Department of Mathematics

All Seminars

Spring 2006

Colloquium

Combinatorics of Young walls and representation theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Seok-Jin Kang (Seoul National University) Time: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: The colloquium is in conjunction with the Algebra Seminar.

Algebra Seminar

Combinatorics of Young walls and representation theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Seok-Jin Kang (Seoul National University) Time: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: This is actually a colloquium, but is in conjunction with the algebra seminar.

Geometry Seminar

Topological techniques in symplectic geometry I	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tara Holm (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Pick’s theorem	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 315 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

I. Symmetric Space Valued Moment Maps, II.Advantages, Challenges, and Dividends of Online Placement	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Matthew Leingang (Harvard University) Time: Thursday, January 26, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Tides of Tutoring: I. Planetary tides and Europa, II. Tutor training case study	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Sarah Frey (California State University, East Bay) Time: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Tuesday talk

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Algebraic constructions and paths through trees	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Reed Solomon (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, February 1, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

How many points determine a curve?	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Stu Sidney (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, February 1, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 315 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Direct simulation of mixed continuum-discrete physics with high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Gustaff Jacobs (Brown University) Time: Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Symmetric Markov chains on Z^d with unbounded range	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Bass (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, February 3, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Topological techniques in symplectic geometry II	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tara Holm (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Domain Decomposition Methods	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jung-Han Kimn (Louisiana State University) Time: Tuesday, February 7, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Tuesday talk

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Choice by necessity	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Joe Miller (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, February 8, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

I. Which Improper Integrals are Finite? Multiplier Ideals and Monomial Ideals. II.Cultivating a learning network	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jason Howald (John Carroll University) Time: Thursday, February 9, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Harmonic coordinates on point connected non-uniform fractals	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alexander Teplyaev (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, February 10, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

SUMS conference at Brown	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Many Speakers Time: Saturday, February 11, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (Brown Univ.) Comments: Free Refreshments

Logic Seminar

Separation of Variables and the Model Theory of Partial Differential Fields	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Carol Wood (Wesleyan University) Time: Monday, February 13, 2006 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Modules of splines over polyhedral complexes	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lance Miller (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

The regular solids in dimensions 3, 4, and 5	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Eric Sommers (UMass Amherst) Time: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 315 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Analysis and Probability Seminar

The evaluation of the Riemann Zeta function on the positive integers	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jerry Neuwirth (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, February 17, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Spectra of Turing Degrees	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Russell Miller (Queens College) Time: Monday, February 20, 2006 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Colloquium

Fast High-Order Integral Equation Methods (with application to optical	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Michael C. Haslam (Caltech) Time: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Tuesday talk. There will be an additional talk at Avery point Wednesday.

Colloquium

Special joint colloquium Math-MCB-PNB: On the Growth of Brain Tumors: enhancing imaging techniques and highlighting inadequacies of current therapies	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Professor James Murray FRS (Membre de l'Institut de France, Oxford (em.), Univ. of Washington (em.)) Time: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: BSP 130 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Joint with Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Dept of Physiology and Neurobiology. Special Time and Special Place.

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Automatic Meaning Discovery Using Google	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Games, Hats and Codes	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mira Bernstein (Wellseley) Time: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 315 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Escape from a Circle and Riemann Hypotheses	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Leonid Bunimovich (Georgia Tech) Time: Friday, February 24, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: This talk is on a FRIDAY at 3pm.

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Leonid Bunimovich	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Leonid Bunimovich (Georgia Tech) Time: Friday, February 24, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

What's Next? Models of Time in Event Systems	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Walker White (Cornell University) Time: Monday, February 27, 2006 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

A-solvable groups and modules	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bill Wickless (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

Geometry Seminar

The Asymptotic behavior of Teichmuller geodesics	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kasra Rafi (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Asymptotic spectral approximations and free probability theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Friedrich Goetze (Universitaet Bielefeld) Time: Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: This talk is on a Wednesday

UConn Math Club

Primes in arithmetic progression	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tom Weston (UMass Amherst) Time: Wednesday, March 1, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 315 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Stellar subdivisions and blowings up	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Dan Abramovich (Brown University) Time: Thursday, March 2, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar

