Seminar Schedule
March 28 - April 1, 2005

All Seminars are held in Boyd Graduate Studies Bldg. unless otherwise noted.

MONDAY, March 28, 2005

Algebra
2:30 – 3:30p.m., Room 410
No Meeting this week

Probability Theory
2:45 - 4:00p.m., Room 222
No Meeting this week

Faculty and Graduate Social
3:00 p.m., Room 409
Coffee, Cookies, Tea

Job Candidate Talk
3:30p.m., Room 304
Speaker: Dr. Caner Kazanci, Carnegi-Melon
Title of talk: Understanding Living Systems through Mathematics and Computer Simulations
Abstract: Recent advances in data acquisition techniques have resulted in vast amounts of quantitative information on living systems. Mathematical tools are needed to interpret these massive data into useful knowledge for designing new therapies and drugs. In this talk I will discuss some challenges in biology and their translation into mathematical problems. Some of these problems do not have analytical solutions and require numerical methods and computer simulations. The complexity of even the
simplest examples of biological systems (such as bacteria) require the use of features from various fields in mathematics such as ordinary, partial, and stochastic differential equations; dynamical systems; numerical analysis and graph theory.

I will focus on questions regarding the complexity of living cells, which we model as large-scale biochemical reaction systems. We use this model to investigate the statistical properties of living systems, such as the abundance of the molecules in the system at steady state. Surprisingly, we find that this distribution is insensitive to initial conditions, reaction constants and network connectivity. Many of our findings match with experimental results on organisms from E.Coli to human.

Lie Theory
3:30-4:30p.m., Room 303
No Meeting this week

Topology
3:30-4:30p.m., Room 326
Speaker: Gordana Matic, University of Georgia
Title of talk: TBA

CATS
4:40-5:30p.m., Room 306
Speaker: Chunmei Liu, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Subgraph isomorphism, tree decomposition, and fast search of RNA secondary structures in genomes


TUESDAY, March 29, 2005

VIGRE Graduate Student Seminar
2:00p.m., Room 304
Speaker: Brian Cook, Southern Polytechnic State U.
Title of talk: Weaker prime bias from analytic number theory
Abstract: The point of the talk will be about a weaker prime bias mod(3) and mod(4) and their equivalences to the analogue of the Riemann Hypothesis for the L series mod(3) and mod(4) with non-trivial characters, respectively. Much of the talk will be an introduction to these topics.

Dynamics on Berkovich Space
2:30 PM Room 326
No Meeting this week


WEDNESDAY, March 30, 2005

Spline Analysis
1:30-2:30pm, Room 326
Speaker: V. Baramidze, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Minimal energy spherical spline interpolation

VIGRE – Cardiac Physiology
2:30p.m., Room 640

Algebraic Geometry
3:30-04:45p.m., Room 410
No Meeting this week

Faculty and Graduate Social
3:00 p.m., Room 409
Coffee, Cookies, Tea

VIGRE-Algebra
3:30-4:30pm, Room 303
Organizers: Daniel Nakano, Brian Boe, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Decomposing the tensor product of the Specht module
with its dual over elementary abelians.

Number Theory
3:45-5:15pm, Room 304
Speaker: Clayton Petsche, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Quantitative Equidistribution Results for Small Points on Elliptic Curves


THURSDAY, March 31, 2005

VIGRE – Algebraic Geometry
2:00p.m., Room 304

Student Arithmetic/Algebraic Geometry Seminar
3:30p.m., Room 304
No Meeting this week

Faculty and Graduate Social
3:00 p.m., Room 409
Coffee, Cookies, Tea

Colloquium
3:30p.m., Room 304
Speaker: Semyon Alesker, Tel Aviv University
Title of talk: Theory of valuations on manifolds

FRIDAY, April 1, 2005

Geometry
2:30p.m., Room 326
Speaker: Ted Ashton, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Passage to Pentagonia
Abstract: All aboard for a sightseeing tour with very brief stops in Combinatorics, Matrix Algebra, Graph Theory, Complex Numbers, Geometry and Trigonometry.

Joint Analysis
3:30p.m., Room 303
Speaker: Dmitry Jacobson, McGill
Title of talk: Critical points and quasi-symmetry properties of eigenfunctions.

VIGRE – Clifford Algebras
3:30-4:45p.m. Room 302

Wavelet Analysis
3:30-4:30p.m., Room 322
Speaker: H. P. Liu, University of Georgia
Title of talk: Prewavelets in Sobolev spaces