2008 Fall

(Talks will be in Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, 347 PGH)

• 08/29/2008, Prof. G. Etgen, Roles of Graduate Students.
• 09/26/2008, Prof. Torok, Introduction to Computer Resources: HTML, LaTeX, and more.
• 10/03/2008, Prof. Paulsen, What do these functional analysts do and what does it matter ?
• 10/10/2008, Prof. Timefeyev, How and when to look for a graduate advisor; and a brief introduction to my research.
• 10/31/2008, Prof. Blecher, Characterizations in mathematics.
• 11/14/2008, Prof. Labate, Sparsity in mathematics and engineering.
• 11/21/2008, Prof. Zhigang Zhang, An in silico protocell with contracting FtsZ rings.
• 11/28/2008, Prof. Kuznetsov
• 12/06/2008, TBA

2008 Spring

(Talks will be in Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, 347 PGH)

• 02/15/2008, Prof. Pete Casazaa, Applications of Hilbert space frames.
• 02/29/2008, Prof. Alexandre Caboussat, Ordinary Differential Equations with Discontinuities: Applications in Air Quality Modeling.
• 03/14/2008, Prof. Cleopatra Christoforou, A Traffic Flow Model
• 04/04/2008, Prof. Bernhard Bodmann, TBA
• 04/18/2008, Prof. David Blecher, Some great conjectures.
• 04/28/2008, Prof. Bernhard Bodmann, Random Rounding Rules in Redundant Representations (note: this seminar is scheduled at 1:00p.m ; the PGH 6th floor conference room)

2007 Fall

(Talks will be in Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, 343 PGH)

• 08/31/2007, Prof. G. Etgen. TBA
• 09/07/2007, Prof. M. Papadakis, Images and Signals in UH-Math.
• 09/21/2007, Prof. K. Josic. Synchrony and the neural code.
• 10/05/2007, Prof. G. Auchmuty. Variational Methods for PDEs.
• 10/12/2007, Prof. A. Torok. TBA
• 11/02/2007, Prof. M. Ru. TBA
• 11/16/2007, Prof. C. Larson. TBA
• 11/30/2007, Mayor Robin C. Riley. How the Logic of Mathematics has Guided My Life.

2007 Spring

(Talks will be in Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, 343 PGH)

• 02/16/2007, Prof. Canic, Mathematics and Cardiology: Partners for the Future.
• 03/02/2007, Prof. Tomforde, Three Problems Motivated by Graph C*-Algebras
• 03/30/2007, Prof. Andrew Torok, Models for chaos: from Markov chains to Young towers.
• 04/13/2007, Prof. Field , Chaos and Structure in Dynamics.
• 04/27/2007, TBA

2006 Fall

(Talks will be in Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, 347 PGH)

• 09/01/2006, Prof. G. Etgen, Roles of Graduate Students.
• 09/08/2006, Prof. Glowinski, Nonlinear Eigenvalue Problems.
• 09/22/2006, Prof. Golubitsky, Coupled Systems, Spatiotemporal Symmetries and Neuroscience .
• 10/06/2006, Prof. Timefeyev , Multiscale methods in applied mathematics
• 10/20/2006, Prof, Nicol, TBA
• 11/03/2006, Prof. Robert Azencott, Random Gibbs fields : application to texture identification in numerical images.
• 11/17/2006, Prof. Mark Tomforde, The Academic Job Search.

2006 Summer

• 06/29/2006, Mrinal Raghupathi , Function Theory and Groups.
• 07/13/2006, Sonia Sharma, Real Operator Algebras.
• 08/03/2006, Matt Dulock, Basic Concepts in Riemannian Geometry.
• 07/27,2006, Shikha Baid, "Application Of Wavelets to Medical Imaging (Part II)"
• 06/06/2006, Upasana Kashyap, "Theory of C*-modules"
• 06/13/2006, Charu Sharma, "Exact and Asymptotic Tests for the Analysis of Case-Control Studies "

Location and time: 3:00 pm in room 646 PGH (conference room).

2006 Spring

(Talks will be in Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, 347 PGH)

• 02/03/2006, Prof. V. Paulsen , Quantizers, Sigma-Delta Algorithms and Frame Paths
• 02/17/2006, Prof. Jiwen He , Convex envelope, primal-dual interior-point algorithm, and modeling atmospheric aerosol state
• 02/24/2006, Deepti Kalra, Complex Equiangular Cyclic Frames
• 03/03/2006, Mary Flagg, The Role of the Jacobson Radical of the Endomorphism Ring in the Baer-Kaplansky Theorem
• 03/31/2006, Prof. Hasan Sayit, On the different proofs of the Dalang-Morton-Willinger theorem.
• 04/28/2006, Saurabh Jain, Imaging the Earth's Interior with Isotropic Wavelet Transforms.

