For more information, contact the Colloquium Coordinator,
Dr. Daniel Kern
(2005-2006 Colloquium Series)
(2006-2007 Colloquium Series)
(2007-2008 Colloquium Series)
Next Colloquium: Dr. Charles Davis (Envirometrics and Statistics Ltd), Friday, April 24(scroll down for details and link to abstract)
Additional seminars are held on a variety of mathematical and statistical topics; for information, go to the homepage for the Department of Mathematical Sciences or email the department.
Spring 2009 Colloquia
Friday, February 13
CBC-C224, 11:30 am
(refreshments at 11:20am)
Dr. Barry Arnold
Department of Statistics
University of California, Riverside
Title: Some Models Involving Hidden Truncation in Non-Gaussian Settings.
[Abstract]
Friday, February 27
CBC-C224, 11:30 am
(refreshments at 11:20am)
Dr. Kevin Quinn
Department of Government / Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Harvard University
Title: Measuring Explicit Political Positions of Media
[Abstract]
Friday, March 13
CBC-C224, 1:30 pm
(refreshments at 1:20am)
Dr. Jinchao Xu
Department of Mathematics
Pennsylvania State University
Title: User-Friendly Solvers and Solver-Friendly Discretizations for PDEs
[Abstract]
Friday, March 20
CBC-C224, 11:30 am
(refreshments at 11:20am)
Dr. Gang Bao
Department of Mathematics/MCIAM
Michigan State University
Title: Inverse Scattering and Distinguishability via Uncertainty Principle
[Abstract]
Friday, March 27
CBC-C224, 11:30 am
(refreshments at 11:20am)
Dr. Arthur Baragar
Department of Mathematical Sciences
UNLV
Title: to be announced
[Abstract]
Friday, April 3
CBC-C224, 11:30 am
(refreshments at 11:20am)
Dr. Pengtao Sun
Department of Mathematical Sciences
UNLV
Title: Computational Fuel Cell Dynamics: efficient numerical techniques for two-phase transport model of proton exchange membrane fuel cell
[Abstract]
Friday, April 17
CBC-C224, 11:30 am
(refreshments at 11:20am)
Dr. Qing Nie
Department of Mathematics/Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Title: Systems Biology of Cell Signaling
[Abstract]
Friday, April 24
CBC-C224, 11:30 am
(refreshments at 11:20am)
Dr. Charles Davis
Environmetrics and Statistics Ltd
Title: A Model for Measurements of Lognormally Distributed Environmental Contaminants
[Abstract]
Fall 2008
Friday, September 5
CBC-C224, 11:30 am
(refreshments at 11:20am)
Dr. Ko-Wei Lih
Institute of Mathematics
Academica Sinica (Taiwan)
Title: Full Orientability of Graphs
[Abstract]
Friday, September 12
CBC-C224, 2:30 pm
(refreshments 2:15pm)
Dr. Alexander Ramm
Department of Mathematics
Kansas State University
Title: Many-Body Wave Scattering and Creating Materials with a Desired Refraction Coefficient
[Abstract]
Friday, October 3
CBC-C224, 11:30
(refreshments at 11:20am)
Dr. Benjamin Kedem
Department of Mathematics
University of Maryland, College Park
Title: Bayesian Spatial Prediction
[Abstract]
Friday, October 17
CBC-C224, 11:30 am
(refreshments at 11:20am)
Dr. Stewart Ethier
Department of Mathematics
University of Utah
Title: Parrondo's Paradox
[Abstract]
Friday, November 7
CBC-C224, 11:30 am
(refreshments at 11:20am)
Dr. Glen Meeden
Department of Statistics
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Title: A Noninformative Bayesian Approach to Finite Population Sampling Using Auxiliary Variables
[Abstract]