The Math Colloquium at CSUSM

(Organizer: Radhika Ramamurthi)

The Colloquium meets on Tuesdays from 12:00 to 12:50 p.m. in Room 306, Science Hall 2. Before the talk, we meet in Room 337A for coffee, refreshments and mathematical discussions. If you would like to give a talk, please contact Olaf Hansen. An e-mail announcement is sent out on Fridays before talks with the abstract --- if you would like to be on the mailing list, please send e-mail to Vanessa Andrin.

Talks in Fall 2006

Date Room Speaker Title (click on the title for an abstract)
September 12 Science 2 306 Prof. Dr. K. B. Reid Monogamy is optimal
September 26 Science 2 306 Sebastian Cioaba (Postdoc UCSD) Expanders: Why fat and round is better than tall and skinny ?
October 3 Science 2 306 Joshua Lovelace Poker and Probability
October 17 Science 2 306 Craig Timmons On the Four Color Theorem
October 24 Science 2 306 Prof. Dr. T. Neelon On solutions to systems of analytic equations
November 7 Science 2 306 Heydar Zahed Zahedani The Invariant Subspace Problem
November 14 Science 2 306 Mai Orloff Error Estimates for Linear Systems
November 21 Science 2 306 Carl Bobkoski Hidden Markov Models in Biology
November 28 Science 2 306 Serena Mercado How to Price Stock Options
November 30 Science 2 306 Mary Zangari Finite Simple Groups of Small and Medium Order
December 5 Science 2 306 Kassem Al-Azem Schwarz's Lemma
December 7 Science 2 306 Craig Timmons Star Coloring Planar Graphs

Talks in Spring 2007

Date Room Speaker Title
February 20 Science 2 306 Prof. Dr. Stoltzfus The Boolobas Riordan Extension of the Tutte Polynomial
February 27 Science 2 306 Prof. Dr. Guershon Harel, UCSD Thinking in Terms of Ways of Thinking
April 3 Science 2 306 Serena Mercado Pricing Stock Options
April 17 Science 2 306 Craig Timmons Star Coloring Planar Graphs
April 24 Science 2 306 Mai Orloff Error Estimates for Linear Systems
May 1 Science 2 306 Kassem Al-Azem An extension of Schwarz Lemma
May 14 TBA Dr. Jiri Lebl Degree Estimates for Polynomials Constant on a Hyperplane
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Talks in Fall 2007

Date Room Speaker Title
October 9 Science 2 306 Rob Howard I have a Math Degree, now what
November 6 Science 2 306 Prof. Dr. Michael E. O'Sullivan Low-Density Parity-Check Codes and the Sum-Product Algorithm
November 13 Science 2 306 Dr. Heydar Zahed Zahedani Derivations in Banach Algebras
November 20 Science 2 306 Dr. Raymond Killgrove Circular Reasoning
December 4 Science 2 306 Joshua Lovelace Reversible Markov Chains

Talks in Spring 2008

Date Room Speaker Title
January 22 Science 2 306 Dr. Uwe Schauz Algebraically Solvable Problems: Describing Polynomials as Equivalent to Explicit Solutions
February 5 Science 2 306 Prof. Dr. K. E. Atkinson A personal perspective on the history of the numerical analysis of Fredholm integral equations of the second kind.
March 13 Science 2 306 Prof .Dr. K.H. Leem Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioning in Applications
April 22 Science 2 306 Dr. Marian Barry, link to the NSA An Introduction to Information Retrieval with an Application from Linear Algebra
April 29 Science 2 306 Joshua Lovelace The continuous time random process on the d-ary tree
May 6 Science 2 306 Kassem Al-Azem Moebius Transformations and Biholomorphic maps