DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES AND COLLOQUIA - SPRING 2005

Most colloquia are held at 4:10 P.M. in Ross Hall 308. Please check for location and special starting times.
Refreshments at 3:30 P.M. in Ross Hall 203

   
January 10 Dr. Renate Scheidler, The Center for Information Security and Cryptography (CISaC), Department of Mathematics, University of Calgary. How to Exchange a Secret - Communication of Cryptographic Keys.
   
January 13 Dr. Rieuwert Blok, Colorado State Universitiy. Shadows of Buildings. Note this lecture will be at 3:10 P.M.
   
January 21
   
February 17 CANCELED - Dr. Hermann Flaschka, University of Arizona, Distinguished Lecturer. Problems Arising From 2x2 and 3x3 Matrices.
   
February 24 Dr. Mark Ablowitz, University of Colorado - Boulder, Distinguished Lecturer. WWW: Waves, Water and the Web!  This lecture will be held in Classroom Building 119.
   
March 3 Dr. Chi-Kwong Li, College of William and Mary. Numerical Ranges, Dilations and Norms.
   
March 22 Dr. Hugh C. Williams, iCORE Chair in Algorithmic Number Theory and Cryptography (ICANTC) and
Director of the Centre for Information Security and Cryptography (CISaC), University of Calgary, Distingusihed Lecturer. Cryptography, Sieving and Primality Proving.
   
March 30 Dr. Dan Kannan, University of Georgia, Distinguished Lecturer, Stochastic Integration.  (No refreshements.)
   
March 31 Dr. Dan Kannan, University of Georgia, Distinguished Lecturer. Nonlinear Stochastic Filtering via Point Procesess.
   
April 1 Dr. Dan Kannan, University of Georgia, Distinguished Lecturer, Stability, Tightness and Boundedness of Some Stochastic Flows.  (No refreshments.)
   
April 7 Dr. Jeremy Dover, Technical Director, General Dynamics AIS, Implementing Backtracking in Finite Geometry.
   
April 14 Dr. Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College, Distinguished Lecturer. Unsolved Prime Number Problems. Note: This lecture will be held in Classroom Building 119.
   
April 15 Dr. Carl Pomerance, Dartmouth College, Distinguished Lecturer. A New Primal ScreenNote: This lecture will be held at 2:10 P.M. in Business Building 300.
   
April 26 Dr. Giovanni Paolo Galdi, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Distinguished Lecturer. Some Geometric and Function-analytic Properties of the Set of Steady Solutions to the Navier-Stokes Equations Past an Obstacle.
 
April 28 Dr. V. Barbu, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Distinguished Lecturer. Nonlinear Semigroup Approach to the Equation of Flow through Porous Media.
   
May 5 Dr. Mythily Raamaswamy, School of Mathematics, Tata Institute, Bangalore, India, Distinguished Lecturer, Symmetry Properties of Positive Solutions of Elliptic Equations.