The Weekly Colloquia

The Mathematics Colloquium is organized by the Department of Mathematics and schedules talks from all major areas of mathematics and mathematics education. The topics presented are usually accessible to students and everyone is welcome to attend.

The talks are typically scheduled on Wednesdays at 3:15PM in Wright Hall 119. Coffee and cookies are served after each talk.

Upcoming Weekly Colloquia Schedule

Watch for the 2008-2009 schedule coming soon!

September 5, 2007
Dr. Douglas Mupasiri, Department of Mathematics, UNI
Limited Sets and Borwein's Sequentially Reflexive Spaces

September 19, 2007
Dr. Theron Hitchman, Department of Mathematics, UNI --"You have to act just like everybody Else. It is (semi) simple: if you are discrete, no one wil notice that you are perturbed"

September 27, 2007
Dr. Qihe Tang, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa; Title: On the tail behavior of a random difference equation with subexponenteial innovations

October 18, 2007
Dr. Joel Haack, Dean, College of Natural Sciences, UNI
Title: Celebrating Euler's 300th Birthday: Lenny's Greatest Hits

October 31, 2007
Dr. Russell Campbell, Department of Mathematics, UNI
Title: Time Since Common Ancestors With Two Progeny Per Individual

November 13, 2007
Eric Weber, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University
Title: The Uncertainty Principle and Image Reconstruction

November 14, 2007
Dr. Brian Birgen, Wartburg College
Title: Unproven Methods for Recruiting Undergraduate Mathematics

December 5, 2007
Dr. Edward Rathmell, Department of Mathematics, UNI
Title: TBA

January 23, 2008
Mary Beth Murrell, Great Prairie Area Education Agency
Title: Dynamic Problem Explorations with the New TI-Nspire

March 12, 2008
Dr. Elizabeth Hansen, Western Illinois University
Title: Penalized Likelihood Estimation of a Fixed-Effect Transfer Function Model

March 26, 2008
Dr. Nikolay Silkin, University of Northern Iowa
Title: Polynomial Identities in Associative Rings: The Finite Basis Property

March 28, 2008
Dr. Hisa Tsutsui, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Title: Rings With Certain Conditions on Ideals

April 4, 2008-(Note change of date)
Dr. Bin Liu, University of Northern Iowa
Title: Analyzing Retrial Queues by Censoring

April 9, 2008
Dr. Grzegorz Lewicki, Department of Mathematics, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Title: On the Grunbaum "4/3" conjecture

April 16, 2008
Dr. Aleksandar Poleksic, University of Northern Iowa
Title: Comparative Modeling of ProteinThree-Dimensional Structures

April 23, 2008
Dr. Genevra Neumann, University of Northern Iowa
Title: Adventures in Counting Zeros

April 30, 2008 CANCELLED
Dr. Jihwa Noh, University of Northern Iowa
Title: TBA

More Coming. . . .