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Seminars and Colloquia

Fall 2006

Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium

Applied Mathematics Seminar

Algebra Seminar

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

GAGA@UTA Seminar
(Geometry And Geometric Analysis Seminar)

Mathematics Education Seminar

Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium

Date/Time*

Topic/Speaker

Room

9/22/2006
Friday

2:30 pm

"Differential algebraic equations: A general framework for simulation, and control"
Dr. Volker Mehrmann, Professor
Fakultat fur Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Technische Universitat Berlin
(Local host: Ren-Cang Li)

304 PKH

9/29/2006
Friday

2:30 pm

"Solitons, Sand Bars and Beach Protection"
Dr. Jerry L. Bona, Professor and Chair
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, The University of Illinois at Chicago
(Local host: D. Liu)

304 PKH

10/13/2006
Friday

2:30 pm

"Division Algebras"
Dr. David J. Saltman, Mildred Caldwell and Baine Perkins Kerr Centennial Professor
Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
(Local host: D. Jorgensen)

304 PKH

10/27/2006
Friday

2:30 pm

"Life as a Statistician in the Semiconductor Industry"
Dr. Diane K. Michelson
International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI), SEMATECH Inc.
(Local host: D. Jorgensen)

304 PKH

11/3/2006
Friday

2:30 pm

"Color printers, mailboxes, fish, and Homer Simpson -- or -- Centroidal Voronoi tessellations: algorithms and applications"
Dr. Max Gunzburger, Francis Eppes Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
School of Computational Science and Department of Mathematics, Florida State University
(Local host: G. Liao)

304 PKH

11/17/2006
Friday

2:30 pm

"Coalitional games with veto players: Consistency, Monotonicity and Nash outcomes"
Dr. Javier Arin, Professor
Foundations of Economic Analysis I Department, The University of the Basque Country, Spain
(Local host: I. Dragan)

304 PKH

2/23/2007
Friday

2:30 pm

"An Introduction to Nonstandard Finite Difference (NSFD) Schemes"
Dr. Ronald E. Mickens, Distinguished Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Physics
Clark Atlanta University
(Local host: H. Kojouharov)

304 PKH

TBA/2007
Friday

2:30 pm

"TBA"
Dr. Uri Treisman,
Professor of Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director of the Charles A. Dana Center
(Local host: J. Epperson)

304 PKH

3/30/2007
Friday

2:30 pm

"TBA"
Dr. Barbra Keyfitz,
Professor of Mathematics at the University of Houston and Director of the Fields Institute (Toronto, ON)
(Local host: TBA)

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.

Applied Mathematics Seminar

Date/Time*

Topic/Speaker

Room

10/6/2006
Friday

2:00 pm

"Functional ANOVA Normalization of Two-Channel Microarrays"
Dr. Alan R. Dabney, Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics, Texas A & M University
(Local host: D.L. Hawkins)

304 PKH

10/20/2006
Friday

2:00 pm

"Penalty Approximation and analytical Characterization of the Problem of super-replication under portfolio constraints"
Dr. Alain Bensoussan, Director
International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis
Distinguished Research Professor of Operations Management
The University of Texas at Dallas
(Local host: J. Su)

304 PKH

10/26/2006
Thursday

2:00 pm

"High Performance Computing: Math, Computers, and Accelerators"
Dr. Kevin Wadleigh
High Performance Computing Division
Hewlett-Packard Company
(Local host: R. Li)

304 PKH

11/3/2006
Friday

1:00 pm

"Numerical Solution to Hybrid Fuzzy Differential Equations"
Dr. M. Sambandham, Professor and Chair
Department of Mathematics
Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
(Local host: G.S. Ladde)

304 PKH

11/10/2006
Friday

2:00 pm

"Power Index Rankings for Cooperative Games"
Dr. Luis Hernandez Lamoneda
Center for Mathematical Research (CIMAT)
Guanajuato, Mexico
(Local host: I. Dragan)

304 PKH

11/10/2006
Friday

3:00 pm

"Values for Team Games"
Dr. Francisco Sanchez Sanchez
Center for Mathematical Research (CIMAT)
Guanajuato, Mexico
(Local host: I. Dragan)

304 PKH

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

Algebra Seminar

Date/Time*

Topic/Speaker

Room

10/27/06
Friday

4:00 pm

"GRADED RINGS, HILBERT POLYNOMIALS, AND DIMENSION"
William Purpura
Americredit, Fort Worth, Texas

487 PKH

AGANT@UTA Seminar

Date/Time*

Topic/Speaker

Room

9/22/06
Friday

3:45 pm

"Algebraic Aspects of Compartmental Pharmacokinetics Models"
Dr. Mostafa Ghandehari,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Texas at Arlington

487 PKH

10/13/2006
Friday

4:00 pm

"Division Algebras over Surfaces"
Dr. David J. Saltman, Mildred Caldwell and Baine Perkins Kerr Centennial Professor
Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin

304 PKH

12/8/06
Friday

3:00 pm

"Topics in Generalized Kac-Moody Algebras"
Dr. N. Sthanumoorthy, Professor
Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, University of Madras, Chennai, India

487 PKH

*Refreshments are served 15 min. prior to a presentation.

GAGA@UTA Seminar

Mathematics Education Seminar