Colloquium Archive

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
WI-12	Bradley McCoy	Solving the Pell Equation Using Continued Fractions
WI-12	Jessica McDonald	Searching for Structure in Graph Theory: Chromatic Index and Immersion
WI-12	Tom Edgar	Coxeter Groups and Root Systems via Automatic Structures
FA-11	Stephanie Treneer	Modular Forms and Number Theory
FA-11	Andrew Schopieray	The Theory of Equations Before Galois
FA-11	Ben Fissel	State Space Reconstruction for the Modeling of Nonlinear Time Series
FA-11	Anthony Quas	Lattices, Uniform Distribution and 3 log(2) - (pi)^2/8
FA-11	Barbara Sanborn	Geometry and topology of quantum mechanics
FA-11	Richard Gardner	What’s So Special about Minkowski Addition?
FA-11	Steven McDowall	Complete modeling of photon transport in luminescent solar concentrators incorporating alignment of fluorophors
SP-11	Jane Butterfield	Online Ramsey Games for Triangles
SP-11	Michael Renne	Integer Partitions
SP-11	Allison Henrich	The Story of Pseudodiagrams and Knot Games
SP-11	Mark Eddinger	Spectral Theorem for Compact Hermitian Operators
SP-11	Elliot Wargo	Bond Percolcation in Z^2 and the Harris-Kesten Theorem
SP-11	Naomi Borenemann	The Frobenius Theorem
SP-11	Alisha Zimmer	Semigroups of Bounded Linear Operators
SP-11	Victoria Anderson	Non-negative Matrix Factorization: Algorithms and Applications
WI-11	Sarah Dobbins	Stability of Traveling Wave Solutions of Fisher's Equation
WI-11	Brittany Froese	Numerical Methods for L^2 Optimal Transport Using the Monge-Ampere Equation
WI-11	Malcolm Rupert	Sudoku, Packets, and Solving Symmetries
FA-10	Seth Zimmerman	Contact in an Expanding Universe: a study in dynamic geometry
FA-10	Johnny Hu	Monte Carlo Methods
FA-10	George Dyson	How the Digital Universe Got its Spots
FA-10	Akos Magyar	Some Problems and Results in Arithmetic Ramsey Theory
FA-10	Richard Gardner	Intersections of Convex Bodies
FA-10	Victor Chan	Prediction Accuracy of Linear Models for Paired Comparisons in Sports
SP-10	Greg Kubitz	Functionals and Operators in Banach Space Theory
SP-10	Zach Thompson	Chaos in Differential Equations and the Poincare-Bendixson Theorem
SP-10	Tommy Race	Finite Random Walks in One Dimension
SP-10	Katelin Tasa	An Introduction to Representation Theory and its Applications to Physics
SP-10	Matt Lewis	The Dirichlet Problem for Laplace's Equation
SP-10	Amy Wilson	Poincare's and Siegel's Linearization Theorems
SP-10	Nick Woodward	The Kakeya Problem
WI-10	Stephen McDowall	Modeling and simulation of photon transport for a new design of solar panels
WI-10	David Mason	Basic Ideas of the Hungarian Constructions
WI-10	Tadahiro Oh	Introduction to the Well-Posedness Theory of Dispersive PDEs
WI-10	Joseph Peters	Bounds for Communication in Wireless Grids
WI-10	Joseph Felsenstein	Evolutionary trees, coalescents, and trees of gene duplications: can we find the woods?
WI-10	William G. Faris	Combinatorics of graphs, fixed points, and physics
FA-09	Edoh Amiran	Consumer Behavior with Uncertainty
FA-09	Jianying Zhang	Numerical aspects of some interface problems in fluid mechanics
FA-09	David Shull	Modeling the burrow ventilation behavior of marine sediment-dwelling invertebrates and its consequences for sediment geochemistry
FA-09	Geoff Diestel	Factorization and Orthogonality
FA-09	Richard Gardner	Covariograms and the Phase Retrieval Problem
FA-09	Arpad Benyi	What is a paraproduct?
FA-09	Jobie Gores	Wallpaper groups
SP-09	Suzannah White	Jordan Curve Theorem
SP-09	Matteo Tamburini	Predicting students' math placement at WWU: a Logistic Regression Analysis
SP-09	Lucas Chaffee	Hindman's Theorem
SP-09	Meghan VanderMale	Equivalence of Connect, Impossibility of Fair Votes, and the Hex Game Theorem
SP-09	Jesse Nickerson	The Fourier Transform: Properties and Applications
SP-09	Daisy Phillips	A proof of the Central Limit Theorem via the Fourier transform
SP-09	Nathan Hall	Markov Chains and Applications
SP-09	Eric Bortel	The Technique of Matched Asymptotic Expansions
SP-09	Joe White	Schnirelmann Density and Mann's Theorem
SP-09	Tim Olsen	Invariant subspaces of operators
SP-09	Tilmann Glimm	Turing patterns with an external linear morphogen gradient
WI-09	Brian Heinze	Normal Form for the Hopf Bifurcation
WI-09	Jennifer Angelosante	Estimating Pairwise Relatedness in Structured Populations
WI-09	Seth Zimmerman	Does Entropy Really Tend to Increase? - Confounding Conventional Wisdom.
