Date                           Speaker (Institution)                                         Topic                                                                

9 February                  David Richter (WMU)                                          Ghost Symmetry and a Quest for Universality (abstract)

16 February              John Stembridge (U. Michigan)                             A finiteness theorem for W-graphs (abstract)

1 March                  Jay Wood (WMU)                                               The MacWilliams Identities (abstract)

15 March                 Steven Mackey (WMU)                                       Elementary Divisors and the Polynomial Eigenproblem (abstract)

12 April                       Allen Frieze (Carnegie Mellon U.)                         Random Graphs (abstract)

19 April                       Gene Freudenburg (WMU)                                  Invariants of Nilpotent Matrices (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