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Each year, well-known scholars from around the world are invited to present colloquium and seminar lectures in the Department. In the last academic year, more than 30 distinguished researchers from 10 different countries presented lectures at the Department colloquia and seminars.

Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium

Applied Mathematics Seminar

Algebra Seminar

AGANT@UTA Seminar
(Algebraic Geometry, Algebra and Number Theory Seminar)

Mathematics Education Seminar

Probability and Statistics Seminar

GAGA@UTA Seminar
(Geometry And Geometric Analysis Seminar)

Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium

Questions about the colloquium? Email: David A. Jorgensen

Date/Time*	Topic/Speaker	Room
2/1/2008 Friday 2:30 pm	"Ecology of Agrobats: behavior, pestilence, agroeconomics, and disease" Dr. Thomas G. Hallam, Professor Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Department of Mathematics The University of Tennessee (Local host: H. Kojouharov)	304 PKH
2/29/2008 Friday 2:30 pm	"MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR MULTISCALE MODELING: Adaptive Control of Modeling Error" Dr. J. Tinsley Oden, Professor Associate Vice President for Research Director, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences Cockrell Family Regents' Chair #2 in Engineering University of Texas at Austin (Local host: D. Jorgensen)	304 PKH
3/28/2008 Friday 2:30 pm	"Preparing Students for Success in Calculus: Research Insights and The Precalculus Concept Assessment (PCA) Instrument" Dr. Marilyn P. Carlson, Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Director, CRESMET Arizona State University (Local host: J. Epperson)	304 PKH
4/04/2008 Friday 2:30 pm	"Examples of Non-local Interactions in Biomathematical Models: Some Properties from Analysis and Simulation" Dr. Jonathan Bell, Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Local host: J. Su)	304 PKH
4/25/2008 Friday 2:30 pm	"Group Actions and Representations" Dr. Ken Richardson, Associate Professor Department of Mathematics TCU (Local host: R. Gornet)	304 PKH

  *Refreshments are served shortly after each presentation. Colloquia talks are 50 minutes long, followed by an open-forum discussion with faculty and graduate students.

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Applied Mathematics Seminar

Questions about this seminar? Email: Hua Shan

Date/Time*	Topic/Speaker	Room
1/25/2008 Friday 2:30 pm	"Material Resistance against Ductile Tearing Crack Propagation in Mild Steels" Dr. Ping Jiang, Professor Southwest Petroleum University, P.R. China (Local host: G. Liao)	304 PKH
2/8/2008 Friday 2:30 pm	"A Numerical Method for Studying Thermal Deformation in Micro Structures Exposed to Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers" Dr. Weizhong Dai, Professor Department of Mathematics & Statistics Louisiana Tech University (Local host: C. Liu)	304 PKH
3/7/2008 Friday 2:30 pm	"Nonlinear coupling and Dynamics of Coupled Nonlinear Schrodinger Equations" Dr. Michail Todorov, Associate Professor Department of Differential Equations Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics Technical University of Sofia (Local host: H. Kojouharov)	304 PKH
3/13/2008 Thursday 2:30 pm	"What can Sine function do for us?" Dr. Constanin Corduneanu, Professor Emeritus Department of Mathematics The University of Texas at Arlington	304 PKH
4/3/2008 Thursday 2:30 pm	"Model Order Reduction of Parameterized Multi-Port Passive Networks for On-Chip Interconnect Design" Dr. Peng Li, Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&M University (Local host: Ren-Chang Li)	304 PKH
4/11/2008 Friday 3:30 pm	"Matrix algebra techniques for solving the matrix nonlinear Schrodinger equation" Dr. Cornelis van der Mee, Professor Department of Mathematics University of Cagliari, Italy (Local host: T. Aktosun)	304 PKH
4/18/2008 Friday 2:30 pm	"Adaptive interface finite difference methods in light beam propagation computations" Dr. Qin Sheng, Professor Department of Mathematics Baylor University (Local host: C. Liu)	304 PKH
5/02/2008 Friday 2:30 pm	"About the applicability of CANM to some nonlinear eigenvalue problems arising from the astrophysics and black holes theory" Dr. Michail Todorov, Associate Professor Department of Differential Equations Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics Technical University of Sofia (Local host: H. Kojouharov)	304 PKH

  *Refreshments are served 30 min. prior to a presentation.

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Algebra Seminar

Questions about this seminar? Email: David A. Jorgensen

Date/Time*	Topic/Speaker	Room
4/18/2008 Friday 4:00 pm	"Rigidity of Tor" Kristen Beck Department of Mathematics The University of Texas at Arlington	487 PKH

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AGANT@UTA Seminar

Questions about this seminar? Email: Michaela Vancliff

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Mathematics Education Seminar

Questions about this seminar? Email: James Epperson

Date/Time*	Topic/Speaker	Room
4/25/2008 Friday 11:00 am	"An Assessment of the Mathematical Knowledge of Elementary Preservice Teachers with regard to Number and Operation" Dr. Eileen Durand Faulkenberry, Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics Texas A & M University - Commerce	103 PKH

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Probability and Statistics Seminar

Questions about this seminar? Email: D.L. Hawkins

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GAGA@UTA Seminar

Questions about this seminar? Email: Ruth Gornet