Math Seminar Archive

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1-24-2008
Meghan Cherry, Department of Mathematical Sciences

"Political Calculations" (abstract)

2-2-2008 Tom Zerger, Department of Mathematical Sciences

"Conics: An introduction to Algebraic Geometry" (abstract)

2-28-2008 Francis C. Dane, Finkbeiner Endowed Chair in Ethics

"Maintaining and Analyzing Longitudinal Data Registries: The Code Pink Project" (abstract)

3-20-2008
Dan Isaksen, Wayne State University, Department of Mathematics

"Quaternions, Octonions, and Beyond" (abstract)

4-10-2008
Cyrus Aryana, Department of Mathematical Sciences

"Analytic Continuation of Multiple Valued Functions on the Sets of the Extended Complex Plane" (abstract)

9-18-2008 Michelle Westrick and Kristin Zaiki (student talk)

"How Tangent Lines Generate Geometric Sequences" (abstract)

10-9-2008 Anthony Crachiola, Department of Mathematical Sciences

"The Zariski Cancellation Problem" (abstract)

10-16-2008 Stefan Maubach, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

"Polynomials are easy. Z is hard."  (abstract, slides from talk)

11-13-2008 Alan Freed, Clifford H. Spicer Endowed Chair in Engineering 

"Designing and Developing Rosenbrock Methods for Solving Stiff Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations: an invitation for collaborative research" (abstract)

2-19-2009 Patrick Pan, Department of Mathematical Sciences

"The Invariant Subspace Problem" (abstract)

3-26-2009 William Vautaw, Department of Mathematical Sciences

"Knot Theory" (abstract)

4-4-2009 Tom Plante (student talk)

"On the Quadrature of the Parabola" (abstract)

10-8-2009
Harm Derksen, University of Michigan

"Multimagic Squares" (abstract)

11-12-2009
Kevin Cooper, Ford Motor Credit Company
"Analytics at Ford Motor Credit" (abstract)

 


1-28-2010 Lawrence Brenton, Wayne State University, Department of Mathematics

"Picture Proofs of Fermat's Last Theorem" (abstract)

2-11-2010 Jan Hlavacek, Department of Mathematical Sciences

"Geogebra"

3-18-2010 Steven Rosenberg, University of Wisconsin Superior

"Galois Theory via Arithmetic" (abstract)

3-25-2010 Garry Johns, Department of Mathematical Sciences

"New Results about Knight's Tours on Rectangular Chessboards (abstract)

10-21-2010

Anthony Crachiola, Department of Mathematical Sciences


"Locally Nilpotent Derivations: a Primer" (abstract)

12-2-2010

Olivier Heubo-Kwegna, Department of Mathematical Sciences

"A Surprising Infinite Series" (abstract)
4-7-2011

Olivier Heubo-Kwegna, Department of Mathematical Sciences

"The Converse of Lagrange's Theorem" (abstract)