Department of Mathematics

All Seminars

Fall 2006

Colloquium

Variances of First Passage Times in a Markov Chain with Application to Mixing Times	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jeffrey Hunter (Massey University Auckland) Time: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 at 2:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Playing games in set theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Reed Solomon (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, September 6, 2006 at 4:20 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Calculus of Finite Differences	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, September 6, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Integer Valued Polynomials - A Survey	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Paul-Jean Cahen (Université Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III/UConn) Time: Thursday, September 7, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

On relationship between certain maximal and multiplier operators	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alex Stokolos (DePaul University) Time: Friday, September 8, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar

Faithful Modules	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bill Wickless (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

Algebra Seminar

Faithful Modules II	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bill Wickless (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

Geometry Seminar

Geodesic rays in Teichmuller space and the Mapping class group have quadratic divergence rate	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kasra Rafi (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Fourier Analysis on Groups	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Gorjan Alagic (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 4:20 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Proofs that Count	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tom Roby (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Tableaux combinatorics for the asymmetric exclusion process	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lauren Williams (Harvard) Time: Thursday, September 14, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

On Tauberian condition for the maximal operators associated with convex sets	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alex Stokolos (DePaul University) Time: Friday, September 15, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Reducts of Random Bipartite Graphs	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Yun Lu (Wesleyan University) Time: Monday, September 18, 2006 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Uncertainty principles on finite groups	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Gorjan Alagic (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

How degenerate are CMC surfaces?	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Rob Kusner (UMass Amherst) Time: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Dirichlet's Theorem for arithmetic progression	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lance Miller (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 4:20 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

An Introduction to Cryptography	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Avraham Bourla (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Triangular billiards, scaling limits, and Fourier series	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Schwartz (Brown University) Time: Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Uniqueness for a degenerate elliptic operator	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Bass (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, September 22, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: This talk has been categorized by the speaker as general. See the guidelines above.

Mathematics Education

An undergraduate writing course in Mathematics	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Fabiana Cardetti (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, September 25, 2006 at 5:00 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Not a proof of the Four Color Theorem	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Oscar Levin (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 4:20 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

The Joy of Hex	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Joe Miller (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Vector bundles over holomorphic symplectic surfaces	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Eyal Markman (UMass) Time: Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Bellman function method for maximal operators	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Leonid Slavin (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, September 29, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar

Old problems and new questions around factorial sequences	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Paul-Jean Cahen (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Informative Words and Discreteness	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jane Gilman (Rutgers University and Yale University) Time: Tuesday, October 3, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 311 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Note the special room.

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

A completely accessible and historically motivated introduction to The Theory of Partitions and its connections to number theory, combinatorics, algebra, complex analysis, chess, particle physics, the q-universe, and ping-pong.	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Dennis Eichhorn (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, October 4, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

How to Divide a Cake in Three	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kiran Kedlaya (MIT) Time: Wednesday, October 4, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Mirror symmetry for quotients of tori by finite groups	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Michael Thaddeus (Columbia University) Time: Thursday, October 5, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

On Central Limit Theorems for Random Measure Processes	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Nickl (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, October 6, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: The speaker has categorized this talk as general.

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar

Quadruple junction solutions in phase separation	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Changfeng Gui (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, October 9, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Euclidean Ramsey Theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jim Schmerl (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, October 9, 2006 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

TBA II	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Paul-Jean Cahen (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Hausdorff dimension under bending deformations and the Weil-Petersson metric	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Martin Bridgeman (Boston College) Time: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

Mathematics Education

A Scientist in the Classroom: an Educational Outreach Program at the University of Marseille, France	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Paul-Jean Cahen (Université Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III/UConn) Time: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: Gentry 142 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Light refreshments will be provided.

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Why is the Riemann hypothesis important?	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 at 5:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Examples of Banach spaces that are not Banach algebras	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ryan Mullen (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, October 13, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: The speaker has categorized this talk as general.

UConn Math Club

The Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formula	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Nick Flowers (Morgan Stanley) Time: Friday, October 13, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar

Blood Vessel Segmentation Using Local Binary Fitting Active Contours/Surfaces	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Chunming Li (Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science) Time: Monday, October 16, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar

TBA III	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Bird of a feather flock together, but how?	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Upendra Prasad (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Equations, Cubics, and Complex Numbers	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Paul-Jean Cahen (Univ. Marseille) Time: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Computer Experiments in Representation Theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Gregg Zuckerman (Yale) Time: Thursday, October 19, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

An Introduction to the Taylor Map	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Matt Cecil (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, October 20, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: The speaker has labeled this talk as general

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar

Hamiltonian identity for PDE and it's applications	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Changfeng Gui (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, October 23, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Borel complexity of isomorphism for theories with many types	Link: View Poster
Speaker: David Marker (University of Illinois at Chicago) Time: Monday, October 23, 2006 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

TBA IV	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Special Talks

Speeds of convergence for empirical processes, continued	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Nickl (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 315 (Storrs) Comments: Boston Stochastics Seminar. Tea is offered at 3:45 pm in the Math Lounge on the first floor of MSB.

