The following list is a list of previous talks giving in student run seminars at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oklahoma. The list is complete up to and including spring 2009. For talks after spring 2009 please search the department database. You can access the data base from the website: http://math.ou.edu. (August 2009: the direct link to this database is: http://math.ou.edu/events/search.php.)
Spring 2009
02 / 02 / 2009: Post-Doc Panel, Everything you wanted to know about the post doctorate position
02 / 11 / 2009: FBI rep, Job opportunites with FBI
02 / 16 / 2009: Dr. Noel Brady and co., All about the Math Graduate Students Association and more
02 / 23 / 2009: Dr. Maria Leite, Modeling Infectious Diseases in Humans: HIV-1 as a case study
03 / 02 / 2009: Dr. Matt Clay, Train Tracks and Automorphisms of Free Groups
03 / 09 / 2009: Dr. Dan Guralnik, How to Talk about Shape
03 / 23 / 2009: Sean Crowell, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
04 / 03 / 2009: Special Karcher Lecture by Dr. Helen Grundman, An Informal Workshop on Writing a Statement of Your Teaching Philosophy
04 / 06 / 2009: Dr. Krishnaiyan Thulasiraman, Duality in Graphs and Applications
04 / 13 / 2009: Catherine Hall, p-adic Preliminaries
04 / 20 / 2009: Emre Tokgoz, Mixed Convexity Theory
04 / 29 / 2009: BancFirst and Trust, Job Opportunities
05 / 04 / 2009: How to Get Here Successfully!
Fall 2008
08 / 25 / 2008: Prof. Noel Brady, Chat with graduate students
09 / 08 / 2008: Jason,Sarah and Ravi, Qualification exams, advisory conference report,...
09 / 17 / 2008(Wed.5 p.m.): Wood Group rep., Wood Group employment
09 / 22 / 2008: Dr. Tamara Carter, Professor of Mathematics at OCCC: OCCC is a great place to be. Find out of it is the right fit for you.
09 / 29 / 2008: Emre Tokgoz, An example of advisory conference report
10 / 06 / 2008: Dr Charlotte K Simmons, Finding A Job in Academia: UCO and Beyond
10 / 13 / 2008: Ravi Srinivasan Varadharaj, Connected Solvable Matrix Groups
10 / 20 / 2008: John Paul, Sabermetrics: The Mathematical Analysis of Baseball
10 / 27 / 2008: Jonathan Kujawa, Solved and Unsolved Problems of Paul Erdos
11 / 03 / 2008: Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan, Dynamic Data Assimilation: An overview
11 / 10 / 2008: Dr. Keri Kornelson, What in the heck are liberal arts? A discussion about life as a faculty member at a liberal arts college.
11 / 17 / 2008: Sean Bauer, A Brief Introduction to Game Theory
12 / 01 / 2008: Kristi Glenn, Graduate Colloge General Information
12 / 08 / 2008: Thomas Madsen, Introduction to LaTex programming
Spring 2008
01 / 28 / 2008: Dr. John Albert, The Dirichlet Principle
02 / 04 / 2008: Dr. Noel Brady, Isoperimetric Inequalities on graphs
02 / 11 / 2008: Dr. Meijun Zhu, Hardy Inequality and continuous story
02 / 18 / 2008: Dr. T. J. Murphy, Finding a job
02 / 25 / 2008: Sean Bauer, Rubik's Cube group
03 / 03 / 2008: Dr. S. Lakshmivarahan, Energy conserving low-order models
03 / 10 / 2008: Dr. Ralf Schmidt, Eightfold way
03 / 24 / 2008: Dr. Alan Roche, Logic and Number Theory: Hilbert's Tenth Problem
03 / 31 / 2008: Dr. Colm Mulcahy, New Mathemagical Principles Applied to Card Tricks
04 / 07 / 2008: Dr. Christian Remling, The mathematics of quantum mechanics
04 / 14 / 2008: Tara Mecham, Introduction to Geometric Group Theory
04 / 21 / 2008: Thomas Madsen, Introduction to LaTeX
04 / 28 / 2008: Eduardo, Tim, and Sangbum: "Getting a job" - A rendezvous with senior graduate students
Fall 2007
08 / 27 / 2007: Dr. Murad Ozaydin, Topological Radon Theorems
09 / 10 / 2007: Dr. Darryl McCullough, Beyond the Intermediate Value Theorem
09 / 17 / 2007: Ravi Srinivasan, First order linear differential equations
