Graduate Seminar, Spring 2007

 

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)

1/24

Ghassan Sarkis

Pomona College

The p-adic numbers: a primer (abstract)

p-adic primer (updated 2/13/07)

1/31

Kathryn Leonard

CSU Channel Islands

Size Matters: Measurement and Modeling in Infinite-dimensional Metric Spaces (abstract)

Size Matters

2/7

Jesse Elliott

CSU Channel Islands

Integer-Valued Polynomials (abstract)

Integer-Valued Polys

2/14

No graduate seminar this week.  Consider attending presentations on Friday as your schedule allows.  (details)

2/21

Christopher Towse

Scripps College

Continued Fractions and Group Actions (abstract)

Generalized CFs and Group Actions (TeX version)

2/28

Cindy Wyels

CSU Channel Islands

What Constitutes a Masters Thesis/ Project?  Presentation followed by Q&A.

 

3/7

Peter Newstead

Visiting CSUCI

200 Years (well, almost) of Linear Systems on Riemann Surfaces (abstract)

 

3/14

Liana Dawson

UCSB

Dispersive Systems and Solitons (abstract)

 

3/28

Amy Wallace

CSUCI

Literature Searches in Mathematics (abstract)

 

4/4

Eric Wambach

Caltech

Diophantine equations, elliptic curves and automorphic forms (abstract)

Equations, Curves and Forms

4/11

Jo Hardin

Pomona College

A Robust Measure of Correlation Between Two Genes on a Microarray (abstract)

Robust Correlation

4/18

Mohamed Ait Nouh

CSUCI

Knotted Surfaces in 4-Space (abstract)

Knotted Surfaces (zipped)

4/25

Morgan Sherman

CSU Channel Islands

Numerical Approximations to Canonical Metrics in Complex Differential Geometry (abstract)

Canonical Metrics

5/2

Serban Raianu

CSU Dominguez Hills

Calculus and Planimeters (abstract)

 

5/9

Janine Lansdown and Victor Moreno

CSU Channel Islands

MS Math Thesis Presentations (abstract)

 

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, F’06

 

Page last updated:  May 14, 2007