MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2006

CANDIDATE FOR THE POSITION OF THEORETICAL OR COMPUTATIONAL EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

TIME: 12:20 p.m. - 1:10 p.m.
ROOM: 511 Dabney-Buehler
SPEAKER: Dr. Fransisco Ubeda
Oxford University
Department of Genetics
TITLE: On the Evolutionary Stability of Mendelian Segregation
ABSTRACT: Why is Mendelian segregation the rule and segregation distortion the exception, rather than the other way round? In this research, I explore sex-specific segregation distortion and its implications for the evolutionary stability of fair segregation.


DE/APPLIED AND COMPUTATIONAL MATH SEMINAR

TIME: 3:35 p.m. ­ 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309A
SPEAKER: Dr. Dobromir Dimitrov, post-doc in EEB Dept.
TITLE: Nonstandard numerical methods with applications to biological systems


WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 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: Our Students
How do we view our students? What are our goals for our students? What have we learned? How does this create a philosophy on teaching? We wrap up the seminar with an invited speaker, Lennisa Mostella, from the Office of Equity and Diversity, discuss the article in AMS Notices on the concept of a teaching philosophy, and talk about what we would each now write as our teaching philosophy.


THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2006

TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

TIME: 10:10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309B
SPEAKER: Professor Morwen Thistlethwaite
TITLE: Introduction to hyperbolic structures on 3-manifolds III


PROBABILITY SEMINAR

TIME: 11:15 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309B
SPEAKER: Professor Zeng, University of Missouri at Kansas City
TITLE: "Risk Minimizing Hedge for a Filtering Micromovement Model (II)"


JUNIOR COLLOQUIUM
The Junior Colloquium is aimed primarily at undergraduate students, but all are most welcome to attend. (This is the last Junior Colloquium of this semester.)

TIME: 3:30 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 214
SPEAKER: Dr. Suzanne Lenhart
TITLE: Applications of Optimal Control to Biological Models
ABSTRACT: An introduction to the basic ideas of optimal control of ordinary differential equations will be given. A disease model will be used to illustrate the techniques. Then an extension to discrete time models will be presented. An example on improving the standard technique of cardiopulmonary resuscitation will be given, in which the profile of the external chest pressure is taken as the control. The underlying system is a seven compartment circulation model.

Pizza will be served immediately before the talk.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2006

TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

TIME: 10:10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309B
SPEAKER: Anastasiia Tsvietkova
TITLE: When are quasi-isometric groups bi-Lipschitz equivalent?