Hallenbeck Graduate Student Seminar
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General information.
The Hallenbeck Graduate Student Seminar series features introductory level talks for graduate students. Talks are contributed by both graduate students and faculty and last between 15 and 20 minutes, and a significant portion of the talk should be aimed at students with a first-year graduate level of knowledge. The intended audience is the graduate students, and questions and discussion are encouraged. The series is named in honor of Professor Emeritus David Hallenbeck. Munchies are provided courtesy of the Department of Mathematical Sciences and the David Hallenbeck Memorial Fund.
If you are interested in seeing the current schedule or you would like
to give a talk, please go here.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Sept 5 |
Brooks Emerick |
HGSS Etiquette |
| Sept 12 |
Brooks Emerick |
Turing Instability |
| Sept 19 |
Longfei Li |
Tear Film |
| Sept 26 |
Isaac Harris |
MPI 2012 |
| Oct 3 |
Matt Zumbrum |
Bio-Sensors |
| Oct 10 |
Michael Depersio |
Chutes and Ladders |
| Oct 17 |
Weiqiang Li |
Page Rank |
| Oct 24 |
Yu Sun |
GSMMC 2012 |
| Oct 31 |
Brooks Emerick |
Math in the Movies |
| Nov 7 |
Matt Zumbrum and Brooks Emerick |
MPI 2012 |
| Nov 14 |
Jake Rezac |
Invariant Lax Pairs |
| Nov 28 |
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Prelim Panel |
| Dec 5 |
UD Math Alumni Speaker or SIAM Speaker |
TBA |
Fall 2011 schedule
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Sep 7 |
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Things to do around Newark |
| Sep 14 |
Peng Xu, Laura Coffey, Weiqiang Li,
Steven McClure |
How I spent my summer vacation, part 1 |
| Sep 21 |
Shelvean Kapita, Yu Sun, Jason Vermette,
Isaac Harris |
How I spent my summer vacation, part 2 |
| Sep 28 |
Claudio Torres |
TBA |
| Oct 5 |
Matt Hassell |
Partial Differential Equations with Singular and Degenerate Coefficients |
| Oct 12 |
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| Oct 19 |
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| Oct 26 |
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| Nov 2 |
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| Nov 9 |
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| Nov 16 |
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| Nov 23 |
Thanksgiving Break |
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| Nov 30 |
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| Dec 7 |
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Spring 2011 schedule
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Feb 16 |
Sherry Vaughan |
A Continuum Model for Swarms with Leadership |
| Feb 23 |
Chris Castillo |
Just Like NUMB3RS: A Mathematical Model for Catching Criminals |
| Mar 2 |
Claudio Torres |
A Matrix Preconditioner |
| Mar 9 |
Steve McClure |
A Stochastic Model of a Flour Beetle Ecosystem |
| Mar 16 |
Jen Miller |
Information on Information Theory |
| Mar 23 |
Mike Tait |
Decomposing the Complete Hypergraph |
| Apr 6 |
Shelvean Kapita |
Isoperimetric surfaces in general relativity |
| Apr 27 |
William Simpson |
Summer Research: Introduction to Using the Math Literature |
Fall 2010 schedule
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Sept 1 |
Bryan Petrak and Jenn Miller |
Things to do around Newark |
| Sept 15 |
Giovanni Fiorentino, Emily Miller, Fatih Say, Yan Song |
How I spent my Summer Vacation: First Year Reseach Experiences |
| Sept 22 |
Joao Plinio Juchem Neto |
Swarming with an Asymmetric Interaction Kernel |
| Sept 29 |
Claudio Torres |
A shifted Preconditioner |
| Oct 6 |
John Pelesko |
Scholarships and Grants |
| Oct 13 |
Isaac Harris |
Solidifcation of Sessile and Pendent Droplets |
| Oct 20 |
Aminur Rahman |
A scheme for analyzing logical circuits |
| Oct 27 |
Brian Kronenthal |
Prodigious Permutation Polynomials |
| Nov 3 |
Graduate Student Panel |
Preliminary and Candidacy Exam Q&A |
| Nov 10 |
Mary Korch |
Moore graphs and Degree-Diameter problems |
| Nov 17 |
Mike Cromer |
