Week of October 25 - 29

Tuesday, October 26

 2:30 ALGEBRA SEMINAR  - Room 447 MSC
      Steve McCleary, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU
      "Lattice-ordered permutation groups, Part VI"
      This is the sixth in a series of talks.

 2:30 SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Neal Carothers, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU
      "Details from Daubechies, Part II"
      Abstract: This talk will use Fourier transform techniques to
        outline the proof of the existence of the "mother wavelet"
        which is orthogonal to the scaling function and whose
        translates and dilates are mutually orthogonal.

Wednesday, October 27

 2:30 ANALYSIS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
      Kit Chan, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU 
      "Semi-Fredholm operators"

Thursday, October 28

 1:30 LUKACS LECTURE  - Room 400 MSC
      Raju Govindarajulu, Distinguished Lukacs Professor, BGSU and
                          University of Kentucky
      "Adaptive sequential estimation procedures"

Friday, October 29

 1:30 LUKACS LECTURE  - Room 400 MSC
      Raju Govindarajulu, Distinguished Lukacs Professor, BGSU and
                          University of Kentucky
      "Sequential estimation of (i) normal mean and (ii) mean of
       arbitrary population"
      This will be a two-hour talk.

 3:30 Refreshments
 3:45 COLLOQUIUM  - Room 459 MSC
      Wojbor Woyczynski, Case Western Reserve University
      "Multifractal nonlinear partial differential equations and
       probabilistic tools to study them"
      Abstract: Nonlinear partial differential equations involving
        singular integral operators appear as models of interface
        growth with anomalous surface diffusion, reflecting hopping
        and trapping effects.  We study the asymptotic behavior of
        solutions of these nonlocal equations as time tends to
        infinity.  In the critical case when the diffusion and
        nonlinear terms are balanced, the solutions feature genuinely
        nonlinear self-similar asymptotics.  Probabilistic tools of
        "propagation of chaos" are used to obtain approximations.