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 2010-2011

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

Spring 2011

• January 21 : Prof. Duraiswamy Sundararaman, Howard University,
  "A Remarkable Class of Algebraic Integers and Its Role in the Study of Quasicrystals."

• January 28: Prof. Faina Berezovskaya, Howard University,
  "Planar Vector Field with the Fixed Newton Polygon. Asymptotes of Orbits Tending to Equilibria."

• February 4: Prof. Svetlana Roudenko, George Washington University,
  "Global behavior of solutions to the nonlinear Schroedinger equation: theories and predictions"

• February 11: Prof. Walter Stromquist, Swarthmore College,
  "Cutting Cakes and Cutting Pies"

• February 18: Prof. Earl Barnes, Morgan State University,
  "The Hoffman-Wielandt Inequality and Combinatorial Optimizations"

• February 25: Prof. Joseph E. Bonin, George Washington University,
  "An Introduction to Matroid Theory Through Lattice Paths"

• March 4: Prof. Brant Jones , James Madison University,
  "Combinatorics of Kazhdan--Lusztig polynomials"

• March 11: Prof. Bernard Shiffman, Johns Hopkins University,
  "Zeros of random polynomials and holomorphic functions"

• March 25: Dr. William Godsoe, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis,
  "Why we need probability theory to understand species distributions"

• April 1: Prof. Grigory L. Litvinov, Independent University of Moscow,
  "Dequantization and Tropical Mathematics"

• April 8: Prof. Scott A. Wolpert, University of Maryland, College Park,
  "Topological dynamics of the Weil-Petersson geodesic flow"

• April 22: Prof. Melissa Macasieb, University of Maryland, College Park,
  "Commensurabilty of Hyperbolic Knot Complements"

Fall 2010

• September 3 : Prof. Katherine Gurski, Howard University,
  "An Explicit Super-Time-Stepping Scheme with Applications from Astrophysics to Financial Math"

• September 10 : Prof. Louis Shapiro, Howard University,
  "Trees, Groups, and The Ratio Test"

• September 17 :  Prof. Gaston M. N'Guérékata, Morgan State University,
  "Massera's Theorem"

• September 24 :  Prof. Matthias K. Gobbert, University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
  "Parallel Computing for Long-Time Simulations of Calcium Waves in a Heart Cell"

• October 1 :  Prof. William Massey, Princeton University,
  "Asymptotic Analysis and Design for Processor Sharing, Dynamic Rate Queues"

• October 8 :  Prof. George Bonney, Howard University Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics Unit,
  "Likelihood Models for Correlated Binary Data with Application to Familial Diseases"

• October 15 :  Prof. Alexander Pankov, Morgan State University,
  "Mathematics of pendulum - One of The Origins of Nonlinear Analysis"

• October 22 :  Prof. Georgy Karev, National Institute of Health,
  "Replicator Equations and The Principle of Minimal Discrimination Information"

• October 29 :  Prof. Michael Boehnke, University of Michigan,
  "Genome-wide Association and Sequencing Studies to Identify Genes for Type 2 Diabetes, and Research and Training Opportunities for Applied Mathematicians in Biostatistics"

• November 5 :  Prof. Augustin Banyaga, Pennsylvania State University,
  "Toward Hamiltonian Dynamics with Continuous Hamiltonian"

• November 12 :  Prof. Karin Melnick, University of Maryland,
  "The Lichnerowicz Conjecture in Conformal Riemannian Geometry and its Lorentzian Generalization"

• November 19 :  Prof. Wayne Patterson, Howard University,
  "Analyzing Massively Collaborative Mathematics Projects"

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Weekly Seminars

Topological Algebra SPRING 2011

The Seminar on Toplogical Semigroups and Ramsey Theory meets Tuesdays 2:10 to 3:00 pm Room 233 in Annex III

Organizer: Neil Hindman

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