Weekly Calendar of Seminars, Talks, and Events

Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Bowling Green State University


Week of February 4 - 8, 2013 

Monday, February 4, 2013
 

  1:30 PM Data-Intensive Research Seminar 459 MSC
  Bob Vincent, Geology, BGSU
  Identifying minerals using multispectral imaging
  We will follow up on Bob Vincent's talk to in this seminar last semester, in which he posed the problem of identifying the mineral from its electromagnetic spectrum by matching it against a number of known spectra. It would be desirable to identify which spectral bands are most informative for this task. Please contact Craig Zirbel at zirbel@bgsu.edu if you are interested in seeing the data from Dr. Vincent or the paper that Peng Wang suggested may be appropriate for the problem.
  3:30 PM Education Seminar 459 MSC
  Tom Hern, BGSU
  Education: Professional or Political?
  We will examine some recent events and efforts, and discuss just what is the agenda and who is behind it: privatization and Wall Street greed, ALEC, NCLB, the Common Core, high stakes testing, VAM, TFA, bashing of teachers... People mentioned will include Diane Ravitch and Michelle Rhee. Hopefully a lively discussion will ensue.
  4:30 PM Bioinformatics Seminar 459 MSC
  Craig Zirbel, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU
  We will start to code a dynamic programming sequence alignment algorithm in Python. Sequence alignment lies at the heart of much of bioinformatics, because it is how we determine how similar two genetic sequences are, and where they differ. Bring your laptop! Please install numpy before you come; it has support for vectors and matrices in Python.
   

Tuesday, February 5, 2013
 
  10:50 AM - 11:20 AM Math 1210 Instructor Meeting 459 MSC
  10:50 AM - 11:25 AM Math 1150 Meeting 445 MSC
  11:00 AM Advisory Committee Meeting 400 MSC
  11:30 AM Graduate Student Seminar 459 MSC
  Adamou Fode, BGSU
  Characteristic Values
  We will discuss characteristic values of linear operator from the Linear Algebra book by Hoffman and Kunze.
  3:45 PM Faculty Meeting: Annual Reviews 459 MSC
  All tenured faculty are welcome.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013
 
  11:30 AM - 12:20 PM Statistics Seminar 459 MSC
  Wei Ning, BGSU, Mathematics Statistics
  Introduction to the Skew Normal Distribution Family
  The skew normal distribution family was first introduced by Azzalini (1985), which has been used widely to fit the skewed data. In this talk, we will introduce the fundamental knowledge of this distribution family, and recent development in this field.
  4:30 PM Putnam Team Meeting 238 MSC

Thursday, February 7, 2013
 
  11:30 AM Algebra and Topology Seminar 459 MSC
  Xiangdong Xie, BGSU, Mathematics/Statistics
  What are metric spaces with nonpositive curvature?
  1:30 PM Math 1260 Instructors meeting 400 MSC
  1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Canvas information meeting 459 MSC
  Beth Burns, BGSU, Mathematics
  Are you interested in what Canvas is all about? I will give an overview of features in Canvas, the learning management system that is replacing Blackboard. This is not a training but just information about Canvas. If you want to sign up for training then visit http://www.bgsu.edu/canvas and click on Training under Canvas in the left navigation bar.

Friday, February 8, 2013
 
  1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Canvas information meeting 459 MSC
  Beth Burns, BGSU, Mathematics
  Are you interested in what Canvas is all about? I will give an overview of features in Canvas, the learning management system that is replacing Blackboard. This is not a training but just information about Canvas. If you want to sign up for training then visit http://www.bgsu.edu/canvas and click on Training under Canvas in the left navigation bar.
  3:30 PM Refreshments 459 MSC
  3:45 PM Colloquium 459 MSC
  Captain Michael A. Campbell, BGSU Campus Safety
  ALICE
  Second session presented by Campus Safety staff. "ALICE (Alert, Lock Down, Counter, Inform, and Evacuate" training is a presentation regarding an active shooter and survival for all atmospheres. This information could relate to classroom disturbances or interactions with students, faculty or visitors. All faculty, staff and graduate students are welcome to attend.

A list of mathematics seminars by subject and other seminars at BGSU is available  here.

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