Department of Mathematics at ISU

Colloquium Schedule

2008-2009

October 2, 2008
Contact: Dr. Tracy Payne

Dr. Mike Fried, University of California, Irvine (Emeritus), and
Montana State University, Billings (Adjunct Research Professor)

2007-2008

Fall 2007 talks will be Fridays at 3:30pm in PS 307 and are preceded by refreshments in PS 317 at 3:00 unless otherwise posted.

May 8, 2008 NOTE: Thursday! Contact: Dr. Bob Fisher	Dr. Tom Cecil, College of the Holy Cross Lie sphere geometry and Dupin hypersurfaces

April 25, 2008 Contact: Dr. Tracy Payne	Dr. Dave Glickenstein, University of Arizona Ricci flow: applications and long term solutions

April 11, 2008	Dr. Laurie Battle, Montana Tech and visiting Idaho State University ODE models of rainbow trout / Yellowstone cutthroat trout interactions in the Upper South Fork Snake River, Idaho

March 21, 2008	Dr. Rob Van Kirk Hypothesis tests on random periodic functions and their application to hydrologic regimes

February 28, 2008 Contact: Dr. Cathy Kriloff	Dr. Dan Ciubotaru, University of Utah Unitary representations of reductive p-adic groups

February 1, 2008	Dr. Raz Stowe, Idaho State University Generalizations of Gronwall's Inequality

November 30, 2007	Dr. Greg Green, Idaho State University Department of Economics Weakly renegotiation proof strategies in intra-industry trade

November 9, 2007 Contact: Dr. Wen-xiang Zhu	Dr. Pengtao Sun, University of Nevada - Las Vegas Numerical fuel cell dynamics

October 26, 2007	Dr. Wenxiang Zhu, Idaho State University Analysis and discretization of an optimal control problem for the forced Fisher equation

October 12, 2007	Dr. Rob Van Kirk, Idaho State University Statistical methods for analysis of non-sampled data, and an application to detection of climate change in the Klamath River Basin

September 28, 2007 Contact: Dr. Bob Fisher	Dr. Kyung-Bai Lee, University of Oklahoma Metric foliations on hyperbolic spaces

Spring 2007
May 10, 2007 Contact: Dr. Leonid Hanin	Dr. Michael Shapiro, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Basic ideas of hypercomplex analysis

April 4, 2007	Dr. Cathy Kriloff, Idaho State University Indexing regions in dihedral and dodecahedral hyperplane arrangements

March 21, 2007 Contact: Dr. Bob Fisher	Julia Fisher, Carleton College (Undergraduate Colloquium) The symmedian locus for a circle of triangles

February 28, 2007 Contacts: Dr. Leonid Hanin, Dr. Jack Owens	Dr. Michael Sonis, Bar Ilan University Complication (evolution of complexity): mathematical models inspired by empirical regularities of spatial socio-economic and behavioral sciences

February 7, 2007 Contact: Dr. Alan Egger	Dr. Larry Blackwood, Idaho National Laboratory Statistical methods in the PINS system for chemical warfare agent identification

January 24, 2007	Dr. DeWayne Derryberry, Idaho State University Regression to the mean for paired data: approximate confidence intervals and z-tests

Fall 2006
November 16, 2006 Contact: Dr. Tracy Payne	Dr. Roger Alperin, San Jose State University (Math/CS Club talk) Mathematics of Origami

November 9, 2006 Contact: Dr. Cathy Kriloff	Dr. Pramod Achar, Louisiana State University Springer correspondences for dihedral groups

November 2, 2006 Contact: Dr. Rob VanKirk	(Math/CS Club talk - Plant Sciences Auditorium, Biological Sciences) Dr. Rollie Lamberson, Humboldt State University (Emeritus) Individual-based ecology: A virtual look at habitat selection and competition


September 28, 2006 Contact: Dr. Alan Egger	Dr. Andy Woldar, Villanova University Applications of group geometry to extremal graph theory

2005-2006
May 5, 2006	Suzanne Lundeen (Graduate Student Exposition Talk) The Octonions

May 3, 2006	Jason Rose (Graduate Student Exposition) The Stone-Cech Compactification

September 29, 2005	Dr. Tracy Payne, Idaho State University Anosov automorphisms: chaotic dynamics, nilpotent groups, and algebraic numbers