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 2007

• September 7: Prof. Alexander Burstein, Howard University,
  "Combinatorics of Permutation Tableaux "
  
• September 14: Prof. David Chopp, Northwestern University,
  "Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Bacterial Biofilms "
  
• September 21: Prof. Xiaofeng Ren, George Washington University,
  "Droplet Solutions of a 2D Free Boundary Problem From Diblock Copolymer Morphology"
  
• October 5: Prof. Heiner Dovermann, University of Hawaii,
  "Algebraic Realization of Smooth Manifolds and Vector Bundles "
  
• October 12: Prof. Patrick Iglesias, Hebrew University,
  "Examples of Moment Maps in Diffeology "
  
• October 19: Dr. Bruce Sagan, NSF,
  "Special Topics in Combinatorics"
  
• October 26: Prof. William Southerland, Department of Medicine, Howard University,
  "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Netropsin Binding to DNA: Mechanism (s) of Interaction "
  
• November 2: Prof. Katherine Gulski, George Washington University,
  "Approximate Riemann Solvers for Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics: or How Applied Mathematicians can help Astrophysicists "
  
• November 9: Dr. Ira Schwartz, Naval Research Laboratory,
  "Modeling Epidemic Spread: Multi-Strain Interactions and Adaptive Social Networks "
  
• November 16: Prof. Krishnaprasad, University of Maryland, College Park,
  "Pursuit and Cohesion "
  
• November 30: Prof. Valentine Harizanov, George Washington University,
  "Algorithms, Undecidability,and Incompleteness "

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Spring 2008

• January 18 : Dr. Peter Good, Division of Mathematical Biology, NIH,
  "Challenges in the Human Genome Sequence "
  
• January 25: Prof. Sylvester Gates, University of Maryland, College Park,
  
• February 1: Prof. Banzian Boukai, Purdue University,
  "On Simultaneous Bayesian-Frequentist Testing of Hypotheses "
  
• February 8: Prof. Thomas Seidman, University of Maryland, Baltimore Campus,
  "An Introduction to Control Theory for PDEs "
  
• February 15: Prof. Michael Jakobson, University of Maryland, College Park,
  "Attractors and Invariant Measures in Low- Dimensional Dynamical Systems "
  
• February 20 (Wednesday): Prof. Todd Drumm, University of Pennsylvania,
  " How to stretch pairs of pants with Margulis space-times "
  
• February 22: Prof. Niran Adeboye, Howard University,
  "Fermat's Last Theorem For Even Exponents "
  
• February 25 (Monday): Prof. Peter Lax, Courant Institute,
  "The Speed of Sound and Huygens� Principle "
  
• February 29: Prof. Dariusz Bugajewski , Morgan State University,
  "On BV-Solutions to Nonlinear Integral Equations "
  
• March 7: Prof. Murli Gupta, George Washington University,
  "Some Novel Finite Difference Schemes for Fluid Flow Problems "
  
• March 14: Prof. James Yorke, University of Maryland, College Park,
  "Surprising Patterns Emerge When "bisecting" Proofs of Theorems "
  
• March 28: Prof. Tepper Gill, Howard University,
  "Conditions Under Which Unbounded Operators Become Bounded "
  
• April 4: Prof. John Benedetto, University of Maryland, College Park,
  "The Theory of Frames and Sigma-Delta Quantization "
  
• April 18: Prof. Louis Shapiro, Howard University,
  "Properties of Power Series For The Central Binomial Coefficients And The Catalan Numbers "
  
• March 7: Prof. Raymond Johnson, University of Maryland, College Park,
  "H1 (R) As a Convolution Algebra "

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Colloquium speakers

2007-2008

2006-2007

2005-2006