Week of March 22 - 26

Monday, March 22

 2:30 GROUPS AND GEOMETRIES SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Sergey Shpectorov, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "Orthogonal and symplectic groups and geometries"

 3:30 ANALYSIS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Neal Carothers, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU
      "The work of William Timothy Gowers, 1998 Fields Medalist"
      Abstract: William Timothy Gowers was awarded the 1998 Fields
        Medal for his work in Banach space theory, number theory, and
        combinatorics.  We will briefly survey Gowers's work in Banach
        space theory and, perhaps just as important, the work of those
        who came before.  The talk will be as non-technical as I can
        manage (given the subject): No proofs, but plenty of jargon!

Tuesday, March 23

 4:00 STATISTICS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Hanfeng Chen, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "Nonregular models"
      Abstract: Standard statistical procedures often require that the
        set-up model satisfy some regularity conditions. I will
        discuss the consequences and difficulties in statistical
        inference when these regularity conditions are not satisfied.

Friday, March 26

 Spring meeting of the Ohio Section of the Mathematical Association of
 America, in Dayton, March 26-27.

 No colloquium this week.