2005 Fall

(Talks will be in Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, 347 PGH)

• 09/02/2005, Prof. G. Etgen, How to do better job as graduate students?
• 09/23/2005, Prof. V. Paulsen , TBA
• 10/21/2005, Ms. Y. Wang , Patterns of synchrony in Lattice dynamical systems,
• 11/03/2005, Thursday, 4:00-5:00 pm, 646 PGH Prof. Bruce Lowe , Texas A & M University, An introduction to interest rate modeling.
• 11/18/2005, Prof. M. Papadakis , Inside arteries, and under the sea-bottom in the Gulf of Mexico: Common challenges.
• 12/02/2005, Prof. H. Sayit , TBA

2005 Spring

(Talks will be in Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, 347 PGH)

• 01/28/2005, Prof. Selwyn Hollis , Modeling Southern Pine Beetle Infestations.
• 02/18/2005, Prof. Alexandre Caboassat, Numerical Simulation of Free Surface Flows: An Overview and Some Applications in Mold Filling.
• 02/25/2005, Dr. Martynenko, Andrey , TBA .
• 03/04/2005, Prof. David Blecher , An illustration from analysis of the principle of generalization.
• 03/11/2005, Mr. D. Xu, Proper holomorphic mappings between balls in complex spaces.
• 03/25/2005 , Good Friday. There is no talk.
• 04/01/2005, Prof. Andrew Torok , Understanding Chaos: The Lorenz attractor.
• 04/08/2005, Prof. Jeff Morgan , Recreational Mathematics.
• 04/15/2005, Prof. Bernhard G Bodmann, Tomorrow's High-End Digital Audio: Sigma-Delta for Everybody.
• 04/22/2005, Prof. David Bao . Time efficient paths in R2
• 04/29/2005, Chakradhar Iyyunni , Fun with Balloons and Polymeric Cylinders : An analogue of Euler Buckling of Columns for pressurized cylinders.

2004 Fall

(Talks will be in Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, 347 PGH)

• 09/03/2004, Prof. G. Etgen , How to teach mathematics?
• 09/10/2004, Prof. Ilya Timofeyev , Statistical Description and Predictability in Dynamical Systems.
• 09/17/2004, Prof. V. Paulsen , Frames, Graphs and Codes, Click here for abstract.
• 09/24/2004, there is no semniar this week.
• 10/01/2004, Prof. K. Josic , TBA.
• 10/08/2004, Prof. R. Hoppe , TBA.
• 10/15/2004, Prof. S. Canic , TBA.
• 10/22/2004, . , TBA.
• 10/29/2004, ,
• 11/5/2004, . , TBA.
• 11/12/2004, Prof. J. Morgan , TBA.
• 11/19/2004, , TBA.

The Seminar Poster

2004 Spring

(Talks will be in Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, 343 PGH)

• 02/20/2004, Prof. B. Keyfitz , Multidimensional Conservation Laws: How to Solve Hyperbolic Problems with Elliptic Methods
• 03/5/2004, Prof. A. Torok, , Knots, Braids, and Operator Algebras.
• 03/12/2004, Prof. T.W. Pan , Can we use computers to perform experiments?
• 03/26/2004, Prof. M. Ru , The Amazing ABC Conjecture.
• 04/02/2004, Mr. R. Pepper , Binding Independence from Above,
• 04/09/2004, Prof. R. Hoppe , TBA.
• 04/16/2004, Prof. M. Nicol , Brownian Motion and Applications.
• 04/23/2004, Prof. E. Kao , Alternative Approaches to Pricing Financial Derivative.
• 04/30/2004, Mr. P. Jacobs , Symmetric Expanding Attractors.

2003 Fall

(Most of the talks will be in Friday, 2:00-3:00 pm, 116 PGH)

• 09/05/2003, Prof. Garret Etgen, How to teach mathematics?
• 09/12/2003, Prof. Roland Glowinski , A Friction Problem: Mathematical and Numerical Analysis.
• 09/19/2003, no seminar.
• 09/23/2003, Tuesday, 2:30-3:30 pm, Room 10, Science Bild.(in the basement), Prof. Herbert Amann, (Institut of Mathematics University Zurich), Control of heat conducting viscous flows.
• 10/03/2003, no seminar.
• 10/10/2003, no seminar.
• 10/17/2003, Prof. Jutta Hausen , Generalizations of some concepts from linear algebra.
• 10/24/2003, Prof. S. Fajtlowicz, Stability and Expanding Properties of Fullerenes and Benzenoids.
• 10/31/2003, Mr. Serguei Lapin, EFFECT OF INTERSTITIAL GAS ON POWDER FLOW.
• 11/7/2003, no seminar.
• 11/14/2003 Dr. Abdelnour Ahmed-Zaid, Approximate Pointwise Control of Burgers' Equation: Nonlinear Conjugate Gradients with Inexact Line Search. Click here for abstract.
• 11/21/2003, no seminar