Department of Mathematics

All Seminars

Spring 2005

Colloquium

The Lattice Of Threshold Graphs Mathematicians Working With Teachers In California: The Acclaim Experience	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tom Roby (California State University, Hayward) Time: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Langlands Reciprocity And Satake Isomorphism	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kyu-Hwan Lee (University of Toronto) Time: Thursday, January 20, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Up To Equimorphism, Hyperarithmetic Is Computable	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Antonio Montalban (Cornell University) Time: Monday, January 24, 2005 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Colloquium

Some Results On The Computability And Axiomatizability Of Trivial Uncountably Categorical Theories	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alfred Dolich (McMaster University) Time: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

The Principle of Maximum Entropy	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Analysis Of Values In Undergraduate Mathematics Placement	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jamie Sutherland (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Time: Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Conformal Structures and Necksizes of CMC Surfaces	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Rob Kusner (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Time: Tuesday, February 1, 2005 at 2:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Linear Control Systems On Lie Groups Improving K-12 Teachers Education	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Fabiana Cardetti (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, February 1, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Tea in the Math Lounge at 3:30pm

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Curvature	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jesse Ratzkin (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Knot Theory - What They Didn’t Teach You in Boy Scouts	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Rachel Schwell (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, February 2, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Kolmogorov Complexity and Martin-Lof Randomness	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Joseph Miller (Indiana University at Bloomington) Time: Thursday, February 3, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Tea in the Math Lounge at 3:30pm

Geometry Seminar

Heegaard splittings and automorphisms of surfaces	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Hossein Namazi (Yale University) Time: Tuesday, February 8, 2005 at 4:00 am Place: 117 MSB (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Infinitesimals and Nonstandard Analysis	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Reed Solomon (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, February 9, 2005 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB (room t.b.a.) (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Continued Fractions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Sonal Jain (Harvard) Time: Wednesday, February 9, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments; USG funded

Logic Seminar

Some problems in descriptive set theory: On the unique representation of families of sets and some problems arising in geomery and analysis	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Dan Mauldin (University of North Texas) Time: Monday, February 14, 2005 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Colloquium

p-adic Analytic Variation of Modular Forms	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Payman Kassaei (McGill University, Montreal) Time: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Classification of Boolean Algebras	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lance Miller (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Some Highlights of Combinatorial Game Theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alexander Russell (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Geometry Seminar

Willmore Tori with Non-trivial Normal Bundles	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Katrin Leschke (University of Massachusetts) Time: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Banach algebras, function spaces, and how I came to love them	Link: View Poster
Speaker: $Unique empty (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Asymptotic Freedom: The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics What is it and Why Should Mathematicians Care?	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Gerald Dunne (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Measurements of interdependence in fractional Cartesian products	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ron Blei (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, February 25, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

K-triviality	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Dennis Hirschfeldt (University of Chicago) Time: Monday, February 28, 2005 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Geometry Seminar

Cancelled: Conformal Structures and Necksizes of CMC Surfaces II	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Rob Kusner (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Time: Tuesday, March 1, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

How many drunk cops does it take to catch one drunk thief?	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jesse Ratzkin (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, March 1, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

A constructivist look at computational algebra	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ray Mines Time: Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

An Escape Trichotomy for Singularly Perturbed Complex Polynomials	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Daniel Look (Boston University) Time: Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Financial Math: Little Assumptions/Big Money	Link: View Poster
Speaker: James Bridgeman (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, March 2, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Conformal invariants, Q-curvature and Ricci tensor	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alice Chang (Princeton University) Time: Monday, March 14, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Minimal Surfaces in pseudo-Hermitian Geometry	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Paul Yang (Princeton University) Time: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

An Introduction to Complex Dynamics	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Rob Benedetto (Amherst College) Time: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments; USG funded

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Topological Vector Spaces with zero dual space	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Topological analysis of enzymatic actions: DNA link formation byXer recombination and DNA unknotting by type II topoisomerase	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mariel Vasquez (University of California at Berkeley) Time: Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 1:00 pm Place: ITEB Conference Room 336 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Discussion and tea afterwards, 2-3pm, in ITEB 201A

Colloquium

Medical Image Segmentation Using Deformable Models	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Chengyang Xu (Siemens Corporate Research) Time: Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: ITE 336 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: This is a Joint Seminar with the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Excess Risk Bounds in Learning Theory and Talagrand's Concentration	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Vladimir Koltchinskii (University of New Mexico) Time: Friday, March 18, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar

