Dr. Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Chair
Howard University
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Mathematics
204 Academic Support Building B
Washington, DC 20059
(202) 806-6830

Colloquium speakers 2011-2012

Unless otherwise noted, colloquium talks will be held 4:00 - 5:00 pm in room 213 Academic Support Building B.

Spring 2012

• January 13 : Prof. Edray H. Goins, Purdue University,
  "An Introduction to Dessins d'Enfants: The Intersection of Graph Theory, Group Theory, and Differential Geometry "

• January 18   (Wednesday 3:00 pm) : Prof. Guillermo Reyes, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
  "The Cauchy problem for the porous medium equation with variable density. Asymptotic behavior of solutions"

• January 27 : Prof. Tristan Hubsch, Howard University,
  "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Mathematics Lurks There"

• February 3 : Prof. Hans Kaper, Georgetown University,
  "Mathematics and Climate: A New Partnership"

• February 10 : Dr. Calistus Ngonghala, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee,
  "The role of mosquito demography and nourishment habits on the dynamics of malaria transmission "

Fall 2011

• August 26   (2:00 pm) : Prof. Catherine Searle, Instituto de Matematicas, Mexico
  "Nonnegatively Curved 5-manifolds of Almost Maximal Symmetry Rank."

• September 9 : Prof. Hrushikesh Mhaskar, California State University, Los Angeles
  "Learning functions on data defined manifolds"

• September 16 : Prof. Keye Martin, Naval Research Laboratory
  "Learning functions on data defined manifolds"

• September 23 : Prof. Talitha Washington, Howard University,
  "From Cells to Bridges: Modeling with Differential Equations"

• September 30 : Prof. Virginie Charette, Université de Sherbrooke , Quebec,
  "The crooked plane conjecture"

• October 7 : Prof. Robin Pemantle, University of Pennsylvania,
  "An upper bound on the time for quadratic sieving "

• October 14 : Prof. Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University,
  "Alexander Burstein's Lovely Combinatorial Proof of Noonan's Formula for the Number of Permutations With Exactly One "abc" pattern "

• October 21 : Prof. Jonathan Sherratt, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK,
  "Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Field Voles "

• October 28 : Dr. Orou G. Gaoue, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee,
  "Modeling the short- and long-term consequences of plant harvest by local people "

• November 4 : Prof. Felix Lazebnik, University of Delaware,
  "When Algebra and Geometry Meet Graphs"

• November 18 : Prof. Mike Boyle, University of Maryland,
  "Strong shift equivalence for positive matrices"

• December 2 : Prof. Constantin C. Corduneanu, University of Texas at Arlington,
  "A Glimpse on Fourier Analysis and its Generalizations; Periodicity, Almost Periodicity and Oscillatory Functions"

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Weekly Seminars

The Seminar on Evolution Equations and Their Applications meets Wednesdays 1:00 to 2:00 pm Room 213 ASB

Starting Wednesday, January 11, 2012, the "Evolution Equations and their Applications" Seminar will be held every Wednesday, 1:00-2:00 pm, in Room 213 ASB. The main topic covered by the seminar will be evolution equations on Banach spaces and their applications. The first speaker of the seminar will be Ahmed Mohamed. Later on, Toka Diagana will be talking about his recent work on higher-order differential equations with time-dependent operator coefficients and their applications to some higher-order PDEs. The required background is basic functional analysis.

Organizer: Toka Diagana