Un of Tenn | Math Department

Seminars and Colloquiums
for 2010-2011

Week of January 24, 2011

Speaker:
Mr. Matt Turner, Monday
Professor Michael Frazier, Wednesday
Dr. Koos van Zyl, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Rhodes University, South Africa, Thursday

If you are interested in giving or arranging a talk for one of our seminars or colloquiums,
please review our calendar.

If you have questions, or a date you would like to confirm, please contact Dr. Fernando Schwartz.

Monday, January 24

PROBABILITY SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 – 4:25 pm
ROOM: Ayres 114
SPEAKER: Matt Turner
TITLE: "Ito isomorphisms for stochastic integrals driven by Levy processes with applications. Part II."
ABSTRACT: In this talk we will use results presented last semester on moments of infinitely divisible random variables to develop Ito isomorphisms for stochastic integrals driven by Levy processes.

Wednesday, January 26

ANALYSIS SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 pm
ROOM: Ayres 114
SPEAKER: Professor Michael Frazier
TITLE: "Estimates for Green's functions of Schrodinger operators via Neumann series" Part II

Friday, January 28

ALGEBRA SEMINAR
TIME: 1:25 pm
ROOM: Ayres 404
SPEAKER: Koos van Zyl, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics,
Rhodes University, South Africa
TITLE: "On the Latimer-MacDuffee Theorem over Fq [T ]"
ABSTRACT: Latimer & MacDuffee showed in 1933 that there is a one-to-one correspondence between equivalence classes of matrices with a given minimum polynomial and equivalence classes of ideals of a certain ring. In the case where the matrices are taken over the integers, Behn and Van der Merwe developed an algorithm in 2002 to produce a representative in each equivalence class. We extend this algorithm to matrices taken over the ring F_q[T] of polynomials over a finite field and prove a modified version of the Latimer-MacDuffee theorem which holds for proper equivalence classes of matrices.

Past notices:

winter break