitors gate). The Pass+Tag office is inside the gate.

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

USNA Mathematics Department colloquium talks for 2003-2004

USNA Mathematics Department colloquium talks for 2004-2005

USNA Mathematics Department colloquium talks for 2005-2006

Some local mathematics colloquium:

Representation theory, UMCP
math seminars at UMCP
schedule of seminars at JHU (click on the "seminars" icon)

Last updated 4-13-2007
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