Department of Mathematics and Statistics

2005-2006 Colloquia

Talks are one hour long and held on Tuesdays in room 372 of the Science and Engineering Building (SEB 372), unless otherwise noted.
They are preceded by a 30 minutes refreshment period in SEB 368. Everyone is welcome.
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Title, abstract and biographical information are added as they are provided by the speakers..

List of talks

Sept. 27 1500h SEB372	Prof.James S. Sochacki Department of Mathematics and Statistics Oakland University	Newton, Maclaurin, Picard, Pade: Four Horsemen of Differential Equations
Oct. 11 1500h SEB 372	Prof. David Joyner Department of Mathematics United States Naval Academy,	Codes, Groups, and Curves
Oct 18. 1500h SEB 372	Prof. Serge Kruk Department of Mathematics and Statistics Oakland University	Integer Programming vs Constraint Programming
Nov 4 1500h ODH 204	Prof. Robert L. Smith Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering University of Michigan	A Fictitious Play Approach to Complex Systems Optimization
Nov 8 1500h SEB 372	Aijun Zhang Department of Statistics University of Michigan	Some General Optimality Results for Fractional Factorial Designs
Nov 22 1500h SEB 372	David Sevilla Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering Concordia University	Rational Decomposition and Monstrous Moonshine
Nov. 29 1500h SEB 372	Prof. Qu Xianggui (Harvey) Department of Mathematics and Statistics Oakland University	Statistical Properties of Rechtschaffner Designs
Jan 17 1500h SEB 372	Prof. Meir Shillor Department of Mathematics and Statistics Oakland University	Models of Material Damage
Jan 31 1500h SEB 372	Prof. Ram Orzach Department of Economics Oakland University	Equilibrium in a Family of Common-Value First-Price Auctions with Differential Information
Feb 7 1500h SEB 372	Prof. Alan Park Department of Mathematics and Statistics Oakland University	Using polynomials to secure your data: polynomial based cryptography
Feb 21 1500h SEB 372	Prof. Hong-Jian Lai Department of Mathematics West Virginia University	Possible outcomes of football games and Tutte's 3-flow conjecture
March 7 1500h SEB 372	Prof. Todd Arbogast Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences University of Texas at Austin	Variational Multiscale Methods for Computational Modeling of Heterogeneous Porous Media.
March 14 1500h SEB 372	Prof. Sven de Vries Yale University	Optimization Problems for Combinatorial Auctions
March 28 1500h SEB 372	Prof. Tony Shaska Department of Mathematics and Statistics Oakland University	Invariants of binary forms
April 4 1500h SEB 372	Prof. George Avalos University of Nebraska	Concerning the Asymptotic Stability of a Fluid-Structure PDE
April 18 1500h SEB 372	Prof. Aaron Yip Purdue	Structure of Local Minimizers of of a one-dimensional higher-order variational problem
April 24 1500h SEB 368J	Prof. Yves Dumont Institut for research in Applied mathematics and computer science Reunion Island University, France	The Lava Flow Project
May 9 1500h SEB 372	Prof. Edward Dudewicz Syracuse University	The Generalized Botstrap, with Notes on Distribution Fitting Methods & Open Problems
July 14 0845h DHE 201	Prof. Carl Pomerance Dartmouth University	Famous and Infamous problems about the primes
July 25 1500h SEB 384	Prof. Stefan Maubach Radboud University	Cayley-Hamilton for Polynomial Maps
August 2 1500h SEB 384	Prof. Dongyun Yi National University of Defense Technology, China	The Method of High-Dimensional Modeling for Resource Aggregation

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