May 17, 1994 
Luis Valero
Filters and some applications 

May 24, 1994
Durward McDonnel
Knots, Graphs, and Mutants

October 11, 1994
Luis Valero
Weight and see

October 25, 1994 
David Bailey
Cut points and continuua

November 8, 1994
Luis Valero
Representation theory builds characters

November 15, 1994 
Colin Springer
Short factorizations and rooted trees

November 22, 1994
Alex Frentz
The Adeles

January 17, 1995 
Alex Frentz
p-adic analysis 

January 24, 1995 
Uli Walther
Sheaves and Cech cohomology 

February 7, 1995
David Bailey
Hyperplane arrangements 

February 14, 1995 
Kendra Killpatrick
p,q-Stirling numbers 

February 21, 1995 
Ernesto Schirmacher
Symmetric functions and plane partitions 

March 7, 1995
Ryan Siders
Some results on circle packing 

March 28, 1995 
Hans Walther
Varieties 

April 11, 1995 
Ernesto Schirmacher
The Poset Conjecture 

April 18, 1995 
Durward McDonell
Partitions, Symmetric Groups and Young's Lattice 

April 25, 1995
Frederick Roos
Enumerating simple juggling patterns 

May 9, 1995 
Luis Valero
An improved version of Möbius inversion

May 23, 1995 
Dominic Lanphier
The prime number theorem and related topics 

May 30, 1995 
Satish Kumar K.
Kuhn's Hungarian Algorithm and other combinatorial optimization problems 

September 26, 1995 
Dave Bailey
Zonotopes, Tilings and Oriented Matroids

October 3, 1995 
Dan O'Loughlin
Non-linear curvature flows for embedded plane curves

October 10, 1995 
Colin Springer
Posets and algebraic topology

October 17, 1995 
Osvaldo Mendez
Layer potentials and boundary value problems on Lipschitz domains

October 24, 1995
Alex Frentz
Buildings in 3000 seconds 

October 31, 1995 
Ernesto Schirmacher
Injective proofs of log-concavity 

November 7, 1995
Dorina Mitrea
A problem of Kelvin about incompressible fluids 

November 14, 1995 
Dr. Paul Garrett
What are automorphic forms and L- functions? 

November 21, 1995 
Nick Lanphier
An Introduction to K-theory 

November 28, 1995
Uli Walther
D-modules 

January 23, 1996
Luis Valero
Normalizers from a different perspective 

January 30, 1996 
Tony Dunlop
Computability structures on separable Banach spaces 

February 6, 1996 
Phil Osterlund
Mandelbrot Polynomials 

February 13, 1996 
Martin O'Hely
The speed of light in a particle system 

February 27, 1996 
Alex Frentz
Modular forms and applications to dairy farming 

April 9, 1996
David Bailey
Stacking cubes and tiling zonotopes 

April 16, 1996 
Jeffrey Bolden
What are e,f, and g? 

April 23, 1996 
Tim Brule
A simple example of phase diagrams in black and white photography 

April 30, 1996 
Colin Springer
Applications of topology to combinatorics 

May 7, 1996 
Scott Brown
Asymptotic statistical theory 

May 14, 1996
Ernesto Schirmacher
The Littlewood-Offord Problem 

May 21, 1996 
Bob Hesse
Symplectic integration and Hamiltonian systems 

January 21, 1998
Dr. Vic Reiner
The generalized Baues problem 

January 28, 1998
Michelle Raymond
A rank generating function for rook placements on a ferrers board

February 11, 1998 
Luis Valero
Partitions: to boldly arrange what no-one has arranged before 

February 16, 1998
Nathan Reading
Playing Nim on Simplicial Complexes 

February 25, 1998 
Kendra Killpatrick
TBA

March 4, 1998
Nathan Wodarz
TBA

March 11, 1998
Martin O'Hely
The mathematics of hillbillies 

April 1, 1998
Alex Frentz
TBA

April 15, 1998
Irina Mitrea
Spectral radius properties of the elastostatic layer potential in pulyhedral domains in $R^3$