WI-09	Amites Sarkar	Partitioning random geometric covers
WI-09	Bryan Smith	Krylov Subspace Methods for Systems of Linear Equations
WI-09	Michael Mazack	Algorithms for Handwritten Digit Recognition (Presentation Slides)
WI-09	David Mason	Some Curious Results on Randomly Weighted Self-normalized Sums
FA-08	Matt Bode	The Golub-Pereyra Variable Projection Method for Separable Nonlinear Least Squares
FA-08	Brian Thompson	The Lax-Milgram Theorem and Its Applications (Presentation slides)
FA-08	Jerry Johnson	Number Bases are the Simple Context...Asking Non-Basic Questions is the Challenging Game!
FA-08	Amy Anderson	"It was one of my half-sisters"
FA-08	Alfred Hales	Light Matrices of Prime Determinant
FA-08	Richard Gardner	Capacities, Surface Area, and Radial Sums
FA-08	Branko Curgus	Eigenvalue problems with boundary conditions depending polynomially on the eigenparameter
FA-08	Artem Zvavitch	On the local equatorial characterization of zonoids
SP-08	Marcin Bownik	How to construct multidimensional wavelets with good time-frequency localization
SP-08	David Sorensen	Cousin Covers and Applications in Analysis
SP-08	Josh Levenson	Stochastic Differential equations and Applications
SP-08	Elisabeth Briggs	Algebraic Number Fields and the Equation x^3 + y^3 = z^3
SP-08	Dale Trockel	Boundary Rigidity in Riemannian Geometry
SP-08	Seth Nuckolls	Combinatorial Game Theory: Conway's Numbers and Games
SP-08	Neal Bushaw	Ramsey Theory and Applications
SP-08	Anika Flickinger	Mean Value Theorem, Maximum Principle and Riemann's Second Derivative Theorem
SP-08	Kasso Okoudjou	Fourier Series on the Sierpinski Gasket
WI-08	James Cossey	Irreducible representations of the symmetric group
WI-08	Julia Bergner	Homotopy theories in topology and algebra
WI-08	Adam Nyman	An Introduction to Noncommutative Geometry
WI-08	Sunil Chebolu	The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Homotopy Theory in Algebra and Representation Theory
WI-08	Stephanie Treneer	Arithmetic of the Fourier Coefficients of Modular Forms
WI-08	Laura Scull	Spaces with Symmetry: Orbifolds and Equivariant Homotopy
FA-07	Steve McDowall	Optical Tomography
FA-07	Pritee Sahijwani	An Application of Markov Processes: A Model of Biological Cell Movement
FA-07	Matthew Rudd	Discrete-time games and algorithms for geometric motions
FA-07	Seth Zimmerman	An Optimal Approach to Group Testing
FA-07	Amites Sarkar	The Linus sequence
FA-07	Sandra Spiroff	Identifying properties of a ring from its zero divisor graph
FA-07	Richard Gardner	Gaussian Brunn-Minkowski inequalities
FA-07	Frank Stenger	SINC--PACK and Separation of Variables
SP-07	Selim Akkoc	Polya Fields
SP-07	Dan Fortin	Optical Tomography in Two Dimensions: An Inverse Boundary Value Problem
SP-07	Rita Parsons	Continued Fractions
SP-07	Mark Lockwood	X-rays of Planar Convex Bodies
SP-07	Andrew Good	Banach Algebras
SP-07	Laura Smith	The Levenberg-Marquardt Method
SP-07	Anna Barry	Distributions and Fundamental Solutions of Differential Equations
SP-07	Gracie Paek	Floquet Theory (Linear Systems with Periodic Coefficients)
SP-07	Heather Cleveland	Finite Difference Methods for Partial Differential Equations and the Lax Equivalence Theorem
SP-07	Martial Agueh	Geometric Inequalities via Mass Transport
WI-07	Amites Sarkar	Random Geometric Graphs
WI-07	Christopher Sinclair	Volumes of Polynomials in Number Theory and Random Matrix Theory
WI-07	Peter Olofsson	Multitype Branching Processes: What They Are and How to Make Them Useful
WI-07	Amy Anderson	Relatedness Inference in Structured Populations
WI-07	Crystal Linkletter	Latent Socio-Spatial Process Model for Social Networks
SP-06	Edoh Amiran	Local Descriptions of Boundary Conditions for Acoustic Enclosures
SP-06	Richard Gardner	The Amazing Theory of Empirical Processes
SP-06	Doug Galagate	Branching Processes
SP-06	Nicola Parker	Beautiful Mathematics which is also very useful
SP-06	Arlene Jacobson	Four Squares
SP-06	Salah Abed	Nonstandard Analysis
SP-06	Joe Postma	Lorentz transformations
SP-06	Adam Larios	Variational Approach to Boundary Value Problems
SP-06	Erin Beyerstedt	Formal Power Series
SP-06	Cody Pond	Elliptic Functions and Integrals
SP-06	Robert O’Malley	Old and New Results on Boundary Layer Resonance
WI-06	Haohao Wang	The Use of Syzygies
WI-06	Hirotachi Abo	Finding Needles in a Haystack: Theory and Computation in the Search for Special Surfaces
WI-06	Maribel Bueno	Darboux transformations and orthogonal polynomials: Matrix interpretation and numerical aspects.