Some Mathematical Aspects of Complex Fluids |
| Dec 1 |
Nick Brubaker |
TBA |
| Dec 8 |
Bryan Petrak |
The construction of finite Figueroa planes |
Spring 2010 schedule
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Feb 10 |
Dr. Jinfa Cai |
What does mathematics education research look like? A case of a longitudinal study. |
| Feb 17 |
Dr. Pak-Wing Fok |
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| Feb 24 |
Movie Day |
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| Mar 3 |
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| Mar 10 |
Dr. David Edwards |
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| Mar 17 |
Dr. Sebastian Cioaba |
Linear Algebra in Combinatorics |
| Mar 24 |
Dr. Tobin Driscoll |
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| Mar 31 |
No Session - Spring Break |
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| Apr 7 |
Dr. George Hsiao |
My Research Journey in the Last 50 Years |
| Apr 14 |
Dr. Y.J. Leung |
Going Bezout |
| Apr 21 |
Outdoor Day |
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| Apr 28 |
Dr. Michelle Cirillo |
Proof and Reasoning in School Mathematics |
| May 5 |
Dr. Thomas Angell |
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| May 12 |
Dr. Pam Cook |
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Fall 2009 schedule
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Sept 2 |
Bryan Petrak |
Things to do in Newark |
| Sept 9 |
Wisely Wong, Nick Brubaker, Lu Shu and Matt Zumbrum |
Summer Research |
| Sept 16 |
Jua Hua Tang, Jing Li and Fan Wu |
Summer Research |
| Sept 23 |
Dr David Edwards |
Teaching During Special Sessions |
| Sept 30 |
Dr. Louis Rossi |
Swarm Intelligence: Solutions by walking around |
| Oct 7 |
Jathan Austin |
The Importance of Math Education |
| Oct 14 |
Brian Kronenthal, Jen Miller, Bryan Petrak and Claudio Torres |
Prelim and Candidacy Q&A |
| Oct 21 |
Constantin Bacuta |
Finite element discretization of Stokes and Navier-Stokes systems |
| Oct 28 |
David Bellamy |
TBA |
| Nov 4 |
Fioralba Cakoni |
Inverse Problems and Harry Potter's Cloak |
| Nov 11 |
William Simpson |
Useful Library Resources for Summer Research |
| Nov 18 |
John Pelesko |
GEMS |
| Dec 2 |
Qing Xiang |
TBA |
Spring 2009 schedule
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Feb 11 |
Dr. Rich Braun |
An update on the grad program and summer 2009 |
| Feb 18 |
Dr. Rakesh |
Inverse Problems for the Wave Equation |
| Feb 25 |
Dr. Colin Adams and Dr. Thomas Garrity |
The Great pi/e Debate (movie) |
| March 4 |
Dr. Toby Driscoll |
Smells Symbolic, Tastes Numerical: Computing with chebfun and chebop |
| March 11 |
Panel Discussion |
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| March 18 |
Xiaozhou Zhou (Dept. of Mech. Eng.) |
Modeling Fluorescence Loss Induced by Photobleaching (FLIP) in Subchondral Bone and Cartilage |
| March 25 |
Dr. David Stockman (Dept. of Econ.) |
Expected Utility in Economic Models with Backward Dynamics |
| April 1 |
Spring Break - No Seminar |
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| April 8 |
Dr. Chris Raymond |
Asymptotics for Surface Volume Reactions |
| April 15 |
Dr. Phillipe Guyenne |
Modeling and Simulation of Water Waves |
| April 22 |
Qiang Chen |
Convolution Quadrature Applied to Scattering Problems |
| April 29 |
Dr. Patrick Mwerinde |
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| May 6 |
Outdoor Day |
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| May 13 |
Kathy Brenan (Aerospace Corp.) |
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Fall 2008 schedule
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| Sept 3 |
Mike Cromer and Patrick Rowe |
What to do around Newark |
| Sept 10 |
Christy Hediger, Brian Kronenthal, Carly Mitchell, Bryan Petrak, Matthew Rashford, Chris Sapello |
First year summer research (part 1 of 2) |
| Sept 17 |
Quan Deng, Liquan Huang, Qiang Li, Jenn Miller, Jonathon Miller, Susanna Molitoris, Claudio Torres and Yu Wang |
First year summer research (part 2 of 2) |
| Sept 24 |
Mike Cromer |
Extensional Flow of Wormlike Micelles |
| Oct 1 |
Dr. David Edwards |
TBA |
| Oct 8 |
Dr. David Bellamy |
TBA |
| Oct 15 |
Qinghua Zhu |
TBA |
| Nov 12 |
Pam Kosick and Kara Maki |
TBA |
| Nov 19 |
Dr. John Pelesko |
TBA |
| Nov 26 |
No Seminar : Thanksgiving |
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| Dec 3 |
Dr. David Colton |
TBA |
| Dec 10 |
No Seminar : Last Day of Classes |
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Spring 2008 schedule
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 13 Feb |
Noam Zeev |
The Identification of Thin Dielectric Objects from Far Field Scattering Data |
| 20 Feb |
Junhua Wu |
"C_p" |
| 27 Feb |
Dr Rossi |
Life as a faculty member |
| 5 March |
Dr. Anja Sturm |
Modeling genealogies with coalescent processes |
| 12 March |
Ao Jiang |
Variable Annuity Insurance Business and its Risk Management |
| 19 March |
Mike Cromer and Kara Maki |
TBA |
| 23 April |
Derek Moulton |
TBA |
| 30 April |
Aaron Churchill |
TBA |
| 7 May |
Dr Alfinio Flores |
TBA |
Fall 2007 schedule.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 29 Aug |
Kara Maki and Jathan Austin |
Newark 101 |
| 5 Sep |
Anson Carter, Aaron Churchill, Patrick Rowe and Theresa Szczepanski |
Summer Research |
| 12 Sep |
Kara Maki |
Modeling Human Tear Film |
| 19 Sep |
Derek Moulton and Kara Maki |
The Ins and Outs of Conferences |
| 26 Sep |
Liwei Xu |
Numerical Simulations in Acoustic |
| 3 Oct |
Jathan Austin and Kara Maki |
Bocce Ball |
| 10 Oct |
Todd Gutekunst |
Math is broken, but that's OK |
| 17 Oct |
Dr. William Cuckler |
A Very Short Introduction to the Probabilistic Method in Combinatorics |
| 24 Oct |
Dr. Russell Luke |
Frontiers of Nonconvex Optimization with Applications to Molecular Structure Calculations |
| 31 Oct |
Ang Wei |
Risk measure and G-normal distribution |
| 7 Nov |
Dr. David Edwards |
Teaching During Special Sessions |
| 14 Nov |
Dr. Ebert |
An Introduction to Finite Geometry |
| 28 Nov |
Dr. Usha Ranganathan |
TBA |
Spring 2007 schedule.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 7 Feb |
Derek Moulton and Kara Maki |
Making a webpage |
| 14 Feb |
Alexander Zorach |
Quantifying Specialization of nodes in Networks |
| 21 Feb |
Dr John Pelesko |
TBA |
| 28 Feb |
Dr Lou Rossi |
A 'strange situation': What game theory can offer clinical studies of attachment |
| 7 Mar |
Ana Vasilic :
Seminar will be in Smith 203 |
TBA |
| 14 Mar |
Dr. Phillip Holmes from Princeton University
(Talk is sponsored by the Univ. Delaware Chapter of SIAM) |
How Do Cockroaches Run So Fast Without Thinking About It? |
| 21 Mar |
Xinyi Zhang |
TBA |
| 28 Mar |
No talk due to Spring Break |
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| 4 Apr |
Dr Lou Rossi and Dr John Pelesko with Dorry Ross and Dee Baer from UD English |
How to write articulate, lucid, and utterly exquisite papers |
| 11 Apr |
Dr John Pelesko |
TBA |
| 18 Apr |
Dr Felix Lazebnik |
Surprises, surprises, surprises... |
| 25 Apr |
Dr Gabriele Bauer from the Center for Teaching Effectiveness with Xinyi Zhang |
Preparing for an Academic Career |
| 2 May |
Charles Biehl from Wilmington Charter School |
NUMB3RS in the Classroom - Connecting Mathematics and Crime Drama |
| 9 May |
Alfa Heryudono |
Adaptive Radial Basis Function method for interpolation and collocation problems |
Fall 2006 schedule.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 6 Sep |
Derek Moulton and Kara Maki |
Graduate School 101 |
| 13 Sep |
Jathan Austin, Jessica Belden, Mike Cromer, Kevin Penderghest, Kelly Singer and Jennifer Stovall |
Summer research |
| 20 Sep |
Dr. Pam Cook |
Unusual Fluids: Properties, Uses, Mathematical Challenges |
| 27 Sep |
Regan Beckham |
The Math I Use. a.k.a. A continuation of Mathematical Modeling of Electrostatic MEMS with Tailored Dielectric Properties |
| 4 Oct |
Dr. Fioralba Cakoni |
Talking about Inverse Problems |
| 11 Oct |
Kara Maki & Derek Moulton |
Bocce Ball |
| 18 Oct |
Mr. Apperson Johnson, Quantam Leap Innovations |
Overview of R&D at Quantam Leap Innovations |
| 25 Oct |
Todd Gutekunst |
How to break in to your professor's house |
