Seminar and Colloquium Bulletin

for the week of March 25 2013 -- March 29 2013

MONDAY, March 25

        3:05 PM       APPLIED MATHEMATICS
                      No seminar this week.
                      in LCB 222


TUESDAY, March 26

        3:30 PM       ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY
                      Yifan Chen, University of Utah
                      will present
                      A New Family of Surfaces of General Type with p_g=0 and  K^2=7
                      in LCB 215

        4:35 PM       GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
                      Jon Watson, University of Utah
                      will present
                      Going, Going... Gone?
                      in JWB 335

        4:45 PM       TIME SERIES
                      Brent Collins, University of Utah
                      will present
                      A Time Series Analysis of Utah Skier Days and the Effects of the 2002 Winter Olympics
                      in LCB 222


WEDNESDAY, March 27

       12:55 PM       UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
                      Yi Zhu, University of Utah
                      will present
                      Geometry of Conics
                      in LCB 222 (Pizza and discussion after talk)

        3:05 PM       MATH BIOLOGY
                      Wanda Strychalski, UC Davis
                      will present
                      Insights Into Cytoplasmic Rheology Gained from Modeling Cellular Blebbing
                      in LCB 219

        3:15 PM       MAX DEHN
                      Kevin Wortman, University of Utah
                      will present
                      Cohomology of Arithmetic Groups over Function Fields
                      in LCB 323


THURSDAY, March 28

        4:15 PM       DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
                      Jean-Luc Thiffeault, University of Wisconsin-Madison
                      will present
                      Biomixing: When Organisms Stir Their Environment
                      in JWB 335 (Refreshments at 3:45 in JWB 228)


FRIDAY, March 29

        2:00 PM       REPRESENTATION THEORY
                      Monty McGovern, University of Washington
                      will present
                      Rational Singularity of Nilpotent Varieties
                      in LCB 215

        3:00 PM       STOCHASTICS
                      No seminar this week
                      in LCB 219
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