WI-06	Sema Salur	Calibrated Geometries
WI-06	Ivan Soprunov	Residues and Newton Polytopes
WI-06	Colleen Robles	Efficient travel under windy conditions
WI-06	Jianying Zhang	Numerical and analytical approaches to Rayleigh-Benard convection on viscoplastic fluids
WI-06	Hemanshu Kaul	Kauffman NK Model - A Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization Model for Complex Systems
WI-06	Lilia Krovodonova	High-order discontinuous Galerkin methods for nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws.
WI-06	Carmeliza Navasca	Optimal control as a regularization method for ill-posed problems
WI-06	Eva Curry	Multivariable Wavelets
FA-05	Edoh Amiran	Modeling Consumer Behavior
FA-05	Larry Shepp	Discrete Point X-Rays
SP-05	Jonny Ursin	Fractals and Some Applications
SP-05	Melissa Henry	Partitioning of Point Sets in the Plane and Beyond
SP-05	Brian Hitchcock	Detection of limit cycles in Lienard systems
SP-05	Andrew Richardson	The Isoperimetric Inequality via Brunn-Minkowski
SP-05	Joel Hibbard	Measuring Underwater Acoustic Signal with the Fourier Transform
SP-05	Mark DeSmet	The Fourier Transform, and no applications
SP-05	Amber Hixson	Hermit Crabs: The Benefits of Vacancies
SP-05	Dave Auckly	Solving the quartic with a pencil
SP-05	Paul Carr	Cryptography: Mathematics Trumps Black Magic
SP-05	Ralf Wittenberg	Characterization of Spatiotemporal Chaos
WI-05	Chris Dugaw	Models of a Subterranean Parasite and its Insect Host
WI-05	Randy LeVeque	High-Resolution Finite Volume Methods and Applications to Tsunami Modeling
WI-05	Tilmann Glimm	Dynamical Mechanisms and Simulations for Skeletal Pattern Formation in the Embryonic Chick Limb
WI-05	Arpad Benyi	From linear to bilinear pseudodifferential operators
WI-05	Bogdana Georgieva	Generalized Variational Principle of Herglotz. Noether-type theorems
WI-05	Alexandru Tamasan	Inverse Boundary Value Problems for the Transport Equation and Applications
FA-04	Steven Bland	Assumptions involved in modeling pension plans.
FA-04	Bill Moore	Transition Math Project: College Readiness Standards.
FA-04	Victor Chan	Empirical Modeling of Limnetic Temperature Profile and Estimating Thermocline Depth.
FA-04	Richard Gardner	From Pythagoras to Cancer Diagnostics.
SP-04	Maia Bobbink	Inventory Models.
SP-04	David Kennerud	Estimating Statistical Variability in Insurance Losses and Loss Reserves.
SP-04	Lael Hebert	Galois Theory and Solvability by Radicals.
SP-04	Brandon M. Peden	The Gale Transform and No Applications.
SP-04	Ben Casler	B-splines and the Schoenberg-Whitney Theorem.
SP-04	David Hartenstine	The Monge-Ampere Equation and Applications.
WI-04	Michelle Byrtek	Improving Estimation of Kinetic Model Parameters from PET Studies.
WI-04	Slobodan Simic	Geometric theory of hybrid dynamical systems.
WI-04	David Benko	Weighted polynomials and the equilibrium measure.
WI-04	Artem Zvavitch	Convex Bodies and the Fourier Transform.
WI-04	Alexei Rybkin	The absolutely continuous spectrum of Schrodinger operators with long-range potentials.
WI-04	Daniel Coombs	Chirality Inversions Propagating on Bacterial Flagella.
WI-04	Anna Liu	Hypothesis testing in smoothing spline models.
WI-04	Tim McMurray	Nonparametric Regression with Infinite Order Flat-Top Kernels.
WI-04	Zhigang Zhang	Statistical Analysis of Current Status Data in the Presence of Informative Observation Times.
WI-04	Steve McDowall	An inverse problem for the transport equation in the presence of a Riemannian metric.