Mathematical Sciences Colloquia 2002
- Friday, December 13, 2002, Dennis Keeler, (MIT, Mathematics), "Exotic non-commutative surfaces",
3:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, December 13, 2002, Biao Zhang, (University of Toledo, Mathematics), "Assessing Goodness-of-fit of Logistic Regression Models Based on Case-control Data", 10:30 AM, EMS E495.
- Thursday, December 12, 2002, Jeb F. Willenbring, (Yale University, Mathematics), "q-multiplicity and the Kostant-Rallis theorem", 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, December 6, 2002, Michael Davis, (University of Chicago and Ohio State University), "The $1^2$-homology of Coxeter groups and buildings", 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, December 6, 2002, Mohammad Siddique, Ph.D. Defense, (Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Smoothing with Positivity-Preserving Pade Schemes for Parabolic Problems with Nonsmooth Data", 10:30 AM, EMS E408.
- Wednesday, November 20, 2002, Jennifer Rathmell, FSA & Keith Schardt (UWM Alumni), (The Northwestern Mutual Actuarial Presentation), Interested in Actuarial Science?, 2:00 PM, EMS E237.
- Friday, November 15, 2002, Hans Volkmer, (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences,UWM), "The Digital Library of Mathematical Functions Project", 4:00 PM, EMS E423.
- Friday, November 8, 2002, Dexuan Xie, (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Algorithms for Visualizing Structure-Activity Relationships of Chemical Databases", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, October 11, 2002, Eric Key, (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Eigenvectors of Products of Companion Matrices", 3:30 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, September 27, 2002, Zhengjun Zhang, (Washington University), "Multivariate Extreme Value Analysis to Value at Risk", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, September 20, 2002, Pascal Cherrier, (University of Paris VI), "Compact hypersurfaces of a Riemannian vector bundle with prescribed mean curvature", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Wednesday, July 31, 2002, Thomas J. Grafenauer, (Atmospheric Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Large Scale Dynamical Processes in Blocking Onsets", 9:00 AM, EMS E408.
- Friday, August 2, 2002, Gerhard Dikta, (University of Applied Sciences, Aachen, Dep. Julich), "On Semiparametric random censorship models", 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, July 19, 2002, Sonia Rueda, (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Representations of invariants under Tori of rings of differential operators", 3:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Thursday, June 27, 2002, Borislav Yordanov, (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Critical Exponents for Nonlinear Wave Equations with Damping", 2:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Thursday, June 6, 2002, John Goldwasser, (West Virginia University), "The Erdos-Ko-Rado and Kruskal-Katona Theorems -= Two Talks on the Combinatorics of Finite Sets", 1:30 - 3:30 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, May 17, 2002, Tadeusz Januszkiewicz, (Binghamton Univ., Wroclaw University), "Combinatorics of convex polytopes, buildings and L^2 cohomology", 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, May 17, 2002, Georg Ulbrich, (Masters Defense, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "The Rabin-Miller Pseudoprime Test", 11:00 AM, EMS E150.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002, Jorg Marhenke, (Masters Defense, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "The Schonflies Theorem", 2:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Thursday, May 16, 2002, Lioubov A. Mikhailova, (Masters Defense, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "NPID Control with gamma-Limiting and Arbitrary Partial-State Knowledge", 1:30 PM, EMS E408.
- Monday, May 13, 2002, Neda Farzinnia, (Masters Defense, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Exploring a Regime Switching Black-Scholes Model with Market Data", 1:30 PM, EMS E408.
- Friday, May 10, 2002, Fabian Moerchen (Masters Defense, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Analysis of Speedup as Function of Block Size and Cluster Size for Parallel Feedforward Neural Networks on a Beowulf Cluster", 11:00 AM, EMS E495.
- Monday, May 6, 2002, Svenja Hager, (Masters Defense, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Approximation of Generalized Black & Scholes Models by Binomial Trees", 1:30 PM, EMS E408.
- Friday, May 3, 2002, Constanze Luetkebohmert, (Masters Defense, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Aliasing in irregular fractions of the 3^n factorial design", 5:00 PM, EMS E408.
- Friday, May 3, 2002, Markus Banagl, (Van Vleck Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Topological Invariants of Singular Spaces", 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, May 3, 2002, Stefanie Donauer, (Masters Defense, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Aliasing in irregular fraction of the 2^n factorial design", 4:00 PM, EMS E408.
