Seminars and Colloquiums
for the week of April 14, 2008
Speakers:
Professor Jan Rosinski , Monday
Dr. Seth F. Oppenheimer, Monday
Mr. Gerald Orick, Wednesday
Mr. Bryon Aragam, Friday
Monday, April 14
PROBABILITY SEMINAR – (continued)
TIME: 10:10 – 11:00 a.m.
ROOM: Ayres 309A
SPEAKER: Professor Jan Rosinski
TITLE: “On a cancellation property of sigma-finite measures with applications to inverse problems for regular variation, linear filters, and identification of stable laws.
SIAM STUDENT CHAPTER SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 104
SPEAKER: Dr. Seth F. Oppenheimer, MSU
TITLE: “A model for gene activation”
ABSTRACT: Experimental work has shown that exposure to certain classes of pesticides can effect cytokine production. Indeed, the level of transcription factors within the cell is affected by exposure to these exogenous compounds and we hypothesize that this is the mechanism that leads to changes in cytokine production. We propose a model in the form of a system of ordinary differential equations which tracks gene activation and the consequent production of the cytokine IL-6.
This is joint work with Stephen Pruett of the Department Basic Science in the College of Veterinary Medicine of Mississippi State University and Ruping Fan of Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center.
SFO was supported by National Institutes of Health grants DHHS/NIH 5 P20 RR17661 and NIH ES 11278
Wednesday, April 16
ANALYSIS SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 – 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 209A
SPEAKER: Mr. Gerald Orick
TITLE: "The Schwarzian derivative and schlicht functions (Z. Nehari)" (continued)
Friday, April 18
GEOMETRY AND TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
TIME: 2:30 – 3:20 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres 209A
SPEAKER: Mr. Bryon Aragam, Math Honors Program, UTK
TITLE: “Volume Comparison in Lorentz Manifolds with Integral Bounds”
ABSTRACT: Our work focused on blending the techniques used by Ehrlich and Sanchez [1998] with the work of Petersen and Wei [1997]. Ehrlich and Sanchez produced a point-wise statement of the classical Bishop volume comparison theorem for so-called SCLV subsets of the causal future in a Lorentz manifold, while Petersen and Wei developed and proved an integral version for Riemannian manifolds. We applied Peterson and Wei's method to the SCLV sets, and verified that two essential differential equations from the Riemannian proof extend to the Lorentz setting.
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