{"id":59,"date":"2013-09-04T14:34:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/mscs\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2013-09-04T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T19:34:09","slug":"mscs-research-seminar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/mscs\/mscs-research-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"MSCS Research Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><a name=\".28Fridays_3:35-4:30.29\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>(Fridays 3:35-4:30)<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Spring_.2713_Research_Seminar_Schedule\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Spring &#8217;13 Research Seminar Schedule<\/h2>\n<p>Feb. 15: Andrew Beveridge, Macalester College &#8211;\u00a0<i>Scotty Macalester and the Mathematical Sorting Hat<\/i><\/p>\n<p>March 1: David Clark, University of Minnesota &#8211;\u00a0<i>Designs and codes: from cows to quantum computers<\/i><\/p>\n<p>March 15: Brendan Ames, University of Minnesota &#8211;\u00a0<i>Clique and cluster identification by convex optimization<\/i><\/p>\n<p>April 5: Dan Flath, Macalester College &#8211;\u00a0<i>Thin Films in Two Layers<\/i><\/p>\n<p>April 26: Ashley Earls &amp; Ben Perez, St. Olaf College &#8211;\u00a0<i>What is algebraic topology?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>May 3: Richard Brualdi, University of Wisconsin &#8211;\u00a0<i>TBA<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Fall_.2712_Research_Seminar_Schedule\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Fall &#8217;12 Research Seminar Schedule<\/h2>\n<p>Sept. 21: Jane Butterfield, University of Minnesota &#8211;\u00a0<i>Games in Graphs<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Oct 05: Peter Webb, University of Minnesota &#8211;\u00a0<i>What&#8217;s the use of categories?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Oct. 19: Tina Garrett, St. Olaf College &#8211;\u00a0<i>Permutation Statistics and Pattern Avoidance: A Conjecture of Sagan<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Oct. 26: Ian Pierce, St. Olaf College &#8211;\u00a0<i>What is a Wiener measure, anyway?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Nov. 02: Kosmas Diveris, St. Olaf College &#8211;\u00a0<i>Matrix factorizations. 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Alex Woo, St. Olaf College &#8211;\u00a0<i>The Combinatorics of Rings Coming from Grassmannians<\/i><\/p>\n<p>April 8: Abra Brisbin, Mayo Clinic &#8211;\u00a0<i>Math in your genes: Bayesian Models of Gene Networks and Analysis of Rare Variants<\/i><\/p>\n<p>April 15: Zajj Daugherty, St. Olaf College &#8211;\u00a0<i>Permutations, Braids, Partitions, and Tableaux: Finding the Center of the Affine BMW Algebra<\/i><\/p>\n<p>April 29: Tina Garrett, St. Olaf College &#8211;\u00a0<i>Sand and Ice and Integer Partitions<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Fall_.2710_Research_Seminar_Schedule\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Fall &#8217;10 Research Seminar Schedule<\/h2>\n<p>Sept 17: Adam McDougall, St. Olaf College &#8211;\u00a0<i>Knot Theory &amp; Khovanov Homology<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sept 24: Adam McDougall, St. Olaf College &#8211;\u00a0<i>A Diagramless Link Homology<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Oct 1: Vladimir Sotirov, St. Olaf College &#8211;\u00a0<i>Lifting Automorphisms of Semi-Direct Products<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Oct 8: Bruce Hanson, St. Olaf College &#8211;\u00a0<i>Analysis on Metric Spaces<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Oct 22: Bret Benash, CSBSJU &#8211;\u00a0<i>Symmetric Groups that have Maximal Subgroups Isomorphic to other Symmetric Groups<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Oct 29: Bruce Hanson, St. Olaf College &#8211;\u00a0<i>Analysis on Metric Spaces, Part II<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Nov. 5: Robert Fossum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign &#8211;\u00a0<i>A Tripartite Mathematical Life: Pure Algebra, Pure Administration, and Applied Algebra.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Dec. 3: Alex Woo, St. Olaf College &#8211;\u00a0<i>Characterization of Local Complete Intersection Schubert Varieties<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"Spring_.2710_Research_Seminar_Schedule\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Spring &#8217;10 Research Seminar Schedule<\/h2>\n<p>Mar 5: Alexander Woo, St. Olaf College &#8211;\u00a0<i>Lines Meeting 4 Lines in 3-space (the History of Hilbert&#8217;s 15th Problem in 1 example)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Mar 19: Andrew Odlyzko &#8211; 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