Department of Mathematics

All Seminars

Spring 2007

Colloquium

Mixed finite element formulation for elasticity and Navier-Stokes problems	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Yanqiu Wang (Purdue University) Time: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

A Rigorous Formalism of Information Transfer between Dynamical System Components	Link: View Poster
Speaker: X. San Liang (Courant Institute) Time: Thursday, January 18, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Layered hydraulic flows and their application to the ocean	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ulrike Riemenschneider (Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Time: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Countable Pi^0_1 classes, strong degree spectra, and Kolmogorov complexity	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Carl Jockusch (University of Illinois) Time: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (University of Connecticut) Comments: Note unusual time and location!

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

An Introduction to Elliptic Curves.	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Lemniscatic Trigonometry	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Maximum Norm Estimates in Finite Element Methods	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Dmitriy Leykekhman (Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University) Time: Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

HIGH MOMENT ASYMPTOTICS FOR LOCAL AND INTERSECTION LOCAL TIMES	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Xia Chen (University of Tennesee, Knoxville) Time: Monday, January 29, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

A Family of Countably Universal Graphs without SOP_4	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Rehana Patel (St. John's University) Time: Monday, January 29, 2007 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Colloquium

PDE in musical notation	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Luke Rogers (Cornell University) Time: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Nuggets of Ramsey Theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Reed Solomon (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Closing the Educational Achievement Gap	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Audrey Giesler (Teach for America) Time: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: USG funded

Colloquium

Probability and Morse Theory	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ionel Popescu (Northwestern) Time: Thursday, February 1, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Multiscale approximations for stochastic reaction networks	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Lea Popovic (Cornell University) Time: Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Random Thoughts on Brownian Motion	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Masha Gordina (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, February 7, 2007 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

Two Mathematical problems in vision	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Wei Zhu (Courant Institute) Time: Thursday, February 8, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Hierarchical Insurance Claims Modeling	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Emiliano Valdez (University of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia) Time: Monday, February 12, 2007 at 3:15 pm Place: CUE 321 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Video Conference, in CUE-321

UConn Math Club

Google's Pagerank Algorithm and Stochastic Matrices	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Matt Cecil (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, February 12, 2007 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Colloquium

The DB underpin hybrid pension plan: valuation and funding	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kai Chen (University of Waterloo, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science) Time: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Analysis of an Activator-Inhibitor System: Global Solutions and Steady States	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Huiqiang Jiang (University of Minnesota) Time: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

Efficient Stochastic Modeling Utilizing Mixed Probability Density for Tail Enhancement (Post Representative Scenarios)	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Yvonne Chueh (Central Washington University) Time: Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar

Bubbling solutions for Liouville type equation in dimension 2	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Feng Zhou (East China Normal University) Time: Monday, February 19, 2007 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Computability over ordinal time and space	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Russell Miller (Queens College CUNY) Time: Monday, February 19, 2007 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Mathematics Education

Habits of Mind: An organizing principle for mathematics curriculum and instruction	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Michelle Manes (Brown University) Time: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Computational Topology: My Personal Overview	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tom Peters (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Chaotic Dynamical Systems	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Michelle Manes (Brown) Time: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: USG funded

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Products of random matrices and derivatives on p.c.f. fractals	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Sasha Teplyaev (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, February 23, 2007 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: The talk will be accessible to graduate students.

Algebra Seminar

Lifting CM abelian varieties	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Brian Conrad (Michigan/Columbia) Time: Monday, February 26, 2007 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

The 3-Square Theorem	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Brian Conrad (Michigan/Columbia) Time: Monday, February 26, 2007 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: Partially funded by USG

Algebra Seminar

Algebraic structures, continuous cohomology, and point-set Morava modules	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Daniel Davis (Wesleyan University) Time: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

The Quasiconformal Homogeneity of Hyperbolic Manifolds	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ed Taylor (Weslyan University) Time: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 219 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Path integral quantization	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Adrian Lim (Cornell University) Time: Friday, March 2, 2007 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

UConn Math Club

Symposium for Undergraduates in the Mathematical Sciences	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Many Speakers Time: Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Banquet Dinner Additional Comments: USG funded

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar

TITLE: Nonlinear Elastic Deformations of a Sphere	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Sarah Frey (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, March 12, 2007 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Oracle Inequalities for Dantzig Selector	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Institute of Technology) Time: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: UNUSUAL DAY, TIME, AND ROOM Additional Comments: Analysis and Probability Seminar/Stochastic Seminar

Geometry Seminar

The Rescaled and Cut-off Covering Spectra of Riemannian Manifolds	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Christina Sormani (CUNY) Time: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 219 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Fast speeds of convergence for empirical processes, II	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Dudley (MIT) Time: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 at 4:35 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: UNUSUAL DAY, TIME, AND ROOM Additional Comments: Stochastic Seminar: this talk continues a previous talk given at MIT on this subject and is unrelated to V. Koltchinskii's talk.

Mathematics Education

K-12 Mathematics Education: Problems, Progress and Possibilities	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Megan Staples (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Approximating Real Numbers by Rational Numbers	Link: View Poster
Speaker: David Pollack (Wesleyan) Time: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: USG funded

Colloquium

An Overview of Numerical Algebraic Geometry	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Andrew Sommese (Notre Dame) Time: Thursday, March 15, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Additional Comments: Joint colloquium with CSE, tea at 3:30 in faculty lounge MSB

Logic Seminar

G-compactness is not preserved	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Rodrigo Pelaez (University of Barcelona) Time: Monday, March 19, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University) Additional Comments: Note early starting time!

