MSCS Research Seminar

(Fridays at 3:40 in RNS 204)

Spring '11 Research Seminar Schedule

March 11: Kris Nain, CSBSJU - Are Tropical Flag Varieties Shellable?

April 1: Kaisa Taipale & Alex Woo, St. Olaf College - The combinatorics of rings coming from Grassmannians

April 8: Abra Brisbin, Mayo Clinic - Math in your genes: Bayesian models of gene networks and analysis of rare variants

April 15: Zajj Daugherty, St. Olaf College - Permutations, braids, partitions, and tableaux: finding the center of the affine BMW algebra

April 29: Tina Garrett, St. Olaf College - Sand and Ice and Integer Partitions

Fall '10 Research Seminar Schedule

Sept 17: Adam McDougall, St. Olaf College - Knot Theory & Khovanov Homology

Sept 24: Adam McDougall, St. Olaf College - A Diagramless Link Homology

Oct 1: Vladimir Sotirov, St. Olaf College - Lifting Automorphisms of Semi-Direct Products

Oct 8: Bruce Hanson, St. Olaf College - Analysis on Metric Spaces

Oct 22: Bret Benash, CSBSJU - Symmetric Groups that have Maximal Subgroups Isomorphic to other Symmetric Groups

Oct 29: Bruce Hanson, St. Olaf College - Analysis on Metric Spaces, Part II

Nov. 5: Robert Fossum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - A Tripartite Mathematical Life: Pure Algebra, Pure Administration, and Applied Algebra.

Dec. 3: Alex Woo, St. Olaf College - Characterization of Local Complete Intersection Schubert Varieties

Spring '10 Research Seminar Schedule

Mar 5: Alexander Woo, St. Olaf College - Lines Meeting 4 Lines in 3-space (the History of Hilbert's 15th Problem in 1 example)

Mar 19: Andrew Odlyzko - Zeros of the Riemann Zeta Function - Computations and Implications

Apr 9: Tina Garrett, St. Olaf College - Ranks, Cranks and Ramanujan

Apr 16: Jill Dietz, St. Olaf College - A Journey from Algebraic Topology to Finite Group Theory

Apr 30: Eric Egge, Carleton College - Legendre-Stirling Numbers

May 14: Jon Armel, Carleton College - Singularities of Solutions to Analytic PDE

Fall '09 Research Seminar Schedule

Sept 25: Colloquium - Bill Dunham

Oct 2: Helen Wong, Carleton College - TQFTs from a topologist's point of view

Oct 9: Jessica Striker, Macalester College - A Unifying Perspective on Alternating Sign Matrices and other combinatorial objects

Oct 16: Alexander Woo, St. Olaf College - Bases for symmetric group covariants

Oct 30: Catherine Micek, University of Minnesota - Mathematical Models and Numerical Methods for Gels (with biomedical applications)

Nov 6: Delia Letang, St. Olaf College - Subconvexity Bounds

Nov 13: Kaisa Taipale, University of Minnesota - Approaching the Abelian-Non-abelian correspondence

Nov 20: Delia Letang, St. Olaf College - Subconvexity Bounds (Part II)

Dec 4: Jill Dietz, St. Olaf College

Spring '08 Research Seminar Schedule

Feb. 29: Mike Weimerskirch, St. Olaf College (part II)

Mar. 7: Josh Davis, Carleton College (part I)

Apr. 4: Olaf Hall-Holt, St. Olaf College

Apr. 11: Eric Ufferman, St. Olaf College (part I)

Apr. 18: Eric Ufferman (part II)

Apr. 25: Josh Davis (part II)

May 2: Eric Egge, Carleton College (part I)

May 9: Eric Egge (part II)

May 16: David Liben-Nowell, Carleton College