Department of Mathematics & Statistics Calendar Week of November 13 - 19, 2006 Monday, November 13, 2006 3:30 PM Calculus Teacher's Forum 400 MSc Tuesday, November 14, 2006 Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:30 AM UnderGrad Stats Courses/Programs Discussion Group 400 MSc 2:30 PM Frame Theory Seminar 459 MSc Professor Wolf Iberkleid, BGSU Visiting Professor 3:30 PM Statistics Seminar 445 MSc Hope BARBERA, BGSU "Rate of Convergence to Equilibrium for a Particle in a Random Velocity Field" Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:30 PM Analysis Seminar 400 MSc Irina SECELEANU, BGSU "Hypercyclic Subspaces, Part II: Existence of a Hilbert space operator with an invariant dense linear subspace of hypercyclic vectors" 2:30 PM Foundational Math Committee 447 MSc Friday, November 17, 2006 11:30 AM Algebra Seminar 400 MSc Dr. Rieuwert BLOK, BGSU "TBA" 12:00 Noon Calendar Information Due to Cyndi for the next **2** week's calendars 12:30 PM Undergraduate Committee Meeting 400 MSc 2:30 PM Graduate Student Seminar 400 MSc 3:30 PM Refreshments served prior to the colloquium 459 MSc 3:45 PM Colloquium 459 MSc Dr. Wei-Chi YANG, Radford University "Do we gain mathematics knowledge with evolving technological tools?" Abstract: Speaker will explore three examples in this talk. One is an optimization problem of finding the shortest distance between two non-intersecting curves in 2D or surfaces in 3D. The second is the converse of Mean-ValueTheorem and the third is the limit problem that is mentioned in a James Stewart Calculus text book. Speaker generalizes the results to 3D. It will be shown that dynamic geometry software packages in 2D and 3D provide us invaluable insight when making conjectures; the computer algebra system such as Maple provides further symbolic and algebraic analysis. From this presentation, audience will appreciate that new technological tools today make learning, teaching and research in mathematics fun, accessible, challenging and also theoretical. It is fair to say that the results mentioned in this talk would not have been realized without current technological tools. NAME="C"> Saturday, November 18, 2006 Sunday, November 19, 2006
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