Algebra Seminar

Leonard Carlitz and Explicit Class Field Theory over F_q(x)	Link: View Poster
Speaker: David Hayes (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) Time: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

The Ergodic Theorem	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Mathematics in Image Processing	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Changfeng Gui (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Analysis and Probability Seminar

A Regime-Switching Stochastic Model for Interest Rates Involving Randomized Regime Parameters	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jim Bridgeman (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, March 23, 2007 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: The talk will be accessible to graduate students.

Logic Seminar

Infinite Hat Problems	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Chris Hardin (Smith College) Time: Monday, March 26, 2007 at 5:15 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University) Comments: NOTE LATE STARTING TIME

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Quantum Harmonic Oscillators to Holomorphic Functions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bruce Driver (University of California at San Diego) Time: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: UNUSUAL DAY AND TIME Additional Comments: Joint with colloquium <Extra Information>

Colloquium

Quantum Harmonic Oscillators to Holomorphic Functions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bruce Driver (UCSD) Time: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Special Colloquium

Mathematics Education

Are Mathematicians Good Problem Solvers?	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Chuck Vinsonhaler (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

From Connecticut to Wisconsin: My Experiences, Students, and Mathematics	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Brualdi (University of Wisconsin at Madison) Time: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Hyperplane Arrangements	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Nick Proudfoot (Columbia) Time: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: USG funded

Colloquium

Matrix Diagonals	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Brualdi (University of Wisconsin) Time: Thursday, March 29, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

The Upper Half Plane in Geometry, Analysis, and Algebra	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Thursday, March 29, 2007 at 12:30 am Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Computability of Fraisse Limits	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Barbara Csima (University of Waterloo) Time: Monday, April 2, 2007 at 4:45 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Mathematics Education

High School Calculus in Japan and the United States	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Thomas Judson (Harvard University) Time: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Posets have their ups and downs	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tom Roby (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

Outer billiards, unbounded orbits, and self-similar tilings	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Rich Schwartz (Brown) Time: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: USG funded

Colloquium

Kahler Ricci flow with small energy.	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Xiuxiong Chen (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Time: Thursday, April 5, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Malliavin calculus and gradient estimates	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tai Melcher (University of Virginia) Time: Friday, April 6, 2007 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

UConn Math Club

The Probability Integral	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, April 9, 2007 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Algebra Seminar

Faithful and Fully Faithful Modules	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bill Wickless (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

The Kauffman Skein Module of Torus Knots	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Kristen Selke (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 219 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Geometric measures for some classes of fractals	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Steffen Winter (University of Karlsruhe) Time: Friday, April 13, 2007 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: The talk will be accessible for graduate students.

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Self-similar tilings and complex dimensions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Erin Pearse (Cornell University) Time: Friday, April 13, 2007 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: The talk will be accessible for graduate students.

Logic Seminar

Reducts of Countably Categorical Graphs (Thesis Defense)	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Yun Lu (Wesleyan University) Time: Monday, April 16, 2007 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Leonard Carlitz and explicit class field theory over F_q(x), II	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Nielsen Fixed Point Theory: An Introduction	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ning Khamsemanan (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Note: special room

Colloquium

Special Awards Day Colloquium: A Tribute to Euler	Link: View Poster
Speaker: William Dunham (Muhlenberg College (Koehler Professor of Mathematics)) Time: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: IMS 20 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Awards Day. Tea 3:00 MSB 120, Ceremony 3:30 IMS 20, Talk 4:00 IMS 20

UConn Math Club

A Tribute to Euler	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Bill Dunham (Muhlenberg College) Time: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: IMS 20 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments at 3 PM in MSB 120

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Hecke Algebras, Quantum Spin Chains and Reaction-Diffusion Models	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Birgit Kaufmann (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

A continuous version of Grothendieck's inequality	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Adam Bowers (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, April 20, 2007 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

Colloquium

DNA Topology	Link: View Poster
Speaker: De Witt Sumners (Florida State University) Time: Monday, April 23, 2007 at 4:00 pm Place: ITEB 336 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Special joint seminar with Computer Science. Special Day, Special Room! Additional Comments: Poster pdf abstract

UConn Math Club

Strange Loops in Mathematics and the Mind	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Greg Huber (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, April 23, 2007 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments

Algebra Seminar

Triangulations of Projective Modules	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keir Lockridge (Wesleyan University) Time: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Geometry Seminar

Cusp excursions and metric Diophantine approximation for Fuchsian groups	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Andy Haas (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 219 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Evaluation and selection of models for out-of-sample prediction when the sample size is small relative to the complexity of the data-generating process	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Hannes Leeb (Yale University) Time: Friday, April 27, 2007 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

A simple adaptive estimator for the integrated square of a density	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Evarist Gine (University of Connecticut) Time: Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: UNUSUAL DAY, TIME, AND ROOM Additional Comments: Analysis and Probability Seminar/Stochastic Seminar

Analysis and Probability Seminar

The quantile transform from normal to hypergeometric	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Dudley (MIT) Time: Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: UNUSUAL DAY, TIME, AND ROOM Additional Comments: Stochastic Seminar