Thursday, November 29, 2001 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Invariant Theory, Dual Pairs, and Enveloping Algebras
Speaker: Victor Protsak, University of Minnesota
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 423
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Monday, December 10, 2001 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Differential geometry and partial differential
Equations from a p-harmonic viewpoint II
Speaker: Walter Wei, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Tuesday, December 4, 2001 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: Tannakian Categories VI
Speaker: Ed Cline, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Magid
Tuesday, December 11, 2001 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: Tannakian Categories VII
Speaker: Ed Cline, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Magid
Thursday, December 13, 2001 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Auslander conjecture and affine crystallographic groups
of signature (n,2)
Speaker: Gregory Soifer, Yale and Bar-Ilan Universities
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 423
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Magid
Thursday, January 24, 2002 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Extension Dimension
Speaker: Ivan Ivansic, University of Zagreb
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 423
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Leonard Rubin
Friday, January 25, 2002 -- MathFest 2002
Announcement: see Schedule of Events
Time & Place: 2:30-5:30 PM Friday, in PHSC 416
Tea at: 2:00 PM in PHSC 423
For more information, call 325-6711 and ask for Anne Jones
Saturday, January 26, 2002 -- MathFest 2002
Announcement: see Schedule of Events
Time & Place: 10:00-12:00 PM Saturday, in PHSC 416
Tea at: 10:30 AM in PHSC 423
For more information, call 325-6711 and ask for Anne Jones
Monday, January 28, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Meeting with Graduate Director
Speaker: Ara Basmajian, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 6:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ara Basmajian
Monday, January 28, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Organizational Meeting
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Tuesday, January 29, 2002 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: Organizational Meeting
Time & Place: 3:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Kaan Akin
Wednesday, January 30, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Geometric Methods in Computing Lower K-theory groups
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Bogdan Vajiac
Monday, February 4, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Pizza delivery on a torus
Speaker: Andy Miller, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 321
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ara Basmajian
Tuesday, February 5, 2002 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: Bounded generation of orthogonal S-arithmetic groups
Speaker: Igor Erovenko, University of Virginia
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Lucy Lifschitz
Wednesday, February 6, 2002 -- Karcher Colloquium Talk
Announcement: SL3(C[x]) is not boundedly generated by elementaries
Speaker: Igor Erovenko, University of Virginia
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Lucy Lifschitz
Thursday, February 7, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Geometric Methods in Computing Lower K-theory groups II
Speaker: Bogdan Vajiac, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Bogdan Vajiac
Monday, February 11, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: The Magnet and the Group (a story about friendship)
Speaker: Rob Sulman, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 321
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ara Basmajian
Wednesday, February 13, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Farrell-Jones program for negatively curved manifolds
Speaker: Bogdan Vajiac, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Bogdan Vajiac
Wednesday, February 15, 2002 -- Karcher Colloquium Talk
Announcement: Order-deformed finite group algebra and their centralizer
Speaker: Andrew Francis, University of Western Sydney
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
Tea at: 3:00 PM in PHSC 423
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Lucy Lifschitz
Friday, February 18, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Geometric Methods in the Theory of Partial Differential Equations
Speaker: Walter Wei, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, February 18, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Pizza Delivery on a Torus II
Speaker: Andy Miller, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 321
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ara Basmajian
Tuesday, February 19, 2002 -- Special Lecture
Announcement: Quadratic Forms and Finite Group Schemes
Speaker: Marcin Mazur, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
Tea at: 3:00 PM in PHSC 423
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for K. Akin
Monday, February 25, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Geometric Methods in the Theory of Partial Differential Equations II
Speaker: Walter Wei, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, February 25, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Positive Solution to the p-Laplacian with Nonlinearity
Speaker: Lina Wu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 321
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ara Basmajian
Tuesday, February 26, 2002 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: Zeta functions and representations
of finitely generated groups
Speaker: Benjamin Martin, Hebrew University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Magid
Tuesday, February 26, 2002 -- Math Club Event
Announcement: Mathematics On-Line: Demonstrations and Interactive
Web Sites for Students and Instructors
Speaker: Kay Weiss, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:30 PM in PHSC 231
Pizza: Following the presentation in PHSC 423
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Miller
Wednesday, February 27, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Homotopical Algebras
Speaker: Mahmoud Zeinalian, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Zeinalian
Monday, March 4, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Mugs and Donuts: The Gauss Bonnet Theorem
Speaker: Pedro Olaya, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 321
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ara Basmajian
Tuesday, March 5, 2002 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: On Parabolic Induction
Speaker: Alan Roche, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Alan Roche
Wednesday, March 6, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Homotopical Algebras II
Speaker: Mahmoud Zeinalian, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Zeinalian
Monday, March 11, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Geometric Methods in the Theory of Partial Differential Equations IV
Speaker: Walter Wei, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, March 11, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Mugs and Donuts: The Gauss Bonnet Theorem
Speaker: Pedro Olaya, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 321
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ara Basmajian
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 -- Math Club Event
Announcement: Why is math useful?
Speaker: Tomasz Przebinda, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:30 PM in PHSC 115
Pizza: Following the presentation in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Miller
Wednesday, March 13, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Homotopical Algebras
Speaker: Mahmoud Zeinalian, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Zeinalian
Monday, March 18, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Hyperbolic structure on complements of tori
in the 4-sphere and other 4-manifolds
Speaker: Dubravko Ivansic, George Washington University
Time & Place: 3:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Boris Apanasov
Monday, March 25, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Ground-state solitary waves
Speaker: John Albert, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for John Albert
Monday, March 25, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Incomputability - My brief encounter with mathematical logic
Speaker: Kevin Grasse, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 321
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ara Basmajian
Tuesday, March 26, 2002 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: More On Parabolic Induction
Speaker: Alan Roche, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Kaan Akin
Monday, April 1, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Ground-state solitary waves II
Speaker: John Albert, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for John Albert
Monday, April 1, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: A Crash Course in Complex Analysis
Speaker: Ara Basmajian, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 321
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ara Basmajian
Tuesday, April 2, 2002 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: Parabolic Induction III
Speaker: Alan Roche, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Kaan Akin
Wednesday, April 3, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Computational geometry of the Heisenberg group
with left-invariant metric
Speaker: Andrey Marenich, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Boris Apanasov
Thursday, April 4, 2002 -- Mathematics Awareness Lecture 2002
Announcement: The Fourth Dimension
Speaker: Michael Starbird, University of Texas
Time & Place: 4:30 PM in Sarkey Energy Center Room N202A
Refreshments: 4:00 PM in Sarkey Energy Center
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Miller
Monday, April 8, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Ground-state solitary waves III
Speaker: John Albert, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for John Albert
Monday, April 8, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Winding numbers
Speaker: John Albert, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 321
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for John Albert
Wednesday, April 10, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Seiberg-Witten I
Speaker: Pedro Olaya, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Darryl McCullough
Thursday, April 11, 2002 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: P-adic groups: some analogies and contrasts
Speaker: Jeffrey Adler, University of Akron
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 423
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Alan Roche
Monday, April 15, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: A Beautiful Mind and Embedding Theorems
Speaker: Yelin Ou, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 321
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Tuesday, April 16, 2002 -- Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Announcement: Deformations of Simple Representations
of Two Generator HNN Extensions
Speaker: Russell Goodman, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Magid
Wednesday, April 17, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Seiberg-Witten II
Speaker: Pedro Olaya, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Darryl McCullough
Monday, April 22, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Chern-Weil theory, a combinatorial approach
Speaker: Mahmoud Zeinalian, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Zeinalian
Monday, April 22, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: On the number of numerical sets with small atoms
Speaker: Jeremy Marzuola, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 321
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Wednesday, April 24, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Seiberg-Witten III
Speaker: Pedro Olaya, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Darryl McCullough
Tuesday, April 30, 2002 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: Arithmeticity of rank one lattices
Speaker: Lucy Lifschitz, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Kaan Akin
Wednesday, May 1, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Metric flows on the Heisenberg group
Speaker: Marius Munteanu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711
Thursday, May 2, 2002 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: The Plancherel theorem for p-adic groups,
arithmetic and compact, open subgroups
Speaker: Philip Kutzko, University of Iowa
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 423
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Alan Roche
Monday, August 26, 2002 -- Undergraduate Pedagogy Seminar
Announcement: "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School"
by the National Research Council
Speaker: We will be reading the book throughout the semester
Coordinator: Teri Jo Murphy, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 1:30--2:20 PM in PHSC 228
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Teri Jo Murphy
Wednesday, August 28, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Organizational Meeting
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Darryl McCullough
Thursday, August 29, 2002 -- Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Announcement: On the Normal Accessibility Property of Actions
and Pseudo Semi-groups of Local Diffeomorphisms
Speaker: Mamuka Gomarteli, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for K. Grasse
Wednesday, September 4, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Expanding maps, Anosov diffeomorphisms and affine structures
on infra-nilmanifolds
Speaker: K. B. Lee, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to kblee@math.ou.edu
Monday, September 9, 2002 -- Undergraduate Pedagogy Seminar
Announcement: "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School"
by the National Research Council (2000)
Speaker: We will discuss chapters 1 and 2.
