Marquette University

Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science

Colloquium Schedule

Colloquium talks are usually given in Room 401 of the Katharine Reed Cudahy building. Unless otherwise stated, talks begin at 4:00PM on Fridays, with pre-colloquium refreshments in Room 342 at 3:30PM. Please address inquiries/suggestions to paulb@mscs.mu.edu (Paul Bankston).

Other seminar/colloquium series of interest:

MSCS Logic Seminar
Physics Department Colloquium Series
Chemistry Department Colloquium Series
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Colloquium Series
Biomathematics Research Center of the Medical College of Wisconsin
Southern Wisconsin Logic Colloquium of the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Logic Group of the University of Leeds, England

Previous Colloquium Speakers:

2005-06
2004-05
2003-04
2002-03
2001-02

Here is the (developing) list of speakers for the 2006-07 academic year.

September 22: Umesh Bellur, School of Information Technology, IIT, Bombay, India: "Stochastic Methods in Self Configuration" (abstract)
September 29: Daniel B. Rowe, Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI: "FMRI Activation from Observed Fourier Encoded Data" (abstract)
October 17 (Tuesday, joint with physics, held in William Wehr 141): George R. Sell, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN: "Mathematical and Physical Issues in Global Climate Modeling" (abstract)
October 27: Sonja Stimac, Department of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Graduate School of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia: "On Ingram's Conjecture" (abstract)
November 08 (Wednesday at 1pm, in Cudahy 401): Kate M. Kaiser, College of Business Administration, Marquette University: "IT Workforce: Trends and Implications" (abstract)
November 10: Atish Sinha, School of Business, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI: "On the Performance of Data Mining Classifiers" (abstract)
THE HOLIDAYS
January 19: (special colloquium, 1:00 p.m.) Tetyana Berezovski, Mathematics Education, Simon Fraser University, Canada: "Towards Effective Teaching: The Case for Logarithms" (abstract)
January 26: Douglas Harris, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University: "PreProPer" (abstract)
February 02: Chris Hruska, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI: "Nonpositively Curved Spaces with Isolated Flats" (abstract)
February 09: Joseph Bockhorst, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI: "Computational Methods for Learning Diversity Models of Biological Sequences and Their Role in the Search for a Malaria Vaccine" (abstract)
February 16: (Postponed, new date TBA) Paul Ruth, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN: TBA
February 21: (special colloquium, Wednesday, 1pm) Denise B. Forrest, The Ohio State Universtity-Newark, Newark, OH: "Re-searching Mathematics Teachers' Verbal Communication" (abstract)
March 30: Hong Yu, College of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI: "Question Answering Systems for Physicians and Biomedical Researchers" (abstract)
April 06: No colloquium, Easter break.
April 13: Suzanne Hruska, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI: "Holomorphic Motions and Complex Dynamics" (abstract)
April 20: Matt Insall, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Rolla, MO: "Differentiation in Some Topological Structures" (abstract)
April 27: Matt Mutka, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI: "Service Discovery in Pervasive Computing Environments" (abstract)
May 04: No colloquium, last week of classes.