MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM SERIES

2004-2005
MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Room: MAP 233

Fall 2000 • Spring 2001 • Fall 2001 • Spring 2002 • Fall 2002 • Spring 2003 • Fall 2003 • Spring 2004 • Fall 2004 • January • February • March • April •

01/12/05: Dr. Razvan C. Fetecau
Szegö Assistant Professor
Mathematics Department
Stanford University
Title: The Lagrangian Averaging for
Compressible Fluids
01/13/05: Dr. Michael Schlosser
University of Vienna
Title: Some curious q-series expansions
and beta integral evaluations.
01/14/05: Dr. Ibrahim Fatkullin
von Karman Instructor
Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics
California Institute of Technology
Title: The Onsager Model of Nematic Phase Transitions
01/18/05: Dr. Bengt Fornber
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Colorado, Boulder
Title: Pseudospectral Methods For High Order
Initial-Boundary Value Problems
01/18/05: Dr. Hugh MacMillan
School of Computational Sciences at FSU
Title: Mathematical Challenges Regarding Cell Cycle
and Cell Fate Control During Development
01/20/05: Dr. Dan Warren
Department of Mathematics
University of Florida
Title: Optimizing the Packing Behavior of
Layered Permutation Patterns
01/24/05: Dr. Jozsef Balogh
Department of Mathematics
Ohio State University
Title: Threshold Growth Cellular Automata:
Bootstrap Percolation
01/25/05: Mr. Robert Rubenstein
NASA Langley Research Center
Title: The dissipation rate transport equation
in two-equation turbulence modeling
01/25/05: Dr. Sergi Elizalde
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Berkeley, California
Title: Refined Enumeration of
Pattern-Avoiding Permutations
01/27/05: Dr. Alexandru Tamasan
University of Toronto
Title: Inverse Boundary Value Problems for the
Transport Equation and Applications
01/31/05: Dr. Alexander Powell
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Princeton University
Title: Sigma-Delta Quantization for Finite Frames:
Error Estimates and Stability
02/04/05: Dr. Jeong-Rock Yoon
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Title: Elastography: Creating Elasticity Images of
Tissue Using Propagating Shear Wave
02/07/05: Dr. Michael Anshelevich
University of California Riverside
Title: Linearization Coefficients, Orthogonal
Polynomials, and Free Probability
02/08/05: Dr. Edriss S. Titi
University of California, Irvine and
the Weitzmann Institute of Science
Title: Mathematical Analysis of Certain Analytic
Sub-grid Scale Models of Turbulence
02/08/05: Dr. Laura Matusevich
University of Pennsylvania
Title: Multivariate Hypergeometric Functions
02/22/05: Dr. Susanne Lehner
University of Miami, Rosenstiel School
of Marine and Atmospheric Science
Title: Radar measurements of extreme ocean waves
02/24/05: Dr. Rudy Horne
Title: "Four-wave mixing in optical comunications
systems: a unified perspective
02/28/05: Dr. Arthur Vartanian
Duke University
Title: Asymptotic Study of Orthogonal Laurent
Polynomials and Related Quantities
03/01/05: Dr. Zixia Song
Ohio State University
Title: Extremal Functions for Contractions of Graphs
03/02/05: Dr. Jeong-Hyun Kang
University of Central Florida
Title: Coloring and Covering of Metric Spaces
03/04/05: Dr. Shui-Nee Chow
Department of Mathematics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Spike Solutions for a Singularly Perturbed
Differential Equation Modeling an Electrical Circuit
03/08/05: Dr. Neil Robertson
Ohio State University
Title: A view of graph minor theory
03/22/05: Dr. Andrew Zardecki
University of California,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title: Harmonic Morphisms for Grid
Smoothing and Adaptation
04/05/05: Dr. Ilya Spitkovsky
College of William and Mary
Title: Factorization of almost periodic matrix
functions and its applications
04/11/05: Dr. Michael Greenblatt
Metron, Inc.
Title: Effective methods for resolving singularities in
the plane with applications to analysis
04/12/05: Dr. Florin Catrina
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Title: Variational Methods for Nonlinear Elliptic
Partial Differential Equations
04/18/05: Dr. Fengshan Bai
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Title: Computing the Permanents of
Matrices with Applications
04/19/05: Stephen Watson
Florida Space Institute
Title: Phase-related statistics in
randomly scattered waves