Coordinator: Teri Jo Murphy, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 1:30--2:20 PM in PHSC 228
For more info, direct e-mail to tjmurphy@math.ou.edu
Monday, September 9, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Poincare-Sobolev inequality and its geometric implication
Speaker: Meijun Zhu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Landes
Monday, September 9, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Deformation Spaces of 3-dimensional Flat Manifolds
Speaker: K. B. Lee, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to ylou@ou.edu
Wednesday, September 11, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Expanding maps, Anosov diffeomorphisms and affine structures
on infra-nilmanifolds (Part 2)
Speaker: K. B. Lee, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to kblee@math.ou.edu
Monday, September 16, 2002 -- Undergraduate Pedagogy Seminar
Announcement: "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School"
by the National Research Council (2000)
Speaker: We will discuss Chapter 3
Coordinator: Teri Jo Murphy, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 1:30--2:20 PM in PHSC 228
For more info, direct e-mail to tjmurphy@math.ou.edu
Monday, September 16, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Poincare-Sobolev inequality and its geometric implication II
Speaker: Meijun Zhu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Landes
Monday, September 16, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Spaces, Maps, and Mathematics
Speaker: Yelin Ou, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to ylou@ou.edu
Wednesday, September 18, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Free actions of a cyclic group on the 3-dimensional Nilmanifold
Speaker: Joonkook Shin, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to jkshin@math.ou.edu
Thursday, September 19, 2002 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: Nielsen equivalence of generating pairs of PSL(2,q)
Speaker: Darryl McCullough, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Darryl McCullough
Monday, September 23, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Model-based Data Assessment
Speaker: Dr. Luther White, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to ylou@ou.edu
Wednesday, September 25, 2002 -- Karcher Seminar
Announcement: Hantzsche-Wendt Manifold
Speaker: Andrzej Szczepanski, University of Gdansk
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
Tea at: 3:15 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for K. B. Lee
Thursday, September 26, 2002 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Ellipsoidal Tight Frames
Speaker: Keri Kornelson, Texas A&M University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 1108
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Monday, September 30, 2002 -- Undergraduate Pedagogy Seminar
Announcement: "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School"
by the National Research Council (2000)
Speaker: We will discuss chapter 4.
Coordinator: Teri Jo Murphy, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 1:30--2:20 PM in PHSC 228
For more info, direct e-mail to tjmurphy@math.ou.edu
Monday, September 30, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Polynomial Equations, Riemann Surfaces and Newton Diagrams
Speaker: Leonid Dickey, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Landes
Monday, September 30, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Differential Galois Theory
Speaker: Dr. A. Magid, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Wednesday, October 2, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Free actions of finite cyclic groups on the
3-dimensional Nilmanifold (2)
Speaker: Joonkook Shin, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to jkshin@math.ou.edu
Thursday, October 3, 2002 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: Nielsen equivalence of generating pairs of PSL(2,q), continued
Speaker: Darryl McCullough, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Darryl McCullough
Monday, October 7, 2002 -- Undergraduate Pedagogy Seminar
Announcement: "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School"
by the National Research Council (2000)
Speaker: We will discuss chapter 5..
Coordinator: Teri Jo Murphy, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 1:30--2:20 PM in PHSC 228
For more info, direct e-mail to tjmurphy@math.ou.edu
Monday, October 7, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Polynomial Equations, Riemann Surfaces and Newton Diagrams II
Speaker: Leonid Dickey, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Landes
Monday, October 7, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Necessary conditions for constrained optimization problems and
regularity of the value function
Speaker: Dr. Kevin A. Grasse, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Tuesday, October 8, 2002 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: Categorical Differential Galois Theory
Speaker: Andy Magid, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Magid
Wednesday, October 9, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: The Rubinstein-Scharlemann graphic, I
Speaker: Darryl McCullough
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Darryl McCullough
Monday, October 14, 2002 -- Undergraduate Pedagogy Seminar
Announcement: "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School"
by the National Research Council (2000)
Speaker: We will discuss chapter 6,
Coordinator: Teri Jo Murphy, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 1:30--2:20 PM in PHSC 228
For more info, direct e-mail to tjmurphy@math.ou.edu
Monday, October 14, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Toland's work on homoclinic orbits of a 4-dimensional
Hamiltonian system
Speaker: John Albert, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for J. Albert
Monday, October 14, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Quantization on a Euclidian Space
Speaker: Khongsap Totrakool, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Wednesday, October 16, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: The Rubinstein-Scharlemann graphic, II
Speaker: Darryl McCullough
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Darryl McCullough
Wednesday, October 16, 2002 -- Math Club Event
Announcement: Life in Computer Science after Mathematics
Speaker: Deborah Trytten, OU School of Computer Science
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 100
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Miller
Thursday, October 17, 2002 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: Categorical Differential Galois Theory, II
Speaker: Andy Magid, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for K. Akin
Monday, October 21, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: A Nonlinear Elastic Beam System with Inelastic Contact Constraints
Speaker: Luther White, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Landes
Monday, October 21, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: When Stars Intersect
Speaker: Dr. Marilyn Breen, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Wednesday, October 23, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: The Rubinstein-Scharlemann graphic, III
Speaker: Darryl McCullough
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Darryl McCullough
Monday, October 28, 2002 -- Undergraduate Pedagogy Seminar
Announcement: "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School"
by the National Research Council (2000)
Speaker: We will discuss chapter 8
Coordinator: Teri Jo Murphy, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 1:30--2:20 PM in PHSC 228
For more info, direct e-mail to tjmurphy@math.ou.edu
Monday, October 28, 2002 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: Combinatorics, Quantum Computers and Cellular Phones
Speaker: Robert Calderbank, ATT Labs - Research
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in TBA
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Ozaydin
Monday, October 28, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Nilpotent Numbers
Speaker: Dr. Krishnan Shankar, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Wednesday, October 30, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Non-positive Curvature and Small Cancellation Theory - I
Speaker: Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu .
Wednesday, October 30, 2002 -- Math Club Event
Announcement: Archimedes' Cattle Problem
Speaker: Krishnan Shankar, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:30 PM in PHSC 119
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Miller
Monday, November 4, 2002 -- Undergraduate Pedagogy Seminar
Announcement: "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School"
by the National Research Council (2000)
Speaker: We will discuss chapter 9
Coordinator: Teri Jo Murphy, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 1:30--2:20 PM in PHSC 228
For more info, direct e-mail to tjmurphy@math.ou.edu
Monday, November 4, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Infinitely many Periodic Solutions of Nonlinear Wave Equations on Sn
Speaker: Jintae Kim, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, November 4, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Eigenvectors, the spectral theorem, and transformation of Quadric forms
Speaker: Stephen Lancaster, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Wednesday, November 6, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Non-positive Curvature and Small Cancellation Theory - II
Speaker: Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu .
