Fall 2014 – Summer 2015
Fall 2014 – Summer 2015. Click a title to view the abstract.
- Monday, August 10, 2015. Thesis Defense. (Advisor: Khalil)
Brian Toner, UMaine Mathematics MA candidate.
The Geometric Properties of Cells Exhibiting Huntington’s Disease
9:00 – 9:50 am, 421 Neville Hall.
- Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Thesis Defense. (Advisors: Snyder and Atzema)
Joseph Arsenault, UMaine Mathematics MA candidate.
Dedekind’s Role in the Development of Infinite Galois Theory
9:00 – 9:50 am, 421 Neville Hall.
- Wednesday, May 13, 2015. Graduate seminar.
Matthew Brenc, UMaine Mathematics MA candidate.
Embedding the Complete Graph in Orientable Surfaces using Rotation Systems
3:30 – 4:20 pm, 421 Neville Hall.
- Monday, May 4, 2015. Number theory seminar.
Prof. David Rohrlich, Boston University.
Quaternionic Artin representations of Q
4:00 – 4:50 pm, 421 Neville Hall.
- Thursday, April 23, 2015. Thesis defense. (Advisor: Benjamin Weiss)
Douglas Weathers, UMaine Mathematics MA candidate.
Decompositions of the Kuchment-Lvin Polynomials
3:30 – 4:20 pm, 208 Neville Hall.
- Wednesday, April 15, 2015. Mathematics Colloquium.
Prof. Meredith Greer, Bates College.
The DEs to your heart
3:30 – 4:20 pm, 208 Neville Hall. Snacks at 3:15pm.
- Wednesday, April 9, 2015. Mathematics Colloquium.
Prof. Chan Ieong Kuan, UMaine Mathematics.
Arithmetic Functions and Complex Analysis
3:30 – 4:20 pm, 208 Neville Hall. Snacks at 3:15pm.
- Wednesday, April 1, 2015. Mathematics Colloquium.
Prof. Katharine Ott, Bates College.
Validated Numerics for Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations
3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB). Snacks at 3:15pm.
- Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Pizza Pi Seminar.
Prof. Carrie Diaz Eaton, Unity College.
Supporting faculty in mathematics and biology education
3:30 – 4:20 pm, Neville 208. Pizza at 3:15pm.
- Wednesday, February 18, 2015. Mathematics Colloquium.
Ewerton Rocha Vieira, Univ. Estadual de Campinas, Brazil.
How to apply homological algebra to obtain bifurcations in dynamical systems (A Conley index approach)
3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB). Snacks at 3:15pm.
- Wednesday, February 4, 2015. Pizza Pi Seminar.
Prof. Bob Franzosa, UMaine Mathematics.
The Baseball Simulator – A Team-Statistics Based Program for Recreating MLB Seasons and for Use as a Baseball Analytics Lab
3:30 – 4:20 pm, 208 Neville Hall (new room). Snacks at 3:15pm.
- Wednesday, December 10, 2014. Math Graduate Seminar.
Matthew Brenc, UMaine Mathematics MA student.
Uniformly distributed sequences
3:30 – 4:20 pm, 421 Neville Hall. Snacks at 3:15pm.
- Wednesday, December 3, 2014. Math Graduate Seminar.
Jennifer Fatula, UMaine Mathematics MA student.
Linking number, Twist and Writhe in Knots, Links and Ribbons
3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB). Snacks at 3:15pm.
- Wednesday, November 19, 2014. Math Colloquium.
Prof. Tom Bellsky, UMaine Mathematics.
Forecasting with Kalman filter data assimilation
3:30 – 4:20 pm, ESRB (Barrows). Snacks at 3:15 pm.
- Tuesday, November 18, 2014. Thesis Defense. (Advisor: David Hiebeler)
Rachel Rier Carter, UMaine Mathematics MA candidate.
Moment Differential Equations of a Community-Structured SIS Epidemiological Model
9:15 – 10:05 am, 421 Neville Hall.
- Friday, November 14, 2014. Thesis Defense. (Advisor: David Hiebeler)
Jack Hill, UMaine Mathematics MA candidate.
A Population on a Dynamic Landscape Driven by the Voter Model
1:00 – 1:50 pm, 202 Shibles Hall.
- Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Math Colloquium.
Prof. George Markowsky, UMaine School of Computing and Information Science.
The Not-So Golden Ratio
3:30 – 4:20 pm, ESRB (Barrows). Snacks at 3:15 pm.
- Wednesday, November 5, 2014. Mathematics Colloquium.
Prof. Alanna Hoyer-Leitzel, Bowdoin Mathematics.
Relative Equilibria in the 1+N-Vortex Problem
3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB). Snacks at 3:15pm.
- Wednesday, October 29, 2014. Pizza pi seminar.
Dr. Sergey Lvin, UMaine Mathematics.
How to swing wisely and efficiently
3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB). Pizza at 3:15pm.
- Tuesday, October 21, 2014. Math Colloquium.
Prof. Scott Taylor, Colby College Mathematics.
Of Knots and Surfaces
3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB). Snacks at 3:15pm.
- Wednesday, October 15, 2014. Statistics Colloquium.
Prof. Ramesh Gupta, UMaine Mathematics.
Normality – A Myth: Skew Normal Distribution
3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB). Snacks at 3:15pm.
- Wednesday, October 8, 2014. Math Colloquium.
Prof. Jerry Farlow, UMaine Mathematics.
Mathematics’ Greatest Paradox and Other Minor Conundrums
3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB). Snacks at 3:15pm.
- Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Math Colloquium.
Nathan McNew, Dartmouth College Mathematics.
Popular values of the largest prime divisor function
3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB). Snacks at 3:15pm.
- Wednesday, September 24, 2014. Math Colloquium.
Prof. Joshua Zelinsky, UMaine Mathematics.
The ABC Conjecture, The Mason-Stothers Theorem, and Fermat’s Last Theorem
3:30 – 4:20 pm, ESRB (Barrows). Snacks at 3:15 pm.
- Wednesday, September 17, 2014. Pizza Pi Seminar.
Douglas Weathers, UMaine Mathematics MA Student.
Generating Functions: Mathematics You Can Count On
3:30 – 4:20 pm, ESRB (Barrows). Pizza at 3:15 pm.