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University of Colorado at
Colorado Springs
Engineering Building Room 274
1420 Austin Bluffs Parkway
Colorado Springs, CO 80918
Phone: (719) 255-3311
Fax: (719) 255-3605

UCCS MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Academic Year 2011-2012
Map of UCCS Campus

SPRING SEMESTER 2012
DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TITLE
January 26, 2012 Thursday UC 309	Eric Sullivan	CU Denver	Development of Governing Equations for Unsaturated Porous Media and An Overview of Hybrid Mixture Theory
February 16,2012 Thursday UC 307	Sergio Lopez	Ohio University	Alternative Perspectives in Module Theory
March 8, 2012 Thursday UC 307	Stefan Erickson	Colorado College	Zeta Functions and L-Functions in Number Theory
March 29, 2012 Thursday UC 126	John Griesmer	The Ohio State University	TBA
April 5, 2012 Thursday UC 307	TBA	TBA	TBA
April 19, 2012 Thursday UC 307	Patrick Shipman	Colorado State University	TBA
May 3, 2012 Thursday UC 307	Greg Oman	University of Colorado - Colorado Springs	TBA
May 10, 2012 Thursday UC 307	Giuseppe Coclite	University of Bari, Italy	TBA

FALL SEMESTER 2011
DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TITLE
August 10, 2011 Wednesday ENG 239	Jason Bell	San Fraser University	Primitivity in Leavitt Path Algebras
September 2, 2011 Friday UC 307	Yasunari Higuchi and Masato Takei	Kobe University and Osaka Electro-Communication University	Critical Behavior for percolation in the 2D high-temperature Ising model
September 27, 2011 Tuesday UC 302	Omer Angel	University of British Columbia	2011 Distinguished Math Lecture: Random Planar Maps
October 13, 2011 Thursday UC 307	Robert Carlson	University of Colorado - Colorado Spring Math Dpt	After the Explosion: An Analytical Look at Boundary Problems for Continuous Time Markov Chains
October 20, 2011 Thursday UC 307	Willy Hereman	Colorado School of Mines	Symbolic Computation of Conservation Laws of Nonlinear Partical Differential Equations
October 27, 2011 Thursday UC 307	Hector Lomeli	University of Texas- Austin	Parameterization of Invariant Manifolds for Lagrangian Systems with Long-range Interactions
November 3, 2011 Thursday UC 307	Gino Biondini	The State University of New York - Buffalo	Solitons, boundary value problems and a nonlinear method of images
November 10, 2011 Thursday UC 307	Boaz Ilan	University of California - Merced	Luminescent solar concentrators, photon transport, and affordable solar harvesting
November 17, 2011 Thursday UC 307	James Meiss	University of Colorado - Boulder	Transport and Mixing in Time-Dependent Flows
December 1, 2011 Thursday UC 307	Ryan Schwiebert	Slippery Rock University	Faithful torsion modules and rings
December 8, 2011 Thursday UC 307	Gregory Lyng	University of Wyoming	Evans functions and the stability of viscous shock and detonation waves

SPRING SEMESTER 2011
DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TITLE
January 27, 2011 Thursday UC 307	Christopher Wade Curtis	University of Colorado - Boulder	On 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 Oman	Ohio University	Jonsson Modules
February 28, 2011 Monday UC 307	Sandra Carillo	University 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 Presentations	UCCS	Various
May 5, 2011 Thursday UC 307	James Mitchell	University of St. Andrews	Approximating permutations and automorphisms

FALL SEMESTER 2010
DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TITLE
August 26, 2010 Thursday SENG A204	Dr. Florian Sobieczky	Friedrich Schiller University	Annealed bounds for the return probability of Delayed Random Walk on finite critical percolation clusters
September 9, 2010 Thursday UC 307	Dr. Yi Zhu	University of Colorado - Boulder	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 Abrams	UCCS Math Department	The 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	Janos Englander	University of Colorado - Boulder	An interacting branching particle model
November 4, 2010 Thursday UC 307	Andrea Bruder	Colorado College	The Jacobi polynomials, their Sobolev orthogonality, and self-adjoint operators
November 11, 2010 Thursday UC 307	Dr. Marek Grabowski	UCCS Physics Department	Dynamics of a Driven Spin

SPRING SEMESTER 2010
DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TITLE
January 19, 2010 Tuesday UC 307	Dr. Brian Hopkins	Saint Peter's College	Sequential Selection and the Symmetric Group
February 11, 2010 Thursday UC 307	Alex Dugas	University of California, Santa Barbara	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	Ben-Gurion University, Israel	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	Dr. Boaz Ilan	University of California, Merced	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
DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TITLE
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	Department of Applied Math University of Colorado, Boulder	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	Department of Mathematics Colorado Technical University	What do stock market and positive L1 operators have in common?

SPRING SEMESTER 2009
DATE	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TITLE
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	Mingzhong Wu	Department of Physics Colorado State Univ.	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	Lincoln Carr	Department of Physics Colorado School of Mines	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	Radu Cascaval	Department of Mathematics UCCS	Bi-directional wave propagation in the human arterial tree
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	Gilbert Strang	Department of Mathematics MIT	Linear Algebra and Random Triangles
Thursday April 30, 2009	Pere Ara	Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona	K-theory for Leavitt path algebras

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	The Multiple Personality of Schizophrenia
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	Geometrical Multiscale Models of the Cardiovascular System

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

Department of Mathematics

Theodoros Horikis

Dr. Bob Carlson

Dr. Juan G. Restrepo

Dr. Bob
Carlson

Dr. Juan G.
Restrepo