THE MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
Colloquia and Invited Talks

Spring 2002

Contact person: Sherman Riemenschneider

Talks are usually held on Thursdays, although other dates will be utilized. All talks are scheduled for 4:00pm in 315 Armstrong Hall.

Tea and cookies begin at 3:30 in Armstrong Hall 310 (coffee room)

 DATE SPEAKER TITLE  (linked to the abstract)
January 17, 2002
January 24, 2002   Yang Wang 
Georgia Tech 
The uniformity of non-uniform Gabor bases
January 28, 2002
Monica Van Dieren
Carnegie Melon University 
Towards a Categoricity Theorem for Abstract Elementary Classes
January 31, 2002 Profesor Nanqing Ding
Nanjing University and Ohio State University
On envelopes and covers of modules
 February 1, 2002
 Kirk Weller
Bethel College
Student's Conception of Infinite
Iterative Processes
 February 4, 2002
Edwin Fuller
Duke University
Plane Curve Geometry 
and other Teaching Tools
February 6, 2002  Kelly Bradley
Ohio State University
Mathematics Education Programs:
Aligning Instruction, Assessment, and Curriculum 
February 7, 2002
Ramona Ranalli
National Security Agency
The Inverse of Polynomial and Power-Series Ring Isomorphisms in Positive Characteristic
February 18, 2002 Dragos Hrimiuc
University of Alberta
THE GEOMETRY OF THE LEGENDRE TRANSFORMATION
February 21, 2002 Ted Hodgson
Montana State University
Visualization and Mathematical Problem Solving
February 28, 2002 Bryant Moodie
University of Alberta
  Nonhydraulic effects in particle-driven gravity currents in deep and shallow surroundings
March 7, 2002
March 19, 2002
TUESDAY - DAY CHANGE
Winfried Just
Ohio University
The Mathematics of the Genome
March 21, 2002 Louis Shapiro
Howard University
The Riordan Group and Checkerboard Subgroup
March 28, 2002 SPRING BREAK
April 4, 2002 Hao Li Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
and
University of Memphis
Conjectures on Pancyclic Graphs
April 5, 2002 A.Petukhov
University of South Carolina
and
St. Petersburgh State Technical University
Wavelet Frames and Error Correcting Codes
April 8, 2002 Lixin Shen
University of Houston
and
National University of Singapore
Wavelet Algorithms for High-Resolution Image Reconstruction
April 11, 2002 John E. Osborn
University of Maryland
On Principles for the Selection of Shape Functions for the Generalized Finite Element Method
April 12, 2002 Svenja Lowitzsch
Texas A&M University
Approximation and interpolation employing divergence-free radial basis functions with applications
April 18, 2002 Zhihong Chen
Butler University
Eulerian Subgraphs and Catlin's conjectures
April 21, 2002 Anthony Hilton Avoiding Partial Latin Squares
April 25, 2002 Charles Micchelli
SUNY Albany
A Markoff Krein inequality for holomorphic functions
April 30, 2002 Reinhold Schneider
Technical University Chemnitz
Wavelets for the Fast Solution of Operator Equations
May 2, 2002 Ted Lewis
University of Alberta
An experience with non-competitive Math Fairs