09 / 24 / 2007: Dr. Krishnan Shankar, An Introduction to Cryptography
10 / 01 / 2007: Dr. Jonathan Kujawa, Burnt Pancakes DNA and the Symmetric Group, or: How Bill Gates became the richest man on earth
10 / 08 / 2007: Jeffery Breeding, Frame Fields and the Frenet Formulas
10 / 15 / 2007: Emre Tokgoz, Mathematical logic in computer hardware
10 / 22 / 2007: Dr. Ameya Pitale, Representation of integers as sums of squares
10 / 29 / 2007: Dr. Nikola Petrov, Waiting time at the bus stop: An intro to stochastic processes
11 / 05 / 2007: Dr. Kevin Grasse, Regularity of the value function for constrained optimization problems
11 / 12 / 2007: Dr. Keri Kornelson, Metrics Fixed Points and Iterated Function Systems
11 / 19 / 2007: Dr. Max Forester, Differential topology and the fundamental theorem of algebra
11 / 26 / 2007: Dr. Matt Clay, From Calculus to Cohomology
12 / 03 / 2007: Dr. Kimball Martin, Geometrization in 2 dimensions
Spring 2007
01 / 22 / 2007: Stephen Lancaster, Preservice Teachers, Statistics, and Confidence Issues
01 / 29 / 2007: Husein Darwish, Introduction to Algebraic Geometry
02 / 05 / 2007: William Herring, Introduction to Number Fields
02 / 12 / 2007: Jeffery Breeding, Roots of Unity and Cyclotomic Polynomials
02 / 19 / 2007: Eduardo Martinez, How to Guard a Museum
02 / 26 / 2007: Dr. Ralf Schmidt, Horological Algebra
03 / 05 / 2007: Dr. Alan Roche, Burnsides's Lemma and Applications
03 / 12 / 2007: Krista Hands, Business Calculus: An exploration of how to teach a course one was never taught.
03 / 26 / 2007: Julian Rosen, Irrationality Measure
04 / 02 / 2007: Fermat's Last Tango: A Musical on Fermat's Last Theorem
04 / 09 / 2007: Dr. Nikola Petrov, The Secret Geometry of Harmonic Oscillators
04 / 16 / 2007: Emre Tokgoz, Introduction to Morse Theory
04 / 23 / 2007: Taechang Byun,The Extrinsic and Geometric Interpretation of the Gaussian Curvature.
04 / 30 / 2007: Sang Rae Lee, Chord Sequence-- Canon in D
Fall 2006
08 / 28 / 2006: Dr.Goodey, Dr.Brady, Dr.Roche, Information on our graduate programs in mathematics
09 / 11 / 2006: Dr.Andy Magid, Aspects of differential algebra
09 / 18 / 2006: Hamid, ...Hilbert Spaces. Some results and applications...
09 / 25 / 2006: Beth Mccoy, Introduction to D2L(PHSC 230)
10 / 02 / 2006: Ryan Holbrook, The Mathematics of Marriage
10 / 09 / 2006: Pedro Olaya, Alice and Me
10 / 16 / 2006: Emre Tokgoz, A pedagogical approach to the function concept and differential manifolds
10 / 23 / 2006: Tim Frye, Free groups and normalizer series
10 / 30 / 2006: Dr.T.J.Murphy, Finding a Job
11 / 06 / 2006: TaraLee Mecham, Our friend Euler
11 / 13 / 2006: William Herring, The Gaussian Integers
11 / 20 / 2006: Shamim Nemati, Bayesian Inference and Decoding of Motor Cortical Activities
11 / 27 / 2006: Dr.Nikola Petrov, Space and time in special relativity
12 / 04 / 2006: Jeffery Breeding, Model Theory
Spring 2006
No Information available
Fall 2005
08 / 29 / 2005: Paul Goodey, Murad Ozaydin, More information about OU's graduate program in mathematics
09 / 12 / 2005: Beth McCoy, Introduction to Desire2Learn
09 / 19 / 2005: Krishnan Shankar, The coin exchange problem of Frobenius
09 / 23 / 2005: Roger Howe, Catalan numbers
10 / 03 / 2005: Murad Ozaydin, From the lost notebook of Archimedes: mathematics of pizza and beyond
10 / 10 / 2005: Max Forester, Moebius bands in space
10 / 17 / 2005: Ara Basmajian, Hyperbolic geometry, an introduction
10 / 24 / 2005: Ralf Schmidt, Riemann's 1859 paper
10 / 31 / 2005: David Rowe, Mathematics and imagination ca 1900
11 / 07 / 2005: Kevin Grasse, A brief glimpse at geometric control theory
11 / 14 / 2005: Noel Brady, What are graph braid groups?
