UTA Mathematics - Seminars & Colloquia (Fall 2010)

$UT Arlington, Department of Mathematics$

Spring 2011 Seminars and Colloquia

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

Special Presentations

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

Date/Time*

Topic/Speaker

Room

02/11/2011
Friday

3:00 pm

"Singularities, root systems, and W-algebras"
Dr. Bojko Bakalov, Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
North Carolina State University
(Local host: D. Grantcharov)

304 PKH

02/17/2011
Thursday

2:00 pm

"Oscillatory Temporal Patterns in Cell Signal Networks and Influenza Epidemics"
Dr. Maria Leite, Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
The University of Oklahoma
(Local host: C. Kribs-Zaleta)

304 PKH

02/21/2011
Monday

2:00 pm

"Drug Resistant HIV Strains: Linking Virological Data to Transmission Potential"
Dr. Bradley Wagner, Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Biomedical Modeling
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
(Local host: H. Kojouharov)

304 PKH

02/24/2011
Thursday

2:00 pm

"Numerical Solutions to Inverse Problems"
Dr. Julianne Chung, Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
(Local host: B. Chen)

304 PKH

03/25/2011
Friday

3:00 pm

"Nonlinear and Stochastic Cellular Biological Dynamics: Delbruck-Gillespie Processes and Its Applications"
Dr. Hong Qian, Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Washington
(Local host: M. Turcotte)

304 PKH

03/31/2011
Thursday

4:00 pm

"Recurrence in Influenza Dynamics: What did we learn from the recent influenza pandemic?"
Dr. Carlos Castillo-Chavez, ASU Regents Professor
Joaquin Bustoz Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Arizona State University
(Local host: J. Su)

304 PKH

04/15/2011
Friday

3:00 pm

"Lagrange multipliers; history, main properties, and importance for the applications"
Dr. Franco Giannessi, Professor
Department of Mathematics
University of Pisa, Italy
(Local host: I. Dragan)

304 PKH

04/22/2011
Friday

3:00 pm

"Inverse elliptic problems with internal controls and applications to Hybrid Imaging"
Dr. Guillaume Bal, Professor
Department of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics
Columbia University
(Local host: G. Ambartsoumian)

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.

Special Presentations