Department of Mathematics

All Seminars

Fall 2008

PDE and Image Analysis Seminar

On a Quasilinear System for Anisotropic Superconductors and Related Problems	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Xingbin Pan (East China Normal University) Time: Friday, August 29, 2008 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 117 (UConn - Storrs)

Actuarial Science Seminar

A ''baby'' introduction to copulas	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Emiliano Valdez (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

UConn Math Club

The Method of Descent	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (UConn) Time: Wednesday, September 3, 2008 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Algebra Seminar

Introduction to Cluster Algebras	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ralf Schiffler (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Actuarial Science Seminar

Using the R package copula for copula methods	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jun Yan (Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

The Degree of a Rational Function	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Keith Conrad (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club

Generating Functions: Power Series You Can Count On	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tom Roby (UConn) Time: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Logic Seminar

Small covers of semi-abelian varieties	Link: View Poster
Speaker: John Baldwin (University of Illinois at Chicago) Time: Monday, September 15, 2008 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Introduction to Cluster Algebras II	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ralf Schiffler (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Actuarial Science Seminar

Two talks: (1) implications of hedging on the insurer's financial reporting; and (2) the roles of the SOA and the AAA to the actuarial profession	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Ross Bowen (Phoenix Life Insurance Company) Time: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free pizza will be served. <Extra Information>

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

The continued fraction expansion of e	Link: View Poster
Speaker: John Haga (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club

The Golden Ratio	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Steve Miller (UConn) Time: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 5:40 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Limiting Behavior of a Homopolymer Model	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Iddo Ben Ari (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, September 19, 2008 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Higher-Order Reverse Topology	Link: View Poster
Speaker: James Hunter Time: Monday, September 22, 2008 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Bounds on the torsion subgroup of an elliptic curve	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alvaro Lozano-Robledo (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Actuarial Science Seminar

The impact of rate regulation on claims: evidence from Massachusetts automobile insurance	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Derrig (OPAL Consulting) Time: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Click below for slides and report <Extra Information>

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Fair Coins from Biased Coins to Mathematical Randomness	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Asher Kach (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club

Not a Proof of the Four Color Theorem	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Oscar Levin (UConn) Time: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 5:40 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Once Reinforced Random Walks on Lines and Ladders	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mike Keane (Wesleyan University) Time: Friday, September 26, 2008 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Should be accessible to a general math audience

Logic Seminar

Local Computability and Uncountable Structures	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Russell Miller (Queens College, CUNY) Time: Monday, September 29, 2008 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Ranks of elliptic curves over infinite extensions of the rationals	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alvaro Lozano-Robledo (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Actuarial Science Seminar

THE SOA education system	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Gail Hall (ACTEX Publications) Time: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

UConn Math Club

Knot Theory Invariants	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Paul Ellis (UConn) Time: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 5:40 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Analysis and Probability Seminar

On a conjecture of Laugesen and Morpurgo	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Mihai Pascu (University of Brasov) Time: Friday, October 3, 2008 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Speaker is a former UConn graduate student.

Logic Seminar

Some model theoretic connections between dimension groups and AF algebras	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Philip Scowcroft (Wesleyan University) Time: Monday, October 6, 2008 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Actuarial Science Seminar

Illustrations of a regime-switching interest rate model with randomized regimes	Link: View Poster
Speaker: James Bridgeman (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Coloring Surfaces	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Avraham Bourla (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS) Additional Comments: Note the normal start time.

UConn Math Club

Coin Tossing	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Richard Bass (UConn) Time: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 5:40 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Colloquium

Effectiveness and Computation in Algebra and Geometry	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Wesley Calvert (Murray State University) Faculty Sponsor: Reed Solomon Time: Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Laplacians and their spectral analysis on self-similar sets	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Naotaka Kajino (Kyoto University) Time: Friday, October 10, 2008 at 2:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Special bonus seminar - note not usual time!

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Generalized Universal Covers of Topologically Bad Spaces	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Conrad Plaut (University of Tennessee) Time: Friday, October 10, 2008 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Combined seminar with Geometry-Topology!

Algebra Seminar

Cusp forms on GSp(4) with non-zero SO(4) Periods	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Martin Nikolov (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Actuarial Science Seminar

Principle-based initiative - modernization of life insurance statutory regulation	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Tom Campbell (Hartford Life) Time: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Writing Teaching Philosophy Statements (part 1)	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Catherine Ross (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 5:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club

Is Differential Calculus a Dead Subject?	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Warren Johnson (Connecticut College) Time: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at 5:40 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments USG Funded Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Reversibility and Duality of SLE	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Dapeng Zhan (Yale) Time: Friday, October 17, 2008 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Difference fields and algebraic dynamics	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Zoe Chatzidakis (University Paris VII) Time: Monday, October 20, 2008 at 5:15 pm Place: Leet Oliver (Yale Mathematics Department 214 (Yale University) Comments: Note unusual time and location!