11 / 21 / 2005: Darryl McCullough, Gian-Carlo Rota (1932-1999)
11 / 28 / 2005: Luther White, Mathematical Legos: Springs, Beams, and the Elm Street Parking Garage
12 / 05 / 2005: Robert Sulman, Busy Beaver Turing Machines
Spring 2009
01 / 22 / 2009: No Speaker, Organizational Meeting
01 / 29 / 2009: Jeff Breeding, The Chord-Tangent Group Law for Elliptic Curves
02 / 05 / 2009: Houssein El Turkey, Structure of Boolean rings (Abstract) (Handout from talk)
02 / 12 / 2009: Yoe Herrera Jaramillo, Free groups and graphs
02 / 19 / 2009: Ravi Srinivasan, Introduction to Sheaf Theory I
02 / 26 / 2009: Ravi Srinivasan, Introduction to Sheaf Theory II
03 / 05 / 2009: Kumar Balasubramanian, Frobenius Schur Indicators and Realizability of Representations
03 / 12 / 2009: Catherine Hall, The Completion of the Rational Numbers with Respect to p-adic Absolute Values
03 / 26 / 2009: Kashyap Rajeevsarathy, Differential Geometry and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra I
04 / 02 / 2009: Kashyap Rajeevsarathy, Differential Geometry and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra II
04 / 09 / 2009: John Paul Cook, Sums of Squares and Minkowski's Theorem
(Abstract: We will explore two theorems from classical number theory: the "Two Squares" and "Four Squares" theorems, as well as several methods of proof. The primary result will be an elegant proof of these two results via Minkowski's Theorem for convex sets.)
04 / 16 / 2009: Julia Maddox, The complete reducibility of sp(4,C)
04 / 30 / 2009: Jeff Breeding, Galois Number Fields
Fall 2008
09 / 02 / 2008: No Speaker, Organizational Meeting
09 / 09 / 2008: Jeffery Breeding II, Artinian K-algebras
09 / 16 / 2008: Steven Spallone, Kaleidoscopy
09 / 23 / 2008: Catherine Hall, p-adic Numbers: The Foundation
09 / 30 / 2008: William Herring, Iwahori-Spherical Representations of GSp(2), GSp(4), and GSp(6) I
10 / 07 / 2008: William Herring, Iwahori-Spherical Representations of GSp(2), GSp(4), and GSp(6) II
10 / 14 / 2008: William Herring, Iwahori-Spherical Representations of GSp(2), GSp(4), and GSp(6) III
10 / 21 / 2008: Ravi Srinivasan, Galois Groups of Second-Order Linear Homogeneous ODE's
10 / 28 / 2008: Houssein El Turkey, Extensions of Commutative Rings
11 / 04 / 2008: Kumar Balasubramanian, Induced Representations, Mackey's Decomposition Theorem and Irreducibilty Criterion I
11 / 11 / 2008: Kumar Balasubramanian, Induced Representations, Mackey's Decomposition Theorem and Irreducibilty Criterion II
11 / 18 / 2008: James Broda, Gödel Numbers and Lying Cretans
12 / 09 / 2008: Thomas Madsen, Induced Representations and BN-pairs
Spring 2008
01 / 22 / 2008: Jeffery Breeding II, Formal Systems: Paradox and Meaning
01 / 29 / 2008: Jeffery Breeding II, Structure Theory of Semisimple Groups and Linear Connected Reductive Groups
02 / 05 / 2008: Kashyap Rajeevsarathy, Cohomology I
02 / 12 / 2008: Kashyap Rajeevsarathy, Cohomology II
02 / 19 / 2008: Kashyap Rajeevsarathy, Cohomology III
02 / 26 / 2008: Kumar Balasubramanian, Banach Algebras and Gelfand Transforms
03 / 04 / 2008: Jeffery Breeding II, Lie Superalgebras and the Dirac Operator I
03 / 11 / 2008: Jeffery Breeding II, Lie Superalgebras and the Dirac Operator II
03 / 25 / 2008: Thomas Madsen, Representations of Finite Groups
