DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
COLLOQUIUM

University of Idaho

Thursdays 3:30 - 4:20 pm
TLC 047

The Colloquium in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Idaho meets on evry other Thursday at 3:30 pm in TLC 047 with refreshments served at 3:00 pm in Brink 305.

Other seminars in the Department of Mathematics:

Seminar in Analysis (contact Frank Gao)
Algebra Seminar (contact Hirotachi Abo)
Topology Seminar (contact Mark Nielsen)
Combinatorics Seminar (contact Hong Wang)
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Seminar (contact Paul Joyce or Zaid Abdo)

Other related seminars/activities outside of the department :

Washington State University, Department of Mathematics, Colloquia and Seminars

Available slots for speakers are blank in the table below. Please contact Lyudmyla Barannyk at barannyk@uidaho.edu to schedule a speaker for any of
these slots or for more information about seminars.

Spring 2013 Colloquium Schedule

Jan 17 TLC 047	Xiangfeng Yang Department of Mathematics University of Lisbon, Portugal	Precise asymptotics for large deviations of integral forms
Jan 31 TLC 047	Fred Barlow Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering University of Idaho	Applications of Mathematics in Electronic Systems
Feb 15 TLC 045	Paul Horn Department of Mathematics Harvard University	Spreading processes on graphs and PageRank
Feb 21 TLC 223	Lance Miller Department of Mathematics University of Utah	Measures of Singularities: Characteristic 0 versus Characteristic p
Feb 26 TLC 046	Luke Oeding Department of Mathematics University of California, Berkeley	The Trifocal Variety
Feb 28 TLC 030	Elizabeth Gross Department of Mathematics University of Illinois at Chicago	Determining Phylogenetic Invariants
March 7 at WSU	Joseph Fehribach Department of Mathematical Sciences Worcester Polytechnic Institute	Matrices and Their Kirchhoff Graphs
Mar 19 TLC 047	Stefan Tohaneanu Department of Mathematics Western University	Linear Codes from Commutative Algebraic Perspectives
Mar 21 TLC 030	Brendan Ames Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota	How to Find a Hidden Clique
Mar 28 at WSU	Andrea Bertozzi Department of Mathematics University of California Los Angeles	Geometric Methods in Image Processing, Networks, and Machine Learning
Apr 4 TLC 030	Jennifer Johnson-Leung Department of Mathematics University of Idaho	Twisting of Automorphic Forms
Apr 18 TLC 030	Soumik Banerjee School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University
Apr 25 TLC 047	Douglas Cochran School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering Arizona State University	An Operator-Theoretic View of Radar
May 2 TLC 030	Denis F. Hinz Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Swarming and turbulence in a system of self-propelled soft-core

Fall 2012 Colloquium Schedule

Aug 30 TLC 149	Sergey Lapin Department of Mathematics Washington State University	Dynamics of oxygen-dependent mechanisms during (Riboflavin/UV-A)-induced collagen-cross linking in the corneal stroma
Sept 13 TLC 149	Craig Swinyard Department of Mathematics University of Portland	Guided Reinvention: From the Laboratory to the Classroom
Sept 27 TLC 149	Sinisa Dj. Mesarovic School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering Washington State University	Micromechanics of dilatancy, critical state and shear bands in granular materials
Oct 4 TLC 040 Note different room	An Chen Department of Civil Engineering University of Idaho	Advanced Material for Sustainable Infrastructure and Green Buildings
Oct 18 TLC 149	Alyson Deines Department of Mathematics University of Washi	Computations with Elliptic Curves over Q(root of 5)
Oct 25 TLC 149	Ming-Jun Lai Department of Mathematics University of Georgia	Box Spline Tight Wavelet Frames for Image Analysis
Nov 1 TLC 149	Demitri Plessas Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Montana	Graph Embedding and Hedetniemi's Conjecture
Nov 8 WSU	Jodi Mead Department of Mathematics Boise State University	Inverse Problems and Uncertainty in Science and Engineering
Nov 22	No Colloquium	Thanksgiving break
Nov 29	Alexander Woo Department of Mathematics University of Idaho	The Vandermonde determinant as a sum of powers of linear forms
Dec 6 WSU	Rachel Kuske Mathematics Department University of British Columbia	Balancing complex dynamics: interactions of delays, time scales, and noise
Dec 13	Xiangfeng Yang University of Lisbon Portugal

