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
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1:30 PM |
Data-Intensive Research Seminar |
459 MSC |
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Bob Vincent, Geology, BGSU |
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Identifying minerals using multispectral imaging |
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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. |
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3:30 PM |
Education Seminar |
459 MSC |
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Education: Professional or Political? |
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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. |
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4:30 PM |
Bioinformatics Seminar |
459 MSC |
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Craig Zirbel, Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU |
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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
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10:50 AM - 11:20 AM |
Math 1210 Instructor Meeting |
459 MSC |
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10:50 AM - 11:25 AM |
Math 1150 Meeting |
445 MSC |
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11:00 AM |
Advisory Committee Meeting |
400 MSC |
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11:30 AM |
Graduate Student Seminar |
459 MSC |
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We will discuss characteristic values of linear operator from the
Linear Algebra book by Hoffman and Kunze. |
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3:45 PM |
Faculty Meeting: Annual Reviews |
459 MSC |
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All tenured faculty are welcome. |
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
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11:30 AM - 12:20 PM |
Statistics Seminar |
459 MSC |
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Wei Ning, BGSU, Mathematics Statistics |
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Introduction to the Skew Normal Distribution Family |
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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. |
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4:30 PM |
Putnam Team Meeting |
238 MSC |
Thursday, February 7, 2013
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11:30 AM |
Algebra and Topology Seminar |
459 MSC |
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Xiangdong Xie, BGSU, Mathematics/Statistics |
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What are metric spaces with nonpositive curvature? |
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1:30 PM |
Math 1260 Instructors meeting |
400 MSC |
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1:00 PM - 2:00 PM |
Canvas information meeting |
459 MSC |
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Beth Burns, BGSU, Mathematics |
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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
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1:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
Canvas information meeting |
459 MSC |
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Beth Burns, BGSU, Mathematics |
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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. |
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3:30 PM |
Refreshments |
459 MSC |
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3:45 PM |
Colloquium |
459 MSC |
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Captain Michael A. Campbell, BGSU Campus Safety |
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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.
If you have comments or material for the calendar, send e-mail to Barbara Berta,
If you wish to be placed on the e-mail
distribution list, send e-mail
to Craig Zirbel,
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