04 / 08 / 2008: Jeffery Breeding II, Representations of GSp(6,R)
Fall 2007
09 / 04 / 2007: Jeffery Breeding II, Semisimple Rings and Modules I
09 / 11 / 2007: Jeffery Breeding II, Semisimple Rings and Modules II
09 / 18 / 2007: Thomas Madsen, Composition factors of SL_2(k)-modules
09 / 25 / 2007: Dr. Alan Roche, Finite Subgroups of Linear Groups
10 / 02 / 2007: Nicolai Hahnle, Disjoint Steiner Systems
10 / 09 / 2007: Ravi Srinivasan, Algebraic Varieties and Algebraic Groups
10 / 16 / 2007: Ravi Srinivasan, Algebraic Groups and Differential Equations
10 / 23 / 2007: Kashyap Rajeevsarathy, Singular Homology I
10 / 30 / 2007: Kashyap Rajeevsarathy, Singular Homology II
11 / 06 / 2007: Jeffery Breeding II, Modular Forms and L-functions
11 / 13 / 2007: Kumar Balasubramanian, Pro-finite Groups I
11 / 27 / 2007: Kumar Balasubramanian, Pro-finite Groups II
12 / 04 / 2007: Sam Snow, Interesting Examples of Lie Algebras
Spring 2007
01 / 23 / 2007: William Herring, Intro to Algebraic Number Theory I
01 / 30 / 2007: William Herring, Intro to Algebraic Number Theory II
02 / 06 / 2007: William Herring, Intro to Algebraic Number Theory III
02 / 13 / 2007: Jeffery Breeding II, Intro to Category Theory I
02 / 20 / 2007: Jeffery Breeding II, Intro to Category Theory II
02 / 27 / 2007: Ravi Srinivasan, Differential Algebra I
03 / 06 / 2007: Ravi Srinivasan, Differential Algebra II
03 / 13 / 2007: Pedro Olaya, Intro to Przebinda's CHC Integral
03 / 27 / 2007: Dr. James Hawthorne, A Discussion about Logic and Mathematics
04 / 03 / 2007: Kumar Balasubramanian, Lie Algebras I
04 / 10 / 2007: Kumar Balasubramanian, Lie Algebras II
04 / 17 / 2007: Husein Darwish, Introduction to Algebraic Geometry
Fall 2006
08 / 31 / 2007: Kumar Balasubramanian, Rings and Ideals
09 / 07 / 2007: William Herring, Spectrum of a Commutative Ring I
09 / 14 / 2007: William Herring, Spectrum of a Commutative Ring II
09 / 21 / 2007: Ravi Srinivasan, Modules and Tensor Products I
09 / 28 / 2007: Ravi Srinivasan, Modules and Tensor Products II
10 / 05 / 2007: Ravi Srinivasan, Modules and Tensor Products III
10 / 12 / 2007: Ravi Srinivasan, Modules and Tensor Products IV
10 / 19 / 2007: William Herring, Modular Forms and Hecke Operators I
10 / 26 / 2007: William Herring, Modular Forms and Hecke Operators II
11 / 02 / 2007: William Herring, Modular Forms and Hecke Operators III
11 / 09 / 2007: Ravi Srinivasan, Introduction to Differential Galois Theory I
11 / 16 / 2007: Ravi Srinivasan, Introduction to Differential Galois Theory II
12 / 07 / 2007: Jeffery Breeding II, First-order Languages and Zermelo-Frankel Set Theory
Spring 2009
The seminar merged with the Student Applied Math Seminar.
Fall 2008
08 / 29 / 2008: organizational meeting
09 / 09 / 2008: Narayan Thapa, Existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence of weak solution of damped sine-Gordon equations-I
09 / 16 / 2008: Ali Shaqlaih, AIC-Data Analysis I
09 / 23 / 2008: Narayan Thapa, Existence, uniqueness and continuous dependence of weak solution of damped sine-Gordon equations-II
09 / 30 / 2008: Ali Shaqlaih, AIC-Data Analysis II
10 / 14 / 2008: Ali Shaqlaih, AIC-Data Analysis III
10 / 21 / 2008: Ali Shaqlaih, AIC-Data Analysis III Contd..
