2003-04 Colloquia talks
| Date | Speaker | Talk |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, March 8, 2004 at 2:20 PM in TBA | Dr. Michael Mossinghoff, Davidson College | Title of talk: Littlewood Polynomials
Abstract: A Littlewood polynomial of degree d has the form ±1±x±x2±···±xd-1±xd. These polynomials arise in many problems in signal processing and mathematical analysis, in questions concerning the locations or multiplicities of their roots, or especially large or especially small values of certain Lp norms, or Mahler's measure. We survey some of these problems, describe some of the methods from analysis, combinatorics, and number theory used to study them, and discuss some recent results. |
| Thursday, March 4, 2004 at 3:30 PM in ILB 370 | Dr. Steve Doty, Loyola University, Chicago | Title of talk: New versions of Schur-Weyl duality
Abstract: Abstract: Classical Schur-Weyl duality is a beautiful segment of invariant theory in which one considers the dual actions of the general linear group and symmetric group on tensors. I will try to explain how this works, and then discuss various generalizations, ending up with a very recent result which has close connections with the combinatorics of derangements. |
| Thursday, February 12, 2004 | Dr. Klaus Lux, University of Arizona | Title: Computational Representation Theory |
| Tuesday, February 3, 2004 | Dr. Boris Kalinin, University of South Alabama | Title: Rigidity properties of commuting maps |
| Monday, February 2, 2004 | Dr. Arkady Vaintrob, University of Oregon | Title: Alexander-Conway polynomial, Milnor numbers and matrix-tree theorems |
| Thursday, December 4, 2003 | Dr. Ralf Schmidt, University of Minnesota | Title: What is an automorphic form? |
| Friday, November 21, 2003 | Dr. Markus Schmidmeier, Florida Atlantic University | Title: Subgroups of Finite Abelian Groups |
| Friday, November 14, 2003 | Dr. Kevin Knudson, Mississippi State University | Title: Homology of linear groups and algebraic K-theory |
| Monday, November 10, 2003 | Dr. Igor Nikolaev, Fields Institute and Univ. Calgary | Title: On Slopes of Geodesic Laminations |
| Thursday, October 30, 2003 | Dr. J. Scott Carter, University of South Alabama | Title: Knot Coloring, Quandles and Cohomology |
| Monday, October 13, 2003 | Professor S. P. Mukherjee Calcutta University, India | Title: Dodge-Romig Sampling Inspection Plans Revisited |
| Thursday, October 2, 2003 | Dr. Joerg Feldvoss, University of South Alabama | Title: Clifford Algebras - Examples and Applications |
| Tuesday, September 23, 2003 | Dr. Witold Rosicki, Institute of Mathematics, Gdansk University | Title: Ulam Problem from the Scottish Book and Some Results on the Uniqueness of Cartesian Products |
| Thursday, September 18, 2003 | Dr. Nutan Mishra, University of South Alabama | Title: Probability Models to Study the Evolution of Random Graphs |
| Thursday, September 4, 2003 | Dr. Jonathan Hillman, University of Sydney | Title: L^2 Methods in Low-Dimensional Topology |