Past Talks: 97-98

Thursday, Oct 9:
Dr. Mark Carpenter of the University of South Alabama spoke on
"Scale Mixtures of Location-Scale Families of Lifetime Distributions."

Thursday, Oct 23:
Dr.Scott Carter of the University of South Alabama spoke on
"Projections of Knotted Surfaces in 4-dimension."

Tuesday, Oct 28, in room 350:
Mr. D. Shirley, a mathematical sciences consultant, gave a talk on
"Life after Math."

Thursday, Oct 30:
Dr. J. Wanzer Drane of the University of South Carolina School of Public Health gave two talks. At 3pm,
an Undergraduate talk at 3pm on
"Removing Biases of Mailback Questionnaires by Imputing Nonresponses."
And at 4pm, a colloquium talk on:
"The Joint Action of Two Mixed Stimuli with a Bivariate Threshold."

Thursday, Nov 6:
Professor Jiu Ding of the University of Southern Mississippi spoke on
"Chaos from a Statistical Point of View"

Thursday, Nov 13, at 4:10pm:
Dr. Can Akkoc of the University of South Alabama and the Alabama School of Math and Science spoke on
"Mathematical Structures in Traditional Turkish Music."

Thursday, Nov 20:
Professor Joseph Kolibal of the University of Southern Mississippi spoke on
"Solving a Differential Equation Numerically Exactly."

Thursday, Jan 15:
Dr. Xin-Min Zhang of the University of South Alabama spoke on
"Optimization of Schur-convex functions with an application in multivariable calculus"

Thursday, Feb 5
Dr. Victor Moll of Tulane University spoke on
"Some mathematical questions arising from the integration of rational functions"

Abstract:
We discuss some problems that have appeared in our attempt to develop a new procedure for the exact integration of rational functions.

Thursday, Feb 12:
Dr. Lew Lefton of the University of New Orleans spoke on
"Internet Mathematics"

Thursday, March 5
Dr. Bruce Kitchens of IBM's T.J.Watson Research Center spoke on
"Multi-dimensional Symbolic Dynamics"

Thursday, March 12
Dr. Laurel Langford of the University of Wisconsin will spoke on
"The 2-Category of 2-Tangles"

Friday, March 13 at 1 pm
Dr. Masahico Saito of the University of South Florida will spoke on
"Generalizing invariants of triangulated 3-manifolds to 4-manifolds."

Monday, March 16 at 3 pm
Dr. Gopal Chaudhuri of ISI,Calcutta and IUPUI spoke on
"L-class of life distributions"

Thursday, March 19
Dr. Gopal Chaudhuri of ISI, Calcutta and IUPUI spoke on
"Survival in a random environment"

Thursday, March 26 thru Saturday, March 28
G3 = Geometric Groups on the Gulf coast, a mathematics conference took place.

Thursday, May 14:
Dr.Igor MIneyev of the University of Utah spoke on
"Negative curvature in groups."
Note: Dr. MIneyev is a job candidate.

Tuesday, May 19:
Kelly Beaver of the University of South Alabama spoke on
"The Balancing Act: Managing Methods and Theory in Education Courses."
Note: Ms. Beaver is a job candidate.

Thursday, May 21:
Dr. Jiazu Zhou of Lehigh University spoke on
"The Hadwiger-Busemann Problem of Integral Geometry"
Note: Dr. Zhou is a job candidate.

Thursday, May 28:
Dr. Dan Silver of the University of South Alabama spoke on
"Coloring knots with a continuous palette."

Thursday, June 4:
Sever Achimescu of the University of South Alabama spoke on
"Two conjectures."

Thursday, June 11:
Dr. David Krebes of the Pacific Institute of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia spoke on
"An obstruction to embedding 4-tangles in unknotted circles."

Note: Dr. Krebes is a job candidate.

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