10 / 28 / 2008: Narayan Thapa, Gateaux and Freschet Derivatives
11 / 04 / 2008: Ali Shaqlaih, Introduction to Neural Network
11 / 11 / 2008: Narayan Thapa, Weak Gateaux differentiablity of solution map of damped sine-Gordon equations I
11 / 18 / 2008: Ali Shaqlaih, AIC-Data Analysis IV
Spring 2008
01 / 17 / 2008: Organization Meeting, Meeting with members to talk about seminar schedule
01 / 25 / 2008: Narayan Thapa, Existance Uniqueness and approximate methods of solution to VBVPs
02 / 01 / 2008: Ali Shaqlaih, Model selection
02 / 08 / 2008: Movses Movsisyan, Thermo Elastic Equations
02 / 15 / 2008: Emre Tokgoz, Harmonic maps and Geometry
02 / 22 / 2008: Santosh Bhattarai, Self Similarity
02 / 29 / 2008: Movses Movsisyan, Random Walks 1
02 / 07 / 2008: Movses Movsisyan, Random Walks 2
02 / 14 / 2008: Wei Guan, Image Processing with PDE method
03 / 04 / 2008: Narayan Thapa, Mollification of functions
03 / 18 / 2008: Prof ShihshuWalter Wei, Definitions and Examples of p-harmonic maps-Informal Discussions
03 / 25 / 2008: Ali Shaqlaih, Derivation of AIC(Akiake's information Criterion)
Fall 2008
08 / 29 / 2008: Organizational meeting
09 / 05 / 2008: TaraLee Mecham, The geometry of Sol
09 / 12 / 2008: TaraLee Mecham, The geometry of Sol II
09 / 19 / 2008: Sang Rae Lee, Examples of groups that are quasi-isometric, but have different cohomology of groups
10 / 03 / 2008: James Dover, Rigid Morphism Complexes and the Chromatic Number
10 / 17 / 2008: Sang Rae Lee, Two interesting examples of groups of wreath product
10 / 24 / 2008: Dr. Dan Guralnik, Ends and boundaries of discrete groups (1)
10 / 31 / 2008: Dr. Dan Guralnik, Ends and boundaries of discrete groups (2)
11 / 07 / 2008: Kashyap Rajeevsarathy, Heegaard splittings of Haken manifolds have bounded distance
11 / 14 / 2008: Peter Rowell, The Gauss map: A fully illustrated, differentiable journey through the land of surfaces
11 / 17 / 2008: Antara Mukherjee, Two-dimensional Isoperimetric Inequalities Using Varopoulos Transport
11 / 21 / 2008: Peter Rowell, The Generalized Gauss Map
12 / 05 / 2008: Quan Tran, Dehn functions and the theory of pictures
12 / 12 / 2008: Quan Tran, Hyperbolic groups have linear second order Dehn functions
Spring 2008
01 / 18 / 2008: Organizational meeting, Picture of the first day
02 / 25 / 2008: Sang Rae Lee, Inversion and 5 models of Hyperbolic Geometry
02 / 01 / 2008: Tim Frye, Introduction to Graph Reflection Groups
02 / 08 / 2008: Vera Tonic, The Return of Resolution Theorems
02 / 15 / 2008: Tim Frye, Some Graph Reflection Groups
02 / 22 / 2008: Tim Frye, Some Graph Reflection groups, continued
02 / 29 / 2008: TaraLee Mecham, Generalized BS Groups
03 / 07 / 2008: TaraLee Mecham, Generalized BS Groups, continued
03 / 14 / 2008: Sang Rae Lee, Does G/N=Z^n imply G is virtually Z^n?
