MSCS Research Seminar

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

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

Oct 22: Bret Benash, College of St. Ben's & St. John's Univ. - 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 - Title: A tripartite mathematical life: Pure algebra, pure administration, and applied algebra.

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

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

All research seminars are held on Fridays in SC 186, 3:40-4:40pm.

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