Colloquium

Spring 2013

October 3. John Drost (Marshall). What is Strategic Voting and What Can Be Done About It? (Hint: Not Much). Abstract

January 25. Michael Schroeder (Marshall). Cyclic Matching Sequencibility of Graphs. Abstract
Feburary 22. Anna Mummert (Marshall). Studying the recovery procedure for the time-dependent transmission rate in epidemic models. Abstract
March 7. Matthew Sedlock (Johns Hopkins University). Percolation models. Abstract
March 9. Avishek Mallick (University of New Hampshire). Inferential procedures based on samples with nondetects from normal and related distributions. Abstract
March 12. Myung Soon Song (University of Pittsburgh). An unconventional approach to likelihood of correlation matrices. Abstract
April 2. Sharad Silwal (Kansas State University). Image quality assessment methods. Abstract
April 6. JiYoon Jung (University of Kentucky). The topology of restricted partition posets. Abstract

November 8. Carl Mummert (Marshall). Two examples from infinitary combinatorics. Abstract

April 5. Suman Sanyal (Marshall). Stochastic Dynamic Equations.
April 8. Elizabeth Niese (Virginia Tech). Macdonald polynomials and the hook-length formula for standard Young tableaux.
April 15. Andrew Oster (École Normale Supérieure). A laminar model for the development of the primary visual cortex.
April 18. Michael Schroeder (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Phi-symmetric Hailton cycle decompositions of graphs.
April 20. Remy Friends Ndangali (University of Florida). Bound states in the radiation continuum and nonlinear effects in photonic structures.
April 22. Paul Shafer (Cornell). Coding arithmetic in the Medvedev degrees and its substructures.

September 8. Anna Mummert (Marshall). Get the News Out Loudly and Quickly: Modeling the Influence of the Media on Limiting Infectious Disease Outbreaks.
October 13. Carl Mummert (Marshall). The axiom of choice in mathematics and computability.
November 9. Suman Sanyal (Marshall). Stochastic Process Indexed by Time Scale.

September 16. Carl Mummert (Marshall). Gaming around with topology.
October 15. Sydney Thembinkosi Mkhatshwa (Marshall). Super-spreading events.
November 11. Duane Farnsworth (Marshall). Approximation Numbers and Ideals of Operators.

October 19. Peter Saveliev (Marshall). Low level vision through topological glasses.

February 22. Norah Esty (University of California - Berkeley), "Topological Properties of Orbit Sets for Groups of Homeomorphisms". Abstract
February 24. Elmas Irmak (Michigan State University), "Mapping Class Groups". Abstract
March 3. Akhtar Khan (Michigan Technological University), "An inverse problem in elasticity". Abstract
April 8. Judith Silver, "Conics in Projective Geometry". Abstract
April 22. Bonnie Shook, "Topological Approaches to Fingerprint Identification" and Nathan Cantrell, "Cubical Homology in Medical Imaging". Abstract
April 29, Drinko Library, Room 402. Arthur Porter (Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto), "Manchester University's Contributions to Analog and Digital Computing". Abstract

September 24. Alfred Akinsete, "The winning probability and ranking models for teams in soccer tournaments". Abstract
October 8. Ralph Oberste-Vorth, "From Chaos to Stability: Dynamic Equations Parameterized by Time Scales". Abstract
October 22. John L. Drost, "What is the opposite of a prime number?" Abstract
November 5. Elizabeth Duke and Kelli Hall, "Time Scale Calculus and Dynamical Systems". Abstract
November 19. Christopher Johnson and Peter Saveliev, "Topological Proteomics: Pure Mathematics in Life Sciences." Abstract

January 23. Yulia Dementieva, "Statistical approaches to gene mapping", Abstract
February 6. Linda Hamilton, "Robotics of the Mars Station Program". Abstract
February 19, Basant Karna (Baylor University), "Eigenvalue Comparison for Multipoint Boundary Value Problems", Abstract
February 24, John (Matt) Matthews (Duke University), "Granular Materials: An Introduction & Application to Hopper Flows", Abstract
February 27, Mohamed Elhamdadi (University of South Florida), "On knot invariants". Abstract
March 5. Scott Sarra, "Scattered Data Approximation with Radial Basis Functions". Abstract
April 2, John L. Drost, "Arrow's Theorem or Why we all just can't get along", Abstract

September 26. John L. Drost, "Addition Chains". Abstract
October 10. Peter Saveliev, "From slot machines to topology through calculus". Abstract
October 24. Kelli Hall, "Escher's Tilings and Ribbons". Abstract
November 7. Judith Silver, "The Spherical Metric Project". Abstract
December 5. Bonita Lawrence, "Time Scales: A Snappy Link between Continuous Processes and Discrete Processes". Abstract