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University of Alaska Fairbanks
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

2008-2009 Colloquium Series

Spring Schedule

Thursday, February 26

Speaker:		John Neuberger, University of North Texas
Title:		``'Nonlinear Semigroups, Lie Generators and Sobolev Gradients"
Time:		1:00 - 2:00
Place:		TBA

Thursday, March 26

Speaker:		Jennifer Paulhus (Kansas State University)
Title:		Using Algebra to Study Curves
Time:		1:00 - 2:00
Place:		Chapman 106

Tuesday, March 31

Speaker:		Gordon Williams (Ursinus College)
Title:		Representing the Archimedean Polyhedra as Quotients
Time:		1:00 - 2:00
Place:		Chapman 106

Wednesday, April 1 (Note revised day!)

Tuesday, April 7

Speaker:		Wesley Calvert (Murray State University)
Title:		Effectiveness and Computation in Algebra and Geometry
Time:		1:00 - 2:00
Place:		Chapman 106

Thursday, April 16

Speaker:		Anthony Weston (Cassius College)
Title:		Notes on Classical and Strict Negative Type
Time:		1:00 - 2:00
Place:		Chapman 106

Monday, April 20

Speaker:		Beth Zirbes (UAF)
Title:		A Method of Finding a Likely Evolutionary Tree for a Group of Taxa Using Algebraic Geometry
Time:		4:00 - 5:00
Place:		TBA

Thursday, September 4

Speaker:		Vasil Godabrelidze (UAF)
Title:		Methods of Boundary Control Theory in the Non-stationary Inverse Problem for the Wave Equation
Time:		1:00 - 2:00
Place:		Chapman 106

Thursday, September 11

Speaker:		Tuncay Aktosun (U. Texas at Arlington)
Title:		Inverse Problems and Applications
Time:		1:00 - 2:00
Place:		Chapman 106

Tuesday, November 25

Speaker:		John McGee, Radford University
Title:		``Some Interesting Properties of Elliptic Curves over Finite Fields"
Time:		1:00 - 2:00
Place:		Chapman 104

Tuesday, November 25

Speaker:		James Lawless
Title:		``An Overview Of Distinguishing Colorings."
Time:		4:00 - 5:00
Place:		Chapman 107

Tuesday, December 2

Speaker:		Rachel Krieg
Title:		``Reconstructing Phylogenetic Trees of Viral DNA"
Time:		1:00 - 2:00
Place:		Chapman 107