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Fall 2007

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
Quaternion Algebras Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club
Pythagorean Triples, Trig Identities, and Integrals Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
Kullback-Leibler(KL) divergence and curve matching methods Link: View Poster
Speaker: Pengwen Chen (University of Connecticut)
Time: Monday, September 10, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar
Model theoretic properties of automatic structures Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mia Minnes (Cornell University)
Time: Monday, September 10, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar
On quadratic residues and non-residues of binomial coefficients Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alan Stein (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
Well quasi-orders - What are they and why are they useful? Link: View Poster
Speaker: David R. Solomon (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
Ramanujan Graphs Link: View Poster
Speaker: Paul Gunnells (UMass Amherst)
Time: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments

Analysis and Probability Seminar
A remark on non-local operators Link: View Poster
Speaker: Toshihiro Uemura (University of Hyogo and University of Connecticut)
Time: Friday, September 14, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
Stability of Rotating Star Solutions of the Compressible Euler-Poisson Equations Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tao Luo (Worcester Polytechnic Institute & Georgetown University)
Time: Monday, September 17, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar
WGCH and Martin's Axiom Link: View Poster
Speaker: John Baldwin (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Time: Monday, September 17, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

UConn Math Club
Irrationality Link: View Poster
Speaker: Vicentiu Pasol (UConn)
Time: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium
Precision Vector Field Analysis: Exact Formulation in Multiple Coordinate Systems Link: View Poster
Speaker: Domina Eberle Spencer (University of Connecticut)
Time: Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar
Random sampling and probability Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Bass (University of Connecticut)
Time: Friday, September 21, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
Existence and Uniqueness of Weak Solutions for A General Parabolic Equation Link: View Poster
Speaker: Shulin Zhou (Peking University)
Time: Monday, September 24, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar
Admissible recursion theory and linear orderings of size $aleph_1$ Link: View Poster
Speaker: Noam Greenberg (Victoria University of Wellington)
Time: Monday, September 24, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar
Modular Symbols and Modular Forms Link: View Poster
Speaker: Vicentiu Pasol (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
Study of repair of stiction failed MEMS cantilever beams using structural vibrations. Link: View Poster
Speaker: Amit Savkar (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
Causation and Biostatistics Link: View Poster
Speaker: Joseph Hogan (Brown)
Time: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium
Computably enumerable sets and degrees of unsolvability Link: View Poster
Speaker: Noam Greenberg (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Time: Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar
Eigenvalue Statistics for Random CMV Matrices Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mihai Stoiciu (Williams College)
Time: Friday, September 28, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
Multi-bump solutions of $-Delta u=K(x)u^{frac{n+2}{n-2}}$ in ${mathbb R}^n$ Link: View Poster
Speaker: Haoyuan Xu (University of Connecticut)
Time: Monday, October 1, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar
Combining Real Exponentiation and Weierstrass Elliptic Functions:Decidability and Model Completeness Link: View Poster
Speaker: Angus Macintyre (University of London)
Time: Monday, October 1, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar
Modular Symbols and Modular Forms, II Link: View Poster
Speaker: Vicentiu Pasol (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
An Introduction to p-adic Numbers Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lance Miller (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
Preparing for graduate school in mathematics Link: View Poster
Speaker: Faculty and Graduate Students (UConn)
Time: Wednesday, October 3, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments

Analysis and Probability Seminar
Curvature Arbitrage Link: View Poster
Speaker: Yangho Choi (University of Connecticut)
Time: Friday, October 5, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar
Nagao's Heuristic Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
Vibration Modes of Fractals Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alexander Teplyaev (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Additional Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
Curves Link: View Poster
Speaker: Luke Rogers (UConn)
Time: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments

Analysis and Probability Seminar
Self adjointness, Liouville property, and stochastic completeness of a non-compact weighted manifold Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jun Masamune (WPI)
Time: Friday, October 12, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
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PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
A variational model from nonlinear elasticity Link: View Poster
Speaker: Xiaodong Yan (University of Connecticut)
Time: Monday, October 15, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

Algebra Seminar
The Jacobi identity for relative twisted vertex operators Link: View Poster
Speaker: Cristiano Husu (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club
SNEAKERS Link: View Poster
Speaker: Movie Screening
Time: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments

Analysis and Probability Seminar
Ihara zeta functions of graphs and generalizations Link: View Poster
Speaker: Matthew Horton (Wellesley College)
Time: Friday, October 19, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
Image Processing Problems in Pharmaceutical Study Link: View Poster
Speaker: David L Raunig (Pfizer Global Research & Development)
Time: Monday, October 22, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar
Halfspaces in dimension groups Link: View Poster
Speaker: Philip Scowcroft (Wesleyan University)
Time: Monday, October 22, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar
Pullbacks of Rings with Zero-divisors and Prufer Conditions Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jason Boynton (NDSU)
Time: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
Boolean Algebras: What Are They? Where Do They Come From? What Are They Made Of? And Why Do We Care? Link: View Poster
Speaker: Asher Kach (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
The Fibonacci Numbering System Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ira Gessel (Brandeis)
Time: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar
Coding, Orbits and Computability Enumerable Sets Link: View Poster
Speaker: Peter Cholak (University of Notre Dame)
Time: Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Place: MSB 219 (University of Connecticut, Storrs)
Comments: Note the nonstandard time and place!

