Fall 2013 – Summer 2014

Fall 2013 – Summer 2014.        Click a title to view the abstract.

• Thursday, July 31, 2014.  Thesis Defense. (Advisor: Robert Franzosa)
  Sophie Potoczak, UMaine Mathematics MA Candidate.
  A Survey of Graph Embeddings Into Compact Surfaces
  10:00 – 10:50 am, 421 Neville Hall.

• Monday, July 28, 2014.  Thesis Defense. (Advisor: Natasha Speer)
  Shahram Firouzian, UMaine Mathematics MA Candidate.
  Graduate Students’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching the Derivative and Applications of the Derivative
  11:00 – 11:50 am, 108 Neville Hall.

• Monday, June 23, 2014.  Number theory lecture.
  Joshua Zelinsky, University of Maine.
  Upper and lower bounds in integer complexity
  11:00 – 11:50 am, 421 Neville Hall.

• Monday, June 23, 2014.  Number theory lecture.
  Chip Snyder, University of Maine.
  On some Constructions using Marked Ruler and Compass
  10:00 – 10:50 am, 421 Neville Hall.

• Monday, June 23, 2014.  Number theory lecture.
  Jonathan Sands, University of Vermont.
  Zeta functions of orders in quaternion algebras
  9:00 – 9:50 am, 421 Neville Hall.

• Thursday, May 15, 2014.  Number theory lecture.
  Benjamin Weiss, UMaine Mathematics.
  Probabilistic Galois theory
  2:15 – 2:45 pm, 421 Neville Hall.

• Thursday, May 15, 2014.  Number theory lecture.
  Pericles Dokos.
  Automorphisms of Lubotzky-Phillips-Sarnak graphs
  11:00 – 11:50 am, 421 Neville Hall.

• Thursday, May 15, 2014.  Number theory lecture.
  Florian Luca, Dartmouth College.
  Irregular primes.
  10:00 – 10:50 am, 421 Neville Hall.

• Thursday, May 15, 2014.  Number theory lecture.
  Elliot Benjamin.
  Some New Fields That Satisfy the 2-Class Field Tower Conjecture for Imaginary Quadratic Number Fields with 2-Class Group of Rank 4
  9:00 – 9:50 am, 421 Neville Hall.

• Wednesday, April 30, 2014.  Math Colloquium.
  Prof. Nigel Pitt, UMaine Mathematics.
  The Circle Problem
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Monday, April 28, 2014.  Thesis defense. (Advisor: André Khalil)
  Derrick Cox, UMaine Mathematics MA candidate
  Computational Analysis of Mammograms Using the Metric Space Technique
  4:00 pm, 227 Neville Hall.

• Wednesday, April 23, 2014.  Math Colloquium.
  Prof. Ben Weiss, UMaine Mathematics
  The card game Set
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, 110 Little Hall. (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Friday, April 18, 2014.  Thesis defense. (Advisor: Eisso Atzema)
  Amber Hathaway, UMaine Mathematics MA candidate
  Emmy Noether’s Theorem on Integral Invariants in the Context of the Calculus of Variations
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, 421 Neville Hall.

• Wednesday, April 16, 2014.  Pizza Pi.
  Dr. Eisso Atzema, UMaine Mathematics
  Classifying Quadrilaterals
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Wednesday, April 9, 2014.  Math Colloquium.
  Prof. Justin Sukiennik, Colby College
  From Transcendental Numbers to Diophantine Approximation
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Wednesday, April 2, 2014.  Math Colloquium.
  Shawn Firouzian, UMaine Mathematics MA student
  Knowledge for Teaching Applied Problems in Calculus
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, 110 Little Hall. (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Wednesday, March 26, 2014.  Math Colloquium.
  Prof. Andrew Knightly, UMaine Mathematics
  Representation theory and the trace formula
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Neville 421. (Snacks at 3:15 pm in Neville 419.)

• Wednesday, March 19, 2014.  Math Colloquium.
  Prof. Neil Comins, UMaine Physics & Astronomy
  So You Think You Know Tides
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Wednesday, February 26, 2014.  Math Colloquium.
  Prof. Dawn Nelson, Bates College Mathematics
  Identification Numbers and the Mathematics behind Them
  4:45 – 5:40 pm, Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Snacks at 4:30 pm.)

