Week of December 6-10, 2010
 

Monday, December 6, 2010

3:45 PM          Calculus Seminar                  459 MSC
                 Irina Franke will ask about the role of proof in the
                 calculus sequences, and Gordon Wade will ponder
                 mathematics and calculus as humanities.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

10:45 AM         Math 1220 Instructor Meeting      400 MSC

1:00 PM          Graduate Committee Meeting        400 MSC

3:45 PM          Faculty Meeting                   459 MSC
                 The Chair selection committee is asking all
                 tenure-stream faculty, full-time instructors, postdocs,
                 and staff to come to the second forum of the candidates
                 for Chair of the Department of Mathematics and
                 Statistics whose 4-year term will begin in the Summer
                 of 2011. At this time, the candidates will continue to
                 be responding to questions from the department and
                 follow-up questions from the audience.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

9:00 AM          Math 1150 Instructor Meeting      400 MSC

11:30 AM         Statistics Seminar                459 MSC
                 Shihai Lv, BGSU
                 Bayesian analysis of single-molecule experimental data

1:30 PM          Analysis Seminar                  459 MSC
                 David  Rumsey, BGSU
                 Numerical Smoothness and Error Analysis for RKDG on
                 Scalar Nonlinear Conservation Laws (Part II)

                 The new concept of numerical smoothness is applied to
                 the RKDG (Runge-Kutta/Discontinuous Galerkin) methods
                 for scalar nonline conservations laws.  Continuing from
                 where we left off, we will begin by giving an error
                 estimate for smooth solutions and note the order of
                 this estimate.  Next we will define the "smoothness"
                 indicators used to compute the error.  An outline of
                 the proof of the spatial discritization error will be
                 given. Finally, some experimental results confirming
                 the boundedness of the indicators will be shown.

2:30 pm          Education Seminar                 459 MSC

3:30 pm          Algebra Seminar                   459 MSC
                 Stephen Gagola III
                 Using Caley generalized hexagons to determine covering
                 numbers II

                 Covering numbers of groups have been broadly explored
                 and some results have been shown, by Foguel and Kappe,
                 to also hold for loops.  It was proven by Tomkinson
                 that there exist positive integers which are not the
                 covering number for any group. We will see if such
                 results extend to Moufang loops by investigating the
                 construction of the split Cayley generalized hexagon.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

10:45 AM         Math 1120 Instructor Meeting      400 MSC

3:45 PM          Foundational Math Committee Meeting 400 MSC               

Friday, December 10, 2010

3:30 PM          COLLOQUIUM                        459 MSC
                 David Madigan, Columbia University
                 Statistical Methods in Drug Safety

                 The pharmaceutical industry and regulatory agencies
                 rely on various data sources to ensure the safety of
                 licensed drugs. Recent high profile drug withdrawals
                 have led to increased scrutiny of this activity. Many
                 statistical challenges arise in this context. This talk
                 will describe some of these data sources and the
                 challenges they present, focusing especially on newer
                 large-scale data analyses.

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