University of Georgia

Mathematics Department Tuesday VIGRE Seminar

This page contains the schedule for the VIGRE Seminar for the current academic year. In most cases it also contains a link to an abstract of the talk. For seminar schedules click here.

Except for Orientation week, all VIGRE seminars take place on Tuesday at 2:00 PM, in room 304 in Boyd Graduate Studies. Here are maps of the campus.

Your comments and suggestions for future speakers are most welcome. Please email izadi@math.uga.edu or call my office at Boyd 503: (706) 542-2615 (where you can leave a message) or fax: (706) 542-2573 or (706)542-5907.

August 2003


  • August 12
    • Robert Varley
    • Eigenvalues and Quanta
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  • August 14
    • Matthew Baker
    • Modularity of elliptic curves and beyond
    • abstract


  • August 19
    • Mukul Patel
    • The Conceptual Structure of Mathematics
    • abstract


  • August 26
    • Jason Cantarella
    • The Shapes of Tight Knots
    • abstract

    September 2003


  • September 2
    • William (Billy) Jackson
    • Setting Optimal Price Limits in Futures Markets
    • abstract


  • September 9
    • Valerie Cormani
    • Triangulations of polygons
    • abstract


  • September 16
    • Mukul Patel
    • The Unity of Mathematics
    • abstract


  • September 23
    • Konstantin Oskolkov
    • The valleys of shadow in the Talbot-Schr\"odinger landscape
    • abstract


  • September 30
    • Joseph Fu
    • From Buffon's needle to the symplectic sesquialgebra: the coming revolution in integral geometry
    • abstract

    October 2003


  • October 7
    • Daniel Nakano
    • I'm a mathematician seeking a job: A presentation on the academic job market in mathematics
    • abstract


  • October 14
    • Valery Alexeev
    • Higher-dimensional analogues of stable curves
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  • October 20 (exceptionally on Monday, 10:00 am, room 304)
    • Richard Millman, NSF VIGRE Director
    • Discussion of UGA's VIGRE program
    • abstract


  • October 28
    • Qing Zhang
    • An optimal selling rule with regime switching
    • abstract

    November 2003


  • November 4
    • Elham Izadi
    • An Introduction to the Hodge conjecture
    • abstract


  • November 11
    • Joseph Fu
    • Kinematic formulas and the Alesker algebra
    • abstract


  • November 18
    • Andrew Sornborger
    • Mathematical Aspects of Electrical Activity in the Heart
    • abstract


  • November 25
    • Alexander Stokolos
    • Benefits from Paradoxical Sets
    • abstract

    December 2003


  • December 2
    • Alla Balueva
    • Integro-differential Equations and Cracks: why are they closely related?
    • abstract

    January 2004


  • January 13
    • Jerry Hower, Mukul Patel, Charles Pooh, and Chao Zhuang
    • The quantum-mechanical derivation of the periodic table
    • abstract


  • January 20


  • January 27
    • Alexander Petukhov
    • Challenging problems of applied Information Theory
    • abstract

    February 2004


  • February 3
    • Sybilla Beckmann
    • Mathematics for Elementary and Middle Grades Teachers
    • abstract


  • February 10
    • Jason Cantarella
    • A practial introduction to mathematical visualization
    • abstract


  • February 17
    • Laura DeMarco
    • Polynomial dynamics and potential theory
    • abstract


  • February 24
    • Kevin James
    • Sums of Hurwitz class numbers
    • abstract

    March 2004


  • March 2
    • Matthew Baker
    • Analysis on metrized graphs
    • abstract


  • March 16
    • Edward (Eddie) Azoff
    • Dynamics on [0,1)
    • abstract


  • March 23
    • R. Andrew Hicks
    • The Hodge Theorem for Panoramic Camera Design
    • abstract


  • March 30
    • Vladimir Gudkov
    • An Approach to Network Analysis via a Continuous Evolution of a Physical Analog
    • abstract

    April 2004


  • April 6
    • Aaron Abrams
    • Braids, graphs, and robots
    • abstract


  • April 13
    • Tawanda Gwena
    • Nonrationality of cubic threefolds and matroids
    • abstract


  • April 20
    • Nadia Mazza
    • p-fusion in finite groups and the case of the dihedral group of order 8
    • abstract


  • April 27
    • Special: Double VIGRE seminar:
    • 2:00-3:00 room 304: Vladimir Temlyakov
    • On mathematical foundations of numerical integration
    • abstract
    • 3:15-4:15 room 303: Tanya Cofer and Pat Wilson
    • The Graduate Certificate in Mathematics Education
    • abstract