Department of Mathematics

All Seminars

Fall 2005

Colloquium

Topology of M_0,n(R)	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Pavel Etingof (MIT) Time: Thursday, September 1, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

Analysis and Probability Seminar

On the optimal approach in Fatou's theorem	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alexander Stokolos (DePaul University) Time: Friday, September 2, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Nondegeneracy and moduli space theory of constant mean curvature surfaces	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jesse Ratzkin (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, September 6, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 211 (note special room) (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Degree structures in computability theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Reed Solomon (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, September 7, 2005 at 4:15 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Sequence spaces of functions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: $Unique empty (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, September 9, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Total Nonnegativity	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mark Skandera (Haverford) Time: Friday, September 9, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Logic Seminar

Degrees of unsolvability of continuous functions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Joe Miller (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, September 12, 2005 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Colloquium

Deformations of subvarieties of algebraic varieties	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Herb Clemens (Ohio State University) Time: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Mathematics Education and Internal Development	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Herb Clemens (Ohio State University) Time: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: Dodd Center Konover Auditorium (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Check Digits	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Quasi-invariance for the pinned Brownian motion on a Lie group	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Masha Gordina (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, September 16, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Amalgamation, tameness and semi-abelian varieties	Link: View Poster
Speaker: John Baldwin (University of Illinois at Chicago) Time: Monday, September 19, 2005 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Realizing rings and rational algebras as endomorphism rings	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bill Wickless (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

Geometry Seminar

Nondegeneracy and moduli space theory of constant mean curvature surfaces II	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jesse Ratzkin (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Group Gradings of Matrix Algebras	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lance Miller (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 4:15 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Using Mathematics to Improve Medical Treatments	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Helen Moore (American Institute of Mathematics) Time: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Mathematics Applied to Medicine	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Helen Moore (American Institute for Mathematics) Time: Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Hausdorff-Besicovitch dimension of graphs and some Levy processes	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Martynas Manstavicius (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, September 23, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Strongly minimal sets in differentially closed fields	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Eric Rosen (Wesleyan University) Time: Monday, September 26, 2005 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Quadratic forms in characteristic 2 and restriction of scalars	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Surfaces in four dimensional manifolds whose twistor lifts are harmonic sections	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kazuyuki Hasegawa (Tokyo Science University) Time: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Overview of Summer Program in Operations Research Technology	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lara Diamond (NSA) Time: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 at 4:15 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jay Pottharst (Harvard) Time: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Two stories about about implicitization and commutative algebra	Link: View Poster
Speaker: David Cox (Amherst College) Time: Thursday, September 29, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Homogeneous spaces and actions by analytic groups	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jan van Mill (Vrije Universiteit and Wesleyan University) Time: Monday, October 3, 2005 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center Room 618 (Wesleyan University)

Geometry Seminar

Nondegeneracy and moduli space theory of constant mean curvature surfaces III	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jesse Ratzkin (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, October 4, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

The Mathematical Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Domina Spencer (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, October 5, 2005 at 4:15 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

The Mathematics of Origami	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tara Holm (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, October 5, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Modularity in homotopy theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Matthew Ando (UIUC) Time: Thursday, October 6, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Degree-independent extension of Sobolev functions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Luke Rogers (Cornell) Time: Friday, October 7, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar

Group Gradings in Incidence Algebras	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lance Miller (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

A hyperelliptic Riemann surface arising from the horseshoe map	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Fred Gardiner (CUNY) Time: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Mathematics in engine maintenance cost forecasting	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mei Gao (Pratt and Whitney) Time: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 at 4:15 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Beyond the Quadratic Formula	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Michael Bush (UMass Amherst) Time: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Higher torsion of graphs and surfaces	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kiyoshi Igusa (Brandeis) Time: Thursday, October 13, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

On the estimation of densities of functions of several sample variables	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Evarist Gine (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, October 14, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Riemannian geometry of some infinite-dimensional groups	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Masha Gordina (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

random thoughts on random processes	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Masha Gordina (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 at 4:15 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Psychorealism: A Fresh Perspective	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Karan Singh (University of Toronto) Time: Thursday, October 20, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: ITEB 336 conference room (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Joint with CS. Notice the location. Tea at 3:30 in ITEB 336 as well.

