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2012-2013 Academic Year

• Thursday, April 4, 2013, 3:45-5:00pm - Colloquium "Statistics of Ideal Class Groups" presented by Dr. Derek Garton, postdoctoral lecturer at Northwestern University
• Thursday, March 28, 2013, 3:45-5:00pm - Colloquium "Constacyclic Duadic Codes" presented by Professor Tom Blackford of Western Illinois University
• Thursday, March 21 2013, 3:45-5:00pm - Colloquium "Mathematical Issues of Meaning in School Mathematics" presented by Professor David Henderson from Cornell Unversity
• Friday, March 22, 2013, 8:00am registration - 62nd annual WIU Mathematics Teachers' Conference
• Thursday, March 7 2013, 3:45-5:00pm - Colloquium "Modular Forms, Elliptic Curves and Galois Representations" presented by Professor Mehmet Sengun from Unversity of Warwick
• Feb. 28, 2013, 3:45-5:00pm - Colloquium "Reverse VC calculations: using statistics in model theory" presented by Dr. David Lippell from Haverford College, Haverford, PA.
• February 21, 2013, 3:45-5:00 pm - Colloquium "Computable Reductions Between Mathematical Theorems" presented by Prof. Joseph Mileti from Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, in 204 Morgan Hall
• October 4, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "Tame Geometry" presented by Dr. Philipp Hieronymi, a Visiting Professor from University of Illinois -Champaign/Urbana, in 204 Morgan Hall
• August 31, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "Characterization of compact and self-adjoint operators, and study of positive operators on a Banach space over a non-Archimedean field" presented by Prof. Khodr Shamseddine, from the University of Manitoba, in 204 Morgan Hall.

2011-2012 Academic Year

• June 14, 3:00-4:00 pm - Colloquium "An Economic Optimization Strategy for Residential Micro Combined Heat and Power Units" presented by Emrah Gunel, Graduate Student from Western Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• April 30, 4:00-5:00 pm- Colloquium "In Vivo Imaging of Stem Cells" presented by Dr. Ali Lashgari, from  the California Institute of Technology, in 204 Morgan Hall
• April 24, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "Model Theory and MInimality" presented by Dr. Joseph Flenner, a Visiting Assistant Professor from University of Notre Dame, in 204 Morgan Hall
• March 23, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "Preparing Math Teachers: What Have We Done Wrong?" presented by Dr. Hung Hsi-Wu, a Professor of Department of Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, in 204 Morgan Hall
• March 7, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "Widder's Theorem for Dirichlet Spaces" presented by Dr. Nathaniel Eldredge, a Visiting Assistant Professor from Cornell University, in 204 Morgan Hall
• March 6, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "Multiplicities, Integral Dependence and Equisingularity" presented by Dr. Javid Validashti, a Visiting Assistant Professor from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 204 Morgan Hall
• March 2, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "Invariants of Legendrian Graphs" presented by Dr. Elena Pavelescu, a Visiting Assistant Professor from Occidental College, in 204 Morgan Hall
• February 29, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "Jones' Conjecture and Matsuda Branched Surfaces" presented by Dr. Douglas LaFountain, a Visiting Postdoc and Lecturer from the University of California-Berkeley, in 204 Morgan Hall
• February 23, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "A Nearly Linear Phenomenon, and Exponentiation & Computability" presented by Dr. Mojtaba Moniri in 204 Morgan Hall.
• February 9, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "'Skyping' Problem Solving Tasks to Improve Fraction Instruction" presented by Professor Kim Hartweg, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall
• December 8, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "Connections and Problem Solving Tasks for the Common Core" presented by Professors Kim Hartweg & Bob Mann, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall
• December 1, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "Co-maximal powers and automorphisms of the lattice of (c.e.) subspaces of L*(V∞)" presented by Professor Rumen Dimitrov, Deparment of Mathematics, Western Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall
• November 17, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "Polynomials constant on a hyperplane and CR maps of spheres" presented by Dr. Jiri Lebl, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 204 Morgan Hall
• October 20, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "Discrete and penalized least squares splines on the unit sphere" presented by Professor Victoria Baramidze, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall
• October 13, 4:00-5:00 pm - Colloquium "Stochastic SIS Epidemic Models for Metapopulatios and their Comparison" presented by Professor Amy Ekanayake, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall
• September 9, 4:00-5:00 p.m.- Colloquium "Polish Groups, Ample Generics and Metric Model Theory" presented by Itai Ben Yaacov, Universite Claude Bernard - Lyon 1,  Institut Camille Jordan, in 204 Morgan Hall

2010-2011 Academic Year

• April 22, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - Colloquium "Singluar Optimal Strategies for a Stochastic Cost Minimization Problem" presented by Professor Ananda Weerasinghe, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• April 1, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - Colloquium "A Residuated Structure for Intuitionistic Fuzzy Logic" presented by Professor Esfandiar Eslami, Department of Electrical Engineering, Northern Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• March 24, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - Colloquium "Mind the Gaps: How College Readiness Narrows Achievement Gaps in College Success" presented by George Schlott, Senior Consultant at Educational Services-Illinois, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• December 2nd, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - Colloquium. "Modeling the Microstructure of the Temperature Field and the Effective Properties of Heat Conduction through Polydisperse Spherical Suspensions" presented by Dr. Abhinandan Chowdhury, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• November 11th, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - Colloquium. "Control of Large-Scale Complex Systems" presented by Dr. Sr-Shin Li, Department of System Engineering, Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• October 28th, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - Colloquium. "Cyclic Codes Over the 2-adic Numbers" presented by Dr. Tom Blackford, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• September 14, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - "A Variational Approach to Image Fusion" presented by Dr. Todd Wittman, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, in 204 Morgan Hall.

2009-2010 Academic Year

• April 29, 3:30-4:30 - Colloquium "Introduction to Fuzzy Regression and Applications to Insurance" presented by Dr. Marie-Claire Koissi, of Western Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• April 22, 4:00-5:00 - Colloquium "Asymptotic behavior of a low-dimensional model for magnetic and magnetostrictive transducers for periodic inputs" presented by Dr. Dinesh Ekayanake, of Western Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• April 16, 4:00-5:00 - Colloquium "Geometric Constraints on Multivariate Splines " presented by Dr. Tatyana Sorokina, of Towson University, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• April 1, 4:00-5:00 - Colloquium "Symmetric matrix fields in the finite element Method" presented by Dr. Gerard Awanou, of Northern Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• March 25, 2010, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - "The Logic of Intelligence Analysis" presented by Dr. Keith Devlin, Stanford University, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• December 2, 2009, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - "The Real Numbers and O-minimality" presented by Lou van den Dries, Department of Mathematics, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• November 19, 2009, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - "Polytopes, Algebra, Toric Varieties and Splines" presented by Dr. Henry Schenck, Department of Mathematics, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• November 12, 2009, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - "Non-accessible Critical Points of Some Rational Functions with Cremer Points" presented by Dr. Lia Petracovici, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• November 5, 2009, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - "An Introduction to the p-adic Integers" presented by Dr. Tom Blackford, Department of Mathemetics, Western Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• October 29, 2009, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - "An Unexpected Connection: Model Theory of Difference Fields and Algebraic Dynamics" presented by Dr. Alice Medvedev, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, in 204 Morgan Hall.
• October 15, 2009, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - "Spherical Splines on Clough-Tocher Triangulations for Hermite Interpolation" presented by Dr. Victoria Baramidze, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University, in 204 Morgan Hall.