TCU RESEARCH LECTURESHIP SCHEDULE
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
1995--
Speakers are grouped by academic year
2002-2003
Professor Sean Keal
(University of Texas, Austin)
Tuesday, April 1, 2003
Compact Submanifolds of Moduli Spaces in Geometry
Professor Colin Adams
(Williams College)
Tuesday, March 25, 2003
Mel SlugbateÕs Real Estate in Hyperbolic Space
TALK CANCELLED
Professor Haskell Rosenthal
(University of Texas, Austin)
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
Algebras of Operators with Invariant Subspaces
Professor Robert Devaney
(Boston University)
Tuesday, January 21, 2003
The Fractal Geometry of the Mandelbrot set
Professor Jeffrey Lee
(Texas Tech University)
Tuesday, November 26, 2002
Geometric Functions for Foliations
Professor Jean McKemie
(St. Edwards University)
Tuesday, November 5, 2002
Quasiconformal Homogeneity
Professor Mike Field
(University of Houston)
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
Statistics, Symmetry, and Skew Extensions
Professor Brock Williams
(Texas Tech University)
Tuesday, September 10, 2002
Circle Packings: Analysis, Geometry, and Applications
2001-2002
Professor Lorenzo Sadun
(University of Texas, Austin)
Tuesday, October 16, 2001
When Length Matters: Tilings vs. Subshifts in One Dimension
Professor Robin Forman
(Rice University)
Tuesday, November 6, 2001
Applications of Combinatorial Differential Topology
Professor Nathaniel Dean
(Rice University)
Tuesday, January 22, 2002
Network Optimization and Visualization
Professor Linda Allen
(Texas Tech University)
Tuesday, February 5, 2002
Mathematical Models of Epidemics
Professor Cameron Gordon
(University of Texas At Austin)
Tuesday, February 19, 2002
The Poincare Conjecture: a Million Dollar Math Problem
Professor Harold Boas
(Texas A & M University)
Tuesday, March 5, 2002
Majorant Series
Professor Frank Jones
(Rice University)
Tuesday, April 26, 2002
Chains of circles surrounding a given circle
2000-2001
Professor Fernando Rodriguez-Villegas
(University of Texas at Austin)
Tuesday, October 10, 2000
Lattice polygons and the number 12
Professor Peter K. Moore
(Southern Methodist University)
Wednesday, September 27, 2000
Mathematical modeling-can it help us understand and treat heart attacks?
Professor Jeffrey Mitchell
(Baylor University)
Tuesday, September 12, 2000
Hermite Functions on Compact Lie Groups
1999-2000
Professor Barbara Shipman
(University of Texas at Arlington)
Tuesday, September 7, 1999
The Geometry of the Honeybees Dance Language
Professor Mark Sepanski
(Baylor University)
Tuesday, September 21, 1999
How to Build a Representation from Scratch
Professor Maciej Wojtkowski
(University of Arizona)
Tuesday, October 12, 1999
Gaussian Thermostats, Lorentz Gas and Differential Geometry
Professor Joseph Iaia
(University of North Texas)
Tuesday, October 26, 1999
Radial and Non-radial Solutions of Semilinear Partial Differential Equations
Professor Noel Brady
(University of Oklahoma)
Tuesday, November 9, 1999
On the Isoperimetric Spectrum for Finitely Presented Groups
Professor Mark Brittenham
(University of North Texas)
Tuesday, November 23, 1999
The Best Surface(s) for Studying a Knot
Metroplex AGANT Seminar and
Frank W. Stones Research Lectureship
Professor Paul Feit (UTPB)
Friday, December 3, 1999 at 4:30pm
The Last Obstruction to a Universal Theory of Descent
Professor David Metzler
(Rice University)
Tuesday, January 25, 2000
Cohomological Localization for Manifolds with Boundary
Professor Edward Odell
(University of Texas, Austin)
Tuesday, March 21, 2000
Distortion of Hilbert Space
1998-1999
Professor Stephen Semmes
(Rice University)
Tuesday, September 8, 1998
Geometry and problems of existence of good parametrizations
Professor Rick Kreminski
(Texas A&M University, Commerce)
Wednesday, September 23, 1998
Computing anything you want really fast: From computing the Gamma function to the Zeta function
Professor Efraim Armendariz
(University of Texas, Austin)
Wednesday, November 4, 1998
The structure of semiprime rings
Professor John Hempel
(Rice University)
Tuesday, November 17, 1998
The complex of curves on a surface as a description of three manifolds
Professor Ruth Michler
(University of North Texas)
Wednesday, January 27, 1999
Cyclic Homology and Isolated Singularities
Professor Jerry Bona (CAM Chair 1, Department of Mathematics
and the
Texas Insitute for Computational and Applied Mathematics,
University of Texas at Austin.)
