Week of March 16 - 20, 1998

Monday, March 16

11:30 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION SEMINAR  - Room 447 MSC
      Ron Harris, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "Motivation as a factor in mathematics success"

 2:30 ALGEBRA SEMINAR  - Room 447 MSC
      Gernot Stroth, Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg
      "Amalgams in the theory of finite simple groups"

 2:30 ANALYSIS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Craig Zirbel, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "The role of measure theory in probability"

 3:30 STATISTICS SEMINAR SERIES  - Room 459 MSC
      Jiahua Chen, University of Waterloo, visiting BGSU this semester
      "Empirical Likelihood Methods"

Tuesday, March 17

10:30 GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Ron Harris, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "Motivation in mathematics education"
      All are welcome to attend. 

 2:30 SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Vena Pearl A. Bongolan, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU

 2:30 MAPLE WORKSHOP  - Scientific Computing Lab, MSC
      John Gresser, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 

Wednesday, March 18

11:30 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION SEMINAR  - Room 447 MSC
      Barbara Moses, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "Dienes and the theory of mathematical variability"
      
Thursday, March 19

 1:00 STATISTICAL COMPUTING SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC

Friday, March 20
      
 3:30 Coffee
 3:45 COLLOQUIUM  - Room 459 MSC
      Gernot Stroth, Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg
      "The sporadic simple groups involved in the classification"