Spring 2012 Colloquium Schedule

Jan 19 TLC 032	Catherine Cooper School of Earth & Environmental Sciences Washington State University	Talk is cancelled due to weather conditions. It is rescheduled for February 23
Jan 26 TLC 032	Alex Khapalov Department of Mathematics Washington State University	Geometric aspects of transformations of forces acting upon a swimmer in a 3-D incompressible fluid
Feb 2 TLC 032	David Yopp Department of Mathematical Sciences Montana State University	Teacher Knowledge and Practice: Defining It, Influencing It, and “Seeing” It
Feb 7	Tom Ricks Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Practice Louisiana State University	Comparing Chinese and American Mathematics Lessons Taught to Similar Groups of Chinese Students
Feb 9 TLC 032	Matt Roscoe Department of Curriculum and Instruction University of Wisconsin-Madison	Informal Mathematics Activities and the Beliefs of Elementary Teacher Candidates
Feb 16 TLC 032	David Watkins Department of Mathematics Washington State University	Finding the roots of a polynomial: new methods for an old problem
Feb 23 TLC 032	Catherine Cooper School of Earth & Environmental Sciences Washington State University	A Journey into Computational Geodynamics: How Fluid Dynamics + Numerical Simulations + Math = Geology
Mar 1 TLC 032	Hong Wang Department of Mathematics University of Idaho	Turan Number, Ramsey Number and The Regularity Lemma
Mar 8	No Colloquium	Pi-Day
Mar 15	No Colloquium	SPRING BREAK
Mar 22 TLC 032	Paul Joyce Department of Mathematics, Department of Statistics University of Idaho	Mutational Effects and Population Dynamics during Viral Adaptation Challenge Current Models
Mar 29 TLC 032	Enrico Au-Yeung Department of Mathematics University of British Columbia	Quasicrystals and Impossible Symmetry: three streams of mathematics converging
Apr 5 TLC 032	Paul Hohenlohe Department of Biological Sciences, Department of Statistics University of Idaho	The Dimensionality of Evolution
Apr 12 TLC 032	Bahman Shafii Department of Plant, Soil and Entomological Sciences, Department of Statistics University of Idaho	Using Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Analysis to Develop Non-parametric Probability Distributions for the Mean and Variance
Apr 19 TLC 032	Jodi Mead Department of Mathematics Boise State University	Inverse Problems and Uncertainty Quantification
Apr 26 TLC 032	Yulia Hristova Institute for Mathematics and its Applications University of Minnesota	New problems in emission tomography
May 3 TLC 032	Fernando Guevara Vasquez Department of Mathematics University of Utah	Active exterior cloaking for the Helmholtz equation
May 10 TLC 032	Bryan Wilson Department of Mathematics University of Utah	Random Walks on Groups and the Poisson Boundary

Fall 2011 Colloquium Schedule

Sept 1 TLC 030	Gabriel Potirniche Mechanical Engineering Department University of Idaho	Numerical modeling of creep deformation and fracture in heat-resistant steels
Sept 8 TLC 030	Alexander Woo Department of Mathematics University of Idaho	Bruhat graphs and pattern avoidance
Sept 15 TLC 030	Linh Nguyen Department of Mathematics University of Idaho	Range description for a spherical mean transform
Sept 22 TLC 030	Jerry Fairley Department of Geological Sciences University of Idaho	Using an integral equation to model underground tests in the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
Sept 29 TLC 030	Lyudmyla Barannyk Department of Mathematics University of Idaho	Regularized deconvolution method for modeling mesoscale continuum equations for particle systems
Oct 6 TLC 030	Konstantin Matveev The School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering Washington State University	Aero-Hydrodynamics and Dynamics of Air-Assisted Marine Vehicles
Oct 13 TLC 030	Tao Xing Mechanical Engineering Department University of Idaho	Recent Development on Solution Verification for Numerical Simulations
Oct 20 TLC 030	Bala Krishnamoorthy Department of Mathematics Washington State University	Finding Bottlenecks in Tunnels
Oct 27 TLC 030	Monte Boisen Department of Mathematics University of Idaho	Making the abstract concrete
Nov 3	Somantika Datta Department of Mathematics University of Idaho	The Mathematics Behind Signal Processing
Nov 10	Robert Dillon Department of Mathematics Washington State University	Models for complex fluids-structure interaction in peristalsis and sperm motility
Nov 17	Hirotachi Abo Department of Mathematics University of Idaho	Counting the number of complete graphs in the Paley graph
Nov 24	No Colloquium	THANKSGIVING BREAK
Dec 1	Marty Ytreberg Department of Physics University of Idaho	Using computational biophysics to understand protein evolution and function
Dec 8	Arie Bialostocki Department of Mathematics University of Idaho	On Points in the Plane in General Position

Fall 2011 Colloquium Schedule

Spring 2012 Colloquium Schedule

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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM

University of Idaho

Spring 2012 Colloquium Schedule

Fall 2011 Colloquium Schedule

Fall 2011 Colloquium Schedule

Spring 2012 Colloquium Schedule

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS
COLLOQUIUM