Week of March 23 - 27, 1998

Monday, March 23

11:30 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION SEMINAR  - Room 447 MSC
      Diane Erb, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU
      "Jerome Bruner and his philosophy of mathematics education"

 2:30 ALGEBRA SEMINAR  - Room 447 MSC
      Corinna Wiedorn, Martin Luther Universitat, Halle-Wittenberg
      "c-Extensions of Petersen type geometries"

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

Tuesday, March 24

10:30 GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Daria Filippova, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU
      "The modeling of relativistic electron beams"
      All are welcome to attend. 

 2:30 SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Craig Zirbel, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "Predator-prey models with stochastic noise"
      Abstract: One way to make the standard predator-prey model more
        realistic is to add "noise" to represent random fluctuations
        in birth and death rates for the two species.  This idea will
        be introduced through a discussion of the Euler method for
        numerical solutions and simulations.

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

 3:30 FACULTY MEETING  - Room 459 MSC
      Discussion of promotion and tenure document, plus announcements.

Wednesday, March 25

11:30 MATHEMATICS EDUCATION SEMINAR  - Room 447 MSC
      Diane Erb, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU
      "Jerome Bruner and his philosophy of mathematics education, part II"
      
Thursday, March 26

 1:00 STATISTICAL COMPUTING SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Arthur Yeh, Applied Statistics and Operations Research, BGSU
      "Optimal design"

Friday, March 27
      
 No colloquium this week.  Next colloquium Friday, April 3.