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Weak uncertainty principle for fractals, graphs and metric measure spaces	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alexander Teplyaev (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, October 21, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Cords: 3D Curve Primitives that Wrap Around Geometry	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Karan Singh (University of Toronto) Time: Friday, October 21, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: (Note the day!) Free Refreshments

Logic Seminar

Remarks on Zilber's pseudoexponentiation	Link: View Poster
Speaker: David Marker (University of Illinois at Chicago) Time: Monday, October 24, 2005 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Gröbner-Shirshov bases for representation theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kyu-Hwan Lee (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Nondegeneracy and moduli space theory of constant mean curvature surfaces IV	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Rob Kusner (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Time: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Talk Postponed	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Time: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 4:15 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Funny Functions: Rethinking the Derivative, An Illustrated Guide	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ben Mares (MIT) Time: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Random Walks in Random Environments	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ofer Zeitouni (University of Minnesota) Time: Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Eaten by her own dinner	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alex Raichev (University of Wisconsin) Time: Monday, October 31, 2005 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Gröbner-Shirshov bases for representation theory applications	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kyu-Hwan Lee (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, November 1, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Conformal maps from a 2-torus to the 4-sphere	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Franz Pedit (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Time: Tuesday, November 1, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Note special room!

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Large scale geometry of groups	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kasra Rafi (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 2, 2005 at 4:15 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Point-Line Duality	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Abhijnan Rej (BU) Time: Wednesday, November 2, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Heat Equations in Infinitely Many Variables and Applications to	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Michael Roeckner (Purdue University) Time: Friday, November 4, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Notice the unusual day. The talk is on a FRIDAY.

Logic Seminar

A method for constructing decidable expansions of the real field by restricted transcendental analytic functions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Daniel Miller (Wesleyan University) Time: Monday, November 7, 2005 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Involutions in Incidence Algebras	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Eugene Spiegel (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, November 8, 2005 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Christoph Bohle (T. U. Berlin) Time: Tuesday, November 8, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Note special room!

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Modular forms and the Monster	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kyu-Hwan Lee (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at 4:15 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Straightedgular Algebra	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Liz Yockey (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Better Refreshments²

Colloquium

Few-Nucleon Scattering and Bound States in the Faddeev-Yakubovsky Scheme.	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Walter Gloeckle (Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany) Time: Thursday, November 10, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

A Wiener-Wintner Theorem for the Hilbert Transform	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Erin Terwilleger-Mullen (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, November 11, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Automatic Structures	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bakhadyr Khoussainov (Auckland University and Cornell University) Time: Monday, November 14, 2005 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Geometry Seminar

Hyperkahler Kirwan surjectivity fro rank 2 Higgs bundles	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Graeme Wilkin (Brown University) Time: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Quantum mechanics and Hilbert Spaces	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Will Dicharry (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 4:15 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

What is a Sphere?	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jesse Ratzkin (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Numbers, Quantum Fields and Motives	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Dirk Kreimer (Boston University/IHES) Time: Thursday, November 17, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar

Recent Development in Representation Theory of Quadratic Forms	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Myung-Hwan Kim (Seoul National University / Wesleyan University) Time: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Guaranteeing correct topological approximations of Bezier curves	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Edward Moore (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

How Zero-Divisors Change a Prufer Domain	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Sarah Glaz (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 at 4:15 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

The Platonic Solids and the Euler Characteristic	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bill Abikoff (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 215 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Stringy invariants of orbifolds	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Takashi Kimura (Boston University) Time: Thursday, December 1, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

The Grothendieck inequality revisited	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ron Blei (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, December 2, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Computability theoretic complexity of trivial strongly minimal models	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Reed Solomon (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, December 5, 2005 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

A module approach to a new matrix canonical form	Link: View Poster
Speaker: K.C. O'Meara (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, December 6, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

A Night at the Operads	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Rachel Schwell (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, December 7, 2005 at 4:15 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)