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Colloquium talks are usually given in Room 401 of the Katharine Reed Cudahy building. Unless otherwise stated, talks begin at 4:00PM with pre-colloquium refreshments in Room 342 at 3:30PM.

Here is the list of speakers we had for the 2001-02 academic year. Have a great summer.

• September 20: Naveen Bansal, "Marquette University: "Non-linear Regression with Application to Periodic Functions."

• September 27: Reed Solomon, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Proof-theoretic Aspects of Ordered Groups."

• October 4: Gilbert G. Walter, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: "Prolate Spheroidal Wave Functions: A New Look at a `Lucky Accident'."

• October 11: Brian Murphy, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: "The Influence of Host Susceptibility on Epidemic Tuberculosis."

• October 18: Norman Richert, Mathematical Reviews: "Sixty-one Years of Mathematical Reviews."

• November 8: John Klein, Medical College of Wisconsin: "From Summary Statistics to Generalized Linear Models from Pseudo-observations: Regression Methods for Multi-state Models."

• November 15: Arnold Miller, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Generic Models of Set Theory."

• January 31: Craig Guilbault, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: "Perfect Groups in Geometric Topology."

• February 07: VijayaLakshmi Venkatajalam, University of Bombay, and Milwaukee, WI: "Multiplicity Problems in Ramsey Theory".

• February 14: Richard Anderson-Sprecher, University of Wyoming-Laramie: "Some Creatures Great and Small: A Sample from Statistics."

• February 22 (Friday): Bret Larget, Duquesne University: "Bayesian Inference of Evolutionary Trees from Genome Arrangement Data."

• March 07: Shamik Ghosh, Jadavpur University: "On Generalizations of Clifford Semigroups."

• March 14: (Spring Break special colloquium) Michael Mossinghoff, UCLA: "Polynomials with Small Height and Prescribed Vanishing."

• March 21: Craig Struble, Marquette University: "Constructing Endomorphism Rings and Homomorphism Spaces via Duals."

• April 04: Kim Factor, Marquette University: "Domination in Extended and Compressed Tournaments>"

• April 11: Tom Kucera, University of Manitoba: "Constructions of Pure-injective Modules" (preliminary report).

• April 18: Thomas Drucker, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater: "Virtues of Omission: The Legacy of Robert Vaught's Work in Model Theory."

• May 02: Mei-Jie Zhang, Medical College of Wisconsin: "Prediction and Modeling of Survival Data when Cox's Regression Model Does Not Hold."

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