| 1 Nov |
Dr, Judy Kennedy |
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| 8 Nov |
Dr. Gonzalo Arce (Dept Electrical and Computer Engineering) |
Computational (Mathematical) Imaging: Research Opportunities at New Frontiers |
| 15 Nov |
Pam Kosick |
The wonderful world of semifields |
| 22 Nov |
No Seminar due to Thanksgiving Holiday |
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| 29 Nov |
Dr. Ivar Stakgold |
Leading a second life: mathematicians with a second career |
Spring 2006 schedule.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 22 Feb |
Dr. Richard Braun |
Modeling the Tear Film During a Blink |
| 1 March |
Dr. Gavin Waters, Dr. Michael Sostarecz and Maria Capursi |
Job Searching |
| 8 March |
Dr. Anand Vyas |
A Model For Swirling Bi-Directional Flow of the Oxidizer in a Novel Liquid Rocket Engine. |
| 15 March |
Dr. Constantin Bacuta |
An Introduction to the Finite Element Method |
| 22 March |
Dr. Michele Di Cristo |
Stability and Instability of Inverse Boundary Value Problems |
| 29 March |
Spring Break |
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| 5 Apr |
SIAM Student Chapter
Dr. David Keyes |
How many Computers can Fit in the Head of a Pin |
| 12 Apr |
Dr. Rakesh |
Some problems in convex geometry |
| 19 Apr |
Dr. Pam Cook, Dr. Richard Braun and Dr. John Pelesko |
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| 26 Apr |
Dr. Yuk J. Leung |
My continuing experience with continued fractions |
| 3 May |
Lawrence Udeigwe |
Identification of objects in an acoustic wave guide inversion |
| 10 May |
Derek Moulton |
Catenoid in an Electric Field |
Fall 2005 schedule.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 07 Sep |
Prof. Peter Monk and Prof David Edwards |
Note from the chairs |
| 14 Sep |
Prof. George Hsiao |
My 36 years at UD |
| 21 Sep |
Janine Janoski and Katie Sharp |
Summer Undergraduate Research in the MEC Lab |
| 28 Sep |
Professor Georgia Pyrros |
Interactive Teaching |
| 05 Oct |
Robert Ronkese |
IMA Project: Digital Halftoning |
| 12 Oct |
Prof. Peter Monk |
Protecting Personal Non-Public Information |
| 19 Oct |
Dr. Philippe Guyenne |
Numerical simulations of surface water waves |
| 26 Oct |
Dr. David Olagunju |
Some Problems in Viscoelastic Flows |
| 02 Nov |
Kara Lee Maki |
Why it is safe to use Gaussian Elimination |
| 09 Nov |
Dr. Tobin Driscoll |
From Cantor to Mars: Numerical conformal mapping |
| 16 Nov |
Dr. David Ross of Kaiser Permanente
Seminar is open to the entire department |
Temperature-Dependent Vibrations of MEMs Microbeams |
| 23 Nov |
Thanksgiving |
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| 30 Nov |
Andrew Ball |
All I Really Need to Know I Learned at Math Camp |
| 07 Dec |
Dr. Lin Zhou |
Perturbation analysis on the dispersive properties of microstrip |
Spring 2005 schedule.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
09 Feb
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Prof. R. Wenger |
Some Observations about developments and research on the teaching and learning mathematics that
may be of value to those seeking college teaching positions |
| 16 Feb |
Prof. R. Luke |
Optimization in image processing and inverse scattering: analysis and algorithms |
| 23 Feb |
Prof. Gheorghiciuc, Paula Vasquez |
Career options for Math Ph.D.'s |
| 02 Mar |
Prof. R. Braun |
Open Questions and the SIAM Student Section |
| 09 Mar |
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Graduate Student Meeting |
| 16 Mar |
Prof. R. Coulter (12:15-1:15) |
Classification of Commutative Semifields
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| 23 Mar |
Paula Vasquez |
Optimal design of microneedles |
| 06 Apr |
Prof. L. Rossi |
Big-Headed Ants |
| 13 Apr |
Junhua Wu |
Symmetric designs and codes |
| 27 Apr |
Prof. Nilima Nigam
McGill University |
A few mathematical adventures |
| 04 May |
Prof. David Edwards |
Applied mathematics, biochemistry, and (a little) finance |
Fall 2004 schedule.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 1 Sep |
Lauren Rossi |
Void Fractions and Random Packings: Part II.
