Week of September 7 - 11

Monday, September 7

Labor Day.  No classes or seminars.

Tuesday, September 8

10:30 ALGEBRA SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Warren McGovern - Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "Lattice-ordered groups: structure and examples"

 3:30 GROUPS AND GEOMETRIES SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Sergey Shpectorov, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "The Witt design and the sporadic Mathieu groups"

Wednesday, September 9
 
 2:30 STATISTICS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Jim Albert, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "Introduction to Bayesian Prediction:  
         How many home runs will Mark McGwire hit?"

 7:00 WORKSHOP ON TEACHING FRESHMAN MATH & STATISTICS  - Life Sciences 212
      The workshop will be led by a panel consisting of Dan Madigan
      (Center for Teaching Learning and Technology), Bill Knight
      (Office of Institutional Research) and the coordinators of our
      freshman courses.  All faculty and graduate students are
      encouraged to attend.

Thursday, September 10

 3:30 GROUPS AND GEOMETRIES SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Sergey Shpectorov, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "The Witt design and the sporadic Mathieu groups"

Friday, September 11

 3:30 Coffee
 3:45 COLLOQUIUM  - Room 459 MSC
      Gabor Szekely, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "Mathematical Uncertainties"
      Abstract: Why do balls play a role in geometry similar to normal
        distributions in statistics?  How can we use the Heisenberg
        uncertainty principle in statistics?  Why is this principle
        equivalent to the classical Cramer-Rao inequality?  All these
        questions can be answered with the help of a 1948 paper by
        C. E. Shannon.  The scientific world is going to celebrate him
        next month. (This talk is part of an invited AMS talk the
        speaker will give in Gainesville, Florida.)

 5:30 DEPARTMENT PICNIC  - Carter Park, pavilion located by playground
      All Mathematics and Statistics faculty, graduate students, and
      their families are invited.  There is a sign-up sheet for dishes
      to bring and transportation in the coffee room (Room 459).
      Contact Diane Erb (dianeer@bgnet.bgsu.edu) for more information.