Colloquium

The Colloquium is usually held from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. on Fridays in Science & Technology Building I, Room 242, with refreshments beforehand at 3:00 p.m. in Room 222.

Fall, 2009

• November 6~SIAM-GMU Faculty Research Symposium


• November 13~ James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World
  Karen Parshall, University of Virginia


• November 20~ Geometric interpretations of the relation between Delannoy numbers and Legendre polynomials
  Gabor Hetyei, University of North Carolina, Charlotte


• November 27~(No colloquium today.)


• December 4~(No colloquium today.)

Spring, 2010

• January 29~Vic Reiner, University of Minnesota


• February 5~ Alfred S. Carasso, National Institute of Standards and Technology


• February 19~Vic Reiner, University of Minnesota

Recent past colloquia

Fall, 2009

• October 9~ Multilevel optimization methods for engineering design and PDE-constrained optimization
  Stephen Nash, George Mason University


• October 2~ Secrecy in war and peace
  Geir Agnarsson, George Mason University


• September 18~ Special classes of convex sets
  Valeriu Soltan, George Mason University


• September 11~ The Gibbs phenomenon: the saga
  James C. Alexander, Case Western Reserve University and the National Science Foundation

Spring, 2009

• May 1~ Complex fluids; properties, models, and solutions
  Pam Cook, University of Delaware


• April 24~ Algebraic Structure in a Family of Nim-like Arrays
  Lowell Abrams, George Washington University


• April 17~ A Whirlwind Tour of Fractional Graph Theory
  Dan Ullman, George Washington University


• March 20~ On the Facets of Mixed Integer Programs with Two Integer Variables and Two Constraints
  Francois Margot, Carnegie Mellon University


• February 20~ Dynamic Congestion and Control Through Random Assignment of Routes
  Fern Hunt, National Institute of Standards and Technology


• February 6~ Parametric nonlinear discrete optimization
  Jon Lee, IBM Watson Research Center


• January 30~ A multi-resolution method for climate system modeling: Application of Spherical Centroidal Voronoi tessellations
  Max Gunzburger, Florida State University

Fall, 2008

• December 5~ The structure of large graphs
  Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University and IAS, Princeton


• November 21~ On a fully nonlinear Schrodinger equation
  Jeng-Eng Lin, George Mason University


• October 31~ Operator theory on the Bloch space
  Flavia Colonna, George Mason University


• October 24~ Number fields and elliptic curves
  Larry Washington, University of Maryland


• October 17~ Centroidal Voronoi tessellations: recent advances in theory and applications
  Maria Emelianenko, George Mason University


• October 3~ Subnormal operators and function theory
  John Conway, George Washington University


• September 12~ Parameter estimation of Markov modulated processes
  Yariv Ephraim, George Mason University

Some other current College of Science colloquia/seminars

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