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| 8 Sep |
Rodrigo Platte |
Radial basis function methods for PDEs |
| 15 Sep |
Prof. Pelesko |
MEC Lab Tour and Related Research Opportunities |
| 22 Sep |
Ao Jiang |
The implementation of parallel algorithm in electromagetics. |
| 29 Sep |
Prof. Sturm |
Stochastic modeling in population genetics |
| 6 Oct |
Prof. Xiang |
Strongly regular graphs |
| 13 Oct |
Junjie Zhou |
Graduate Student Day |
| 20 Oct |
Jiguang Sun |
An Introduction of Algebraic Multigrid Method |
| 27 Oct |
Junjie Zhou |
Option Pricing and Hedging with Truncated Levy Flights |
| 3 Nov |
Maria Capursi |
How opening a bank vault becomes a projective geometry problem
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| 11 Nov** |
Prof. Gary Mullen (Penn State) |
A candidate for the next Fermat problem |
| 17 Nov |
Prof. Gilbert |
TBA |
| 1 Dec |
Prof. Wenbo Li |
TBA |
Spring 2004 schedule.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 19 Feb |
Prof. Lou Rossi |
Simple vortex methods for fun and profit. |
| 26 Feb |
Frank Fiedler |
It's all about character. |
| 4 Mar |
Amit Samant |
TBA |
| 11 Mar |
Prof. Toby Driscoll |
Ten digit algorithms. |
| 18 Mar |
Prof. David Edwards |
Modeling Biochemical Reactions. |
Fall 2003 schedule.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 25 Sep |
>Prof. John Pelesko |
Franklin's Bells at the Nanoscale. |
| 2 Oct |
Frank Fiedler |
All you ever wanted to know about graduate school...
but were afraid to ask.
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| 9 Oct |
Bob Ronkese |
The life and work of William Rowan Hamilton. |
| 23 Oct |
Prof. Pam Cook |
Women in mathematics: A discussion, especially for women graduate students, with women UD math faculty. |
30 Oct
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Prof. Rich Braun |
Fluid dynamics models for tear film drainage. |
| 6 Nov |
Regan Beckham |
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| 13 Nov |
Prof. Fioralba Cakoni, Prof. David Colton |
How to tell a goose from an airplane using mathematics. |
| 20 Nov |
Prof. Rakesh |
Determining the reflection coefficients of a layered medium - an inverse problem in Linear Algebra. |
| 4 Dec |
Alfa Heryudono |
Fun with QR Algorithm. Do you trust Matlab to find eigenvalues of a matrix ? |
Fall 2002 schedule.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 12 Sep |
Rodrigo Platte (Prof. Schleiniger) |
Thickness-shear mode quartz crystal resonators in viscoelastic media |
| 19 Sep |
Prof. Lou Rossi |
Vorticity, Mixing and Coherent Vortical Structures. |
| 26 Sep |
Frank Fiedler |
Edging away from arcs. |
| 17 Oct |
Prof. Toby Driscoll |
TBA |
| 14 Nov |
Prof. Pam Cook |
TBA |
| 21 Nov |
Prof. David Bellamy |
Unique square roots. |
Spring 2002 schedule.
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 14 Feb |
Rodrigo Platte (Prof. Schleiniger) |
Mechanical Response of Quartz Crystal Resonators to Contact with Viscoelastic Overlayers. |
| 21 Feb |
Prof. David Edwards |
Applications to Perturbation Methods to Finance, Biochemistry and Polymers. |
| 7 Mar |
Amit Samant (Prof. Edwards & Prof. Schleiniger) |
The Math Behind Derivatives: Pricing of Options, Futures and Derivatives - An Introduction. |
| 14 Mar |
Bronwyn Bradshaw-Hajek (Prof. Broadbridge) |
Reaction-diffusion equations for changing gene frequencies. |
| 21 Mar |
Prof. David Olagunju |
Stability and Bifurcations- An Introduction |
| 28 Mar |
Ming Fang (Prof. Gilbert) |
Classification of a PDE. |
| 11 Apr |
Prof. Philip Broadbridge |
Applications of Integrable Nonlinear Diffusion Equations. |
| 18 Apr |
Joel Moitshecki (Prof. Broadbridge) |
Symmetry and Related Analysis of Equations for Solute Transport in Soil. |
| 25 Apr |
Maria Capursi |
The mathematician and the witch: Maria Gaetana Agnesi. |
| 3 May @ 12:00* |
Fabricio Tourrucôo (Prof. Schleiniger) |
TBA |