Zeta-functions and Galois measures	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

The integral group ring isomorphism problem	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Eugene Spiegel (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

The quadratic sieve	Link: View Poster
Speaker: David Pollack (Wesleyan) Time: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 315 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Algebra Seminar

Representation theory over 2-dimensional local fields	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kyu-Hwan Lee (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Geometry of real branched surfaces in 4-manifolds	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Marina Ville (Paris 7) Time: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Analysis on Groups	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

An introduction to Ramsey theory (and the probabilistic method)	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alexander Russell (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Laurent expansions in cluster algebras via quiver representations	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Andrei Zelevinsky (Northeastern University) Time: Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Eventually periodic poly-regular groups	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Philip Scowcroft (Wesleyan University) Time: Monday, March 27, 2006 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Algebraic precursors to graph C*-algebras: the Leavitt path algebras	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Gene Abrams (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) Time: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Art and Mathematics: A Dialogue	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Joint Discussion (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: Dodd building Auditorium (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Art and Mathematics: A Dialogue	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Daina Taimina (Cornell) Time: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: Dodd Auditorium 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Rigidity of polytopes and toric varieties	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tom Braden (UMass) Time: Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Projections in finite dimensional Banach spaces	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mordecay Zippin (The Hebrew University) Time: Friday, March 31, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Prof. Zippin is currently visiting UConn.

Logic Seminar

Bounding Critical Triples	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Rebecca Weber (Dartmouth) Time: Monday, April 3, 2006 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Geometry Seminar

Uniformization and geometrization in a metric space setting	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bruce Kleiner (Yale University) Time: Tuesday, April 4, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Uniformization and geometrization in a metric space setting	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bruce Kleiner (Yale) Time: Tuesday, April 4, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Special colloquium joint with the topology seminar on TUESDAY

UConn Math Club

Preparing for mathematics graduate school	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Math Dept. members (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, April 5, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 315 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Quadratic Forms	Link: View Poster
Speaker: ADAM GAMZON (University of Connecticut) Time: Thursday, April 6, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Random Switching To Random Interest Rate Regimes For Insurance Cash Flow Testing	Link: View Poster
Speaker: James Bridgeman (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, April 7, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: The room is not the usual room.

Logic Seminar

Connecting computability and randomness	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Andre Nies (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, April 10, 2006 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Geometry Seminar

From Solitons to Dilatons: Relating sine-Gordon Equations to Two-Dimensional Gravity	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Shabnam Beheshti (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Time: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Games Mathematicians Play	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Oscar Levin (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

The mathematics of internet security	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Aggelos Kiayias (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: ITE 125 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Matrix Distance Problems	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Michael L. Overton (Courant Institute, NYU) Time: Thursday, April 13, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

On the Strength of Theorems from Combinatorics and Model Theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Denis Hirschfeldt (University of Chicago) Time: Monday, April 17, 2006 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Algebraic Graph Theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Russ Merris (Williams College) Time: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Legendrian contact homology	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Michael Sullivan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Time: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

The Combinatorial Structure of Moment Polytopes	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tara Holm (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

The forward and inverse problem in geodetic surveying	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tom Meyer (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Form and Sound: Remarks on PDEs and Fractals	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Umbero Mosco (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) Time: Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Regularity of Degenerate Monge-Ampere Equations in n Dimensions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Cristian Rios (Trinity College) Time: Friday, April 21, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar

Modules of Splines and Equivariant Cohomology of Toric Varieties	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lance Miller (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

TBA	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jean Steiner (Cournant Institute) Time: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB MSB 415 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: note unusual time, day, and place

Colloquium

“Collaboration between Mathematicians: Some Personal Anecdotes”	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Farshid Hajir (UMass) Time: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 3:30 pm Place: IMS 20 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Awards Day Colloquium, WEDNESDAY

UConn Math Club

Collaboration between mathematicians: some personal anecdotes	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Farshid Hajir (UMass Amherst) Time: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 4:00 pm Place: IMS 20 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

A Casual Look at Category Theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Matt Jura (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 at 5:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Tips on effective math teaching in grades 7 — 12	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Steve Conrad (Roslyn HS (ret.)) Time: Wednesday, May 3, 2006 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments