Graduate Student Seminar

The Graduate Student Seminar meets in PHSC 1105 on Mondays at 5:00-6:00. For more information about the seminar, contact Nancy Ho (nho 'at' math 'dot' ou 'dot' edu).

Spring 2010 Talks

1/25	Dr. Kyung-Bai Lee	PSL₂(R)-geometry abstract
2/1 starts 5:15pm!	James Dover, Lynn Greenleaf, Catherine Hall	Preparing for General Exams
2/8	Dr. Dragan Jankovic, Cameron University in Lawton, OK	Mathematical teaching at regional universities abstract
2/15	Dr. Shihshu Walter Wei	CALCULUS where the unity of mathematics, and interdisciplinary research begin - An invitation to p-Harmonic Geometry
2/22	Emre Tokgoz	Why do we program in Financial Mathematics?
3/3 Wed! w/ Math Club	Recruiters from the CIA	Career and Internship Opportunities with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
3/8	Dr. Luther White	Estimation of radial and vertical velocity components from tangential in vortices
3/15	Spring Break!	No talk.
3/22	Jeff Breeding & Thomas Madsen	LaTex (held in 2nd floor computer lab PHSC 230)
3/29	Dr. Mihai Stoiciu, Williams College	Unitary Operators Associated to Hyperbolic Reflection Groups
4/5	Dr. Ajit Bhand	Geometry of mechanical systems with symmetry
4/12	Dr. Kimball Martin	Fermat's last theorem and beyond
4/19	Ye Li	Generalized Sharp Hardy Type and Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg Type Inequalities on Riemannian Manifolds
4/28 Wed! w/ Math Club	Math Dept. Faculty	Brainstorming a proposal to have a space/lounge in Physical Sciences for undergrads and grads Abstract
5/3		Movie Night 3 Choices: Pi, 21, or Good Will Hunting

Fall 2009 Talks

8/24	Dr. Noel Brady, Dr. Alan Roche, Dr. Paul Goodey, Lee Lerner, Jeff Breeding	Meet the Graduate Directors, Math Dept Chair, and MGSA
8/31	Dr. Nancy Matthews	Introduction to MyMathLab and more discussion on teaching
9/7	Labor Day Holiday!	No talk.
9/14	Dr. Lilian Wong	Introduction to Orthogonal Polynomials
9/21	Andrew Dryanski, OU Geography Dept.	TBA
9/28	Dr. Darryl McCullough	Complex complex numbers
10/5	Dr. Marilyn Breen	Staircases for the Stars: Some Combinatorial results for Orthogonally Starshaped Sets in R^d
10/12	Dr. John Albert	Nonlinear wave equations
10/19	Jeff Breeding, Emre Tokgoz, Rachel Wright	Passing the qualifiers
10/26	Dr. Karen Marrongelle, Portland State University	An Introduction to Funding Opportunities for Graduate Studies and Beyond Abstract
11/2	Narayan Thapa	Parameter Estimation problem for damped Sine-Gordon Equations with Neumann boundary condition
11/9	Weihua Lin, Thomas Madsen, Kashyap Rajeevsarathy, Dr. Keri Kornelson	Finding an Adviser
11/16	Dr. Alan Roche	The Congruent Number Problem
11/23	Dr. Dan Guralnik	Axioms in Geometry
11/30	Dr. Mike Jablonski	Lie Groups and Geometry
12/7	Jeff Breeding and Thomas Madsen	How to make a webpage (held in 2nd floor computer lab)