UCCS MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Academic Year 2012-2013

SPRING SEMESTER 2013

DATE
SPEAKER
AFFILIATION/INSTITUTION
TITLE/ABSTRACT

Thursday
January 31, 2013
12:30 pm, UC 307

 Robert Carlson

 University of Colorado at

Colorado Springs

Population Persistence in River Networks

Thursday
February 14, 2013
12:30 pm, UC 307

 Sandra Carillo University of Rome
"La Sapienza" (ITALY)		 Evolution Problems in Materials with
Memory &
 Free Energy Functionals 

Thursday
  March 21, 2013
12:30 pm, UC 307

 Murad Ozaydin University of Oklahoma The Linear Diophantine
Frobenius Problem:
An Elementary Introduction
to Numerical Monoids

Thursday
April 11, 2013
12:30 pm, UC 307

 Kenichi Maruno University of 
Pan American Texas

Discrete Integrable
Systems

Thursday
April 25, 2013
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
UC 307

 Graduate Student
Presentations (M.S.) 		 UCCS
Dept of Mathematics		 TBA

Tuesday
April 30, 2013
12:30pm, UC 307

 Mercedes Siles Molina University of Malaga Graph Algebras:
 From Analysis to
Algebra and Back

   
FALL SEMESTER 2012
DATESPEAKERAFFILIATIONTITLE
Aug 23, 2012
 
Natasha FlyerNCAR (Boulder)

Improving Numerical Accuracy for Solving Evolutionary PDEs in the Presence of Corner Singularities

Sept 6, 2012
 
Greg OmanUCCS  An Independent Axiom System
for the Real Numbers

 
Sept 20, 2012
Distinguished Math Lecture

Jerry L. Bona

 University of Illinois
at Chicago

Mathematics
and the Ocean
Oct 18, 2012
 
Keith Julien CU Boulder Convective flows under
strong rotational constraints

Nov 1, 2012

 Gregory Beylkin CU Boulder

 Approximations and Fast
Algorithms for Green’s Functions

Nov 2, 2012
 

 Brian Rider
 CU Boulder

Extremal Laws the
Real Ginibre Ensemble
 
Nov 15, 2012
 
 Muge Kanuni Er
Boğaziçi University - Istanbul, Turkey

Visiting Fullbright scholar at UCCS 

Incidence Algebras
for Everyone

Nov 29, 2012
 
Yuji KodamaOhio State Univ

KP Solitons in shallow water:
Mach reflection and tsunami

Dec 6, 2012


David England

UCCS Math Department

Psudospectral Methods for Optimal Control 

Dec 6, 2012

Joshua Carnahan

UCCS Math Departmen

Nelder-Mead Method
and Applications

Dec 13, 2012

Geraldo De Souza

Auburn University

Atomic Decomposition of
Some Banach Spaces and Applications 
 



SPRING SEMESTER 2012
DATESPEAKERAFFILIATIONTITLE
January 26, 2012
  		Eric SullivanCU Denver

Development of Governing Equations for Unsaturated Porous Media
and An Overview of Hybrid Mixture Theory

February 16,2012
  		Sergio LopezOhio University Alternative Perspectives in Module Theory

March 8, 2012
 

Stefan Erickson

 Colorado College Zeta Functions and L-Functions in Number Theory
March 22, 2012
  		John Griesmer The Ohio State University Inverse Theorems in Additive Combinatorics
April 5, 2012
  		Cory Ahrens Colorado School of Mines Quadratures for the sphere, MRIs and radiation transport, what they have in common

April 19, 2012
 

Patrick Shipman Colorado State University Patterns induced by nucleation and growth in biological and atmospheric systems
May 10, 2012
  		Giuseppe CocliteUniversity of Bari, Italy Vanishing viscosity on networks
 

 

FALL SEMESTER 2011
DATESPEAKERAFFILIATIONTITLE
August 10, 2011
 
Jason BellSan Fraser UniversityPrimitivity in Leavitt Path Algebras
September 2, 2011
 
Yasunari Higuchi and Masato TakeiKobe University and Osaka Electro-Communication University Critical Behavior for percolation in the 2D high-temperature Ising model
Sept 27, 2011
 
Omer AngelUniversity of British Columbia 2011 Distinguished Math Lecture: Random Planar Maps

October 13, 2011
 

Robert Carlson University of Colorado - Colorado Spring Math Dpt After the Explosion:
An Analytical Look at
Boundary Problems for
Continuous Time Markov Chains


Oct 20, 2011
 

Willy Hereman

 Colorado School of Mines Symbolic Computation of Conservation Laws of Nonlinear Partical Differential Equations
Oct 27, 2011
 
Hector Lomeli University of Texas- Austin Parameterization of Invariant Manifolds for Lagrangian
Systems with Long-range Interactions
Nov 3, 2011
 
Gino Biondini The State University of New York - Buffalo Solitons, boundary value problems and a nonlinear method of images
Nov10, 2011
 
