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Department of Mathematics and Statistics 2004–2005 Colloquium Series

All talks are held on Tuesday at from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. in room 372 of the Science and Engineering Building unless otherwise noted.

Refreshments are served at 2:30 p.m. in room 368 (in the kitchen area adjacent to 372).

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If you have any inquiries regarding the colloquium talks or would like to be added to our colloquium mailing list, please contact Professor Jerrold Grossman.

List of Talks

September 28, 2004 Hyungju Alan Park

Oakland University and the Korea Institute for Advanced Study

Polynomials, Gröbner Bases, and Cryptography
October 12, 2004 Debra Elkins

General Motors R&D Center

The Need for Mathematics and Statistics in Enterprise Risk Management
October 26, 2004 Patrick Dowling

Miami University (Ohio)

Metric Fixed Point Theory in Some Classical Banach Spaces
November 9, 2004 László Lipták

Oakland University

Decomposing Facets of the Stable Set Polytope
November 23, 2004 Heinz Bauschke

University of Guelph

Projection Methods: A Guided Tour
January 18, 2005 Steve Wright

Oakland University

PRIMES is in P: A Deterministic, Polynomial-time Primality Test
February 1, 2005 Dan Steffy

Oakland University

Maximal Vertex Connectivity of Directed (n,k)-Star Graphs
February 15, 2005 Neil J. A. Sloane

AT&T Shannon Labs

Highlights from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer (see also the website)
March 1, 2005 Unfortunately, we had to cancel this week.

The next colloquium will be March 15.

March 15, 2005 Saroja Kanchi

Kettering University

Number of Relativized Maximum Genus Embeddings
March 29, 2005 Brian McCartin

Kettering University

Geometry of Planar Regression
Thursday, March 31, 2005, 1:45 pm Tony Shaska

University of Idaho

Hyperelliptic Curves with Elliptic Involutions
April 5, 2005, 187 SEB Ivan Soprounov

University of Massachusetts

Combinatorics of Toric Residues
Wednesday, April 6, 2005, 2:00 pm, 364 SEB Yang Zhang

Brandon University

Factorizing and Decomposing Ore Polynomials
April 12, 2005 Hermann Eberl

University of Guelph

A Spatio-Temporal Continuum Model for Bacterial Biofilms


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