03 / 28 / 2008: Dr Dubravko Ivansic, Basics of Handle Decompositions
04 / 04 / 2008: Sang Rae Lee, If G is a group quasi-isometric to Z^d, then G is virtually Z^d
04 / 11 / 2008: Antara Mukherjee, Varopoulos Transport and Isoperimetric Inequalities
04 / 18 / 2008: Kashyap Rajeevsarathy, An introduction to 3-manifolds
04 / 25 / 2008: James Dover, An Introduction to Discrete Morse Theory
Fall 2007
09 / 07 / 2007: Kashyap Rajeevsarathy, Knot Polynomials and Skein Relations
09 / 14 / 2007: Kashyap Rajeevsarathy, Knot Polynomials and Skein Relations II.
09 / 21 / 2007: Vera Tonic, Bockstein basis and application to cohomological dimension theory.
09 / 28 / 2007: Vera Tonic, Bockstein basis and application to cohomological dimension theory.
10 / 12 / 2007: Funda Gultepe, Degenerate Submanifolds of Semi-Riemannian Manifolds - I
10 / 19 / 2007: Funda Gultepe, Degenerate Submanifolds of Semi-Riemannian Manifolds - II
10 / 26 / 2007: Peter Rowell, Symmetric Plane Curves and Their Kin
11 / 02 / 2007: Peter Rowell, Symmetric Plane Curves and Their Kin
Spring 2007
02 / 09 / 2007: Antara Mukherjee Hyperbolic groups that fiber in infinitely many ways.
02 / 16 / 2007: Antara Mukherjee Hyperbolic groups that fiber in infinitely many ways II.
02 / 23 / 2007: Timothy Frye Counting Ends of Uniform Lattices.
03 / 02 / 2007: Timothy Frye Counting Ends of Uniform Lattices II.
03 / 09 / 2007: Emre Tokgoz Morse Theory.
03 / 30 / 2007: Emre Tokgoz Morse Theory II
04 / 13 / 2007: Vera Tonic Resolution Theorems
Fall 2006
09 / 08 / 2006: TaraLee Mecham, Getting Plenty of Fiber I
09 / 15 / 2006: TaraLee Mecham, Getting Plenty of Fiber II
09 / 22 / 2006: Quan Tran Euler, Characteristic of Polyhedra
10 / 13 / 2006: Eduardo Martinez, Euler Characteristic and Surfaces
10 / 20 / 2006: Vera Tonic CW-complexes, Eilenberg- MacLane and Edwards-Walsh
10 / 27 / 2006: Vera Tonic CW-complexes, Eilenberg- MacLane and Edwards-Walsh. Part II.
11 / 03 / 2006: Sang Ree Lee, If G/A\equiv B then G=? Short exact sequences and the definition of cohomology groups
11 / 10 / 2006: Sang Ree Lee, If G/A\equiv B then G=? Short exact sequences and the definition of cohomology groups. Part II
11 / 17 / 2006: Sang Ree Lee, If G/A\equiv B then G=? Short exact sequences and the definition of cohomology groups. Part III
12 / 08 / 2006: Vera Tonic, Inverse Systems
Spring 2006
02 / 03 / 2006: Eduardo Martinez, Growth of Groups
02 / 17 / 2006: Eduardo Martinez, Growth of Groups II
02 / 24 / 2006: Karcher Seminar: Zhaohu Nie. Texas A(and)M University, Motivic cohomology operations, In PHSC 1105 at 3:30pm
03 / 03 / 2006: Jaroslav Hrdina. Masaryk University, Almost quaternionic geometry I
03 / 10 / 2006: Jaroslav Hrdina. Masaryk University, Almost quaternionic geometry II
03 / 24 / 2006: Tara Lee Mechan, Large Groups
04 / 21 / 2006: Timothy Frye, Introduction to Normalizer Series in Free Groups
Fall 2005
09 / 02 / 2005: Eduardo Martinez, Large Scale Geometry and Svark and Milnor's Lemma
09 / 09 / 2005: Tara Lee Mechan, PSL(2, Z)
09 / 16 / 2005: Vera Tonic, Dimension and Extension of maps
09 / 30 / 2005: Ravi Srinivasan, Group Theoretic aspects of S^3
10 / 14 / 2005: Antara Mukherjee, Examples of Graphs of Groups
10 / 21 / 2005: Eduardo Martinez, An Introduction to Orbifolds
10 / 28 / 2005: Eduardo Martinez, An Introduction to Orbifolds II
11 / 11 / 2005: TaraLee Mechan, Living by the Tracks
11 / 18 / 2005: Jaroslav Hrdina. Masaryk University, Bundles, Jets and Connections
12 / 02 / 2005: Jaroslav Hrdina. Masaryk University, Planar curves and planar morphisms
12 / 09 / 2005: Sangbum Cho., Essential Disks in a Handlebody
Spring 2009
01 / 23 / 2009: N/A, Organizational Meeting
02 / 06 / 2009: Paul Goodey, Concentration (Are the Polar Caps Shrinking?)