Wednesday, February 10, 1999
Solitary waves, singularities and the formation of sand bars
Professor Leticia Barchini
(Oklahoma State University)
Wednesday, February 24, 1999
Geometric constructions of some irreducible unitary representations
Professor Ron Stanke
(Baylor University)
(Rescheduled for) Tuesday, March 23, 1999
Norms for highest weight representations
Professor Paul Phillips
(University of Dallas)
Monday at 4:00PM, April 5, 1999
An inverse spectral problem:
Finding potential functions from eigenvalue data
Frank W. Stones Lectureship Series
&
Metoplex Algebraic Geometry, Algebra and Number Theory (AGANT)
present
Professor Ken Kramer
(City University of New York, Queens College)
Friday at 4:00PM, April 30, 1999
Rational Points on the Jacobians of Curves of Genus 1 and 2.
1997-1998
Professor Gary Hamrick
(University of Texas at Austin)
Tuesday, September 16, 1997
Three different views of the Euler characteristic:
when algebra, geometry and differential equations are the same thing
Professor Neal Brand
(University of North Texas)
Tuesday, October 7, 1997
Growth rate of planar graphs
Professor David Blecher
(University of Houston)
Tuesday, October 21, 1997
Algebra on Hilbert space
Professor Brent Gordon
(University of Oklahoma)
Tuesday, October 28, 1997
Just what are motives, and what are they good for, anyway?
Professor Kerry Jones
(Ball State University)
Wednesday, October 29, 1997
PIGs in space: the structure of closed geodesics in hyperbolic
3-manifolds
Professor Richard Stong
(Rice University)
Tuesday, November 4, 1997
An introduction to four manifold topology
Professor Diane Hoffoss
(Colorado College)
Tuesday, November 11, 1997
Quasigeodesic flows on punctured torus bundles over the circle
Professor Igor Prokhorenkov
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Berkeley
Monday, November 17, 1997
Analytic Torsion
Professor William Veech
(Milton B. Porter Professor of Mathematics)
(Rice University)
Tuesday, January 27, 1998
Billiards in a regular polygon
Professor Gerard Walschap
(University of Oklahoma)
Tuesday, February 3, 1998
Open manifolds of nonnegative curvature
Professor Robert R. Kallman
(Distinguished Research Professor of Mathematics)
(University of North Texas)
Tuesday, February 17, 1998
Some uniqueness results for algebraic-topological structures
Professor Franz Kamber
(University of Illinois)
Thursday, May 7, 1998
Reduction of the Hermitian-Einstein equation on Kahlerian fiber bundles
1996-1997
Professor Lesley Ward (Rice University)
Tuesday, September 10, 1996
Conical limit sets
Professor David Saltman (University of Texas at Austin)
The Mildred Caldwell and Baine Kerr Professor of Mathematics
Tuesday, September 24, 1996
A very general division algebra
Professor Dave Witte (Oklahoma State University)
Tuesday, October 1, 1996
Superrigidity: a theorem in group theory
Professor Nicolae Anghel (University of North Texas)
Tuesday, October 22, 1996
Index theory for Fredholm pairs
Professor Bob Williams (University of Texas at Austin)
Tuesday, November 5, 1996
Chaos and symbolic dynamics
Professor C. Martin Edwards (University of Oxford, England)
Tuesday, January 14, 1997
JB*-triples and operator algebras
Professor Jeff Lee (Texas Tech University)
Tuesday, January 28, 1997
Curvature and spectrum
Professor Darryl McCullough (University of Oklahoma)
Tuesday, February 11, 1997
Fiber-preserving diffeomorphisms
Professor Ronald Douglas
Vice President and Provost of Texas A&M Universtiy
April 1997
Operator theory and algebraic geometry
1995-1996
Professor Ruth Gornet (Texas Tech University)
Tuesday, September 12, 1995
Spectral geometry on nilmanifolds
Professor Robert Hardt (Rice University)
W. L. Moody Professor of Mathematics
Tuesday,September 26, 1995
Energy and singularities of maps between manifolds
Professor Ed Cline (University of Oklahoma)
Tuesday, October 3, 1995
Modular representations of semisimple groups and quasi-hereditary
algebras
Professor Elizabeth Bator (University of North Texas)
Tuesday, October 24, 1995
Unconditional convergence in normed linear spaces
Professor Dan Freed (University of Texas at Austin)
Tuesday, November 7, 1995
What quantum field theory teaches geometers
Professor Ara Basmajian (University of Oklahoma)
Tuesday, January 23, 1996
An Introduction to hyperbolic geometry
Professor Dan Levine (University of Texas at Arlington)
Tuesday, January 30, 1996
Neural network modeling of primate decision rules
Professor Greg Hill (University of North Texas)
Tuesday, February 13, 1996
Group representations and number theory
Professor Roger Zierau (Oklahoma State University)
Tuesday, April 2, 1996
Geometric constructions of unitary representations
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