Western Illinois University Department of Mathematics Past Colloquia

PAST COLLOQUIA

2009-2010 Academic Year

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.

2008-2009 Academic Year

May 8, 2009, 3:00-4:00 p.m. - "A Nonstandard Approach to Hilbert's Fifth Problem" presented by Isaac Goldbring, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, in 204 Morgan Hall.
May 7, 2009, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - "O-minimal structures and measures" presented by Dr. Jana Marikova, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University, in 204 Morgan Hall.
April 30, 2009, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - "Modeling heterogeneity and its effect on the operating characteristics of a Simon Phase II clinical trial" presented by Christopher N. Barnes, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, University of Louisville, in 204 Morgan Hall.
April 29, 2009, 5:00-6:00 p.m. - "Jack and the Beanstalk 2.0: Space Tethers and Elevators" presented by Dr. Galen Weitkamp, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University, in 202 Morgan Hall. Colloquium sponsored by the KME and MOST Math student groups.
April 28, 2009, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - "Phase-plane analysis of dynamical systems models" presented by Gregory Baramidze, Department of Computer Science, The University of Georgia, in 204 Morgan Hall.
April 21, 2009, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - Teaching with Technology seminar "Teaching Online: Benefits and Challenges" presented by Dr. Feridun Tasdan, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University, in 216 Morgan Hall.
April 17, 2009, 2:00-3:00 p.m. - "How to Make Online Quizzes with Hot Potatoes" presented by Dr. Jim Olsen, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University in 306 Morgan Hall.
April 9, 2009, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - "Some theoretical and computational results about the forced oscillations of a Korteweg-de Vries equation" presented by Dr. Muhammad Usman, Department of Mathematics, University of Dayton, in 204 Morgan Hall.
April 7, 2009, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - "Graphing Basics in Matlab" presented by Dr. Victoria Baramidze, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University in 216 Morgan Hall. This talk is a part of the Teaching with Technology weekly series of seminars.
March 24, 2009, 4:00-5:00 p.m. - Teaching with Technology seminar "Microsoft Excel Basics" in 216 Morgan Hall.
March 12, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. - "Equivariant K-Theory of Toric Varieties" presented by Dr. Suanne Au, Department of Mathematics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 204 Morgan Hall.
March 10, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. - "A computation method for estimating playa watershed and comparison of two stochastic metapopulation models" presented by Dr. Amy Ekanayake, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University in 204 Morgan Hall.
March 6, 2009 at 3:30 p.m. - "Differences between randomness notions" presented by Dr. Johanna Franklin, Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore in 214 Morgan Hall.
March 5, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. - "Modeling and controlling Magnetostrictive Actuators" presented by Dr. Dinesh Ekanayake, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University in 204 Morgan Hall.
March 3, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. - Teaching with Technology seminar "Using the Mimio System and Software to Teach Mathematics" in 216 Morgan Hall.
February 24, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. - Teaching with Technology seminar "Usting the Smartboard and TI-Smartview in Math 100 and Math 128" in 214 Morgan Hall.
February 17, 2009 at 4:00 p.m. - Teaching wtih Technology seminar "Introduction to Interactive White Boards: SMART Boards and Mimio" in 216 Morgan Hall.
October 9, 2008 - Colloquium "Quotients Modulo Nonreductive Groups and Moduli Spaces of Sheaves" presented by Dr. Mario Maican, Department of Mathematics, Western Illinois University at 4:00 p.m. in 204 Morgan Hall.
August 28, 2008 - Colloquium "Linear and Nonlinear Representations of the Transformations for the Painleve Equations" presented by Professor Alexander Kitaev of the Steklov Mathematical Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences) at 4:00 p.m. in 204 Morgan Hall.

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