MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2006

TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
TIME: 10:10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309B
SPEAKER: Dr. Atish Mitra
TITLE: First examples of asymptotic cones

APPLIED MATH/DE/COMPUTATIONAL SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309A
SPEAKER: Chuan Li
TITLE: “Background for solving PDEs with Multiwavelet Bases"

SPEAKER: Xiaoyu Mu
TITLE: "Chemotherapy for tumors: a study of quadratic optimal control."


WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2006

GRADUATE STUDENT TEACHING SEMINAR
Website: http://www.math.utk.edu/~eaton/Math598.htm (for handouts and updated schedule of events).

TIME: 3:35 p.m. - 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 314
TITLE: Developing Exams, Homework and other Assessments
Do you wonder if that test distribution is you or them? Are students memorizing or are they learning? In this seminar, we will talk about setting goals and expectations for your students and centering exams, homework and other assessments around those expectations. We also talk about how to form assessment problems and questions, from wording to concept reinforcement.

ANALYSIS SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 p.m. - 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 320
SPEAKER: Professor Mike Frazier
TITLE: Introduction to Wavelets 4


THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2006

TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
TIME: 10:10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309B
SPEAKER: Paul Lewis
TITLE: Elementary hyperbolic geometry I


PROBABILITY SEMINAR
TIME: 11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309B
SPEAKER: Shiying Si
TITLE: Bipower variation and testing for jumps in high-frequency data.