WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2006

GRADUATE STUDENT TEACHING SEMINAR

TIME: 3:35 p.m. – 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 314
TITLE: Grading Assessments and Using Rubrics
We will review a mock test, available on the website, to facilitate discussion about how to assess and grade student work. We will discuss about what you expect your students to learn and how that affects grading.


ANALYSIS SEMINAR

TIME: 3:35 p.m. – 4:25 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 320
SPEAKER: Professor Stefan Richter
TITLE: Alexandrov-Clark measures in the unit circle, 2


THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2006

TOPOLOGY SEMINAR

TIME: 10:10 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309B
SPEAKER: Assistant Professor Nikolay Brodskiy
TITLE: Introduction to amenability


PROBABILITY SEMINAR

TIME: 11:15 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
ROOM: Ayres Hall 309B
SPEAKER: Professor Yong Zeng, University of Missouri
TITLE: Filtering with Marked Point Process Observations: Application to the Econometrics of Ultra-High Frequency Data.


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: Professor Conrad Plaut
TITLE: The Hadamard Matrix Conjecture
ABSTRACT: Since Fermat’s Last Theorem has been proved, the Hadamard Matrix Conjecture may be the oldest and best known unsolved mathematical problem that can be understood with almost no background in mathematics. Aside from being an interesting mathematical problem, the conjecture is also relevant to the modern theory of codes, and so is of interest to computer scientists, algebraists, and others. The conjecture can be explained in terms of pavements made with black and white tiles, but it is useful to reformulate the problem in terms of matrices with 0’s and 1’s for entries. This talk will present the basic problem, some constructions of Hadamard matrices, and the current status of the conjecture.

Pizza will be served immediately before the talk.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 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.
ABSTRACT: Uniform spaces are a generalization of both metric spaces and topological groups. They have often been discounted due to the fact that quotients of uniform spaces are not necessarily uniform spaces. This difficulty can be overcome with a few conditions. Quotients by an “equiuniform” action prove especially interesting in that they allow one to apply many of the results of basic homotopy theory without the assumptions of path connectedness.