- Friday, May 3, 2002, Peter Miehle, (Masters Defense, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "A description of Motzkin's idea for proving a Ring is Euclidean", 10:30 AM, EMS E495.
- Friday, April 26, 2002, Dr. Emmanuele DiBenedetto, (Centennial Professor of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University), "Some Mathematical Models on Visual Transduction", 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Wednesday, April 24, 2002, Jessica E. Miller, (MS Defense, Mathematical Sciences, Atmospheric Sciences Group, UWM), "A Three-Dimensional Residence Time Analysis of Potential Transport to Two Locations: Summit, Greenland and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania", 2:30 PM, EMS E408.
- Marden Lecture, Thursday, April 25, 2002, Dr. Emmanuele DiBenedetto, (Centennial Professor of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University), "Some Mathematical Models on Visual Transduction", 3:25 - 4:20 PM, EMS E180.
- Friday, April 19, 2002, Humberto Bravo A., Ph.D., Q.E.P., (Senior Research Scientist, Chair, Environmental Pollution Section, Center for Atmospheric Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico),
"Air Pollution in Mexico City: A Lesson for Latin America"
4:00 PM, EMS E405.
- Friday, April 5, 2002, Dr. Dimitri Mugnai, (University of Florence, Italy), "Bouncing on Suspension Bridges"
4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002, Hongyan Yang, (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Nonparametric, Parametric, and Robust Parametric Modeling of Norwegian Fire Claims (1972-1982)"
11:00 AM, EMS E408.
- Tuesday, March 26, 2002, David M. Steinberg, (Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University), "Data Analytic Tools for Understanding Random Field Regressions" 2:30 PM, EMS E408.
- Monday, March 25, 2002, Alexei Rybkin, (Univ. of Alaska-Fairbanks), "The Krein Spectral Shift Function"
4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, March 15, 2002, James Campbell, (Univ. of Memphis), "Oscillation and Variation for Singular Integrals"
4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Wednesday, March 13, 2002, Lan Nguyen, (Ohio University), "Regular Admissibility of Function Spaces wrt. Absract Higher Order Differential Equations" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, March 8, 2002, Prof. Ahmed I. Zayed, (DePaul University), "Numerical solutions of boundary-value problems: Sinc versus Wavelets" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Thursday, March 7, 2002, Prof. T. Nishikawa, (Arizona State University), "Finite-size effects on active chaotic advection" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Wednesday, March 6, 2002, Dr. Norbert Koksch, (Technische Universitat, Dresden, Germany), "Inertial Manifolds for Nonautonomous Dynamical Systems" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, March 1, 2002, Dr. Maia Martcheva, (Polytechnic University), "Forward bifurcation and backward bifurcation of equilibria in epidemic models" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Thursday, February 28, 2002, Paul Tereshchenko, (William M. Mercer, Inc), "An Introduction to the Actuarial Profession" 1:30 - 2:20 PM, EMS E140.
- Wednesday, February 27, 2002, Tatiana Soleski, (Dept. of Math. Sci., UWM), "Wavelet Based Computerized Tomography" 3:30 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, February 22, 2002, Ivan Dimitrov, (MSRI & Yale University), "Weight modules over classical simple direct limit Lie algebras" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Thursday, February 21, 2002, Dexuan Xie, (Dept. of Math. & Ph.D. Program in Scientific Computing, Univ. of Southern Mississippi), "An Efficient Domain Decomposition Orderings for Parallel SSOR Preconditioning" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Wednesday, February 20, 2002, Yingjie Liu, (SUNY at Stony Brook), "Conservative Interface Tracking Methods for Partial Differential Equations" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Monday, February 18, 2002, Boris Diskin, (ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center), "Textbook Multigrid Efficiency in Computational Fluid Dynamics" 3:30 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, February 15, 2002, Chris Pappacena, (Baylor University), "K-theory and intersection theory for noncommutative spaces" 4:00 PM, EMS E495.
- Thursday, February 14, 2002, Rajesh Kulkarni, (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Maximal Orders on Projective Surfaces" 3:30 PM, EMS E495.
- Friday, February 8, 2002, David Radcliffe, (Math. Sci., Univ. Wisconsin- Milw), "Rigidity of Graph Products of Groups" 4:00 pm, EMS E495.
