Department Colloquium

Department of Mathematics - East Carolina University

Spring 2011

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
February 3
3:30-4:30pm
Austin
Room: 320
Combinatorial properties of the independence polynomial and $k$-independence polynomial of a graph
Dr. Patrick Bahls
University of North Carolina, Asheville

 

 

Previous Semesters:

Fall 2009

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
November 6
2:00-3:00pm
Austin
A 220
Fun with F_1 (with apologies to Connes, Consani, and Marcolli)
Dr. S. Abdulali
East Carolina University
October 16
2:00-3:00pm
Austin
A 307
A primer in dilation theory
Dr. E. Katsoulis
East Carolina University
October 2
2:00-3:00pm
Austin
A 204
Minimizing the Universal or Hilbert’s Tenth Problem for Subrings of Q
Dr. A. Shlapentokh
East Carolina University

Spring 2009

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
June 4
3:30-4:30pm
Austin
A 206
Buchi's problem: a survey
Dr. X. Vidaux
Universidad de Concepcion
May 26
3:30-4:30pm
Austin
A 307
Undecidable rings and fields
Dr. C.R. Videla
Mount Royal College
April 17
11:30-1:00pm
Austin
A 204
Hilbert Schemes
Dr. M.S. Ravi
East Carolina University
January 14
3:00-4:00pm
Austin
A 204
Difficulty of Factoring Polynomials and Finding Roots
Dr. R. Miller
Queens College, CUNY

 Fall 2008

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
October 31
1:00-2:00pm
Austin
A 306
Operator algebras and dynamical systems
Dr. E. Katsoulis
East Carolina University
September 26
1:00-2:15pm
Austin
A 220
An introduction to rigid analytic spaces
Dr. Z. Robinson
East Carolina University

Spring 2008

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
May 14
3:30-4:30pm
Austin
A 306
Norming subalgebras and isomorphisms of operator algebras
Dr. D. Pitts
University of Nebraska
May 12
3:30-4:30pm
Austin
A 306
Comparing classes for countable structures
Dr. J. Knight
University of Notre Dame
April 16
4:00-5:00pm
Austin
A 304
Topological stable rank of Banach algebras
Dr. K. Davidson
University of Waterloo
April 14
11:00am- 12:00
Austin
A 203
Turing, Godel and the algorithmic method
Dr. V. Harizanov
George Washington University
April 11
4:00-5:00pm
Austin
A 304
Computational algebra and the uncountable
Dr. Calvert
Murray State University

Fall 2007

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
November 30
11:00am - 12:00 pm
(cancelled)
Austin
A 307
Norming subalgebras and isomorphisms of operator algebras
Dr. D. Pitts
University of Nebraska
November 30
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Austin
A 307
Randomized Response Models: Methodology and Some Recent Results
Dr. Sat Gupta
George Washington University

Spring 2007

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
April 23
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
A 303
Measuring Computational Information Content
Dr. M. Lerman
University of Connecticut
April 13
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
A 303
The Arithmetic of Elliptic Divisibility Sequences
Dr. G. Everest
University of East Anglia
March 27
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Brewster
BD 103
A definition of "Mathematics" and its pedagogical consequences
Dr. Guershon Harel
University of California, San Diego
March 7
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
Room 220
Loop extensions and their automorphism groups
Dr. Paul Jambor
East Carolina University
February 21
4:00.0 - 5:00 pm
Austin
Room 220
Hilbert's Tenth Problem for algebraic function fields
Dr. Kirsten Eisentraeger
University of Michigan

 Fall 2006

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
November 8
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Austin
Room 304
Graph Pebbling: From Zero Sum Sequences in Abelian Groups to Cops and Robbers
Dr. Glenn Hurlbert
Arizona State University
October 18
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
Room 320
Triangularity in Operator Algebra Theory II
Dr. John Orr
University of Nebraska
October 11
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
Room 320
Triangularity in Operator Algebra Theory I
Dr. John Orr
University of Nebraska