Thursday, November 7, 2002 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Recent progresses on a conjecture of De Giorgi
Speaker: Changfeng Gui, University of Connecticut
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Zhu
Monday, November 11, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Things we can construct from squares and cubes
Speaker: Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Tuesday, November 12, 2002 -- Math Club Event
Announcement: When is a random sequence really random?
Speaker: Kevin Grasse, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:30 PM in PHSC 100
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Miller
Wednesday, November 13, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Non-positive Curvature and Small Cancellation Theory - III
Speaker: Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu .
Thursday, November 14, 2002 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Some applications of standard monomials
Speaker: Victor Protsak, University of Minnesota
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Friday, November 15, 2002 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: TBA
Speaker: Victor Protsak, University of Minnesota
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Saturday, November 16, 2002 -- Math Day 2002
Announcement: Hydrodynamic Modeling
Speaker: Randall Kolar, OU School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science
Time & Place: 3:10 PM, in PHSC 108
For more information, call 325-6711
Monday, November 18, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Weak-Star Compactness with Applications in Control Theory
Speaker: Laura Munteanu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Landes
Monday, November 18, 2002 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Meeting with the Graduate Director
Speaker: Ara Basmajian, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Wednesday, November 20, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Group Actions on Positively Curved Manifolds I
Speaker: Krishnan Shankar, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to shankar@math.ou.edu
Monday, December 2, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Weak-Star Compactness with Applications
in Control Theory, II
Speaker: Laura Munteanu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Landes
Tuesday, December 3, 2002 -- Math Club Event
Announcement: Opportunities in Biostatistics
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Neas, OUHSC Department of Biostatistics
and Epidemiology
Time & Place: 5:30 PM in PHSC 102
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Miller
Wednesday, December 4, 2002 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Group Actions on Positively Curved Manifolds II
Speaker: Krishnan Shankar, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to shankar@math.ou.edu
Thursday, December 5, 2002 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Nontrivial solutions of nonlinear Schrodinger equations
with steep potential well
Speaker: Alexander Pankov, Texas A&M University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in TBA
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for John Albert
Friday, December 6, 2002 -- Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Announcement: One-dimensional Riemannian Foliations
on the Heisenberg Group
Speaker: Marius Munteanu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:00 PM in PHSC 121
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Munteanu
Monday, December 9, 2002 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Weak-Star Compactness with Applications
in Control Theory, III
Speaker: Laura Munteanu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Landes
Thursday, December 12, 2002 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Special values of zeta functions
Speaker: Niranjan Ramachandran, University of Maryland
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for K. Shankar
Thursday, December 19, 2002 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Navigation on Riemannian manifolds
Speaker: David Bao, University of Houston
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for W. Wei
Wednesday, January 15, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Open Problems in Riemannian Geometry
Speaker: Krishnan Shankar, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: K. Shankar
Thursday, January 16, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Some Properties of Extension Dimension
Speaker: Ivan Ivansic, University of Zagreb
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for L. Rubin
Wednesday, January 22, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Horizontally homothetic maps, foliations
and harmonic morphisms, I
Speaker: Yelin Ou, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Darryl McCullough
Monday, January 27, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: The Menger-Urysohn Theorem
Speaker: Vera Tonic, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Leonard Rubin
Wednesday, January 29, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Horizontally homothetic maps, foliations
and harmonic morphisms, II
Speaker: Yelin Ou, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Darryl McCullough
Friday, January 31, 2003 -- MathFest 2003
Announcement: see the Schedule of Events
Time & Place: 2:30-5:30 PM Friday, in PHSC 416
Tea at: 2:00 PM in PHSC 423
For more information, call 325-6711 and ask for Anne Jones
Saturday, February 1, 2003 -- MathFest 2003
Announcement: see the Schedule of Events
Time & Place: 10:00-12:00 PM Saturday, in PHSC 416
Tea at: 10:30 AM in PHSC 423
For more information, call 325-6711 and ask for Anne Jones
Monday, February 3, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: The Fundamental Matrix and its Properties
Speaker: Laura Munteanu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Monday, February 10, 2003 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Integrability of PDEs and Factorizations of Lie Groups
Speaker: Enrique Reyes, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, February 10, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Mathematical Foundations of Actuarial Science
Speaker: Lina Wu, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Wednesday, February 12, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Extension Theory and Inverse Sequences I
Speaker: Leonard R. Rubin, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Leonard R. Rubin
Thursday, February 13, 2003 -- Math Club Talk
Announcement: Face Recognition and Other Applications of Mathematics
Speaker: Terry Herdman, Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Mathematics,
Virginia Tech
Time & Place: 5:15 PM in PHSC 100
Pizza: afterwards, in the Math Lounge
For more info, call 325-6711
Monday, February 17, 2003 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Integrability of PDEs and Factorizations of Lie Groups
Speaker: Enrique Reyes, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, February 17, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Isoperimetric Inequalities
Speaker: Lina Wu, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Wednesday, February 19, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Extension Theory and Inverse Sequences II
Speaker: Leonard R. Rubin, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Leonard R. Rubin
Monday, February 24, 2003 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Integrability of PDEs and Factorizations of Lie Groups
Speaker: Enrique Reyes, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, February 24, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Imbedding compact manifolds
Speaker: Tara Lee Mecham, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105A
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Wednesday, February 26, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Isoperimetric Inequalities
Speaker: Lina Wu, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Darryl McCullough
Thursday, February 27, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Calabi flow on Riemann surfaces
Speaker: Xiu Xiong Chen, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Zhu
Monday, March 3, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: The ABCs of Pythagorean triples
Speaker: Darryl McCullough, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105A
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Wednesday, March 5, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: The homology of the classifying spaces of gauge groups
Speaker: Younggi Choi, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Darryl McCullough
Thursday, March 6, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Some recent progress of regularity of
biharmonic maps into Riemannian manifolds
Speaker: Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for W. Wei
Monday, March 10, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Cohomology and elementary school arithmetic
Speaker: Dr. Lucy Lifschitz, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105A
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Tuesday, March 11, 2003 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: Cohomology of Rings with Group Action
Speaker: Andy Magid, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Magid
Thursday, March 13, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Conjugate loci of pseudoriemannian 2-step nilpotent
Lie groups with nondegenerate center
Speaker: Phil Parker, Wichita State University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, contact kblee@math.ou.edu by e-mail
Wednesday, March 26, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: The Schubert Theorem for 2-bridge knots
Speaker: Arim Seo, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Darryl McCullough
Monday, March 31, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: The classification of closed surfaces;
the zip proof of Conway
Speaker: Noel Brady, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105A
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Wednesday, April 2, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Genus-one 1-bridge position for 2-bridge knots
Speaker: Arim Seo, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Darryl McCullough
Thursday, April 3, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Elliptic curves, modular forms and
icosahedral Galois representations
Speaker: Mark Dickinson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Krishnan Shankar
Monday, April 7, 2003 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Some remarks on a Stefan Problem
Speaker: Ruediger Landes, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, April 7, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Infinite Products and Number Theory
Speaker: Parker Walker, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105A
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Tuesday, April 8, 2003 -- Algebra Topics Seminar
Announcement: Representations of finitely generated groups
Speaker: Andy Magid, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: K. Akin
Wednesday, April 9, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Topological Fixed Point Theory and Fundamental Group
Speaker: Peter Wong, Bates College
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, contact kblee@math.ou.edu
Thursday, April 10, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Coincidences of maps into nilmanifolds
Speaker: Peter Wong, Bates College
Time & Place: 2:00 PM in PHSC 809
Tea at: 1:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, contact kblee@math.ou.edu
Monday, April 14, 2003 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Modified Rayleigh conjecture method for obstacle scattering problems
Speaker: Semion Gutman, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, April 7, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Morse Theory
Speaker: Jungfang Li, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105A
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Wednesday, April 16, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Convergence group actions on the unit three-ball
Speaker: Robert Sulman, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Darryl McCullough
Tuesday, April 22, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Supercuspidal representations of p-adic classical groups
Speaker: Shaun Stephens, University of East Anglia
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Alan Roche
Wednesday, April 23, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Convergence group actions on the unit three-ball, continued
Speaker: Robert Sulman, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Darryl McCullough
Monday, April 28, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Food for Thought
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105A
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Tuesday, April 29, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Tabulating Legendrian knots
Speaker: Mark Branson, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct email to amiller@math.ou.edu
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: The Cheeger Inequality
Speaker: Lina Wu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Darryl McCullough
Thursday, May 1, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: On a higher-order Schroedinger equation
Speaker: Felipe Linares, University of California
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 102
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for J. Albert
Thursday, May 15, 2003 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: Apollonian metrics
Speaker: Zair Ibragimov, University of Texas
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Wednesday, August 20, 2003 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: What are the Parabolic Geometries?
Speaker: Jan Slovak, Masaryk University Brno
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for B. Apanasov
Tuesday, August 26, 2003 -- Special Lecture
Announcement: Developing Precalculus Concepts in Context
Speaker: Marsha Davis, Eastern Connecticut State University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 1105A
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for N. Matthews
Thursday, August 28, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: On $H^n$-Stability of Solitary Waves of the KdV Equation
Speaker: Nghiem Nguyen, University of Illinois, Chicago
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 115
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for John Albert
Wednesday, September 3, 2003 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: The Rational Schur Algebra Seminar
Speaker: Richard Dipper, University of Stuttgart
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 121
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for K. Akin
Thursday, September 4, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: On Schur-Weyl Duality
Speaker: Richard Dipper, University of Stuttgart
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 115
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for K. Akin
Wednesday, September 10, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Diffeomorphism groups of low-dimensional manifolds
Speaker: Darryl McCullough, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Darryl McCullough
Monday, September 15, 2003 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Poincare-Sobolev inequality in 2-sphere
Speaker: Meijun Zhu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, September 15, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Geometry of Group Representations
Speaker: Andy Magid, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to arim@ou.edu
Tuesday, September 16, 2003 -- Discrete Groups Seminar
Announcement: Isoperimetric functions of finitely presented groups
Speaker: Noel Brady, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:40 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Wednesday, September 17, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: The Smale Conjecture for Lens Spaces, I
Speaker: Darryl McCullough, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Darryl McCullough
Thursday, September 18, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Control and Biomechanics of Human Movement Systems
Speaker: Lawrence Schovanec, Texas Tech University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 115
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Magid
Monday, September 22, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: A proof of Picards theorem using differential geometry
Speaker: Krishnan Shankar, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to arim@ou.edu
Tuesday, September 23, 2003 -- Discrete Groups Seminar
Announcement: Isoperimetric Functions of Discrete Groups -II, Theory and Examples
Speaker: Noel Brady, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:40 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Wednesday, September 24, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Geodesics in elliptic 3-manifolds
Speaker: Andy Miller, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Andy Miller
Thursday, September 25, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Unbounded perturbation of resonant Schrodinger equations
Speaker: Hossein T. Tehrani, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 115
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for J. Kim
Monday, September 29, 2003 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: On Harmonic Mappings of Surfaces and Teichmueller Theory
Speaker: Zeno Huang, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Tuesday, September 30, 2003 -- Discrete Groups Seminar
Announcement: Isoperimetric Functions of Discrete Groups -III, Examples and Open Problems
Speaker: Noel Brady, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:40 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Wednesday, October 1, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Hopf tori in elliptic 3-manifolds
Speaker: Ara Basmajian, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Ara Basmajian
Thursday, October 2, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Theory and Computations in Group Representations
Speaker: Leonard Scott, University of Virginia
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 115
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for E. Cline
Monday, October 6, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: A Meandering Introduction to Thurstons Geometrization Program and Ricci Flow
Speaker: Zeno Huang, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to arim@ou.edu
Wednesday, October 8, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Hopf tori in elliptic 3-manifolds II
Speaker: Ara Basmajian, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Ara Basmajian
Thursday, October 9, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Ricci Flow Solutions with Bounded Curvature
Speaker: David Glickenstein, University of Arizona
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 115
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Z. Huang
Friday, October 10, 2003 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Ricci Flow Solutions with Bounded Curvature
Speaker: David Glickenstein, University of Arizona
Time & Place: 11:05 AM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Z. Huang
Wednesday, October 15, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: The asymptotic Weil-Petersson geometry of Teichmuller space
Speaker: Zeno Huang, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Zeno Huang
Thursday, October 16, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Biharmonic Maps
Speaker: Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 115
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for W. Wei
Friday, October 17, 2003 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Fully nonlinear subelliptic equations or Carnot groups
Speaker: Changyou Wang, University of Kentucky
Time & Place: 12:00 AM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for W. Wei
Monday, October 20, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Geometry on nilpotent Lie groups
Speaker: K.B. Lee, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to kblee@math.ou.edu
Tuesday, October 21, 2003 -- Discrete Groups Seminar
Announcement: The space of G-trees I
Speaker: Max Forester, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:40 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Wednesday, October 22, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: The asymptotic Weil-Petersson geometry of Teichmuller space II
Speaker: Zeno Huang, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: Zeno Huang
Thursday, October 23, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: The Busemann Petty problem for Gaussian measures
Speaker: Artem Zvavitch, University of Missouri - Columbia
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 115
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for P. Goodey
Monday, October 27, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: The applications of Simulated Annealing Algorithm
and Genetic Algorithm in the Inverse Problem of an Ecological System Model.
