Week of January 24-28, 2011

Monday, January 24, 2011

1:30 PM          Calculator Workshop               447 MSC
                 Cheryl Grant
                 Topic:  Basic Skills

3:30 PM          Calculus Seminar                  459 MSC
                 Presenter:  Dan Shifflet, BGSU
                 Major-Specific Group Projects to Motivate Sequences and
                 Series

                 Last semester I assigned group projects to my Calculus II
                 students to motivate the transition from traditional
                 topics they were accustomed to (derivatives, integrals)
                 into new topics they might not have seen before
                 (sequences, series).  In an attempt to maximize interest,
                 each group was comprised of individuals with similar
                 majors and assigned a project containing relevant
                 material. In this seminar we will review the content of
                 these projects and the results of their implementation.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

10:45 AM         Math 1220 Instructor Meeting      459 MSC

3:45 Pm          Tenured Faculty Meeting           459 MSC
                 Topic:  Annual Evaluation

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

11:30 AM         Statistics Seminar                459 MSC
                 Steven Dinda, BGSU
                 Predicting rRNA mutation rates using the rRNA 3D structure

12:30 PM         Foundational Math Committee Meeting 400 MSC

1:00 PM          Graduate Committee Meeting        400 MSC

1:30 PM          Analysis Seminar                  459 MSC
                 Bo Li, BGS
                 Toeplitz algebra on the Segal-Bargmann type spaces (Part II)

                 We give an overview of some results on the structure of
                 Toeplitz algebra on the Bergman-type spaces, and discuss
                 how to obtain the analogous results for Toeplitz algebra
                 on the Segal-Bargmann type spaces. This a continuation of
                 two talks given last semester.

3:30 PM          Algebra Seminar                   459 MSC
                 Dan Shifflet, BGSU
                 Canceling Polynomials Without Dividing: An Algebraic
                 Introduction to the Power Series

                 In this talk I will introduce the usefulness of power
                 series without mentioning limits or convergence.  The
                 material being presented is applicable to mathematicians
                 of all levels.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

10:45 AM         Math 1210 Instructor Meeting      459 MSC

Friday, January 28, 2011

2:30 PM          Dissertation Defense              459 MSC
                 Kevin Rion, BGSU
                 Dense Orbits of the Aluthge Transform

                 The Aluthge transform was introduced to aid in solving the
                 Invariant Subspace Problem on Hilbert spaces. Weighted
                 shifts have been used to address the conjecture that the
                 sequence formed by iteratively applying the Aluthge
                 transform Delta to an operator T produces a sequence that
                 converges to a normal operator. We show the preceding
                 conjecture fails in quite a dramatic way in that the orbit
                 Orb(Delta,T) can in fact be dense in an entire "interval"
                 of normal shifts.

3:30 PM          Colloquium                        459 MSC
                 John Chen, BGSU
                 Modeling survival data with dependent censoring

                 Most of the methods on survival analysis focus on survival
                 data in which censoring is independent of survival
                 time. However, in some practical situations, information
                 connecting censoring with survival time can not be
                 plausibly ignored. This motivates research for new methods
                 to analyze survival time with dependent censoring. In this
                 talk, we will review recent developments of survival
                 analysis with dependent censoring mechanism, discuss a new
                 method, and apply the new method to analyze a prostate
                 cancer data set.

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