Spring 2006

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
April 7
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Austin
Room 303
Distance formulae for operator algebras
Dr. Ken Davidson
University of Waterloo
March 10
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Austin
Room 303
Duality for spaces of Hilbert space operators
Dr. David Blecher
University of Houston
February 17
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Austin
Room 303
Elliptic curves and Diophantine undecidability of function fields
Dr. L. Moret-Bailly
Université de Rennes I
February 13
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Austin
Room 303
Symmetry of Arthur Parameters
Dr. Dubravka Ban
University of Southern Illinois

Fall 2005

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
November 14
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Austin
Room 320
The ideal property for C*-algebras
Dr. Cornel Pasnicu
University of Puerto Rico

Spring 2005

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
January 24
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
Room 302
The rank of abelian varieties over large fields
Dr. Moshe Jarden
Tel Aviv University
February 9
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
Room 302
On the equivalence between the Artin-Tate and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjectures
Dr. D. Lorenzini
University of Georgia
March 7
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
Room 302
Nonnegative solvability of linear equations over ordered rings.
Dr. Philip Scowcroft
Wesleyan University
March 29
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Austin
Room 223
The Teaching of Geometry at the College Level.
Dr. T. Hendrix
Meredith College
April 27
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
Room 304
A Unified and Generalized Approach to Quantum Error Correction
Dr. D. Kribs
University of Guelph

 Fall 2004

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
August 25
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
Room 302
Operator algebras generated by isometries
Dr. Ken Davidson
University of Waterloo
September 2
2:30 - 3:30 pm
Brewster
Room D 202
When is a set bijective with itself minus a point?
Dr. Deirdre Haskell
McMaster University
September 7
7:30 pm
Bate Building
Room 1028
Thomas Harriot's American Adventure (Harriot Lecture)
Dr. J. Stedall
Queen's College, Oxford
November 18
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Austin
Room 206
Coordinates for Operator algebras
Dr. Allan Donsig
University of Nebraska
December 1
1:00 - 2:00 pm
Austin
Room 319
Quantitative methods in the epidemiology of environmental injustice: Examples from Eastern North Carolina.
Dr. Steve Wing
University of North Carolina

 Spring 2004

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
January 16
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Austin
Room 306
Hilbert's Tenth Problem for function fields of surfaces over C
Dr. Kirsten Esinetrager
I.A.S., Princeton
January 30
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Austin
Room 306
Decidability in algebra; some history and examples
Dr. T. Pheidas
University of Crete
February 6
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Austin
Room 307
Langlands functoriality conjecture
Dr. Henry Kim
University of Toronto
March 23
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
Room 304
Computable Algebra and Algorithmic Learning Theory
Dr. Valentina Harizanov
George Washington University
March 25
3:30 - 4:30 pm
Austin
Room 307
Progress in nonselfadjoint operator algebras
Dr. David Pitts
University of Nebraska

Spring 2003

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
February 20
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
Room 202
Two-step nilpotent Lie algebras of type (p,q)
Dr. Pat Eberlein
UNC Chapel Hill
March 20
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
Room 202
Effectively Closed Sets
Dr. Doug Cenzer
University of Florida
March 26
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
Room 302
Subalgebras of Cuntz algebras
Dr. Justin Peters
Iowa State University
March 28
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Austin
Room 303
Hilbert's tenth problem for function fields
Dr. Xavier Vidaux
Oxford University
April 11
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Austin
Room 304
Hilbert's Tenth Problem and Mazur's Conjecture
Dr. Alexandra Shlapentokh
East Carolina University
May 29
3:00 - 4:00 pm
Mendenhall
Great Rooms
Non-hydraulic Effects in a Class of Two-Layer Flows
Dr. Bryant Moodie
University of Alberta

Fall 2002

Date/Time Location Topic Speaker
November 21
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Austin
Room 305
New Directions in Galois Theory: Some Connections with Arithmetic
Dr. John Swallow
Davidson College
December 6
2:00 - 3:00 pm
Austin
Room 303
Vector bundles on projective spaces
Dr. A.P. Rao
University of Missouri-St. Louis