Colloquia for 2007/2008

of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Miami University

Unless otherwise noted all colloquium talks will be held 4:00-5:00 PM and before each talk starting at 3:30 PM coffee and tea will be served in BAC 115.

Abstracts, when available, can be read by clicking on the title of the talk.
Whenever possible we include also other links related to the talks.

Date	Speaker	Title	Room
Thursday September 20,2007	Kimberly Retert Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Visiting Assistant Professor	Curve Categories in Grothendieck Categories	BAC 219
Thursday September 27,2007	Bruce Berndt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Buckingham Scholar in Residence	The five strangest, most fascinating, most interesting results in Ramanujan's lost notebook	BAC 102
Thursday October 4,2007	Barry Turett Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan and Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Distinguished Visiting Professor	Some Recent (and not so recent) Results in Metric Fixed Point Theory	BAC 219
Thursday October 11,2007	Adam Finkel Department Of Environmental And Occupational Health, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, School of Public Health, Piscataway, NJ Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer, 2006-2007	Modernizing Quantitative Risk Analysis in Light of Human Inter-individual Variability	BAC 102
Thursday  October18,2007	Felix Lazebnik University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware Host: Tao Jiang	On Graphs Defined by Some Systems of Equations	BAC 219
Tuesday October 23,2007	Marco Pollanen Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada Host: Vasant Waikar	Generalized Weyl-Sequences and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods	BAC 219
Thursday  October 25,2007	Lucas Sabalka University of California, Davis Hosts: Ivonne Ortiz and Dan Farley	Braid groups on graphs	BAC 219
Thursday  November 8,2007	Yvonne Lai University of California, Davis Host: Ivonne Ortiz	An Effective Compactness Theorem for Coxeter groups	BAC 219
Thursday November 13,2007	Xuming He University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hosts: Vasant Waikar and Doug Noe	Recent Developments on Quantile Regression	BAC 219
Thursday November 29,2007	John Goldwasser West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV Hosts: Tao Jiang and Dan Pritikin	COLEX, Catalan numbers, and a generalization of Sperner’s theorem	BAC 219
Tuesday February 26,2008	Vitali Milman Tel Aviv University, Israel Host: Barry Turett	Asymptotic Geometric Analysis: The Concept of Polarity and Geometrization of Probability	BAC 219
Thursday March 27, 2008	Dan Farley Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Visiting Assistant Professor	A Weak Form of Amenability for Thompson's Groups	BAC 219
Tuesday April 1,2008 Rescheduled to Thursday, April 17, 2008	John Karro Department of Computer Science and Systems Analysis Miami University, Oxford, Ohio Host: David Groggel	Modeling the Process of Random Change in the Mammalian Genome	BAC219
Thursday April 10, 2008	Ross Geoghegan Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York Host: Dan Farley and Ivonne Ortiz	Associativity and Thompson's Group	BAC 219
Tuesday April 15,2008	Harry Khamis Statistical Consulting Center Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio Hosts: John Bailer and Vasant Waikar	Testing the Proportional Hazards Assumption in the Cox Model	BAC219

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