Our last Math Colloquium of the semester will be on Tuesday, December 6, at 3:30 p.m. in VH1224. Mike Munn from the University of Missouri at Columbia will be here to speak on as well as answer questions about graduate study at Mizzou. As usual, refreshments will be provided! ABSTRACT Informally speaking, Topology is the […]
The next Math Colloquium will be held Tuesday, September 20 at 3:30 in VH1224. David Garth will be speaking on Fractions, Pi, and Quasicrystals. Refreshments will be provided. ABSTRACT A rational number is one that can be expressed as a ratio of two integers. A real number that is not rational is said to be […]
On Wednesday, September 14, Professor Jianguo Sun from the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Missouri will be speaking on graduate study in Biostatistics at the University of Missouri, as well as on the specific types of research they do there. The talk will be at 3:30 in VH1236. Refreshments will be provided!
The next Math Colloquium will be held Thursday, April 21, from 3:30-4:20 in VH1228. (Note that this is a schedule change from an earlier post). Mike Fitzpatrick, a graduate student at the University of Iowa, will speak on An Introduction to Knot Theory. An abstract of the talk follows. Afterward he will be able to […]
The next Math Colloquium will be held Tuesday, April 19, from 3:30-4:20 in VH1228. Mike Fitzpatrick, a graduate student at the University of Iowa, will speak on An Introduction to Knot Theory. An abstract of the talk follows. Afterward he will be able to answer questions about graduate study at the University of Iowa. Refreshments […]
Our first math colloquium of the semester will be Wednesday, January 19, from 3:30-4:30. Chad Williamson, a Truman Student, will be speaking on Understanding how fronts propagate through flowing fluids – the search for a new model. As usual, refreshments will be provided. ABSTRACT Advection-reaction-diffusions systems – systems consisting of a fluid flow in which […]
The last Math Colloquium of the semester will be Tuesday, November 30 at 3:30 p.m. in VH1228. Calin Chindris of the University of Missouri will be speaking on Eigenvalues of Sums of Hermitian Matrices. After the talk he will be able to answer questions on graduate study at Mizzou. As usual, refreshments will be provided. […]
Joey Palmer will be speaking on Structure Groups of Pseudo-Riemannian Algebraic Curvature Tensors in VH1228 at 3:30. This presentation is a summary of work done on a Summer REU at the University of California, Irvine during the summer of 2010. Refreshments will be provided. ABSTRACT Structure Groups of Pseudo-Riemannian Algebraic Curvature Tensors An algebraic curvature […]
Our second Mathematics Colloquium of the year will be on Thursday, October 14, at 3:30 P.M. in MaGruder 1098. H. Chad Lane, a Truman Alumni, will be speaking on Learning with Virtual Humans: Using simulated role players to teach and inspire. An abstract of the talk is given below. Cookies and soft drinks will be […]