Spring 1999

February 26: Gianluca Guadagni "An introduction to statistical mechanics"
March 5: Adrian Rice "The origins of the quaternions"
March 26: Catherine Lebiedzik "Uniform stability of a coupled structural acoustic system with thermoelastic effects"
April 2: John Polhill "Partial difference sets"
April 9: Justin Prociv "Difference sets of integers"
April 16: Igor Erovenko "The Mayer-Vietoris sequence for bounded cohomology of free products of groups with amalgamation"
April 23: Troy Siemers "Schur functions, reproducing kernels, and operator colligations"
April 30: Chip Masters "An introduction to stabilizability of dynamical systems"
May 7: Sloan Despeaux "Mathematics at UVa during the nineteenth century"