Mathematics & Statistics

Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2011-Summer 2012

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Fall 2011 – Summer 2012.        Click a title to view the abstract.

• Friday, August 10, 2012. Master’s thesis defense.
  Heidi Qiu, UMaine Master’s candidate in Statistics (Advisor: Ramesh Gupta).
  Analysis of survival data by an exponential-generalized Poisson distribution
  11:00 am, 421 Neville Hall.

• Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Graduate Seminar.
  Heidi Qiu, UMaine Statistics MA student.
  A New Lifetime Distribution
  3:10pm – 4:00pm, 421 Neville Hall.

• Monday, April 23, 2012. Graduate Seminar.
  Josh Case, UMaine Mathematics MA student.
  An Introduction to Gray Permutations
  2:10pm – 3:00pm, 421 Neville Hall.

• Monday, April 16, 2012. Master’s thesis defense.
  Trevor Vadas, UMaine Master’s candidate in Mathematics (Advisor: Bray)
  Ergodic transformations and measurable sets
  2:10pm – 3:00pm, 421 Neville Hall.

• Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Master’s thesis defense.
  Emily Igo, UMaine Master’s candidate in Mathematics (Advisors: Ozluk, Knightly)
  On the Algebraic Reformulation of the Partition Function
  3:10pm – 4:00pm, 108 Neville Hall.

• Thursday, April 5, 2012   Pizza Pi / Pi Mu Epsilon Lecture
  Eisso Atzema, Lecturer of Mathematics, University of Maine
  Lessons on Train Schedules: From String Charts to Teaching Tools.
  11:30 am – 12:30 pm  (Pizza at 11:30, talk at 11:50-12:30)
  108 Neville Hall

• Thursday, December 1, 2011
  Arielle Saiber, Associate Professor of Italian, Bowdoin College
  Niccolo’ Tartaglia’s Poetic Solution to the Cubic Equation
  3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  421 Neville Hall

• Thursday, December 1, 2011.  Master’s Thesis Defense.
  Isaac Michaud, Master’s Candidate, Department of Mathematics & Statistics.  Advisor: Prof. Hiebeler.
  Targeted Treatment in a Community Model
  9:00 am – 9:50 am
  421 Neville Hall

• Thursday, November 17, 2011
  Trevor Vadas, Master’s Student, Univ. of Maine Mathematics
  Irrational Rotations and Invariant Sets
  3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  108 Neville Hall

• Thursday, November 3, 2011
  Emily Igo, Master’s Student, Univ. of Maine Mathematics
  An introduction to Partition Theory
  3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  108 Neville Hall

• Thursday, October 27, 2011
  Prof. Ali Abedi, University of Maine Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Smart Battery-Free Wireless Sensing
  2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
  100 Neville Hall

• Thursday, October 20, 2011
  Prof. Jonathan David Farley, University of Maine Dept. of Computer Science
  The Most Embarrassing Inequality of My Life
  Matchings in the Permutation Lattice.
  3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
  421 Neville Hall

• Tuesday, September 27, 2011
  Kevin Roberge, UMaine Mathematics instructor and grad student of Physics
  “Twisted Mathematics: Rubik’s Cube”
  12:30 pm – 1:20 pm
  421 Neville Hall

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