(Fridays 3:35-4:30)
Spring ’13 Research Seminar Schedule
Feb. 15: Andrew Beveridge, Macalester College – Scotty Macalester and the Mathematical Sorting Hat
March 1: David Clark, University of Minnesota – Designs and codes: from cows to quantum computers
March 15: Brendan Ames, University of Minnesota – Clique and cluster identification by convex optimization
April 5: Dan Flath, Macalester College – Thin Films in Two Layers
April 26: Ashley Earls & Ben Perez, St. Olaf College – What is algebraic topology?
May 3: Richard Brualdi, University of Wisconsin – TBA
Fall ’12 Research Seminar Schedule
Sept. 21: Jane Butterfield, University of Minnesota – Games in Graphs
Oct 05: Peter Webb, University of Minnesota – What’s the use of categories?
Oct. 19: Tina Garrett, St. Olaf College – Permutation Statistics and Pattern Avoidance: A Conjecture of Sagan
Oct. 26: Ian Pierce, St. Olaf College – What is a Wiener measure, anyway?
Nov. 02: Kosmas Diveris, St. Olaf College – Matrix factorizations. What can they tell us about singularities of hypersurfaces?
Nov. 09: Ed Hanson, University of Wisconsin – The tail condition for Leonard pairs
Nov. 16: Kevin Sanft, St. Olaf College – Stochastic Modeling and Simulation in Biology
Nov. 30: Josh Wilson, St. Olaf College – The Fundamental Theorem of Calculus in Metric Spaces
Dec. 07: Mike Hvidsten, Gustavus Adolphus College – Minimal Surfaces of Finite Type
Fall ’11 Research Seminar Schedule
Oct 21: Becky Vandiver, St. Olaf College – Bio-Math Connections Across the Curriculum
Nov 11: Kris Nain, CSBSJU – Some Properties of Centralizers of Almost Commuting Elements in a Compact Lie Group
Dec. 2: Adam McDougall, St. Olaf College – A Rational Way to Measure Rational Numbers
Dec. 9: Bret Benesh, CSBSJU – Counting Maximal Subgroups of Solvable Groups
Spring ’11 Research Seminar Schedule
March 11: Kris Nain, CSBSJU – Are Tropical Flag Varieties Shellable?
April 1: Kaisa Taipale & Alex Woo, St. Olaf College – The Combinatorics of Rings Coming from Grassmannians
April 8: Abra Brisbin, Mayo Clinic – Math in your genes: Bayesian Models of Gene Networks and Analysis of Rare Variants
April 15: Zajj Daugherty, St. Olaf College – Permutations, Braids, Partitions, and Tableaux: Finding the Center of the Affine BMW Algebra
April 29: Tina Garrett, St. Olaf College – Sand and Ice and Integer Partitions
Fall ’10 Research Seminar Schedule
Sept 17: Adam McDougall, St. Olaf College – Knot Theory & Khovanov Homology
Sept 24: Adam McDougall, St. Olaf College – A Diagramless Link Homology
Oct 1: Vladimir Sotirov, St. Olaf College – Lifting Automorphisms of Semi-Direct Products
Oct 8: Bruce Hanson, St. Olaf College – Analysis on Metric Spaces
Oct 22: Bret Benash, CSBSJU – Symmetric Groups that have Maximal Subgroups Isomorphic to other Symmetric Groups
Oct 29: Bruce Hanson, St. Olaf College – Analysis on Metric Spaces, Part II
Nov. 5: Robert Fossum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – A Tripartite Mathematical Life: Pure Algebra, Pure Administration, and Applied Algebra.
Dec. 3: Alex Woo, St. Olaf College – Characterization of Local Complete Intersection Schubert Varieties
Spring ’10 Research Seminar Schedule
Mar 5: Alexander Woo, St. Olaf College – Lines Meeting 4 Lines in 3-space (the History of Hilbert’s 15th Problem in 1 example)
Mar 19: Andrew Odlyzko – Zeros of the Riemann Zeta Function – Computations and Implications
Apr 9: Tina Garrett, St. Olaf College – Ranks, Cranks and Ramanujan
Apr 16: Jill Dietz, St. Olaf College – A Journey from Algebraic Topology to Finite Group Theory
Apr 30: Eric Egge, Carleton College – Legendre-Stirling Numbers
May 14: Jon Armel, Carleton College – Singularities of Solutions to Analytic PDE
Fall ’09 Research Seminar Schedule
Sept 25: Colloquium – Bill Dunham
Oct 2: Helen Wong, Carleton College – TQFTs from a Topologist’s Point of View
Oct 9: Jessica Striker, Macalester College – A Unifying Perspective on Alternating Sign Matrices and other combinatorial objects
Oct 16: Alexander Woo, St. Olaf College – Bases for Symmetric Group Covariants
Oct 30: Catherine Micek, University of Minnesota – Mathematical Models and Numerical Methods for Gels (with biomedical applications)
Nov 6: Delia Letang, St. Olaf College – Subconvexity Bounds
Nov 13: Kaisa Taipale, University of Minnesota – Approaching the Abelian-Non-abelian correspondence
Nov 20: Delia Letang, St. Olaf College – Subconvexity Bounds (Part II)
Dec 4: Jill Dietz, St. Olaf College
Spring ’08 Research Seminar Schedule
Feb. 29: Mike Weimerskirch, St. Olaf College (part II)
Mar. 7: Josh Davis, Carleton College (part I)
Apr. 4: Olaf Hall-Holt, St. Olaf College
Apr. 11: Eric Ufferman, St. Olaf College (part I)
Apr. 18: Eric Ufferman (part II)
Apr. 25: Josh Davis (part II)
May 2: Eric Egge, Carleton College (part I)
May 9: Eric Egge (part II)
May 16: David Liben-Nowell, Carleton College