COLLOQUIA TALKS

The Mathematics Department has scheduled the following talks for the academic year 2008-2009. Click on the speaker's abstract to obtain a .pdf file containing additional information on the talk. Please check back a day before the scheduled event to determine if any changes have occurred. All talks take place in the Joseph Wiener Lecture Hall (MAGC 1.302), unless otherwise noted. Please see the UTPA Campus Map (Building #24) for directions to the Mathematics and General Classroom Building (MAGC). For further information or for special accommodations, contact Dr. Barnabas Bede at (956) 381-2578 or via email at bedeb@utpa.edu

The first talk below denotes the upcoming colloquium talk, followed by subsequent talks and previous talks.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009
12:00 -- 1:00pm, MAGC 1.302
"Research opportunities in Statistics: Theory, Methods, Applications and Jobs" [Abstract]
Prof. Mack Shelley
Department of Statistics and Department of Political Scieces
Iowa State University

Distinguished Lecture Series
Thursday, October 5, 2009
12:00pm -- 1:00pm, MAGC 1.302
"Some Solved and Unsolved Problems in Pure and Applied Mathematics" [Abstract]
Prof. Lokenath Debnath
Department of Mathematics,
The University of Texas -Pan American

2008-2009

Distinguished Lecture Series
Friday, April 10, 2009
1:00pm -- 2:00pm, MAGC 1.302
"Nonlinear, Dispersive Evolution Equations with Analytic Data" [Abstract]
Prof. Jerry L. Bona
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science,
The University of Illinois at Chicago

Monday, March 30, 2009
3:00pm -- 4:00pm, MAGC 1.318
"The Integrals of Motion for the elliptic deformed W-algebra:
An elliptic quatization of the KdV theory" [Abstract]
Dr. Takeo Kojima
Department of Mathematics
Nihon University, Japan

Friday, March 27, 2009
2:30pm -- 3:30pm, MAGC 1.318
"Bisexual branching Processes in Genetics" [Abstract]
Dr. Manuel Mota,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Extremadura, Spain

Distinguished Lecture Series
Thursday, March 5, 2009
12:00pm -- 1:00pm, MAGC 1.302
"Some Solved and Unsolved Problems in Pure and Applied Mathematics" [Abstract]
Prof. Lokenath Debnath
Department of Mathematics,
The University of Texas -Pan American

Thursday, February, 19, 2009
12:00pm -- 1:00pm, MAGC 1.302
"An introduction to Character Varieties" [Abstract]
Dr. Sean Lawton,
Department of Mathematics,
The University of Maryland, College Park

Thursday, February, 5, 2009
2:30pm -- 3:30pm, MAGC 1.206
"The Modern Baroque : Applications of Ramanujan's Theory of Elliptic Functions" [Abstract]
Dr. Tim Huber,
Department of Mathematics,
Iowa State University

Friday, January, 30, 2009
2:00pm -- 3:00pm, MAGC 1.318
"On p-groups and Their Representations" [Abstract]
Dr. Adriana Nenciu
Van Vleck Assistant Professor,
Department of Mathematics,
University of Wisconsin

Thursday, January, 22, 2009
2:45pm -- 3:45pm, MAGC 1.206
"Complex dynamics for the Lee-Yang zeros - study of a model magnetic material" [Abstract]
Dr. Roland Roeder
Department of Mathematics
Stony Brook University

Friday, January, 23, 2009
1:00pm -- 2:00pm, MAGC 1.318
"Energy and Helicity of Knotted Vector Fields" [Abstract]
Dr. Sergiy Koshkin
Boas Assistant Professor
Mathematics Department
Northwestern University

Distinguished Lecture Series
Friday, November 14, 2008
2:00pm -- 3:00pm, MAGC 1.302
"Two dimensional Solitons in shallow water" [Abstract]
Prof. Yuji Kodama
Department of Mathematics,
Ohio State University

Distinguished Lecture Series
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4:00pm -- 5:00pm, MAGC 1.302
"Helically Symmetric Spacetimes and Supermassive Black Holes" [Abstract]
Prof. Richard Price
Department of Physics and
Center for Gravitational wave astronomy
University of Texas at Brownsville

Thursday, October 23, 2008
12:00 -- 1:00pm, MAGC 1.302
"Decomposition of functions into pairs of intrinsic mode functions" [Abstract]
Dr. Vesselin Vatchev
Department of Mathematics,
University of Texas at Brownsville

Monday, October 6, 2008
4:00pm -- 5:00pm, MAGC 1.302
"Positive definite functions in distance geometry" [Abstract]
Dr. Oleg R. Musin
Department of Mathematics,
University of Texas at Brownsville