Schedule for the Mathematics Graduate Seminar
Fall 2009
Everyone is invited to attend
The seminar is scheduled from 1:20 - 3:00 on Thursday afternoons. Refreshments are served in the Bruner second floor lounge from 1:20 until about 2:00. The colloquium/seminar will be in Bruner 306 from 2:00 until about 2:45, unless otherwise noted. The exact topic for each talk and a brief abstract will be posted (on the Upcoming Talk page) during the week in which the talk is scheduled.
 Date  Speaker  Title
September 3
Rafal Ablamowicz, Sabine Le Borne, Andrzej Gutek
Thesis Topic Fair
September 10
Amy Chambers, Andrew Hetzel, Michael Allen
Thesis Topic Fair
September 17
Quinton Westrich
The de Rham Cohomology and a Variational Principle: Why electromagnetism is mathematically trivial
September 24
Jeff Norden
Simply Stated Problems that are Difficult or Impossible to Solve
October 1
Lily Li
Matroids You Have Known
October 8
Srikanth Potukuchi
Finding Series Solutions of Differential Equations of Order 2
October 15
Motoya Machida
Hidden Markov Models: An Introduction to Dynamic Decison Making
October 22
Open

October 29
Eric Jones
Astronomy and all that
November 5
Jeff Norden
Another very simple problem
November 12
Aaron Hogencamp
Odd Numbers in Pascal's Triangle
November 19
Jere Bowen
TBA
December 3
Stephenie Brown
TBA
December 10
Nick Huskey
TBA