Departmental Colloquia

Spring 2013 Schedule

April 5, 2013 3:30 - 4:30 103 Gore Hall
Professor Janos Pach, EPFL Lausanne and Renyi Institute Budapest
Title: The unreasonable effectiveness of semi-algebraicity in geometry
Wednesday,
April 24, 2013		 3:30 - 4:30 126 Lerner Hall
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Rick Durrett, Duke University
Title: Truth is stranger than fiction: A look at some improbabilities.
Thursday,
April 25, 2013		 3:30 - 4:30 104 Gore Hall
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Rick Durrett, Duke University
Reception to follow in EWG 536, 4:30 - 5:30
Title: Branching Process Models of Cancer
May 10, 2013 3:30 - 4:30 103 Gore Hall
Professor Rakesh, University of Delaware
Title: A stroll through Inverse Problems

Fall 2012 Schedule

September 21, 2012 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 103
Professor Louis Rossi, University of Delaware
Title: Modeling and analyzing large swarms
Refreshments and reception in 536 Ewing Hall - 4:30-5:30
October 26, 2012 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 103
Professor Randall J. LeVeque, Applied Mathematics Department, University of Washington
Title: The GeoClaw Software for Tsunamis and Other Hazardous Flows
Refreshments and reception in 536 Ewing Hall - 4:30-5:30
November 8, 2012 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 103
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Dana Randall, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Domino Tilings of the Chessboard
This lecture is aimed at an undergraduate audience
November 9, 2012 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 103
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Dana Randall, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Sampling, Random Structures and Phase Transitions
This lecture is aimed at a regular audience
There will be a reception following the lecture from 4:30 - 5:30 in EWG 536
December 6, 2012 2:30 - 3:20 SMI 209
Lloyd N. Trefethen, Oxford University
Title: Gaussian Elimination as an Iterative Algorithm
Refreshments and reception in 536 Ewing Hall - 3:20

Spring 2012 Schedule

March 2, 2012 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 103
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Andrew Majda, New York University
Title: Mathematical Strategies for Real Time Filtering of Turbulent Dynamical Systems
April 20, 2012 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 104
Prof. Alfinio Flores, University of Delaware
Title: The journal Mathematics Teacher Educator: Creating mechanisms to build a professional knowledge base from practice
April 27, 2012 3:20 - 4:30 GOR 104

Prizes and awards to students, chaired by Prof. J. Pelesko - 3:30-3:40

Dr. Carson Chow, NIH (Chaired by Prof. P.-W. Fok) - 3:40-4:40
Title: How mathematics can help understand gene expression
 
Refreshments in 536 Ewing Hall - 4:30-5:00

Fall 2011 Schedule

October 27, 2011 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 205
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Chris Godsil, University of Waterloo
Title: Graph Isomorphism and Graph Spectra
October 28, 2011 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 205
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Chris Godsil, University of Waterloo
Title: Mutually Unbiased Bases
December 2, 2011 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 103
Prof. em. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang L. Wendland Institut fuer Angewandte Analysis und numerische Simulation Lehrstuhl fuer Angewandte Mathematik Universitaet Stuttgart
Title:Surface potentials and elliptic boundary value problems

Spring 2011 Schedule

April 28, 2011 3:30 - 4:30 KRB 206
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Professor of Mathematics and the Frank Jay Gould Professor of Science, Courant Institure of Mathematical Sciences at New York University
Title: Entropy and Large Deviations
April 29, 2011 3:30 - 4:30 KRB 206
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Professor of Mathematics and the Frank Jay Gould Professor of Science, Courant Institure of Mathematical Sciences at New York University
Title: Random Graphs
May 6, 2011 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 104
Departmental Colloquium
Professor Pak-Wing Fok, Department of Mathematical Sciences,, University of Delaware
Title: Stochastic Inverse Problems in Biology and Biophysics

Fall 2010 Schedule

November 1, 2010 3:00 - 4:00 SMI 120
Departmental Colloquium
Dr. Suzanne Fielding, Senior Lecturer in Physics and EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow, Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire
Title:Shear Bending in Complex Fluid and Soft Glasses
November 18, 2010 3:30 - 4:30 KRB 006
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Oscar P. Bruno, Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Applied & Computational Mathematics
Title: Numerical simulations in science and engineering: accuracy and Efficiency
November 19, 2010 3:30 - 4:30 KRB 006
Carl J. Rees Distinguished Lecturer Series
Professor Oscar P. Bruno, Professor of Applied & Computational Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Applied & Computational Mathematics
Title: Spectral FFT-based integral and differential PDE solvers general domains
December 3, 2010 3:30 - 4:30 GOR 103
Departmental Colloquium
Professor Robert P. Gilbert, UNIDEL Professor, University of Delaware
Title: A Personal Mathematical History