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

Fall 2006

• September 22: Prof. Louis Shapiro, Howard University,
  " Combinatorics 101, Bijections, Generating Functions, Trees, and The Butterfly"
  
• September 29: Prof. Vaughan F. R. Jones at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Kyoto, Japan (via video)
  " Von Neumann Algebras in Mathematics and Physics "
  
• October 6: Prof. Carlo Berenstein, University of Maryland,
  " Computer Security "
• October 10 : Prof. Ravi Agarwal, Florida Institute of Technology,
  " Recent Trends in Discrete Boundary Value Problems "
  
• October 20 : Prof. Gerald Beer, California State University Los Angeles,
  " Between Compactness & Completeness "
  
• October 23 : Prof. Ugur G. Abdullah,, Florida Institute of Technology,
  " Nonlinear Elliptic and Parabolic Problems in Domains with Nonsmooth and Non-compact Boundaries "
  
• October 27 : Prof. Duraiswamy Sundararaman, Howard University,
  " Hitchin's Generalized Complex Manifolds "
  
• November 3 : Prof David Joyner, United States Naval Academy,
  " Quadratic Residue Codes and Hyperelliptic Curves "
  
• November 9 : Prof. Edray Herber Goins, Purdue University,
  "Why Should I Care About Lie Groups? "
• November 9 : Prof. Scott Williams, SUNY Buffalo,
  "The Topology of Metric Spaces "
  
• November 17 : Prof. Michael J Miksis, Chairman of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics,Northwestern University,
  " Mathematically Modeling Nanoscale Interfaces "
  
• December 1 : Prof. Francois Ramaroson, Howard University,
  "Congruent Numbers and Elliptic Curves "
  
• December 8 : Prof. Jawad Al-Khal, Howard University,
  " Maps On The Interval With Absolutely Continuous Invariant Measures "
  

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Spring 2007

• January 12: Dr. Georgy P. Karev, National Institutes of Health ,
  "Inhomogenous maps and mathematical theory of selection "
  
• January 19: Dr. Dr. Gi-Sang Cheon, Daejin University, South Korea,
  "A Weighted Delannoy Array and Associated Lucas Polynomial Sequences "
  
• January 26: Prof. Chaun May Lieu, Computer Science Department, Howard University,
  "'Tree Decomposable Models for Efficient Bioinformatics Algorithms "
  
• January 31 (Wednesday): Dr. Gregor Kovacic, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ,
  "Dynamics of Polarized Light in Resonant Optical Media "
  
• February 2: Prof. Kofi Dompere, Howard University Dept of Economics,
  "Epistemic Foundations of Fuzzy Mathematics "
  
• February 9: Prof. Baojun Song, Montclair State University ,
  "Transmission Dynamics of Diseases and Socially Transmitted Diseases "
  
• February 12 (Monday): Prof. Sergi Elizalde, Dartmouth College,
  "A bijection between 2-triangulations and pairs of non-crossing Dyck paths"
  
• February 16: Prof. A. Wade Boykin , Department of Psychology, Howard University,
  "A Discussion on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel "
  
• February 21 (Wednesday): Jianjun Paul Tian, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University,
  "Mathematical Study of Brain Tumor Therapies and Initiation of Brain Tumor Stem Cells "
  
• February 23: Prof. Kasso Okoudfou, University of Maryland,
  "Introduction to Analysis of Fractals "
  
• March 2: Prof. Richard Bourgin, Howard University,
  "Infinite Dimensional Matrices "
  
• March 9: Dr. Eckstrand Irene, National Institutes of Health ,
  "Science Meets Policy: A case study of pandemic influenza modeling "
  
• March 16: Dr. Augusin Banyaga, Pennsylvania State University ,
  "Morse Theory: Old and New "
  
• March 30: Dr. Joshua Cooper, University of South Carolina,
  "Deterministic Random Walks On The Integers"
  
• April 4 (Wednesday): Prof. Peter Kramer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
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• April 13: Prof. Judith Miller, Georgetown University,
  "Linked Selected and Neutral Loci in Heterogeneous environments "
  
• April 18 (Wednesday): Prof. Ilesanmi Adeboye, University of Southern California,
  "Volumes of Hyperbolic Orbifolds"
  
• April 20: Prof. Avner Friedman, Ohio State University,
  "Multiscale Models ofTumors "
  
• April 23 (Monday): Prof. Alexander Burstein , Iowa State University,
  "Combinatorics of Permutation Tableaux "
  
• April 27: Prof. Duraiswamy Sundararaman , Howard University,
  "A Quick Tour of Tropical Geometry in Spring 2007 on the National Arbor Day"

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