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 Wim Ruitenburg.

For seminar information on the MCW Bioinformatics Graduate Program, please go to Seminars in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology .

Here is our list of speakers for the 2007-08 academic year.

May 1 (note different day): Bimal Sinha, Presidential Research Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: On Berkson's bioassay problem - issues & controversies
April 11: Shivani Ratnakumar, Marquette University: A Markov Chain method for identifying optimal registration points in live left atrial fluoroscopy images
March 28: Kooros Mahjoob, Deputy Director, Division of Biometrics I, Food and Drug Administration: Dealing With Missing Values in Clinical Trials From Regulatory Perspectives
March 21: None (Spring-Easter break)
March 14: None (Spring-Easter break)
March 7: None
February 29: None
February 22: Douglas Harris, Marquette University: Communicating Across a Channel
February 15, 1:00PM (note different time): Ning Shang, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University: Low Genus Curves and Cryptography
February 13, 1:00PM (note different day and time): Dobromir Dimitrov, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN: Adaptive cross-level modeling of infectious diseases in wild mammals with focus on bat rabies
February 8, 1:00PM (note different time): Elaine Spiller, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC: Modified Particle Filter Methods for Lagrangian Data Assimilation
February 1, 1:00PM (note different time): Rich Loft, National Center for Atmospheric Research: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century Earth System Modeling at the Petascale and Beyond
January 31, 1:00PM (note different day and time): Rong Ge, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech: Theories and Techniques for Efficient High-End Computing
January 25, 1:00PM (note different time): Daniel Cosley, Cornell University: Understanding and building member-maintained communities
December 14, 1:00PM (note different time): Levi Molenje, Mathematics Education, Syracuse University: High School Mathematics Teachers' Use of Multiple Representations When Teaching Functions in Graphing Calculator Environments
December 5, 1:00PM (note different day and time): Jennifer A. Kaminski, Center for Cognitive Science, Ohio State University: Promoting Transfer of Mathematical Knowledge
November 30: None
November 28, 1:00PM CANCELLED
November 26, 1:00PM (note different day and time): Marta Magiera, Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Illinois Institute of Technology-Chicago: Metacognition in Solving Complex Problems: A Case Study of Situations and Circumstances that Prompt Metacognitive Behaviors
November 23: Thanksgiving break
November 16: None
November 9: Matthew Jackson, Mathematics, Lawrence University, Appleton: Using algebraic logic to understand the sheaf of measures
November 2: None
October 26: Wesley Johnson, PhD, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine: Bayesian Non-Proportional Hazards Survival Analysis
October 19: Midterm break (for students, but...)
October 12: Bart Kastermans, Mathematics, UW Madison: On Cofinitary Groups
October 5: Pippa Simpson, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin: Branching out with trees to analyze data
September 28: None
September 21: Phil McGachey, Purdue University: Transparent Distribution of Java Applications
September 14: None

Previous Colloquium Speakers:

2006-07
2005-06
2004-05
2003-04
2002-03
2001-02