MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2005

GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR 667

TIME: 12:20 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
ROOM: 209A Ayres Hall
SPEAKER: Dr. Valeriy Berestovskiy, Visiting Faculty
TITLE: Irreducible closed and open contractible 3-manifolds.

FIRST-YEAR GTA TEACHING SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 p.m.
ROOM: 309B Ayres Hall
SPEAKER: Dr. Sam Jordan
TITLE: “Academic Integrity and Related Matters”
ABSTRACT: Discussion of two cases from Friedberg’s “Teaching Mathematics in
Colleges and Universities: Case Studies for Today’s Classroom”. Please read Case 2,
“Emily’s Test”, and Case 10, “Seeking Points” in the text in preparation for the seminar.

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS SEMINAR

TIME: 3:35 p.m.
ROOM: 104 Ayres Hall
SPEAKER: Dr. Borislav Yordanov, Visiting Faculty (joint work with Grozdena Todorova)
TITLE: "The energy decay problem for dissipative wave equations in $R^n$"

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2005

GEOMETRY/TOPOLOGY SEMINAR 667

TIME: 12:20 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
ROOM: 209A Ayres Hall
SPEAKER: Dr. Valeriy Berestovskiy, Visiting Faculty
TITLE: Compact 3-manifolds with finite fundamental groups.

ALGEBRA SEMINAR

TIME: 3:35 p.m.
ROOM: 214 Ayres Hall
SPEAKER: Mr. George Butler
TITLE: Codes associated to Algebraic Curves

ANALYSIS SEMINAR

TIME: 3:35 – 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: 309B Ayres Hall
SPEAKER: Dr. Marcus Carlsson, Lund University
TITLE: Nontangential limits in spaces of analytic functions