Week of February 6 - 10, 2012


Monday, February 6, 2012

10:30 AM         Advisory Committee Meeting        400 MSC

3:30 PM          Calculus Seminar                  459 MSC
                 Steve Seubert will show some interesting Calculus
                 applications.


Tuesday, February 7, 2012

2:30 PM          Algebra and Topology Seminar      459 MSC 
                 Rieuwert Blok, BGSU
                 Coxeter groups


Wednesday, February 8, 2012

1:30 PM          Math 1150 Meeting                 459 MSC

3:30 PM          Analysis Seminar                  459 MSC
                 Leo Pinheiro, Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Teaching
                 Assistant, Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
                 BGSU
                 On the Banach-Steinhaus Theorem for Topological Groups
                 PART II

                 We prove the Banach-Steinhauss Theorem and some of its
                 consequences under the assumption that the underlying
                 space is a topological group of second category. The
                 results presented are due to Semyon N. Litvinov.


Thursday, February 9, 2012

10:45 AM         Math 1210 Instructor Meeting      459 MSC

11:00 AM         Math 1150 Meeting                 459 MSC

1:00 PM          Personnel Committee Meeting       400 MSC

4:00 PM          Talk for Undergraduates           459 MSC
                 Craig Zirbel, BGSU
                 Andrew Zeller, student at BGSU

                 Light refreshments will be provided.

                 Every summer at universities around the country,
                 undergraduates move in for 10 weeks to participate in
                 short, focused research programs directed by
                 researchers, most often after their junior
                 year. Generally, you get paid and have free room and
                 board. Often, students work together on
                 projects. Sometimes these lead to publishable
                 papers. Almost always, students come back much more
                 excited about doing research in their field. This talk
                 will focus on REU's in mathematics, but REU's can be
                 found in many other fields as well. Both speakers did
                 REU's as part of their college experience, Andrew
                 Zeller in mathematics and Dr. Zirbel in physics.

                 See the list of mathematics REU programs here:
                 http://www.ams.org/programs/students/undergrad/emp-reu


Friday, February 10, 2012 

1:00 PM          Ralph St. John Series on Statistics 116 BA

                 The Department of Applied Statistics and Operations
                 Research is hosting the Ralph St. John Seminar Series
                 on Friday, Feb. 10, from 1-2 p.m. 

                 Kevin O'Malley, The Lubrizol Corporation
                 The Experiences of a Statistician in Industry


3:30 PM          Refreshments                      459 MSC
3:45 PM          Colloquium                        459 MSC
                 Kevin O'Malley, The Lubrizol Corporation
                 Reaching Beyond Classical Statistical Approaches

                 Innovative, non-classical approaches are needed to
                 solve complex industry problems. Experimentation often
                 requires designs that are highly customized to fit the
                 needs of the project. Important steps when creating
                 such designs are highlighted through an example of
                 developing a superior paint. An experimental strategy
                 is also introduced to shed light on how to develop
                 designed experiments when the levels of the factors are
                 unknown. Finally, a case study is used to show
                 complexities in modeling when the response is estimated
                 using a nonlinear function and the factors in the model
                 are both mixture and process variables. These examples
                 are only a glimpse into the variety of interesting
                 problems facing industry statisticians.

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