JMU Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Spring 2007
Colloquia

Colloquia are held on selected Mondays throughout the term from 3:45-4:45 pm in Roop 103. Refreshments will be served at 3:30, also in 103. Occasional colloquia may be held at other times and/or locations.

Date
Speaker
Home Institution
Title, with link to abstract and bio
Jan. 8
First day of classes; no colloquium


Jan. 15
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day;
no colloquium


Jan. 22
Dr. Kane Nashimoto
JMU
Odds and Ends in Statistics
Jan. 29 Summer Math & Stat Opportunities
JMU Math & Stat faculty
JMU
Summer Math & Stat Opportunities
Feb. 5 Dr. John Marafino JMU
Bieberbach Conjecture I
Feb. 12
Dr. John Marafino JMU
Bieberbach Conjecture II
Feb. 19
Dr. Gregory Dresden
Washington and Lee University
Look, there's more to say about Conway's Look-and-say sequence
Feb. 26
Dr. Jim Sochaki
 JMU
Newton, Maclaurin, Picard and Padé: Four Horsemen of Differential Equations
Mar. 5
Spring break; no colloquium


Mar. 12 Mr. Hunter Johnson
University of Maryland
Mathematical logic and the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension
Mar. 19
moved!
Dr. Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch
Georgetown University
Analysis of Two-Dimensional Gel Images
CANCELLED
Mar. 26
Mr. Justin Lessler


3-3:30 information and advising for students
Johns Hopkins University

JMU faculty
Mathematical Investigation of Outbreaks: Finding the Source of Infection

Fall 2007 course information
Apr. 2 Dr. Hasan Hamdan
JMU
Approximating and Estimating Infinite Variance
Mixtures of Normals

Apr. 9
Dr. Harsha Chelliah
University of Virginia
Flame-Acoustic Interactions and their Influence on Combustion-Generated Pollution
Apr. 16
Dr. Patrick Bahls
UNC Asheville
Asymptotic connectivity and the geometry of a graph
Apr. 23 Student Research Symposium
(organized by Dr. Nusrat Jahan)
JMU
Laurel Ashley Booth, Jason Fox, Sara Sellman, Sara Toosarvandani, Nicole Wood

* = (tentative)
Fall 2006 Colloquia
Past Years' Colloquia (1998-spring 2006)