Talks During the 2005-2006 School Year

Fall 2006

September 22Katy Ott"What I did with my Summer Vacation"
September 29Daniel Toundykov"Introduction to stochastic calculus: Brownian motion, Ito integral, and Ito formula"
October 27Rebecca Schmitz"A friendly introduction to C*-algebras"
November 3Katie Quertermous"An Introduction to Composition Operators"
November 10Matthew Pons"More Operator Theory: Dirichet Returns"
December 1Rob McEwen"TBA"

Spring 2007

Su SuwannaJanuary 26"Quantum Brownian Motion Conjecture
Eric FinsterFebruary 2"Mathematics Backwards: A Tour of Categorical Dualities"
Lorena BociuFebruary 9"Introduction to Conjugate Functions in Convex Analysis"
David TaylorFebruary 23"Partitions: A Glimpse into Correlation Functions"
Dan PryorMarch 16"Ox Plowing and The Price is Right"
M. Bob HongApril 13"Some Mathematical Methods Applied to Calcium Signaling in Physiology and Medicine"
Katy OttApril 20"The Radiosity Equation and Mellin Transforms"
Brian KappApril 27"An Introduction to the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves"