SJSU Math Colloquium, Spring 2008-2009

Department of Mathematics

San José State University

Unless otherwise indicated, on colloquium days (Wednesdays unless otherwise noted):

Date Speaker Title (click links for abstracts)
Wed Feb 04 Plamen Koev, SJSU Applications and Computational Challenges of Random Matrices: From Genomics to Target Recognition
Wed Feb 11
Wed Feb 18 Special event: Math Career Day MacQuarrie Hall 425, 3-5pm
Wed Feb 25
Wed Mar 04 Jennifer Mogel, SJSU and UC Santa Cruz Dade's Ordinary Conjecture
Wed Mar 11 Jared Maruskin, SJSU Geometric Methods for Tracking Space Debris (see .pdf of talk, 14.2MB)
Wed Mar 18 Diane Maclagan, University of Warwick (UK) and MSRI Tropical Geometry (see .pdf of talk, 109K)
Wed Mar 25 NO COLLOQUIUM SPRING BREAK
Wed Apr 01 David Czerwinski, Marketing and Decision Sciences, SJSU The Math of Moneyball (see .pdf of talk, 546K)
Wed Apr 08 SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM: Rep. Jerry McNerney, US House of Representatives (CA-11) From Math to Renewable Energy to Congress
Location: Washington Square Hall 109
Tue Apr 14 Special event: Careers in Mathematics Education MacQuarrie Hall 426, 2-4pm
Wed Apr 15 NO COLLOQUIUM DEPARTMENT MEETING
Wed Apr 22 Brant Jones, UC Davis A bijection on core partitions (see .pdf of talk, 412K)
Wed Apr 29 Glenn Tesler, UCSD Reconstructing the Genomic Architecture of Ancestral Mammals
Wed May 06 Estelle Basor, American Institute of Mathematics Patience sorting, permutations, and random matrices
Wed May 13 Silvia Heubach, Cal State LA Analyzing Ellie: The Story of a Combinatorial Game (see .pdf of talk, 107K)

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