Boaz Ilan University of California - Merced Luminescent solar concentrators, photon transport, and affordable solar harvesting
Nov 17, 2011
 
James MeissUniversity of Colorado - Boulder Transport and Mixing in Time-Dependent Flows
Dec 1, 2011
 
Ryan SchwiebertSlippery Rock University Faithful torsion modules and rings

December 8, 2011
 
Gregory LyngUniversity of Wyoming

Evans functions and the stability of viscous shock and detonation waves

 

 

SPRING SEMESTER 2011
DATESPEAKERAFFILIATIONTITLE
January 27, 2011
Thursday
UC 307
Christopher Wade CurtisUniversity of Colorado - BoulderOn the Evolution of Perturbuations to Solutions of the KP Equation using the Benney-Luke Equation
February 3, 2011
Thursday
UC 307		Alexander Woo St Olaf College Local properties of Schubert varieties
February 10, 2011
Thursday
UC 307		 Deena Schmidt Ohio State University Stochastisity and structure in biological systems: from the evolution of gene regulation to sleep-wake dynamics
February 15, 2011
Tuesday
UC 307
Gregory OmanOhio University Jonsson Modules
February 28, 2011
Monday
UC 307
Sandra CarilloUniversity of Rome Sapienza Baecklund transformations, Recursion Techniques and
Noncommutative soliton solutions

March 10, 2011
Thursday
UC 307

Bengt Fornberg University of Colorado - Boulder A Numerical Methodology for the Painlevé equations.

April 12, 2011
Tuesday
UC 122

Antonio Moro

 SISSA Trieste- Italy Dispersive shock waves and Painleve' Trascendents
April 14, 2011
Thursday
UC 302
 Harvey Segur University of Colorado - Boulder Tsunamis
April 28, 2011
Thursday
UC 307
Graduate Student PresentationsUCCS Various
May 5, 2011
Thursday
UC 307
James MitchellUniversity of St. Andrews Approximating permutations and automorphisms
 

 

FALL SEMESTER 2010
DATESPEAKERAFFILIATIONTITLE
August 26, 2010
Thursday
SENG A204
Dr. Florian Sobieczky Friedrich Schiller UniversityAnnealed bounds for the return probability of Delayed Random Walk on finite critical percolation clusters
September 9, 2010
Thursday
UC 307		Dr. Yi Zhu Unified description of Bloch envelope dynamics in the 2D nonlinear periodic lattices
September 23, 2010
Thursday
UC 307		 Geraldo Soares de Souza Auburn University A New Proof of Carleson's Theorem
September 30, 2010
Thursday
UC 307		Dr. Gene AbramsUCCS Math DepartmentThe Graph Menagerie

October 14, 2010
Thursday
Kraemer Family Library
3rd Floor Apse
Dr. William Kath
Northwestern University
2010 Distinguished Math Lecture: Computational Modeling of Neurons

October 21, 2010
Thursday
UC 307

An interacting branching particle model
November 4, 2010
Thursday
UC 307
Colorado College
November 11, 2010
Thursday
UC 307
Dr. Marek GrabowskiUCCS Physics Department Dynamics of a Driven Spin
 

 

SPRING SEMESTER 2010
DATESPEAKERAFFILIATIONTITLE
January 19, 2010
Tuesday
UC 307
Dr. Brian HopkinsSaint Peter's CollegeSequential Selection and the Symmetric Group

February 11, 2010
Thursday
UC 307

 Representations, quivers and periodicity
February 18, 2010
Thursday
UC 307		 Manuel Reyes University of California, Berkeley Theorems of Cohen and Kaplansky: from commutative to noncommutative algebra
February 25, 2010
Thursday
UC 307
Dr. Zachary Mesyan

Conjugation of injections by permutations
March 4, 2010
Thursday
UC 307
Dr. Mark Hoefer
North Carolina State University
Supersonic Dispersive Fluid Dynamics
March 18, 2010
Thursday
UC 307
Soliton Dynamics in
Inhomogeneous Media
April 1, 2010
Thursday
UC 307
Dr. Michael Dorff
BYU
Convex combinations of
harmonic mappings
April 15, 2010
Thursday
UC 307

Theodoros Horikis
University of Colorado - Boulder
Excited Bose-Einstein Condensates: Quadrupole Oscillations and Dark Solitons
April 22, 2010
Thursday
UC 307		 Dr. Mihai Bostan University of Besancon High Field Limits for
magnetized plasmas
April 29, 2010
Thursday
UC 307
Dr. Bob
Carlson

 Department of Mathematics, UCCS Nonconservative Transmission Line Networks,
or Jordan normal form for some differential equations
May 6, 2010
Thursday
UC 307
 
 

 

FALL SEMESTER 2009
DATESPEAKERAFFILIATIONTITLE

Thursday
September 10, 2009
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
UC 124
Dr. Anton
Dzhamay
School of Mathematical Science, Univ of Northern Colorado
"Factorizations of rational matrix functions with applications to discrete integrable systems and discrete
Painlevé equations"
Thursday
September 24, 2009
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
UC 307

