Date                           Speaker (Institution)                                          Topic                                                                

31 January      Dr. Sung Chung (WMU Physics)                                Entanglement perturbation theory: idea, success, and challenge Postponed,due to weather!

7 February      Dr. Peter Olver (Univ. of Minnesota)                          Dispersive quantization – the Talbot effect (abstract)

14 February    Dr. Sung Chung (WMU Physics)                                Entanglement perturbation theory: idea, success, and challenge (abstract)

21 February    Dr. Anatoly Libgober (Univ. of Illinois Chicago)          Interactions between topology and number theory: counting solutions of

                                                                                                     Diophantine equations using fundamental groups (abstract)

14 March        Dr. Tobias Mueller (Utrecht Univ.)                           First order logic and random graphs (abstract)

21 March        Dr. Christine Larson (Vanderbilt Univ.)                     Three views of matrix multiplication (abstract)

April 4             Dr. Paul Horn (Harvard Univ.)                                   Spreading processes on graphs and PageRank (abstract)

April 11           Dr. John Martino (WMU)                                          Classifying spaces of compact Lie groups (abstract)

April 18           Dr. Charles W. Wampler (General Motors R&D)      Algebraic Kinematics and Numerical Algebraic Geometry (abstract)

Students are especially invited to attend the Department Colloquium talks to learn more about modern mathematical research directions.

Please direct comments and/or questions regarding the colloquium to iouri(dot)lediaev(at)wmich(dot)edu .

WMU Department of Mathematics