SJSU Math Colloquium, Spring 2009-2010

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 03 Sylvia Plevritis, Radiology Dept, Stanford School of Medicine Estimating the Likelihood of Cure from Lung Cancer
Wed Feb 10 Ko Honda, USC/MSRI Continued fractions, the Farey tessellation, and contact topology
Wed Feb 17 "What is?" seminar, Slobodan Simic What is.... Chaos?
Wed Feb 24 Pamela Coxson, UCSF Department of Medicine Using a Mathematical Model to Inform Medical Decision Making
Wed Mar 03 NO COLLOQUIUM DEPARTMENT MEETING
Wed Mar 10 Ted Hill, Georgia Tech Knowing When to Stop
Wed Mar 17 Michael Oliver How to have more things by forgetting where you put them
Wed Mar 24 Ken Hoover, CSU Stanislaus Computerized Image Processing with the Discrete Wavelet Transform
Wed Mar 31 NO COLLOQUIUM SPRING BREAK
Wed Apr 07 Rachel Roberts, Washington Univ. St. Louis/MSRI Train tracks on surfaces
Wed Apr 14 Wolfgang Polak Factoring on a Quantum Computer (.pdf slides, 168K)
Wed Apr 21 NO COLLOQUIUM DEPARTMENT MEETING
Wed Apr 28 John Shareshian, Washington Univ. St. Louis/MSRI Eulerian and Mahonian permutation statistics
Wed May 05 Julie Mitchell, U. Wisconsin/BACTER Using Higher Calculus to Study Biologically Important Molecules (.pdf slides, 1.2MB)
Wed May 12 Sin-Min Lee, SJSU CS Alice in Edge-Magic Land

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