02 / 13 / 2009: Emre Tokgoz, Mixed Convexity I
02 / 20 / 2009: Nikola Petrov, Order and Chaos in Billiards
02 / 27 / 2009: Christian Remling, Variations on Variation
03 / 06 / 2009: Dan Guralnik, "Applied Topology": an attempt at modeling the memory of a living organism. (in PHSC 212)
04/ 03 / 2009: Keri Kornelson, Title unknown
04 / 10 / 2009: Emre Tokgoz, A minimization result for the M/M/s queueing system problem
04 / 17 / 2009: John Paul Cook, A Derivation of Bill James' Pythagorean Projection
Fall 2008
08 / 28 / 2008: Sean Crowell, Organizational Meeting
09 / 03 / 2008: Sean Crowell, Mathematics of Climate Change
09 / 10 / 2008: Lynn Greenleaf, Navier-Stokes Equations I
09 / 17 / 2008: Lynn Greenleaf, Navier-Stokes Equations II
09 / 24 / 2008: Qinghua Luo, Wavelet Analysis
10 / 01 / 2008: Patrick Marsh, A Preliminary Assessment of Future Changes in the Severe Thunderstorm Environment
10 / 08 / 2008: Maria Leite, Infectious Diseases in Humans: HIV-1 as case study
10 / 15 / 2008: Sean Crowell, A Conceptual Climate Model
10 / 22 / 2008: N/A, Planning Day
11 / 05 / 2008: S. Lakshmivarahan, Dynamic Data Assimilation: an overview
11 / 12 / 2008: Ashton Cook, Statistical Relationships between the El Nino Southern Oscillation, the North Atlantic Oscillation, and Winter Tornado Outbreaks in the US
12 / 03 / 2008: Nikola Petrov, Glimpses into the History of Dynamical Systems
12 / 10 / 2008: Nikola Petrov, Glimpses into the History of Dynamical Systems
Spring 2009
02 / 04 / 2009: Jana Talley, Instructor Responses to Prior Knowledge Errors: Methods
02 / 11 / 2009: Jason Martin, Thinking About Convergence in the Context of Taylor Series: Revisited
02 / 18 / 2009: Jason Martin, Organizational meeting for the rest of the spring semester
02 / 25 / 2009: Jana Talley, Instructor Responses to Prior Knowledge Errors: Instructor Score Comparisons
03 / 04 / 2009: Jason Martin and Jana Talley, Questions during job interviews
03 / 11 / 2009: Jason Martin and Jana Talley, Class selection and other RUME programs
04 / 01 / 2009: Seminar Regulars, RUME Community Enrichment
04 / 08 / 2009: Jason Martin, More on Covariational and Quantitative Reasoning
04 / 15 / 2009: Jana Talley and Jason Martin, Writing RUME job applications
04 / 22 / 2009: Sarah Marsh, Gathering and Refining Ideas for RUME Research: A Case Study
04 / 29 / 2009: Seminar Regulars, Meeting at the Library
Fall 2008
10 / 01 / 2008: Jana Talley, Instructor Responses to Prior Knowledge Errors within a Calculus I Course
10 / 08 / 2008: Sam Snow, Rethinking our Assumptions About Transfer
10 / 15 / 2008: Jason Martin, Methodology Part 1: Illuminating Mental Imagery of Taylor Series Convergence Using Interviews and Questionnaires
10 / 22 / 2008: Jana Talley, Methodology Part 2: Methods from a Two Part Qualitative Study Consisting of Student Exam Data and Instructor Interviews
10 / 29 / 2008: Minsu Kim, Proposal for a Framework to Analyse Mathematics Education in Eastern and Western Traditions
11 / 12 / 2008: Sarah Marsh, Math Anxiety: Causes, Preventions, and Implications
12 / 10 / 2008: Jason Martin, Organizational Meeting for Spring 2009