Geometry Seminar

A combinatorial definition of Heegaard-Floer homology for links	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Dylan Thurston (Columbia University) Time: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Hyperbolic Polynomials & Van der Waerden/Schrijver-Valiant like Conjectures	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Leonid Gurvits (Los Alamos Natl. Lab) Time: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 2:00 pm Place: ITEB 336 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Joint with CS. New time!!, Wednesday colloquium, not at the usual time and not at the usual place

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Instabilities in the tidal deformation of planetary bodies	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Sarah Frey (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Number theory with polynomials	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mike Rosen (Brown) Time: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Halloween Party	Link: View Poster
Speaker: (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, October 27, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar

Computer-assisted Proofs for Nonlinear Elliptic Boundary Value	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Michael Plum (University of Karlsruhe) Time: Monday, October 30, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Cohesiveness and Pi^1_1 conservation	Link: View Poster
Speaker: CT Chong (National University of Singapore) Time: Monday, October 30, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: Exley Science Center 121 (Wesleyan University) Comments: Note the unusual time and room!

Mathematics Education

The Teaching of Calculus: What Changes Are on the Horizon?	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Deborah Hughes Hallett (University of Arizona/Harvard University) Time: Monday, October 30, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: tea at 3:30 pm

Algebra Seminar

Odd counts of partitions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Dennis Eichhorn (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Ropelength of knots	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Elizabeth Denne (Harvard University) Time: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

An overview of some knot and 3-manifold invariants	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kristen Sellke (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Exploring space in two dimensions and beyond!	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jesse Kass (Harvard) Time: Wednesday, November 1, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Nonnegativity and stability in matrix theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Daniel Hershkowitz (Technion,) Time: Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Strong laws and CLTs for the L^p moduli of continuity of Gaussian Processes	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Michael Marcus (CUNY) Time: Friday, November 3, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Proving the weak pigeonhole principle in bounded arithmetic	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Norman Danner (Wesleyan University) Time: Monday, November 6, 2006 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Special Talks

Speeds of convergence for empirical processes, continued ...	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Nickl (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 315 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Boston Stochastics Seminar. For rides from Boston, contact Richard Dudley.

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Applying for Jobs in Academia: All You Ever Needed to Know	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Panel (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Current issues in clinical trials methodology for evaluating drug safety	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Robert Makuch (Yale) Time: Wednesday, November 8, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: USG funded

Colloquium

The Central Limit Theorem in infinite dimensions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Joel Zinn (Texas A&M) Time: Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Hankel operators in several complex variables and product BMO.	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Erin Terwilleger (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, November 10, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

The decidability of the existential theory of the upper semilattice of degrees with least element and jump	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Manuel Lerman (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, November 13, 2006 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

UConn Math Club

Fractals and Fixed Points	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Monique Ethier (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, November 13, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Algebra Seminar

On the Convex Closure of the Graph of Modular Inversions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mizan Khan (Eastern Connecticut State University) Time: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Harmonic maps into singular spaces	Link: View Poster
Speaker: George Daskalopoulos (Brown University) Time: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

Mathematics Education

Preparation for Sciences: Integrating Intermediate Algebra and Mathematical Modeling	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Sarah Glaz (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: Gentry 142 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

The Basics of Fuzzy Set Theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Matt Jura (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Probability	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Evarist Gine (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, November 17, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar

Gidas-Ni-Nirenberg results for finite difference equation: estimates	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Joe Mckenna (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, November 27, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Forcing Axioms, Generic Absoluteness, and Consistency Strength	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Stuart Zoble (Wesleyan University) Time: Monday, November 27, 2006 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

UConn Math Club

Irreducibility Tests for Polynomials	Link: View Poster
Speaker: James Chernesky (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, November 27, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Algebra Seminar

Local-global compatibility at ramified primes	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Sug-Woo Shin (Harvard University) Time: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 207 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Note the time and room change.

Colloquium

Upper bounds on the coarsening rates of discrete ill-posed nonlinear diffusions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: John Boone Greer (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU) Time: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 407 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Postponed: The Kauffman skein module of torus knots	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kristen Sellke (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

On the overlap in the multiple spherical SK models.	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Dmitry Panchenko (MIT) Time: Thursday, November 30, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Probability Theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Evarist Gine (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, December 1, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar

A priori bounds for semilinear equations on non-smooth domains	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Joe Mckenna (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, December 4, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Minimal degrees and c.e. degrees	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Reed Solomon (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, December 4, 2006 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Colloquium

Analysis and computations for Oldroyd-B fluids	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Becca Thomases (Courant Institute of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU) Time: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Postponed	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ed Taylor (Weslyan University) Time: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

On Cauchy interpolar functions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Paul-Jean Cahen (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, December 6, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Upper bound on coarsening rate for epitaxial growth models	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Xiaodong Yan ( Michigan State University) Time: Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)