Dr. Bob
Carlson
Department of Mathematics, UCCS
Harmonic Analysis for Star Graphs
and the Spherical Coordinate
Trapezoidal Rule
Thursday
October 8, 2009
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
3rd Floor Apse (West)
Kraemer Library
Dr. Mark
Ablowitz

Extrodinary Waves:
From Beaches to Lasers
Thursday
November 5, 2009
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
UC 307
Dr. Luca
Gerardo 
Giorda
Deptartment of Mathematics,
Emory University 
Modeling the Electrical
Activity of the Heart
Thursday
November 19, 2009
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
UC 307

Dr. Juan G.
Restrepo
Department of Applied Mathematics, Univ of Colorado at Boulder

Synchronization of Oscillators with Noisy Frequency Adaptation
Thursday
December 3, 2009
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
UC 307
Dr. Wojciech Kosek

What do stock market and positive L1 operators have in common?
 




SPRING SEMESTER 2009
DATESPEAKERAFFILIATIONTITLE
Thursday
January 22, 2009
Dr. Herve Guiol
INP Grenoble
Almost sure scaling limit for monotone interacting particles  systems in one dimension.
Thursday
January 29,2009
Fabio Machado
University of Sao Paulo
Non-homogeneous random
walks systems on Z
Thursday
February 12, 2009

Excitation of chaotic spin waves through three-wave and four-wave interactions
 
Tuesday
February 17, 2009
 Scott Annin
 California State Univ.
Department of Mathematics
 Using Special Ideals to Illustrate a Research Philosophy in Ring Theory
 
Thursday
February19, 2009
 Brigitta Vermesi
 University of Rochester
Department of Mathematics
 Critical exponents for Brownian
motion and random walk
Thursday
February 26, 2009
 

Barbara Prinari
Dipartimento di Fisica
Università del Salento (Lecce)

Integrable Systems, Inverse
Scattering Transform and Solitons
Thursday
March 12, 2009

Emergent Time Scales in
Ultracold Molecules in Optical Lattices
[Joint Math/Physics Colloquium]

Thursday
March 19, 2009
ENG 107
Bernard Junot
UCLA
How Statistics Explain What Cancer Is
Thursday
April 2, 2009
Thursday
April 9, 2009
ENG 107
Gene Abrams
Department of Mathematics
UCCS
The uncanny resemblance between Leavitt path algebras and graph C*-algebras
Friday
April 17, 2009
ENG 101
11:00am-12:00pm
Thursday
April 30, 2009
Pere Ara
Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona




FALL SEMESTER 2008
DATE
SPEAKER
AFFILIATION/INSTITUTION
TITLE
Thursday
September 11, 2008		 Mark W. Coffey Colorado School of Mines
Department of Physics

Feynman diagrams, integrals,
and special functions
Thursday
September 25, 2008		 Kulumani Rangaswamy University of Colorado
Department of Mathematics		 On Leavitt path algebras
over infinite graphs
Friday
October 10, 2008		 Steve Krone University of Idaho
Department of Mathematics		 Spatial self-organization in cyclic
particle systems
Thursday
October 23, 2008		 Anca Radulescu Applied Mathematics
University of Colorado at Boulder
Thursday
November 6, 2008		 Chihoon Lee Department of Statistics
Colorado State University		 Diffusion Approximations to Stability and Control Problems for Stochastic Networks in Heavy Traffic
Thursday
November 20, 2008
UC 302 		David Bortz Applied Mathematics
Univ of Colorado at Boulder		 Mathematics and Biology
in the 21st Century
(joint math and biology colloquium)
Thursday
December 11, 2008

Alessandro
Veneziani

Mathematics & Comp Sci
Emory University




SPRING SEMESTER 2008
DATE
SPEAKER
 AFFILIATION/INSTITUTION
TITLE
Thu, Jan 31 Robert Carlson Department of Mathematics
University of CO, Colo. Spgs.		 Hunting for Eigenvalues of
Quantum Graphs
Thu, Feb 21 Radu Cascaval Department of Mathematics
University of CO, Colo. Spgs.		 On the Soliton Resolution
Conjecture
Thu, Mar 6 Yu Zhang Department of Mathematics
University of CO, Colo. Spgs		 Limit Theorems for Maximum Flows on a Lattice
Thu, Apr 3 Enrique Pardo Universidad de Cadiz (Spain) The Classification Question for Leavitt Path Algebras
Thu, Apr 17 Robert Carlson Department of Mathematics
University of CO, Colo. Spgs.		 Bringing Matlab into Introductory Differential Equations
Thu, May 1 Tim Huber Iowa State University Parametric representations for Eisenstein series from Ramanujan's differential equations
Tue, May 6 Mercedes Siles Molina   Universidad de Málaga   (Spain)     Classification Theorems for Acyclic
Leavitt Path Algebras
Thu, May 8 John D. Lorch Ball State University Sudoku and Orthogonality