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Colloquia and Seminars
| Mathematics Colloquium | ||
| All talks are in Sid Richardson 207 from 3:30-4:30 p.m.unless denoted in a different area. Refreshments are served in Sid Richardson 318 from 3:00-3:30 p.m. |
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk |
| Sept 3 | d'Ambroise, Jennie University of Massachusetts at Amherst | Reformulations of Einstein's Field Equations in Scalar Field Cosmological Models |
| Sept 9 BSB D109 | Brian Conrey American Institute of Mathematica in California | Primes and Zeros: A Million Dollar Mystery |
| Sept 10 SR 344 4 PM | Brian Conrey, American Institute of Mathematica in California | Random Matrix Theory and the Riemann Zeta Function |
| Sept 16 | Sir Michael Berry, Bristol University in England | Making Light of Mathematics |
| Sept 17 SR 344 4 PM | Sir Michael Berry Bristol University in England | Three Recent Results on Asympototics of Oscillations |
| Sept 18 SR 344 4 PM | Sir Michael Berry Bristol University | Two by Two |
| Oct 1 | Robert Kirby Texas Tech University | Metanumerical computing: motivation, results, and opportunities in numerical PDE |
| Oct 2 | Stanca Ciupe University of Louisiana Lafayette | Mathematical models of infectious diseases |
| Oct 15 | Yuri Melnikov Middle Tennessee State University | Construction of Green's Functions and Infinite Product Representation of Elementary Functions |
| Oct 26 9:05 AM SR 344 & 3:30 PM BSB D109 | Edward Burger, Cherry Award Finalist Williams College | The Texas Cake Cutting Massacre: Can Conflicts be Resolved by Making Piece? |
| Oct 27 9:30 AM SR 344 | Edward Burger, Cherry Award Finalist Williams College | Transcendental Meditation Near "Small" Fractions |
| Nov 30 4:00 PM SR 344 | Allan Greenleaf, University of Rochester | "Transformation Optics: Cloaking and Beyond" |
| April 14 | George Andrews The Pennsylvania State University | Ramanujan and His Amazing Lost Notebook |
| Research Topics Seminar | ||
| The Research Topics Seminar gives faculty members and graduate students an opportunity to present a look at their latest research. All talks are in Sid Richardson 207 from 4:00-4:50 p.m. All interested parties are welcome to attend. For further information contact Johnny_Henderson@baylor.edu. |
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk |
| Sept 8 | Ron Morgan | TBA |
| Sept 15 | Drew Pruett | "R-polynomials and Markov Traces" |
| Sept 22 | John Davis | "Dynamic Equations on Time Scales" |
| Sept 29 | Brian Williams | "Inverse Limits of Postcritically Finite Polynomials" |
| Oct 6 | Open | TBA |
| Oct 13 | Lance Littlejohn | "Green's Functions and Solutions to Composite Products of Linear Differential Equations" |
| Oct 20 | Jeff Lyons | "Existence of a Positive Solution to a Discrete Right Focal Boundary Value Problem" |
| Oct 27 | Brian Raines | TBA |
| Nov 3 | David Ryden | TBA |
| Nov 10 | Pedro Morales | "Semipermeable Pistons" |
| Nov 17 | Jon Harrison | TBA |
| Nov 24 | Markus Hunziker | "Time Scales, Algebra, and Number Theory" |
| Dec 1 | Leoanardo Mihalcea | "Divagations on Quantum Cohomology" |
| Differential Equations Seminar | ||
| The Differential Equations Seminar meets in Sid Richardson 324 on Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:00-3:20 p.m. |
| Mathematical Physics Seminar | ||
| The Mathematical Physics Seminar meets in Sid Richardson, Room 333 at 3pm. The seminar aims to cover a broad range of topics in Mathematical Physics and Harmonic Analysis. All interested parties are welcome to attend. For further information contact Jon_Harrison@baylor.edu. |
| Date | Speaker | Title of Talk |
| Sept 16 | Jon Harrison | What is Quantum Ergodicity? |
| Representation Theory Seminar | ||
| The Representation Theory Group meets informally in Sid Richardson 302E on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2 p.m. For further information contact Markus_Hunziker@baylor.edu. |
| Topology Seminar | ||
| The Topology Seminar meets in Sid Richardson 333 on Mondays at 9 a.m. For further information contact Brian_Raines@baylor.edu. |
