MATH 795-001 -- Graduate Seminar -- Fall 2006


Announcements:

 

Special Seminar October 31.  On Tuesday October 31, there will be a special session of the graduate seminar meeting at 12 noon that day to hear Greg Landweber (U. Oregon)  You should consider this talk to be one of our "required" meetings.  So as not to mess up the schedule we will still meet at 330 that day to hear Javed's talk.  I hope that this will not be too exhausting.

 

Deadlines. Please be aware of all relevant deadlines.  Details may be found here.

 


Course syllabus: html, pdf.


Schedule of Lectures:

 

All lectures will take place in Science and Technology Building I, room 242 (The Math Department Seminar Room), 3:30pm-4:20pm unless otherwise indicated.

 

August 29:           Prof. Geir Agnarsson, GMU,

                            Vertex Coloring Planar Graphs, Inductively and Theoretically

September 5:       Prof. Rebecca Goldin, GMU,

                            Introduction to Toric Varieties from a Symplectic Point of View

September 12:     Prof. Igor Griva, GMU,

                            Case Studies in Shape and Trajectory Optimization: Catenary Problem.

September 19:     Robert Allen (Colonna),

                           The Bloch Space:  Function- and Operator-Theoretic Perspectives 

September 26:     Prof. Flavia Colonna, GMU,

                            The Bloch Space on Bounded Symmetric Domains in C^n and a Problem in Operator Theory

October 3:            Jeannie Genoese-Zerbi (Agnarsson),

                            Ramsey Numbers 

October 10:         COLUMBUS DAY RECESS, NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK.

October 17:         Jill Dunham (Agnarsson),

                            Conway's thrackle conjecture

October 24:          Prof. Evelyn Sander, GMU,

                            Explosions in one dimension

October 31:        Prof. Greg Landweber, University of Oregon

                            12:15pm - 1:05pm, Room 242, ST1

                            Physical Supersymmetry for Mathematicians

October 31:         Javed Siddique (Anderson),

                            Imbibition of Liquid into a Porous Material

November 7:        Trey Andreani,

                            Rigid motions in the plane

November 14:      Andrew Samuelson (Morris),

                            The Borsuk-Ulam Theorem and Some of its Applications

November 21:      Keith Fox,

                            An Introduction to Small Cardinals, and Martin's Axiom

November 28:      Mao-Tsuen Jeng (Walnut),

                            Two Dimension Sampling

December 5:        Dave Johannsen,

                            A Brief (and often imprecise) Introduction to Geometrization

           

 


Homepages of some GMU seminars:

 

GMU Mathematical Sciences Colloquium

 

Combinatorics, Algebra and Geometry Seminar

 

SCS/LCDM Research Colloquium

 

To find out what else the Mathematics Department has to offer, visit the Math Department home page.


To contact me, send mail to: dwalnut@gmu.edu.