Analysis of the Lagrangian averaged Euler and other and related equations	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Congming Li (University of Colorado) Time: Monday, March 21, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar

The discriminant density of number fields	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Ropelength and Distortion of Knots using Essential Secants	Link: View Poster
Speaker: John Sullivan (T. U. Berlin) Time: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Math for America/Newton Fellowships	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Peter Garrity (Columbia) Time: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

From the Manhattan Project to Number Theory: How nuclear physics helps us understand primes.	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Steve Miller (Brown University) Time: Thursday, March 24, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Computational Topology on Approximated Manifolds (with Applications in Engineering & Bioinformatics)	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tom Peters (University of Connecticut) Time: Thursday, March 24, 2005 at 4:30 pm Place: ITEB 336 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Nonnegative Solvability of Linear Equations in Ordered Groups	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Philip Snowcroft (Wesleyan University) Time: Monday, March 28, 2005 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Class groups and the Artin isomorphism	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

The Graph Reconstruction Conjecture	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jonathan Axtell (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Prime Factorization and Solving Equations	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Robert Pollack (Boston University) Time: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments; USG funded

Special Talks

Municipal Solid Waste to Energy Fundamentals Including Compatibility With Recycling	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jonathan Bilmes Time: Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 11:00 am Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Guest Lecture at Mathematical Modeling in the Environment Course <Extra Information>

Colloquium

Non-Fickian diffusion and spatial heterogeneity of biofilms	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Fuchang Gao (University of Idaho) Time: Thursday, March 31, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Sphere recognition lies in NP	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Saul Schleimer (Rutgers University) Time: Friday, April 1, 2005 at 3:30 pm Place: 117 MSB (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar

Galois groups of p-class towers	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Michael Bush (University of Massachusetts) Time: Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Cancelled: Horseshoe and Baker maps and hyperelliptic surfaces of infinite genus	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Fred Gardiner (CUNY) Time: Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Random Walks and Quantum Walks	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Gorjan Alagic (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, April 6, 2005 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

The Mysterious Hexaflexagon	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Sarah Glaz (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, April 6, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

The chiral de Rham complex, orbifolds, elliptic genera, and automorphic forms	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Matt Szczesny (University of Pennsylvania) Time: Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar

Prufer, Gaussian, and Arithmetical Rings	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Sarah Glaz (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Moduli spaces and cell models for operads	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ralph Kaufmann (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Ramsey Theory: Beyond the Pigeon Hole Principle	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Oscar Levin (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

The Infinitude of Prime Numbers	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Max Lieblich (Brown University) Time: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments; USG funded

Logic Seminar

title to be announced	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Carl Jockusch (University of Illinois) Time: Monday, April 18, 2005 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

TBA	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Roger Wiegand (University of Nebraska) Time: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Framed disk operads and Koszul duality	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Craig Westerland (Institute for Advanced Study) Time: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Path-connectivity and the Gram-Schmidt algorithm	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Brian Conrad (University of Michigan) Time: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Impossibility of Integrating e^-x²	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Brian Conrad (University of Michigan) Time: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments; USG funded

Special Talks

Democracy in Action: Your Vote Doesn't Matter, but You Can Still Get Your Way	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Allison Pacelli (Williams College) Time: Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: IMS 20 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Awards Day

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Measurements of interdependence in fractional Cartesian products - II	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ron Blei (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, April 22, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar

My favorite classes of mixed groups; discussed with respect to endomorphism ring and cancellation properties	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bill Wickless (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Note the changed time.

Geometry Seminar

The Lenstra conjecture for Fuchsian groups and the distribution of geodesic excursions out the end of a hyperbolic 2-orbifold	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Andy Haas (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Finite Fields and Their Galois Groups	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Matthew Jura (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

The Mathematics of Rubik's Cube	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bill Wickless (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Local U-processes and the estimation of the densities of functions of several sample variables	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Evarist Gine (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, April 29, 2005 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Population Haplotyping: Phasing, Tagging and Disease Association	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alexander Zelikovsky (Georgia State University) Time: Thursday, May 19, 2005 at 11:00 am Place: ITEB 336 (UConn - Storrs)