Graduate Student Seminar 2013-2014

The Graduate Student Seminar meets in PHSC 1105 on every other Monday at 5:30-6:30. For more information about the seminar, contact Bryan Archer.

Spring 2014 Talks

2/10	Chenxu He	Sphere Theorems in Riemannian Geometry
2/17	Tomasz Przebinda	Some mysteries of the unit sphere in \R^3
2/24	Milos Savic	How can we (or should we) assess undergraduate students' creativity?

Fall 2013 Talks

8/26	Dr. Ralf Schmidt, Christine Tinsley, and Dr. Andy Miller	Some information about our graduate program
9/2	No seminar this week!	No seminar this week!
9/9	Jing Tao	Deformation Space of Graphs
9/16	Murad Özaydin	Counting Integer Points in Rational Polyhedra: A Theorem of Popoviciu and Beyond.
9/23	Luis Lomeli	On the Riemann Hypothesis in characteristic p
9/30	Sepideh Stewart	Embodied, Symbolic and Formal Thinking in Linear Algebra
10/7	K.B. Lee	PSL(2,R) geometry and its quotients
10/14	Documentary	The Genuius of Ramanujan
10/21	Sean Crowell	Greenhouse Gas Emissions: an Inverse Problem
10/28	Lucy Lifschitz

Spring 2013 Talks

1/28	Dr. Alexander Grigo	The Strange World of the Infinite
2/11	Dr. Jonathan Kujawa	2D TQFTs
2/18	Bryan Archer	Giving the 3-sphere its due
3/4	Dr. Ameya Pitale	Green-Tao Theorem on Primes in Artithmetic Prgression
3/11	Dr. Paul Goody	Probability and Pi: lies, damn lies and geometric probability
3/25	Dr. Luther White	Modeling Some Mechanical Systems: Spring Fever
4/1	Dr. Sean Paul	introduction to Geometric Invarient Theory
4/8	Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan	Data Mining vs. Data Assimilation
4/15	Jordan Wiebe	Websites & Design
4/22	Dr. Sarah Marsh	What do you want to be when you "grow up"? An exploration of a position at a (small) liberal arts university.

Fall 2012 Talks

8/27	Dr. Ralf Schmidt, Christine Tinsley	Meet the new graduate director
9/10	Dr. Alan Roche	Some Extremal Problems for Finite Sets
9/24	Dr. Leonard Rubin	Dimension Theory in Modern Times
10/8	Houssein El Turkey	Presenting Schur Superalgebras
10/22	Dr. Michael Jablonski	After almost 40 years, is the Alekseevsky Conjecture about to be proven?
11/5	Panel Discussion	How to be a Good Graduate Student / How to get a Job
11/19	Dr. Kim Milton (Physics Dept.)	Casmir Energies of Volumes with Planer Boundries
12/3	Dr. Max Forester	Topology of Flat Surfaces