Colloquium
The Real Zeros Property or An Example of Analysis helping Combinatorics and Discrete Probability Link: View Poster
Speaker: Miklos Bona (University of Florida)
Time: Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar
Square summability of variations and convergence of the transfer operator Link: View Poster
Speaker: Anders Oberg (Uppsala University and Amherst College)
Time: Friday, October 26, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
Analysis on Some Parabolic Systems (strongly coupled or higher order) Link: View Poster
Speaker: Li Chen (Tsinghua University)
Time: Monday, October 29, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club
Billiards on Hyperbolic Triangles Link: View Poster
Speaker: David Fried (BU)
Time: Monday, October 29, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments

Algebra Seminar
Cluster Algebras and Noncommutative Deformations of Configuration Spaces Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mike King (BC)
Time: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
Nonnegative matrix factorization and its applications. Link: View Poster
Speaker: Upendra Prasad (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)
Additional Comments: Note the slightly earlier start time

Colloquium
Splitting of Linear Operators: Lyapunov and Perron-Frobenius Link: View Poster
Speaker: Hans Schneider (University of Wisconsin — Madison)
Time: Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Part of “An intimate celebration of Hans Schneider's 80th Birthday in UConn”

Logic Seminar
Quasi versus pseudo: two elementary classes generated by flat modules Link: View Poster
Speaker: Philipp Rothmaler (Bronx Community College, CUNY)
Time: Monday, November 5, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar
Quantum Algorithms for Group-Theoretic Problems Link: View Poster
Speaker: Gorjan Alagic (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, November 6, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
A Taste of Homological Algebra Link: View Poster
Speaker: Sarah Glaz (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
Rational Recurrences Arising from Cluster Algebras Link: View Poster
Speaker: Michael King (Boston College)
Time: Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium
Extensions of Positive Definite Functions on Amenable and on Free Groups Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mihaly Bakonyi (Georgia State University)
Time: Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar
Logarithmic Sobolev inequalties, and logarithmically subharmonic functions Link: View Poster
Speaker: Todd Kemp (MIT)
Time: Friday, November 9, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar
Ideals in Computable Rings Link: View Poster
Speaker: Joe Mileti (Dartmouth)
Time: Monday, November 12, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar
Witt Vectors, I Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lance Miller (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium
The heat equation, random walks, and percolation Link: View Poster
Speaker: Martin Barlow (University of British Columbia)
Time: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Place: E2 323 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
A naive statement of Langlands' Correspondence Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kyu-Hwan Lee (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
Introduction to Topology (a.k.a. What is Math 250?) Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ning Khamsemanan (UConn)
Time: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments

Analysis and Probability Seminar
Northeast Probability Seminar Link: View Poster
Speaker: Northeast Probability Seminar (CUNY Graduate Center)
Time: Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 9:00 am
Place: 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY - (CUNY Graduate Center)

Colloquium
Geometry and the “complexity” of computation Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jessica Sidman (Mount Holyoke College)
Time: Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar
Northeast Probability Seminar Link: View Poster
Speaker: Northeast Probability Seminar (CUNY Graduate Center)
Time: Friday, November 16, 2007 at 9:00 am
Place: 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY - (CUNY Graduate Center)

Logic Seminar
Model completeness and o-minimality Link: View Poster
Speaker: Gareth Jones (McMaster University)
Time: Monday, November 19, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
DISLOCATION DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS IN THIN FILMS USING THE LEVEL SET METHOD Link: View Poster
Speaker: Xiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Time: Monday, November 26, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

Mathematics Education
Assessing mathematics teacher candidates through an 'Advanced Mathematics for High School Teaching' Course Link: View Poster
Speaker: Pete Johnson and Hari Koirala (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Time: Monday, November 26, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Place: Gentry 142 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar
Generalizing Pfaffian closure of an o-minimal structure Link: View Poster
Speaker: Sergio Fratarcangeli (The College of New Rochelle)
Time: Monday, November 26, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar
Witt Vectors, II Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lance Miller (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar
Noncommutative Geometry and compactifications of the moduli space of curves Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alastair Hamilton (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 307 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar
Finite-index Subgroups of SL2(Z). Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut)
Time: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club
Teach for America Information Session Link: View Poster
Speaker: David Brown (Teach for America)
Time: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)
Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium
Arithmetic dynamics Link: View Poster
Speaker: Joseph Silverman (Brown University)
Time: Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)


Test Only Link: View Poster
Seminar Framework : Test Only
Speaker: Test Only Test Only (Test Only)
Time: Friday, November 30, 2007 at 12:00 am
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PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
Slow motion of gradient flows Link: View Poster
Speaker: Maria Westdickenberg (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Time: Friday, November 30, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar
On a generalized Faddeev model Link: View Poster
Speaker: Fengbo Hang (Princeton University)
Time: Monday, December 3, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

Mathematics Education
Mathematics in the Making: First Guess; then Prove Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mary Truxaw (University of Connecticut)
Time: Monday, December 3, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Place: Gentry 142 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar
Takeuti's cut-elimination theorem for Pi^1_1_CA Link: View Poster
Speaker: William Tait (University of Chicago)
Time: Monday, December 3, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Geometry Seminar
Noncommutative Geometry and compactifications of the moduli space of curves II Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alastair Hamilton (University of Connecticut)
Time: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)