Mathematical Sciences Colloquia 2001
- Friday, December 14, 2001, Sarah Patch, (General Electric Medical Systems, Applied Science Lab., Milwaukee, WI),
"F. John's Ultrahyperbolic Equation and 3D Computed Tomography" 4:00 pm, EMS E495.
- Friday, December 7, 2001, Laura Potter, Postdoctoral Fellow, (Curriculum in Toxicology, UNC-Chapel Hill, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Lab, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC),
"A physiologically based model for the systemic transport of the environmental contaminant TCE" 4:00 pm, EMS E495.
- Friday, November 30, 2001, Sara Bruening, (Dept. of Math. Sci., Atmospheric Sciences Group, UWM),
"A Summer of Undergraduate Research" 4:00 pm, EMS E495.
- Friday, November 16, 2001, Prof. Kevin McLeod, (Math. Sci. Dept., UWM), "Teaching Calculus with Maple"
4:00 pm, EMS E423.
- Friday, November 9, 2001, Dr. Gilbert Walter, (Math. Sci. Dept., UWM), Prolate spheroidal wave functions
A new look at a "lucky accident" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, November 2, 2001, Ziyu Zheng, (Math. Sci. Dept., UWM), RBSDEs, Dynkins games, variational inequalities and Dirichlet problems 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, October 19, 2001, Dr. David Schultz, (NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory), "The Intermountain Precipitation Experiment", 3:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, September 28, 2001, Fred Tinsley, (Colorado College), The free surface problem in high dimensions: variation on an old theme, 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, August 31, 2001, James E. Sieveking Jr, (Master's Defense, Dept. of Math. Sci., Atmospheric Sciences Group, UWM), "24-48h Predictability of Lake-Enhanced Snowbands in the 2-3 January 1999 Midwest Blizzard", 11:00 AM, EMS E408.
- Friday, August 10, 2001, Ruth Carlson, (Master's Project Presentation, Math. Sci. Dept., UWM), Optimization of Gluing Operations Using Design of Experiments and MINITAB Software, 2:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Monday, August 6, 2001, David Radcliffe, (Ph.D. Defense, Math. Sci. Dept., UWM), Unique Presentation of Coxeter Groups and Related Groups, 2:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, August 3, 2001, John F.T. Hartney, (Dept. of Math., University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), s-Primitivity in Matrix Near-Rings, 2:00 PM, EMS E408.
- Tuesday, July 31, 2001, Olcay Ilicasu, Ph.D. Defense, (Dept. of Math. Sci., UWM), High Order Finite Difference Methods for Singular Perturbation Problems, 1:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, July 20, 2001, Michael A. Fowle, (Dept. of Math. Sci., Atmospheric Sciences Group, Master's Defense, UWM), Study of the Convective Forecast Skill of Very High Resolution (6 KM) NWP Model Data, 1:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, May 11, 2001, Prof. Jim Campbell, (Dept. of Math. Sci., Univ. of Memphis), Square functions and oscillation in probability, ergodic theory and harmonic analysis, 4:00 PM, EMS E495B.
- Friday, May 11, 2001, Karl W. Broman, (Dept. of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University), Human meiotic interference, 3:00 PM, EMS E495B.
- Tuesday, May 8, 2001, Hendrik Schmidt, (Math. Sci. Dept., UWM), Performance of Robust Volatility Estimators in Option Pricing Models, 9:30 AM, EMS E408.
- Monday, April 30, 2001, Professor Pascal Cherrier, (University of Paris VI), Einstein-Kahler metrics on a class of bundles involving integral weights, 3:30 PM, EMS E408.
- Friday, April 27, 2001, Monica Vazirani, (UCSD), Crystal graphs and Hecke algebras, 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, April 6, 2001, Prof. Shanzhen Lu, (Beijing Normal University, China), On Boundedness of Certain Oscillatory Integrals, 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, April 6, 2001, Ziyu Zheng, Financial Math Interview Candidate, (Omega Project, Inria Sophia Antipolis, France), Risk Measurement and Management, 2:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, March 30, 2001, Prof. David M. Reineke, (Math. Dept., UW-La Crosse), Modeling Split-Population Lifetimes using a Competing Risks Model of Random Censorship, 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Thursday, March 29, 2001, Henri Schurz , (Financial Math. Interview Candidate), (School of Mathematics, Univ. of Minnesota), Stochastic Differential Equations and Applications to Engineering, Sciences, Marketing and Finance, 3:30 PM, EMS E495.
- Wednesday, March 21, 2001, Prof. Henk Bruin, (Math. Dept. & Comp. Sci., Univ. of Groningen, The Netherlands), A Class of Interval Translations, 2:00 PM, EMS E408.
- Wednesday, March 14, 2001, Bakhodirzhon M. Siddikov, (Math. Sci., UWM), Numerical Simulation of the Active Magnetic Regenerative Refrigerator, 1:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Undergraduate Math Club Colloquium, Tuesday, March 13, 2001, H.T. Banks, (Ctr. for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State Univ.), Graduate Training in Applied Mathematics, 3:30 PM, EMS E495.
- Industrial Math Colloquium, Monday, March 12, 2001, H.T. Banks, (Ctr. for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State Univ.), "Random Effects in HIV Models" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Monday, Feb. 26, 2001, Par Kurlberg, (Dept. of Math., Univ. of Georgia), "Number Theory Related to Quantum Chaos" 3:30 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, Feb. 23, 2001, Dr. Yalchin Efendiev, (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Univ. of Minnesota), "Multiscale modeling and computation of flow in porous formations" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Thursday, Feb. 22, 2001, Dr. Sujin Shin, (Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, Univ. of Victoria), "Invariant Measures for Piecewise Monotone Transformations of an Interval" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2001, Paul Tereshchenko and Matt Stuart, (William M. Mercer, Inc.), "An Introduction to the Actuarial Profession" 9:30 am, EMS E190.
- Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2001, Boris Okun, (Vanderbilt University), "Euler Characteristic of Aspherical Manifolds" 3:30 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, Feb. 16, 2001, Eric Swenson, (Brigham Young University), "Axial Pairs and Discrete Convergence Groups on S^1" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2001, Jay Gopalakrishnan, (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Univ. of Minn.), "Finite elements in two industrial applications: (i) Clinical ablation, and (ii) Electromagnetics" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2001, Istvan Lauko, (UWM, Math. Sci. Dept.), "Numerical Method for Nonlinear Feedback Synthesis" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, Feb. 9, 2001, Professor Eric S. Key, (UWM, Math. Sci. Dept.), "Designing Optical Reflectors" 4:00 PM, EMS E295.
- Friday, Feb. 2, 2001, Professor John Baez, (University of California, Riverside), "The Meaning of Relativity" 3:30 PM, PHY 152.
