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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.

 
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