Speaker: Tao Xu, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to arim@ou.edu
Tuesday, October 28, 2003 -- Discrete Groups Seminar
Announcement: The space of G-trees II
Speaker: Max Forester, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:40 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Wednesday, October 29, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: so(3) x R^3 geometry
Speaker: K. B. Lee, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to kblee@math.ou.edu
Thursday, October 30, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Classification of Solutions for an Integral Equation
Speaker: Congming Li, University of Colorado
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 115
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Zhu
Friday, October 31, 2003 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Classification of Solutions for Systems of Integral Equation
Speaker: Congming Li, University of Colorado
Time & Place: TBA in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Zhu
Monday, November 3, 2003 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Algebraic criteria for first integrals of the
Korteweg - de Vries and other equations
Speaker: Leonid Dickey, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, November 3, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Topologists, geometers, and medical Doctors
Speaker: Yelin Ou, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to arim@ou.edu
Wednesday, November 5, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: A torsion free hyperbolic group of CAT(0) dimension 2, but CAT(-1) dimension 3 -- I
Speaker: Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Thursday, November 6, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: An Embedded Genus-one Helicoid
Speaker: Michael Wolf, Rice University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 115
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Z. Huang
Monday, November 10, 2003 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Algebraic criteria for first integrals of the
Korteweg - de Vries and other equations, Part 2
Speaker: Leonid Dickey, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to kakin@math.ou.edu
Monday, November 10, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: P-Adic Numbers
Speaker: Alan Roche, The University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to arim@ou.edu
Tuesday, November 11, 2003 -- Discrete Groups Seminar
Announcement: Exponentially distorted closed surface subgroups
in 2-dimensional hyperbolic groups - I
Speaker: Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:40 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Wednesday, November 12, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: A torsion free hyperbolic group of CAT(0) dimension 2, but CAT(-1) dimension 3 -- II
Speaker: Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Thursday, November 13, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Stein extensions of real symmetric spaces
Speaker: Leticia Barchini, Oklahoma State University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 115
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Tuesday, November 18, 2003 -- Discrete Groups Seminar
Announcement: Exponentially distorted closed surface subgroups
in 2-dimensional hyperbolic groups - II
Speaker: Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:40 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Wednesday, November 19, 2003 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: The existence of metrics of nonpositive curvature on
the Brady-Krammer complexes for finite-type Artin groups
Speaker: Woonjung Choi, Texas A & M University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Thursday, November 20, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Partial rigidity of nonpositively curved manifolds
Speaker: Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 115
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for W. Wei
Friday, November 21, 2003 -- Karcher Seminar
Announcement: Positive curvature, abelian symmetric and the fundamental groups
Speaker: Xiaochun Rong, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 115
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for W. Wei
Monday, November 24, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Stability and Liouville Theorem for Stable Harmonic Maps
Speaker: Lina Wu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to arim@ou.edu
Monday, December 1, 2003 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Introduction to Algebraic Numbers and Integers
Speaker: Ta Khongsap, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to arim@ou.edu
Wednesday, December 3, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Klyachko's method and the second homotopy group
Speaker: Max Forester, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to forester @math.ou.edu
Thursday, December 4, 2003 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Exterior and symmetric square of the reflections representation
Speaker: Nilabh Sanat, Oklahoma State University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 115
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Tuesday, December 9, 2003 -- Geometric Group Theory Seminar
Announcement: Some questions about subgroups of hyperbolic free-by-cyclic groups
Speaker: Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:40 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Wednesday, December 10, 2003 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Klyachko's method and the second homotopy group II
Speaker: Max Forester, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to forester @math.ou.edu
Thursday, January 22, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: TBA
Speaker: Roger Zierau, Oklahoma State University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 356
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Monday, January 26, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Symmetry and Classical Groups
Speaker: Pedro Olaya, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to polaya@ou.edu
Wednesday, January 28, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: A Selection Theorem for Simplex-Valued Maps
Speaker: Leonard Rubin, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Friday, January 30, 2004 -- MathFest 2004
Announcement: see the Schedule of Events
Time & Place: 2:30-5:30 PM Friday, in PHSC 416
Tea at: 2:00 PM in PHSC 423
For more information, call 325-6711 and ask for Anne Jones
Saturday, January 31, 2004 -- MathFest 2004
Announcement: see the Schedule of Events
Time & Place: 10:00-12:00 PM Saturday, in PHSC 416
Tea at: 10:30 AM in PHSC 423
For more information, call 325-6711 and ask for Anne Jones
Monday, February 2, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: The birthday trick with errors
Speaker: M. Ozaydin, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Ozaydin
Wednesday, February 4, 2004 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: On the growth rate of tunnel number one knots
Speaker: Yo'av Rieck, University of Arkansas
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809i
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, direct e-mail to forester@math.ou.edu
Thursday, February 5, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Heegaard splittings of 3-manifolds
Speaker: Yo'av Rieck, University of Arkansas
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 356
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, direct e-mail to forester@math.ou.edu
Monday, February 9, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Ring of all solutions of constant coefficient Differential equations
Speaker: Dr. Magid, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Pedro Olaya
Tuesday, February 10, 2004 -- Faculty Candidate Talk
Announcement: TBA
Speaker: TBA
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:00 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for P. Killian
Thursday, February 12, 2004 -- Faculty Candidate Talk
Announcement: TBA
Speaker: TBA
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:00 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for P. Killian
Friday, February 13, 2004 -- Karcher Seminar
Announcement: Orientation-reversing actions on lens spaces
Speaker: John Kalliongis, St. Louis University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, direct e-mail to amiller@math.ou.edu
Monday, February 16, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Geometric Probability
Speaker: Dr. Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for P. Olaya
Tuesday, February 17, 2004 -- Faculty Candidate Talk
Announcement: TBA
Speaker: TBA
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:00 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for P. Killian
Thursday, February 19, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Rohlin Invariant and gauge theory
Speaker: Nikolai Saveliev, University of Miami
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for B. Apanasov
Monday, February 23, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Some representation theory of SL 2 over an algebraically
closed field of positive characteristic
Speaker: Dr. Ed Cline, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for P. Olaya
Wednesday, February 25, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Hyperbolic spaces and foliations by minimal hypersurfaces
Speaker: Yelin Ou, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Noel Brady
Thursday, February 26, 2004 -- Faculty Candidate Talk
Announcement: TBA
Speaker: TBA
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:00 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for P. Killian
Friday, February 27, 2004 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: Solvable Integral Schroedinger Equations and Representation Theory
Speaker: Alexander Turbiner, UNAM and ITEP
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for L. Dickey
Monday, March 1, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Hyperbolic surfaces, simple closed curves and
McShanes Identity
Speaker: Dr. Max Forester, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for P. Olaya
Tuesday, March 2, 2004 -- Faculty Candidate Talk
Announcement: TBA
Speaker: TBA
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:00 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for P. Killian
Wednesday, March 3, 2004 -- Math Club Event
Announcement: Math holdings in the History of Science Library
Speaker: Marilyn Ogilvie, Library Curator
Time & Place: 4:00 PM on 5th Floor of Bizzell Library
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Miller
Thursday, March 4, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Equivariant Monopole Homology for rational homology 3-spheres
Speaker: Weiping Li, Oklahoma State University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Z. Huang or W. Wei
Monday, March 8, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: The L1 curve fitting proble:
a quick look at non-smooth analysis
Speaker: Kevin Grasse, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Pedro Olaya
Wednesday, March 10, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Spherical Rank Rigidity and Blaschke Manifolds I
Speaker: Krishnan Shankar, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Thursday, March 11, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Actions on vector bundles, pseudo-linear transformations
Lie algebroids and Lie groupoids
Speaker: Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach, Ecole Polytechnique-Paris
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for L. Dickey
Friday, March 12, 2004 -- Karcher Seminar
Announcement: On the Poisson structures with background
Speaker: Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach, Ecole Polytechnique-Paris
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in TBA
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for L. Dickey
Monday, March 22, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: From Quantum Mechanics to Number Theory in 45 minutes
Speaker: Tomasz Przebinda, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for P. Olaya
Tuesday, March 23, 2004 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: Maximum principle in the Ricci flow
Speaker: Peng Lu, University of Oregon
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Zhu or Z. Huang
Wednesday, March 24, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Spherical Rank Rigidity and Blaschke Manifolds II
Speaker: Krishnan Shankar, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Thursday, March 25, 2004 -- Faculty Candidate Talk
Announcement: TBA
Speaker: TBA
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:00 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for P. Killian
Monday, March 29, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: On one famous impossibility (Dilian Problem)
Speaker: Totrakool Khongsap, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Pedro Olaya
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Spherical Rank Rigidity and Blaschke Manifolds III
Speaker: Krishnan Shankar, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Thursday, April 1, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Nonlinear Wave Equations in Minkowski Space and Einstein Universes
Speaker: Zhengfang Zhou, Michigan State University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for J. Kim
Friday, April 2, 2004 -- Special Lecture
Announcement: The Unitary Dual of SL(2,R)
Speaker: Dr. Tomasz Przebinda, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:00 PM in TBA
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Totrakool Khongsap
Friday, April 2, 2004 -- Mathematics/History of Science Colloquium
Announcement: Mathematical Motifs in the Early History of Einstein's
General Theory of Relativity
Speaker: David E. Rowe, Mainz University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 108
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for L. Rubin
Monday, April 5, 2004 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: Sub-Riemannian geometry and analysis on the Heisenberg group
Speaker: Yilong Ni, Fields Institute of Mathematics
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in TBA
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Zhu
Monday, April 5, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar/OU Math Club Talk
Announcement: A Closer Look at Einstein's Private Mathematical World
Speaker: David E. Rowe, Mainz University
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 201
Tea at: afterwards
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for L. Rubin
Tuesday, April 6, 2004 -- FOCAS Lecture
Announcement: Einstein as Cultural Icon and his Role in the Relativity Revolution
Speaker: David E. Rowe, Mainz University
Time & Place: 7:00 PM in OMU GRA
Refreshments at: 8:00 PM in OMU
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for L. Rubin
Wednesday, April 7, 2004 -- Karcher Seminar
Announcement: Finiteness properties for groups and modules
Speaker: Jens Harlander, Western Kentucky University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Thursday, April 8, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Convexity and the Steiner formula
Speaker: Wolfgang Weil, University of Karlsruhe
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Paul Goodey
Monday, April 12, 2004 -- Special Lecture
Announcement: The Unitary Dual of SL(2,R), Part II
Speaker: Dr. Tomasz Przebinda, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Totrakool Khongsap
Monday, April 12, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Menasco's ideal polyhedral decompositions of link complements
Speaker: Dr. Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 201
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Pedro Olaya
Wednesday, April 14, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Quasi-conformal groups
Speaker: Youngju Kim, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Thursday, April 15, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Deformation theory of hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Speaker: Dick Canary, University of Michigan
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Monday, April 19, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Evidence-based Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction
Speaker: Curtis McKnight, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 201
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Pedro Olaya
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: The stable neighborhood theorem
Speaker: Euna Lim, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady@math.ou.edu
Thursday, April 22, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Two problems in the uniformization theory for Kahler manifolds
Speaker: Fangyang Zheng, Ohio State University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Z. Huang
Friday, April 23, 2004 -- Karcher Seminar
Announcement: Regularity of Harmonic Maps
Speaker: Deliang Xu, University of Illinois
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Dr. Walter Wei
Monday, April 26, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Financial Advisors and Mathematics: Is there a connection?
Speaker: Alain R. Verhille, Morgan Stanley Financial Advisor
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 201
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Pedro Olaya
Wednesday, April 28, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Geodesics in lens spaces
Speaker: Andy Miller, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to amiller@math.ou.edu
Thursday, April 29, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Energy Concentration for Smooth Maps between Manifolds
Speaker: Robert Hardt, Rice University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 114
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for W. Wei
Friday, April 30, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Minimizing Surfaces and Efficient Transport Paths
for Functionals Involving Fractional Powers of Densities
Speaker: Robert Hardt, Rice University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in TBA
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for W. Wei
Monday, May 3, 2004 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Some non-existence result on a non-starshaped domain
Speaker: Jintae Kim, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:00 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to kakin@math.ou.edu
Thursday, May 6, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Basic questions for the nonlinear Fourier transform
Speaker: Christoph Thiele, UCLA
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 116
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Friday, June 4, 2004 -- Karcher Seminar
Announcement: TBA
Speaker: Victor Protsak, Cornell University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in TBA
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Monday, June 14, 2004 -- Karcher Seminar
Announcement: Primitive ideals, nilpotent orbits and Howe correspondence (Part 2)
Speaker: Victor Protsak, Cornell University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in TBA
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Friday, August 27, 2004 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: Organization and Dual Pairs
Speaker: Tomasz Przebinda, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 100
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Tomasz Przebinda
Monday, August 30, 2004 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Organizational Meeting
Speaker: Ruediger Landes, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, August 30, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Question and Answer
Speaker: Dr. Paul Goodey, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Anne Jones
Wednesday, September 1, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Organizational Meeting
Speaker: Max Forester, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Max Forester
Thursday, September 2, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Arithmetic differential algebra and dynamical systems on the Riemann sphere
Speaker: Alexandru Buium, University of New Mexico
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 321
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Magid
Friday, September 3, 2004 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: Fermat adeles and L-functions
Speaker: Alexandru Buium, University of New Mexico
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Andy Magid
Wednesday, September 8, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Geometric tameness in word-hyperbolic three-manifolds
Speaker: Josh Barnard, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to forester@math.ou.edu
Friday, September 10, 2004 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: The transfer of the orbital integrals for the reductive Lie algebras
Speaker: Florent Bernon, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Florent Bernon
Monday, September 13, 2004 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Onofri and sharp Sobolev inequalities on $S^n$
Speaker: Meijun Zhu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Meijun Zhu
Monday, September 13, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: An Introduction to Blackboard
Speaker: Matt Waldron, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 230/231
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Tuesday, September 14, 2004 -- Discrete Groups Seminar
Announcement: An introduction to cubings
Speaker: Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady "at" math.ou.edu
Wednesday, September 15, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Geometric tameness in word-hyperbolic three-manifolds, continued
Speaker: Josh Barnard, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to forester@math.ou.edu
Friday, September 17, 2004 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: Algebraic string operations
Speaker: Mahmoud Zeinalian, Long Island University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in TBA
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Monday, September 20, 2004 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Onofri and sharp Sobolev inequalities on $S^n$
Speaker: Meijun Zhu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Meijun Zhu
Monday, September 20, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Winners and Losers: Mathematical Prize Problems Viewed over 250 Years
Speaker: Dr. David Rowe, University of Mainz (Germany)
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Tuesday, September 21, 2004 -- Discrete Groups Seminar
Announcement: Examples of non-positively curved cubical complexes
Speaker: Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady "at" math.ou.edu
Wednesday, September 22, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Maximal convergence groups and rank one symmetric spaces
Speaker: Ara Basmajian, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to forester@math.ou.edu
Friday, September 24, 2004 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: Categorical properties of supercuspidal representations
Speaker: Alan Roche, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Alan Roche
Monday, September 27, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: The basics of Quiver Representations
Speaker: Jerzy Weyman, Northeastern University, Boston
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Tuesday, September 28, 2004 -- Discrete Groups Seminar
Announcement: Examples of non-positively curved cubical complexes II
Speaker: Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady "at" math.ou.edu
Wednesday, September 29, 2004 -- Karcher Graduate Student and Faculty Colloqium
Announcement: Introduction to Representations of Quivers
[Some Lecture Notes for the series of talks are available on-line.]
Speaker: Jerzy Weyman, Northeastern University, Boston
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 102
Tea at: 4:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for K. Akin
Thursday, September 30, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Semi-invariants of Quiver Representations and the Klyachko Inequalities
[Some Lecture Notes for the series of talks are available on-line.]
Speaker: Jerzy Weyman, Northeastern University, Boston
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 321
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for K. Akin
Friday, October 1, 2004 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: Geometry of Orbit Closures for Dynkin Quivers
[Some Lecture Notes for the series of talks are available on-line.]
Speaker: Jerzy Weyman, Northeastern University, Boston
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for K. Akin
Monday, October 4, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Calculators are our friends
Speaker: Brandon Bettes, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Wednesday, October 6, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Maximal convergence groups and rank one symmetric spaces (continued)
Speaker: Ara Basmajian, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, direct e-mail to forester@math.ou.edu
Thursday, October 7, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Accuracy of one-bit quantization
Speaker: Sinan Güntürk, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU)
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 321
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Özaydin
Friday, October 8, 2004 -- Karcher Seminar
Announcement: An improved bound on the cardinality of additive 2-bases for {0,...,n}
Speaker: Sinan Güntürk, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (NYU)
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Özaydin
Monday, October 11, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Regular Polytopes
Speaker: Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Thursday, October 14, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Felix Hausdorff: Mathematician, Philosopher, Writer
Speaker: David Rowe, University of Mainz (Germany)
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 321
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for L. Rubin
Friday, October 15, 2004 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: Saito-Kurokawa lifting -- Part I
Speaker: Ralf Schmidt, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ralf Schmidt
Wednesday, October 20, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Maximal cusps on the boundary of Schottky space
Speaker: David Wright, OSU/University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Forester
Thursday, October 21, 2004 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: Saito-Kurokawa lifting II
Speaker: Ralf Schmidt, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 321
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ralf Schmidt
Friday, October 22, 2004 -- Geometry Seminar
Announcement: Remarks on a theorem of Wu-Yi Hsiang concerning symmetric criticality
Speaker: Professor Shihshu Walter Wei, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 321
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Walter Wei
Monday, October 25, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Are finite spaces good examples in topology?
Speaker: Andy Miller, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Maximal cusps on the boundary of Schottky space II
Speaker: David Wright, OSU/University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Forester
Friday, October 29, 2004 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: Saito-Kurokawa lifting III
Speaker: Ralf Schmidt, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ralf Schmidt
Monday, November 1, 2004 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Hoelder continuity for solutions of elliptic problems
Speaker: Ruediger Landes, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, November 1, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Prime Graphs
Speaker: Chase Franks, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Thursday, November 4, 2004 -- Graduate Student and Faculty Colloqium
Announcement: Some problems in Global Differential Geometry
Speaker: Wu-Yi Hsiang, UC Berkeley
Time & Place: 10:30 AM in PHSC 1105
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Shihshu Walter Wei
Thursday, November 4, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: On the solution of sphere packing problem in dimension eight
Speaker: Wu-Yi Hsiang, UC Berkeley
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 321
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Shihshu Walter Wei
Friday, November 5, 2004 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: On the volume formulas of multiple orthogonal cones
in spherical and hyperbolic spaces
Speaker: Wu-Yi Hsiang, UC Berkeley
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Shihshu Walter Wei
Monday, November 8, 2004 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Hoelder continuity for solutions of elliptic problems
Speaker: Ruediger Landes, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, November 8, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Modular Forms
Speaker: Ralf Schmidt, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Tuesday, November 9, 2004 -- Discrete Groups Seminar
Announcement: Coxeter Groups II
Speaker: Murad Özaydin, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady "at" math.ou.edu
Wednesday, November 10, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Tunnel number one knots of genus one
Speaker: Sangbum Cho, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Forester
Thursday, November 11, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Stability of solitary waves
Speaker: Nghiem Nguyen, University of Oklahoma and Purdue University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 321
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for John Albert
Friday, November 12, 2004 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: Matrix form of generators of primitive
ideals in enveloping algebras.
Speaker: Viktor Protsak, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for V. Protsak
Monday, November 15, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Frequency Response Analysis of Nonlinear Systems
Speaker: Sean Crowell, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Tuesday, November 16, 2004 -- Math Club Colloquium
Announcement: Counting primes
Speaker: Alan Roche, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in TBA
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Miller
Wednesday, November 17, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Tunnel number one knots of genus one (continued)
Speaker: Sangbum Cho, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Forester
Thursday, November 18, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Experiments with irrational triangular billiards
Speaker: Rich Schwartz, University of Maryland College Park
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 321
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Krishnan Shankar
Monday, November 22, 2004 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Martel and Merle's proof of asymptotic stability of KdV solitons
Speaker: John Albert, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Monday, November 22, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Complex Complex Numbers
Speaker: Darryl McCullough, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Monday, November 29, 2004 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Boiling Water and Wave Fronts
Speaker: Dr. Ruediger Landes, University of Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Wednesday, December 1, 2004 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Surface subgroups of hyperbolizations of groups
Speaker: Eduardo Martinez, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Forester
Thursday, December 2, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: A Compactness Result for the Solutions of the Yamabe Equation.
Speaker: Lei Zhang, University of Florida
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 321
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Zhu
Monday, December 6, 2004 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: Sub- Riemannian Geometry on the Heisenberg Group
Speaker: Yilong Ni, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ruediger Landes
Tuesday, December 7, 2004 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: CAT(0) cubical complexes in group theory
Speaker: Michah Sageev, Technion and University of Utah
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, direct e-mail to nbrady "at" math.ou.edu
Wednesday, December 8, 2004 -- Karcher Seminar
Announcement: Hyperidentities in Algebra
Speaker: Yui Movsisyan, Yerevan State University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in TBA
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for: A. Basmajian
Thursday, December 9, 2004 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Complex methods for real Lie groups
Speaker: Robert Stanton, Ohio State University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 321
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Thursday, December 9, 2004 -- Karcher Seminar
Announcement: Analytic estimates of coefficients of automorphic functions
Speaker: Robert Stanton, Ohio State University
Time & Place: 5:15 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Friday, December 10, 2004 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: Quadratic Forms and Modular Forms
Speaker: Dr. W. Kohnen, University of Heidelberg Germany
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Schmidt
Friday, December 10, 2004 -- Karcher Seminar
Announcement: A Maas Space in Higher Genus
Speaker: Dr. W. Kohnen, University of Heidelberg Germany
Time & Place: 5:15 PM in PHSC 100
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Schmidt
Monday, December 13, 2004 -- Special Tea
Announcement: Math Tea for Greg Chamblee, Georgia Southern (ILAC faculty candidate)
Time & Place: 2:10-2:45 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Teri Jo Murphy
Monday, December 13, 2004 -- Geometry Seminar
Announcement: The geometry of p-harmonic morphisms
Speaker: Yelin Ou, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 321
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Shihshu Walter Wei
Thursday, December 16, 2004 -- Special Tea
Announcement: Math Tea for Stacy Reeder, OSU (ILAC faculty candidate)
Time & Place: 2:10-2:45 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Teri Jo Murphy
Thursday, January 20, 2005 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Distributional estimates for the Carleson-Hunt
operator and the bilinear Hilbert transform
Speaker: Loukas Grafakos, University of Missouri, Columbia
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 359
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Friday, January 21, 2005 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: Localization in Number Theory
Speaker: Ralf Schmidt, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ralf Schmidt
Friday, January 21, 2005 -- Karcher Seminar
Announcement: A class of Fourier multipliers for modulation space
Speaker: Loukas Grafakos, University of Missouri, Columbia
Time & Place: 4:45 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Monday, January 24, 2005 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: History of the French and the American (United States)
Calculus Reform Movements
Speaker: Steve Lancaster, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Friday, January 28, 2005 -- MathFest 2005
Announcement: see the Schedule of Events
Time & Place: 2:30-5:30 PM Friday, in PHSC 416
Tea at: 2:00 PM in PHSC 423
For more information, call 325-6711 and ask for Anne Jones
Saturday, January 29, 2005 -- MathFest 2005
Announcement: see the Schedule of Events
Time & Place: 10:00-12:00 PM Saturday, in PHSC 416
Tea at: 10:30 AM in PHSC 423
For more information, call 325-6711 and ask for Anne Jones
Monday, January 31, 2005 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: The Gaussian Integers
Speaker: William Herring, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Thursday, February 3, 2004 -- Faculty Candidate Talk
Announcement: TBA
Speaker: TBA
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 359
Tea at: 3:00 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Paula Killian
Friday, February 4, 2005 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: Modular forms and Hecke operators
Speaker: Victor Protsak, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for V. Protsak
Monday, February 7, 2005 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Division Rings
Speaker: Dr. Alan Roche, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Tuesday, February 8, 2004 -- Faculty Candidate Talk
Announcement: Some Applications of Displacement Convexity to PDEs
Speaker: TBA
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 359
Tea at: 3:00 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Paula Killian
Wednesday, February 9, 2005 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: An Introduction to twisted face-pairing 3-manifolds
Speaker: Max Forester, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Forester
Thursday, February 10, 2004 -- Faculty Candidate Talk
Announcement: Deforming mappings by Mean Curvature Flow
Speaker: TBA
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 359
Tea at: 3:00 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Paula Killian
Friday, February 11, 2005 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: Modular forms and Hecke operators (continued)
Speaker: Victor Protsak, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for V. Protsak
Monday, February 14, 2005 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Octonions and few Exceptional Groups
Speaker: Pedro Olaya, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Tuesday, February 15, 2004 -- Faculty Candidate Talk
Announcement: Regularity of critical objects in dynamical systems:
numerical methods and results
Speaker: TBA
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 359
Tea at: 3:00 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Paula Killian
Wednesday, February 16, 2005 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: An Introduction to twisted face-pairing 3-manifolds continued
