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From July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009

Algebra Seminar
The rank of a quiver representation Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ryan Kinser (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, September 8, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
Brownian Motion Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Bass (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
The Arithmetic-Geometric Mean Inequality Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments
Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
Writing Teaching Philosophy Statements Link: View Poster
Speaker: Catherine Ross (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
The Apollonian gasket revealed Link: View Poster
Speaker: Avraham Bourla (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments
Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Algebra Seminar
Representation rings of quivers Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ryan Kinser (University of Connecticut)
Time: Thursday, September 17, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
Gradient Estimates for the Perfect and Insulated Conductivity Problems Link: View Poster
Speaker: Biao Yin (University of Connecticut)
Time: Monday, September 21, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar
Stability conditions for a quiver, the "local projective plane", and Gamma_1(3) Link: View Poster
Speaker: Arend Bayer (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club
Knots and the Fourth Dimension Link: View Poster
Speaker: Constance Leidy (Wesleyan)
Time: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments
Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Colloquium
Noise Sensitivity, Noise Stability, Percolation and some connections to TCS Link: View Poster
Speaker: Gil Kalai (Hebrew University and Yale University)
Faculty Sponsor: Blei
Time: Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: Mathematical Science Building MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
A novel kernel correlation model with the correspondence estimation Link: View Poster
Speaker: Pengwen Chen (University of Connecticut)
Time: Monday, September 28, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
Examples in algebra using topology Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
The Riemann Rearrangement Theorem Link: View Poster
Speaker: Paul Ellis (UConn)
Time: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments
Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Analysis and Probability Seminar
Approximation and interpolation with polyharmonic and similar kernels Link: View Poster
Speaker: Thomas Hangelbroek (Texas A&M)
Time: Friday, October 2, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
Lane-Emden problem : survey about symmetries Link: View Poster
Speaker: Christopher Grumiau (Institut de Math ematique - UMons Mons (Belgium))
Time: Monday, October 5, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar
D-ratio of a rational map and a upper bound of height Link: View Poster
Speaker: Chong Gyu Lee (Brown University)
Time: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
The Effect of Global Warming on Financial Discounting Methodology Link: View Poster
Speaker: James Bridgeman (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
Preparing for Graduate School in Math Link: View Poster
Speaker: Math Department Members (UConn)
Time: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments

Mathematics Education
The learning of fractions: How can it be built on the learning of whole numbers? Link: View Poster
Speaker: Liping Ma
Time: Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Place: Dodd Center Konover Auditorium (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium
The learning of fractions: How can it be built on the learning of whole numbers? Link: View Poster
Speaker: Liping Ma
Faculty Sponsor: Cardetti and Vinsonhaler
Time: Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Place: Dodd Center Konover Auditorium (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Co-sponsored by the Center for Research in Mathematics Education (CRME) and UConn's Teachers for a New Era (TNE)

UConn Math Club
Projective Space Link: View Poster
Speaker: Amanda Beeson (Williams)
Time: Monday, October 12, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Note the day! Free Refreshments
Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Algebra Seminar
A survey of Robinson-Schensted algorithms in types B/C Link: View Poster
Speaker: Eric Sommers (University of Massachusetts - Amherst)
Time: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
Large Deviations, Small Probabilities Link: View Poster
Speaker: Iddo Ben Ari (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

Analysis and Probability Seminar
The Hitting Time Theorem Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mike Keane (Wesleyan University)
Time: Friday, October 16, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium
A simple lemma in calculus and its application in Kaehler geometry Link: View Poster
Speaker: Xiuxiong Chen (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Faculty Sponsor: Gui
Time: Friday, October 16, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: Mathematical Science Building MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar
On the structure of Witt-Burnside rings Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lance Miller (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
Examples in Effective Algebra Link: View Poster
Speaker: Amy Turlington (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
The Pigeonhole Principle and Ramsey Theory Link: View Poster
Speaker: Stu Sidney (UConn)
Time: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments
Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Algebra Seminar
The moduli space of points on the projective line and quadratic Groebner bases. Link: View Poster
Speaker: Milena Hering (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Actuarial Science Seminar
Time-inconsistent preferences in consumption, investment and life insurance models Link: View Poster
Speaker: Oriol Roch (Universitat de Barcelona)
Time: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Place: BPB 131 (UConn - Storrs)

