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Seminars & Colloquia 2002


Department Colloquia
Fridays at 3:30 p.m., in CW 307.18

March 1

"Olga, Matrix Theory and the Taussky Unification Problem"
Shaun Fallat

March 8

"Inference Concerning Quantile for Left Truncated and Right Censored Data"
Ejaz Ahmed

March 15

"Inverses for Hypoelliptic Partial Differential Operators"
Ed Doolittle

April 5

"Zermelo-Fraenkel Algebra"
Javad Tavakoli

April 12

"What is a superrigid subgroup? "
Dave Witte, Oklahoma State University

May 3
10:30 a.m.

"Integral Group Rings and Their Units "
Allen Herman

MONDAY
May 6
10:30 a.m.

"Hypercentral Units in Group Rings "
Yuanlin Li, Brock University

WEDNESDAY
May 8
10:30 a.m.

"Units of Modular Group Algebras "
Leo Creedon

TUESDAY
June 4
3:00 p.m.

"Bicoloured Recursive Trees and Eulerian Numbers "
John W. Moon, University of Alberta


Discrete Math Seminars
Mondays at 1:30 p.m.. in LB 235

 January 21, 28,
February 4

"Broad survey on results dealing with the question: Does every
connected vertex-transitive graph have a Hamilton path?"
Brian Alspach

February 11

"Some results on the subject of Hedetniemi's conjecture"
Claude Tardif

February 25

"Greedy Independent Research"
Claude Tardif

March 18

"Dimensional and generating conditions for the existence of an isomorphism of vector spaces with selected subspaces "
Francesco Barioli

March 25

"Weak Arcs in Strong Tournaments (or how I'm spending my sabbatical) "
Denis Hanson

April 8

"Jordan Structures of Totally Nonnegative Matrices "
Shaun Fallat


Honours/Graduate Seminars
in CW 307.18

Wednesday,
February 27,
3:30 p.m.

" The Importance of Mathematics in Digital Image Processing"
Allan Caine

Friday,
April 19,
2:00 p.m.

" Approximation-assisted Point Estimation "
Hilda Chan


Junior Seminars
usually 2nd Tuesday of each month, at  3:30 p.m., in CW 307. 18

February 12 "Bertrand Russell's Paradox"
 Dr. H. N. Gupta, Professor Emeritus, Mathematics & Statistics

WEDNESDAY,
March 27
" Covariance Matrix and Its Applications "
  Dr. Yimin Ma, Department of Mathematics & Statistics


Other
in CW 307.18

February 12
2:00p.m.

"Information Session, M.Sc. in Management Science Graduate Program"
Cindy Knudsen, UBC Centre for Operations Excellence


Algebra & Number Theory Seminars
Mondays at 3:40 p.m. in CW 113

September 30

"The structure of finite dimensional G-algebras "
Allen Herman

October 7

"The structure of finite dimensional G-algebras (continued) "
Allen Herman

October 21

" Spectral Theorem in Quaternions "
Doug Farenick

November 5 & 18

POSTPONED from October 28 to November 5
" Jonsson-Tarski algebras and their duals "
Jonathon Funk

November 25

" On K_2 of a ring via the G-construction "
Alexander Nenashev


Department Colloquia
Fridays at 3:30 p.m., in CW 307.18

Thur, Fri
August 8, 9
3:00 p.m.

Saturday
August 10
10:00 a.m.

Education Building - ED 619
"Combinatorial Classes of Matrices "
Richard A. Brualdi, University of Wisconsin, Madison

October 18

"The Dirichlet Problem for Ellipsoids "
John A. Baker, University of Waterloo

October 25

"The History of the Fundamental Group of a ||1 factor "
Martin Argerami

November 1

Classroom Building - CL 126
"Mathematics and Literature: Cross Fertilization "
Brett Stevens, Carleton University

November 8

"Model Reduction for Descriptor Systems "
Tatjana Stykel, University of Calgary

November 15

"Generalized Linear Model, Zero-inflation and Over-dispersion "
Dianliang Deng

November 22

"Incidence Geometry and Finite Groups "
Philippe Cara, AT&T Shannon Lab & the University of Brussels


Honours/Graduate Seminars
in CW 307.18

Friday
August 9
2:00 p.m.

" Capability Indices "
Hilda Chan

Wednesday
December 4
2:00 p.m.

" Nakayama's Lemma "
Ravi Kiran Kuppa


Saskatchewan Algebra & Number Theory Mini-meeting
September 20 & 21, 2002

Friday
September 20
noon - 9:00p.m.

AND

Saturday
September 21
9:00a.m. - 4:30p.m.

ALL in CW307

Abstracts

Schedule:

Friday, September 20:

Noon: Welcoming lunch in CW 307.18 (Math/CS Lounge). Sandwiches included!

1:30 -- 2:20 PM: Talk 1: Roland Auer (U of S), Ray class fields of global fu ncion fields, and curves with many points.

2:30 -- 3:00 PM: Talk 2: Martin Argerami (U of R), Trends in Subfactor Theor y

3:00 -- 3:30 PM: Coffee and goodies

3:30 -- 4:20 PM: Talk 3: Murray Marshall (U of S), Optimizing polynomial fun ctions using semidefinite programming.

4:30 PM: Socializing at the Lazy Owl

7:00 PM: Supper at Travelodge Hotel

Saturday, September 21:

9:00 -- 9:50 AM: Talk 4: Murray Bremner (U of S), Cohomology of infinite dimensional Lie algebras isn't as hard as it sounds

10:00 -- 10:30 AM: Talk 5: Richard McIntosh (U of R), On the Largest Prime F actor of a Number

10:40 -- 11:10 AM: Talk 6: Mikhail Kotchetov (U of S), Polynomial Identities in Hopf Algebras.

11:20 -- 11:50 AM: Talk 7: Francesco Barioli (U of R), Maximal Cp-rank

Noon: Lunch break
2:00 -- 2:50 PM: Talk 8: Olivier Piltant, Universite de Versailles, St Quentin, France,Local Parametrizations of Algebraic Curves and Surfaces

3:00 -- 3:30 PM: Talk 9: Franz-Viktor Kuhlmann (U of S), Places of algebrai c function fields in arbitrary characteristic.

3:40 -- 4:30 PM: Talk 10: Salma Kuhlmann (U of S), An Exponential Integer P art for the Exponential-Logarithmic Power Series Field.

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