Speaker: Max Forester, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Forester
Thursday, February 17, 2005 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Sharp bounds for the exponent of convergence
of a discrete quasiconformal group
Speaker: Petra Bonfert-Taylor, Wesleyan University
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 359
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Thursday, February 17, 2005 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: The quasiconformal homogeneity of hyperbolic manifolds
Speaker: Ed Taylor, Wesleyan University
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
Tea at: 4:45 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Friday, February 11, 2005 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: The L^2 Spectrum of GL(2)
Speaker: Ralf Schmidt, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ralf Schmidt
Monday, February 21, 2005 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Listening to Students
Speaker: Dr. TJ Murphy, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Wednesday, February 23, 2005 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Fundamental groups of twisted face-pairing 3-manifolds
Speaker: Josh Barnard, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Forester
Thursday, February 24, 2005 -- FOCAS Distinguished Alumnus Lecture
Announcement: A Look at the Healthcare System in Oklahoma
Speaker: Edward N. Brandt, University of Maryland College Park
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in Scholar's Room, Oklahoma Memorial Union
For more info, call the College of Arts and Sciences at 325-2347
Friday, February 25, 2005 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: Invariant Tensor Product and Representation Theory
Speaker: Hongyu He, Georgia State University
Time & Place: 3:45 p.m. in PHSC 1105
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Przebinda
Monday, February 28, 2005 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: The kakeya's problem
Speaker: Florent Bernon, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Tuesday, March 1, 2005 -- Discrete Groups Seminar
Announcement: Duality in twisted face-pairing 3-manifolds
Speaker: Josh Barnard, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Forester
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: Classifying Anosov actions
Speaker: Ralf Spatzier, University of Michigan
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ravi Shankar
Friday, March 4, 2005 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: The L^2 Spectrum of GL(2) - continued
Speaker: Ralf Schmidt, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ralf Schmidt
Monday, March 7, 2005 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: The figure-8 knot
Speaker: Josh Barnard, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Tuesday, March 8, 2005 -- Discrete Groups Seminar
Announcement: Examples of twisted face-pairing 3-manifolds
Speaker: Victor Protsak, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for V. Protsak
Wednesday, March 9, 2005 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Dehn functions for finitely presented groups
Speaker: Ravi Shankar, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Forester
Thursday, March 10, 2005 -- Special Lecture
Announcement: History of Mathematics: Fall Course Preview
Speaker: David Rowe, University of Mainz
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 359
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for P. Cross
Friday, March 11, 2005 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: The Satake isomorphism
Speaker: Alan Roche, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Alan Roche
Tuesday, March 22, 2005 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: Positive and non-negative curvature in the presense of symmetries I
Speaker: Karsten Grove, University of Maryland College Park
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in Nielsen Hall A102
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Shankar
Wednesday, March 23, 2005 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: Positive and non-negative curvature in the presense of symmetries II
Speaker: Karsten Grove, University of Maryland College Park
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 809
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Shankar
Thursday, March 24, 2005 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: Positive and non-negative curvature in the presence of symmetries III
Speaker: Karsten Grove, University of Maryland College Park
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 359
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Shankar
Friday, March 25, 2005 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: The Satake isomorphism (continued)
Speaker: Alan Roche, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Alan Roche
Monday, March 28, 2005 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: How tightly can you fold a sphere?
Speaker: Catherine Searle, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Thursday, March 31, 2005 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Measuring the 3-sphere modulo G
Speaker: Catherine Searle, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 359
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for G. Walschap
Friday, April 1, 2005 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: Representations of GL(2 R)
Speaker: Pedro Olaya, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Pedro Olaya
Monday, April 4, 2005 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Perturbation of simple eigenvalues and simple invariant subspaces
Speaker: Ravi Srinivasan, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Thursday, April 7, 2005 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Minimal surface and nonnegative curvature
Speaker: Jiqiang Mei, Princeton University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 359
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Yilong Ni
Friday, April 8, 2005 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: Representations of GL(2 R) continued
Speaker: Pedro Olaya, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Pedro Olaya
Monday, April 11, 2005 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: Introduction to Lie Groups through Examples
Speaker: Ralf Schmidt, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Wednesday, April 13, 2005 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: Coxeter groups, simple groups and hyperbolic 3-manifolds
Speaker: Gareth Jones, University of Southampton
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Darryl McCullough
Thursday, April 14, 2005 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Dessins d'enfants: maps, Riemann surfaces and Galois groups
Speaker: Gareth Jones, University of Southampton
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 359
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Darryl McCullough
Friday, April 15, 2005 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: Global Representations of GL(2)
Speaker: Ralf Schmidt, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ralf Schmidt
Monday, April 18, 2005 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: On the Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation
Speaker: Leonid Dickey, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Landes
Monday, April 18, 2005 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: What is Differential Geometry? It's Yesterday Today and Tomorrow.
Speaker: Walter Wei, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Wednesday, April 20, 2005 -- Topology Seminar
Announcement: CAT(0) and CAT(-1) dimensions of torsion free hyperbolic groups
Speaker: Noel Brady, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for M. Forester
Thursday, April 21, 2005 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Spaces of Klein-Schottky Groups
Speaker: Bernard Maskit, Stony Brook University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 359
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for A. Basmajian
Friday, April 22, 2005 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: Tensor product theorem
Speaker: Victor Protsak, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for V. Protsak
Monday, April 25, 2005 -- Analysis Seminar
Announcement: The maximality algorithm for bisimilar linear control systems
Speaker: Laura Munteanu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Landes
Monday, April 25, 2005 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: The Search for Infinity
Speaker: Leonard Rubin, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Thursday, April 28, 2005 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Equivariant Monopole Homology for rational homology 3-spheres
Speaker: Weiping Li, Oklahoma State University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 359
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Walter Wei
Friday, April 29, 2005 -- Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Announcement: Data-model synthesis in terrestrial ecosystem modeling:
inverse analysis and inverse uncertainity analysis
Speaker: Tao Xu, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:15 PM in PHSC 928
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Xu
Monday, May 2, 2005 -- Representation Theory Seminar
Announcement: Modular Forms and Representations
Speaker: Ralf Schmidt, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 1105
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Ralf Schmidt
Monday, May 2, 2005 -- Graduate Student Seminar
Announcement: An appetizer to p-adic numbers and Algebraic Geometry
Speaker: Camilo Sanabria, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 809
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for T. Mecham
Tuesday, May 3, 2005 -- Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
Announcement: p-Harmonic Morphisms Minimal Foliations
and Conformal Deformations of Metrics
Speaker: Ye-Lin Ou, University of Oklahoma
Time & Place: 3:30 PM in PHSC 225
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Y. Ou
Thursday, May 5, 2005 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: What can we do with the Nash embedding theorem?
Speaker: Bang-Yen Chen, Michigan State University
Time & Place: 3:45 PM in PHSC 359
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Walter Wei
Thursday, May 5, 2005 -- Karcher Special Lecture
Announcement: A construction method and some classification theorems
for Lagrangian surfaces.
Speaker: Bang-Yen Chen, Michigan State University
Time & Place: 5:00 PM in PHSC 1105
Tea at: 4:45 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Walter Wei
Friday, May 6, 2005 -- Karcher Seminar
Announcement: A survey on finite type and biharmonic submanifolds.
Speaker: Bang-Yen Chen, Michigan State University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for Walter Wei
Thursday, May 26, 2005 -- Karcher Colloquium
Announcement: Diffusion in Deforming Porous Media
Speaker: Ralph Showalter, Oregon State University
Time & Place: 4:00 PM in PHSC 100
Tea at: 3:30 PM in PHSC 424
For more info, call 325-6711 and ask for R. Landes