Algebra Seminar

Cusp forms on GSp(4) with non-zero SO(4) Periods II	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Martin Nikolov (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Actuarial Science Seminar

Distribution and Target Market Considerations in Product Design and Pricing	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Craig Simms (Vantis Life Insurance Company) Time: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

A Different Way to Color Graphs, and Diagonalization	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Matthew Jura (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club

Master Leonardo ''Bigollo'' and a 2000-year old unsolved problem	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Alvaro Lozano-Robledo (UConn) Time: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 at 5:40 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Actuarial Science Seminar

Recent trends with market-consistent embedded value (MCEV)	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Hubert Mueller (Towers Perrin) Time: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Click below for slides and article <Extra Information>

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Number Theory is Fun...ction Fields	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Russell Prime (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club

How CD Players Deal with Scratched Discs	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Caleb Shor (Western New England College) Time: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at 5:40 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments USG Funded Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Colloquium

Numerical Multilinear Algebra	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Charles F. Van Loan (Joseph C. Ford Professor of Engineering, Cornell University ) Faculty Sponsor: Michael Neumann Time: Thursday, October 30, 2008 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: This a joint colloquium with CSE

Analysis and Probability Seminar

Markov Operators and $C^*$-algebras	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Marius Ionescu (University of Connecticut) Time: Friday, October 31, 2008 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Ramsey's theorem for trees	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jared Corduan (Dartmouth) Time: Monday, November 3, 2008 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Vertex Operator Algebras associated to type G affine Lie algebras	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jon Axtell (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Actuarial Science Seminar

Predictive modeling in insurance	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Edward (Jed) Frees (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Time: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Click below for slides and article <Extra Information>

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Writing Teaching Philosophy Statements (part 2)	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Catherine Ross (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club

The Newton Polygon	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Oleg Mikitchenko (Connecticut College) Time: Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 5:40 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments USG Funded Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Mathematics Education

Math Ed Conversation	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Time: Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 120 (UConn - Storrs) Additional Comments: Wine and cheese will be served

Algebra Seminar

Averaging quadratic L-functions	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Russell Prime (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Actuarial Science Seminar

Techniques to create efficiencies in the secondary market for life insurance	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Hui Shan (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

Financial Mathematics – What Does It Mean?	Link: View Poster
Speaker: James Bridgeman (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club

Splendor in the Graphs	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jennifer Beineke (Western New England College) Time: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 at 5:40 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Colloquium

Time stepping methods for numerical solution of hyperbolic PDEs	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Sigal Gottlieb (UMass Dartmouth) Faculty Sponsor: Michael Neumann Time: Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

The conjugacy problem for the automorphism group of countably categorical structures	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Paul Ellis (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, November 17, 2008 at 4:45 pm Place: Exley Science Center 618 (Wesleyan University)

Algebra Seminar

Graph Theoretical Cluster Expansion Formulas	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Gregg Musiker (MIT) Time: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Actuarial Science Seminar

Fractional brownian motion	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Yang Ho Choi (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

Mathematics Education

Math ACCESS: Academic Content and Communication Equals Student Success	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Megan Staples and Mary Truxaw (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 3:00 pm Place: Gentry 142 (UConn - Storrs)

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

An Introduction to the Stochastic Loewner Evolution	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Andrew Ursitti (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

UConn Math Club

Voting and Apportionment	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Dan Bochicchio (E. O. Smith High School) Time: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 5:40 pm Place: MSB 403 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Refreshments Additional Comments: Email: uconnmathclub@gmail.com Facebook group: UConn Math Club

Colloquium

What is ... a modular form? (And why should we care?)	Link: View Poster
Speaker: David Rohrlich (Boston University ) Faculty Sponsor: Keith Conrad Time: Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)

Analysis and Probability Seminar

The Pascal graph	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jean-François Quint (Université Paris 13) Time: Friday, November 21, 2008 at 3:00 pm Place: MSB 319 (UConn - Storrs)

Mathematics Education

An Approach to Teaching Structural Properties of Arithmetic to Teachers	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Jeremy Teitelbaum (University of Connecticut) Time: Monday, December 1, 2008 at 4:00 pm Place: Gentry 142 (UConn - Storrs)

Logic Seminar

Eliminating Quantifiers in Intuitionistic JRS Theories	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Dan McGinn (University of Wisconsin) Time: Monday, December 1, 2008 at 5:30 pm Place: MSB 117 (Storrs) Comments: Note -- Unusual time and location

Colloquium

Virtual Cell: a computational tool for modeling in cell biology	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Boris Slepchenko (University of Connecticut Health Center) Faculty Sponsor: Yung Sze Choi Time: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 4:00 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: UNUSUAL DATE!

Actuarial Science Seminar

Asset liability management and asset allocation for insurers	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Benito (Jojo) Cuevo (Phoenix Life Insurance Company) Time: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 411 (UConn - Storrs) <Extra Information>

S.I.G.M.A. Seminar

(Co)homology, Spectra and Linear Functors	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Stephen Miller (University of Connecticut) Time: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 4:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs) Comments: Free Donuts (courtesy of GSS)

Algebra Seminar

Averaging quadratic L-functions II	Link: View Poster
Speaker: Russell Prime (University of Connecticut) Time: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 3:30 pm Place: MSB 118 (UConn - Storrs)