Talks 2012-15

Talks in the Department of Mathematical Sciences

IPFW Fall 2012 - Summer 2015

Colloquium 2014-15

Peter Boyvalenkov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Polynomial Techniques for Investigation of Spherical Designs, May 22, 2014. PDF
David Benko, University of South Alabama, Comparing Tennis Tournaments, July 29, 2014.
- Abstract: The four major tennis tournaments (Grand Slams) are the Australian Open, the US Open, the Roland Garros, and Wimbledon. They are played on different surfaces and under different weather conditions. Which one is the best tournament? The answer seems subjective but we will find a mathematical method to answer objectively. Our method is applicable to other sports, too.
Peter Dragnev, IPFW, Universal lower bounds for potential energy of spherical codes, Feb. 4, 2015.
Peter G. Boyvalenkov, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Energy Bounds for Codes and Designs in H(n,q). March 4. PDF
Maya Stoyanova, Sofia University, Universal Lower Bounds on Energy - Computational Aspects, March 18. PDF
Johann Brauchart, Technische Universität Graz, Austria, Covering, Separation, and Discrepancy for Random Points on the Sphere. May 27. PDF
Yang Liu, Zhejiang Normal University, China, and IPFW Visiting Researcher, Controllability, stabilization, and synchronization problems on Boolean control networks. June 3. PDF

Graph Theory Week 2014

IPFW Math Colloquium talks:

Robin Wilson, Open University, England, Euler: 300 Years On. Oct. 1. Abstract PDF Joint with PI Math Club: Flyer PDF
Peter Hamburger, Western Kentucky University, and IPFW Emeritus, Social and Socioeconomic Sciences and Dimension of Posets, Oct. 2, 2014. PDF
Robin Wilson, Open University, England, Mathematics: A Philatelic History. Oct. 1. Abstract PDF Joint with PI Math Club.

Colloquium 2012-14

Peter Hamburger, Western Kentucky University, and IPFW Professor Emeritus, An Alternative Proof of Bézout's Theorem. Nov. 20, 2012. PDF
John Erik Fornæss, University of Michigan Emeritus, Exposing Points. Jan. 23, 2013. PDF
Edray Goins, Purdue WL, on An Introduction to Dessins d'Enfants: The Intersection of Graph Theory, Group Theory, and Differential Geometry. Joint with Pi Math Club March 6, 2013. PDF
Sui-Chung Ng, Temple University, Holomorphic isometry among bounded symmetric domains and its motivations, Nov. 12. PDF
Dusty Grundmeier, University of Michigan, Hilbert Functions and Positivity Conditions in Complex Analysis. April 16. PDF
Keng Deng, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Blow-up for the Heat Equation with a General Memory Boundary Condition. April 23. PDF