• Wednesday, February 26, 2014.  Math Colloquium.
  Prof. Thomas Bellsky, Arizona State University
  Stability of localized structure for a semi-arid climate model
  3:00 – 4:00 pm, 100 Neville Hall.

• Wednesday, February 19, 2014.  Pizza Pi Seminar.
  Kevin Roberge, UMaine Mathematics Instructor
  Puzzling Penrose Pathologies
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Pizza at 3:15 pm.)

• Wednesday, February 12, 2014.  Mathematics Colloquium.
  Seth Albert, UMaine Mathematics graduating senior
  The Renaissance Actuary
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Wednesday, January 29, 2014.  Mathematics Colloquium.
  Prof. Catherine Buell, Bates College
  Involutions and Fixing the World: Symmetric Spaces
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Wednesday, January 22, 2014.  Pizza Pi Seminar.
  Jon Janelle, UMaine MST student
  Modeling a Zombie Outbreak Using Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Pizza at 3:15 pm.)

• Wednesday, December 11, 2013.  Pizza Pi Seminar.
  Prof. Bill Halteman, UMaine Mathematics
  Statistics
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Pizza at 3:15 pm.)

• Wednesday, December 4th, 2013. Mathematics Graduate Seminar.
  Derrick Cox, UMaine Mathematics MA student
  The Metric Space Technique: the Means by which to Compare
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Wednesday, November 20th, 2013. Mathematics Graduate Seminar.
  Sophie Potozcak, UMaine Mathematics MA student
  Identification and Classification of Compact Surfaces
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Thursday, November 14 and Thursday, November 21, 2013.  Mathematics Event.
  Prof. Robert Franzosa, UMaine Mathematics
  Marston Morse, Morse Theory, and More
  Two day event. 3:30 – 4:30 pm, 100 Neville Hall.

• Wednesday, November 13, 2013.  Mathematics Colloquium.
  Prof. John Thompson, UMaine Physics & Astronomy
  Investigating student understanding and application of mathematics needed in physics: Integration and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Wednesday, November 6, 2013. Pizza Pi Seminar.
  Dr. Aitbala Sargent, UMaine Mathematics
  Mathematical models of ice sheet dynamics and their verification
  3:30 – 4:30 pm (Pizza at 3:15 pm), Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall (ESRB).

• Friday, November 1, 2013. Mathematics Colloquium.
  Prof. Ben Adcock, Purdue University
  Compressed sensing over the continuum
  3:30 – 4:30 pm, 100 Neville Hall.

• Wednesday, October 23, 2013. Mathematics Colloquium.
  Prof. David Kung, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
  Harmonious Equations: A Mathematical Exploration of Music
  3:45 – 5:00 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Wednesday, October 16, 2013. Mathematics Colloquium.
  Alain Arneodo, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
  Surfing on the genome: A tribute to Jean Morlet
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, 141 Bennett Hall. (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Wednesday, October 9, 2013. Mathematics Graduate Seminar.
  Amber Hathaway, UMaine Mathematics MA student
  Emmy Noether’s Theorem in One Dimension
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Wednesday, October 2, 2013. Mathematics Colloquium.
  Dr. Sergey Lvin, UMaine Mathematics
  Differential identities for sin(x), e^x, and x that came from medical imaging
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall (ESRB). (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Wed. Sept. 25, 2013. Pizza Pi Seminar.
  Brian Toner, UMaine Mathematics MA student
  Math that Learns, the Mathematical Principles of Neural Networks and Machine Learning
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall (ESRB).  (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)

• Wed. Sept. 18, 2013. Colloquium.
  Prof. Bob Franzosa, UMaine Mathematics
  You Cannot Beat Bob In The Triangle Game Implies That A Beating Heart Cannot Respond In A Continuous Manner To A Stimulus Applied With Continuously Varying Strength And Timing
  3:30 – 4:20 pm, Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall (ESRB).  (Snacks at 3:15 pm.)