Graduate Seminar, Fall 2006

 

MS in Mathematics

Location:  California State University Channel Islands, Bell Tower 1302 (directions, campus map with BT 1302 marked)

Time:  Wednesday evenings -- refreshments and social at 6:30, presentation 7:00 to 8:00;  students take Math 599 for credit must arrive by 6:45.

 

All interested persons are welcome and encouraged to attend the seminar.

Date

Speaker

Affiliation

Title/ Topic

Slides (if available)

8/30

Kenneth Millett

UC Santa Barbara

Macromolecular Knots in Equilibrium (abstract)

www.mathcs.duq.edu/~rawden/Preprints

9/6

Allison Kolpas

UC Santa Barbara

Mathematical Modeling and Computation for Collective Motion (abstract)

See the fish-schooling movie:  http://math.ucsb.edu/~allie/research

9/13

Ioana Mihaila

Cal Poly Pomona

Groups, Tessellations, and the Rediscovery of Escher's Solid (abstract)

paper

9/20

Tom Langley

CLU

What is the probability that two elements of a finite group commute?   (abstract)

 

9/27

Kendra Killpatrick

Pepperdine Univ.

Permutation Statistics:  More Than Just a Number! (abstract)

 

10/4

Azer Akhmedov

UCSB

Geometric Rigidity of Groups (abstract)

 

10/11

Jorge Garcia

CSUCI

LaTeX Presentation Workshop (abstract)

 

Thurs.

10/19

Phil Straffin

Beloit College

Spatial Models of Voting Power and Voting Stability (abstract)

 

10/25

Greg Wood

CSUCI

Statistical Model of an Order-Disorder Transition in Peptides  (abstract)

slides

11/1

Cindy Wyels

CSUCI

Graph Labeling:  Recent Results and Open Questions (abstract)

slides

11/8

Geoffrey Buhl

CSUCI

A History of Monstrous Moonshine (abstract)

 

11/15

Ivona Grzegorczyk

CSUCI

Secrets of Algebraic Geometry:  Divisors that don’t divide, Sections that don’t cut, Bundles that cannot be brushed  (abstract)

 

11/29

Ryan Blair

UCSB

An Alternating Tangle Decomposition for Links (abstract)

Paper available at http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/math/pdf/0608/0608405.pdf

12/6

Maria Nogin

CSUCI

The Logic of Topology (abstract)

http://maria.nogin.org/the-logic-of-topology.pdf

Suggestions for future speakers?  Please pass to Cindy Wyels (via e-mail) or phone:  (805) 437-3260.

Syllabus for Math 599 (for those taking Graduate Seminar for credit);  seminar report form

MS in Mathematics page

MS in Computer Science page

CSUCI home page

Abstracts, slides (when available), etc. from previous semesters’ seminars:  F'05, S’06

Page last updated:  Dec 5, 2006