Department of Mathematics

All Seminars

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) <Extra Information>

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 Place: ()

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)