Seminars and Colloquiums
for the week
September 18, 2006
SPEAKERS:
Dr. Atish Mitra, Monday
Professor Horst Behncke, Monday
Graduate Student Teaching Seminar, Wednesday
Assistant Professor Nikolay Brodskiy, Thursday
Dr. Mark Shattuck, Thursday
Dr. S. Mulay, Thursday
Mr. David Phillippi, Friday
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2006
TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
TIME: 10:10 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309B
SPEAKER: Dr. Atish Mitra
TITLE: Ultralimits
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS/APPLIED MATH AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE SEMINAR
TIME: 3:35 p.m. – 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309A
SPEAKER: Professor Horst Behncke
Universität Osnabruck, Germany
TITLE: “Control of Deterministic Epidemics with a Core Group”
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 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: Motivating students and improving the student teacher relationship
Talk about ways in which you can motivate student learning. How can you encourage
your students and make mathematics a positive experience? We will discuss
some ideas and hear from undergraduate students who have taken service courses
here and listen to how they perceive the mathematics classroom.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2006
TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
TIME: 10:10 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309B
SPEAKER: Assistant Professor Nikolay Brodskiy
TITLE: From amenability to Property A.
PROBABILITY SEMINAR
TIME: 11:15 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309B
SPEAKER: Dr. Mark Shattuck
TITLE: Asymptotic Normality for Some Combinatorial Statistics
JUNIOR COLLOQUIUM
(The Junior Colloquium is aimed primarily at undergraduate students, but all
are most welcome to attend.)
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 214
SPEAKER: Dr. S. Mulay
TITLE: Algebraic Parameterization
ABSTRACT: In studying geometric objects such as curves, surfaces etc. it is
helpful to find ways to parameterize them, if at all it is possible to find
a desirable parameterization. In this talk we consider the question of parameterizing
curves, surfaces etc. defined by polynomial equations. Our desired parameterizations
are by rational or by polynomial functions.
Pizza will be served immediately before the talk.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2006
TOPOLOGY SEMINAR
TIME: 10:10 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309B
SPEAKER: Mr. David Phillippi
TITLE: Prodiscrete actions on Uniform Spaces III
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