Mathematics Education
Justification as a disciplinary practice and a learning practice: Negotiating its meaning in classroom. Link: View Poster
Speaker: Megan Staples (UConn Neag School of Education)
Time: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
Path algebras and cluster-tilted algebras Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ralf Schiffler (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
Unsolved mysteries of mathematics: the rank of an elliptic curve Link: View Poster
Speaker: Christine McMeekin (UConn)
Time: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments
Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Colloquium
Tropicalisation of rational varieties Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alicia Dickenstein (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Faculty Sponsor: Hering
Time: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: Mathematical Science Building MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
Lp-estimates for higher-order elliptic and parabolic systems with BMO coefficients Link: View Poster
Speaker: Hongjie Dong (Brown)
Time: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar
The Constant Terms of Eisenstein Series on Loop Groups over a Function Field. Link: View Poster
Speaker: Phil Lombardo (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
Investigating the model of high school mathematics teacher preparation in China Link: View Poster
Speaker: Su Liang (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
Depleted harmonic series and a neat theorem about primes Link: View Poster
Speaker: John Haga (UConn)
Time: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments
Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Colloquium
Twisted Euler Products Link: View Poster
Speaker: Solomon Friedberg (Boston College)
Faculty Sponsor: Lee
Time: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: Mathematical Science Building MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar
Link: View Poster
Speaker: Iddo Ben Ari (University of Connecticut)
Time: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar
Affine dual equivalence and k-Schur positivity Link: View Poster
Speaker: Sami Assaf (MIT)
Time: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
TBA Link: View Poster
Speaker: Avraham Bourla (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
Pick's Formula Link: View Poster
Speaker: Milena Hering (UConn)
Time: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments
Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Mathematics Education
Conflicts between Mathematics Educators and Mathematicians, and Ways to Overcome Them Link: View Poster
Speaker: Wilfried Schmid (Harvard University)
Time: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Place: Biology Physics BPB 131 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium
Conflicts between Mathematics Educators and Mathematicians, and Ways to Overcome Them Link: View Poster
Speaker: Wilfried Schmid (Harvard University)
Faculty Sponsor: Cardetti and Vinsonhaler
Time: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Place: Biology/Physics Building BPB 131 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Co-sponsored by the Center for Research in Mathematics Education (CRME) and UConn's Teachers for a New Era (TNE)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
Scattering for the fourth-order wave equation Link: View Poster
Speaker: Benoit Pausader (Brown)
Time: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
Stability and instability in th Stefan problem with surface tension Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mahir Hadzic (Brown)
Time: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: In case of scheduling problems, the alternate room will be TLS 301.

Logic Seminar
Generalized Indiscernible Sequences in Stable and NIP Theories Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lynn Scow (UC Berkeley)
Time: Monday, November 16, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan)

Algebra Seminar
The Tame Hecke Algebra Link: View Poster
Speaker: Martin Nikolov (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium
The Linear Algebra of Internet Search Engines Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lesley Ward (University of South Australia)
Time: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Place: IMS 20 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Note the room!

Colloquium
The Riemann Hypothesis Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: IMS 20 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Note the room!

UConn Math Club
Bernoulli Numbers and Their Applications Link: View Poster
Speaker: Li-Mei Lim (Brown)
Time: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments
Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Colloquium
Integral quadratic forms: from local to global Link: View Poster
Speaker: Wai Kiu Chan (Wesleyan University)
Faculty Sponsor: Lee
Time: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: Mathematical Science Building MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar
Definite Forms in Valued Fields Link: View Poster
Speaker: Laurel Miller-Sims (Smith College)
Time: Monday, November 30, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan)

UConn Math Club
Fourier series, Fourier transforms, and applications Link: View Poster
Speaker: Erin Terwilleger (UConn)
Time: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments
Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Colloquium
TBA Link: View Poster
Speaker: Laura Matusevich (Texas A & M University)
Faculty Sponsor: Milena Hering
Time: Friday, December 4, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar
How many sprays cover the plane? Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jim Schmerl (University of Connecticut)
Time: Monday, December 7, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan)

Algebra Seminar
New parts of Hecke rings Link: View Poster
Speaker: Benjamin Lundell (Cornell University)
Time: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)