For more information, contact the Colloquium Coordinator,
Dr. Daniel Kern
Additional seminars are held on a variety of topics; for information, email the department
Spring 2008
Friday, March 7
CBC C224, 10:00 am
(refreshments at 9:45am)
Dr. William Layton
Department of Mathematics
University of Pittsburgh
Title: Mathematical Architecture of Approximate Deconvolution Models
of Turbulence
[Abstract]
Friday, March 14
CBC C224, 11:30 am
(refreshments at 11:20am)
Dr. Hongtao Yang
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Title: Numerical Pricing of American Options
[Abstract]
Friday, March 28
CBC C224, noon
(refreshments at 11:50am)
Dr. Yuedong Wang
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability
University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: Nonlinear Nonparametric Regression Models
[Abstract]
Friday, April 11
CBC C224, 11:30 am
(refreshments at 11:20 am)
Dr. Wei Cai
Department of Mathematics
University of Noth Carolina at Charlotte
Title: Numerical Methods of Electromagnetic Phenomena
in Complex Inhomogeneous Systems
[Abstract]
Friday, April 25
CBC C224, 1pm
(refreshments beforehand)
Dr. Ebrhaim Salehi
Department of Mathematical Sciences
UNLV
Title: Friendly Vertex Coloring
[Abstract]
Friday, May 2
CBC C224, 11:30 am
(refreshments at 11:20am)
Dr. Kaushik Ghosh
Department of Mathematical Sciences
UNLV
Title: Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Data and Informative Dropout in
the Presence of Multiple Changepoints
[Abstract]
Friday, May 9
CBC C224, 11:30 am
(refreshments at 11:20am)
Dr. Long Chen
Department of Mathematics
University of California, Irvine
Title: High Order Finite Volume Methods for Second Order Elliptic equations
[Abstract]
Fall 2007
Friday, September 28
CBC C225, 10:00 am
(refreshments at 9:50am)
Dr. Zhimin Zhang
Department of Mathematics
Wayne State University
Title: High Accuracy Eigenvalue Approximations
[Abstract]
Friday, October 5
CBC C224, 10:00 am
(refreshments at 9:50am)
Dr. Monika Neda
Department of Mathematical Sciences
UNLV
Title: A Mathematical Study of Turbulence Models
[Abstract]
Friday, October 12
CBC C225, 11:00 am
Dr. Junyong Park
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Title: Robust Test for Detecting a Signal in a High Dimensional Sparse
Normal Vector
[Abstract]
Friday, October 19
CBC C225, 11:00 am
(refreshments at 10:50am)
Dr. Arthur Baragar
Department of Mathematical Sciences
UNLV
Title: The Markoff equation and a conjecture of Frobenius
[Abstract]
Friday, November 2
CBC C224, 10:00 am
(refreshments at 9:50am)
Dr. Linda Allen
Department of Mathematics
Texas Tech University
Title: Emerging zoonotic diseases in wildlife: metapopulation models with multiple
pathogens and multiple hosts
[Abstract]
Friday, November 30
CBC C224, 10:00 am
(refreshments at 9:50am)
Dr. Pushkin Kachroo
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Virgina Tech University/UNLV
Title: Optimal and Feedback Control for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws: Evacuation Problem
[Abstract]