May 13, 1998
Marty O'Hely
Vicicide and the death of the fittest 

May 20, 1998
Tina Garrett
Integrals with q-Hermite polynomials 

May 27, 1998
Kendra Killpatrick
A new description of charge 

June 3, 1998
Doris Chiang
TBA

October 21, 1998
Irina Mitrea
The boundedness of singular integrals 

October 28, 1998
Samuel Peterson
Minimal and maximal triangulations of degenerate polytopes 

November 11, 1998
Uli Walther
TBA

November 18, 1998
Luis Roman
Runge-Kutta type schemes for stochastic differential equations 

November 25, 1998
Marty O'Hely
Filtering and Bayesian estimation 

December 2, 1998
Irina Berchenko
Applictions of the moving frame method to classical invariant theory 

January 15, 1999
Mireille Boutin
TBA

February 5, 1999
Johan Andersson
Moments of zeta-functions 

February 12, 1999
Tina Garrett
TBA 

February 19, 1999
Dr. Donald Kahn
Atoms to molecules in topology: Decomposing spaces 

February 26, 1999
Marty O'Hely
Coalescents 

March 5, 1999
Eduardo Leandro
Singularities and Celestial Mechanics 

March 12, 1999
Nathan Reading
Two-dimensional lattices 

April 2, 1999
Alex Frentz
Mathematical Marlboro Man 

April 30, 1999 
Irina Mitrea
Spectral issues for elliptic layer potentials on Lipschitz domains with small Lipschitz character 

May 7, 1999
Xun Dong
The Borsuk problem 

May 14, 1999 
Natasha Dobrinen
Boolean algebras and distributive laws 

May 28, 1999
Huiyan Qiu
The friendship theorem 

October 5, 1999 
Irina Mitrea
TBA 

October 12, 1999 
Irina Berchenko
Symmetries of polynomials 

October 19, 1999 
Dr. Donald Kahn
Dold's elementary proof of the Jordan Curve and Alexander Duality theorems 

October 26, 1999
Anton Leykin
Weyl algebra and Bernstein polynomial 

November 2, 1999
Dr. Vic Reiner
The art gallery theorem 

November 9, 1999 
Dr. Dick McGehee
How to give a pretty good talk 

November 16, 1999 
Dr. Stefan Blum
How many squares in an infinite chess board can a knight reach in d moves? 

November 30, 1999 
Sam Peterson
Geological implications of combinatorial geometry 

December 7, 1999 
Dr. Dominik Schoetzau
The hp-Version of the finite element method - Introduction and basic principles 

December 14, 1999
Dr. Douglas Hanes
The Hilbert-Kunz function - an analogue of the Hilbert function for rings of prime characteristic

March 7, 2000
Xun Dong
Spheres with few vertices 

March 14, 2000
Cetin Urtis
Integral representations of Eisenstein series and L-functions 

March 21, 2000
Cristian Rios
Basic properties and applications for the nondivergence harmonic measure 

April 4, 2000 
Kang Kyung Keun
The partial regularity of stationary Navier-Stokes equations up to the boundary in a five dimensional half-space 

April 11, 2000
Seong-A Shim
Existence and uniform boundedness of global solutions of quasilinear parabolic systems in population dynamics 

April 18, 2000
Nathan Reading
Easy proofs of Cayley's theorem

April 25, 2000
Xiaodong Yan
Nonsmooth minimizers of strongly convex functionals 

May 2, 2000
Tamas Wiandt
Conley decomposition for closed relations 

September 12, 2000
Nathan Reading
Tiling the Aztec Diamond with Dominos 

September 22, 2000
Natasha Dobrinen
Games and general distributive laws in Boolean algebras 

September 26, 2000
Gabriel Soto
Got calcium? 

October 6, 2000
Cristian Rios
The theory of weights and harmonic measure

October 10, 2000
Miriam Freedman
A model for supramolecular assembly formation 

October 20, 2000
Paul T. Macklin
A quick introduction to Sobolev spaces and a completeness proof 

October 24, 2000
Dan Drake
Dirty children, unfaithful husbands, and numbers on your forehead 

November 3, 2000
Jun Seok Kim
Lattice Boltzmann method with Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional for spinodal decomposition simulation - new numerical method for computational fluid dynamics 

November 17, 2000
Dapend Du
The uniqueness of Cauchy problem for elliptic equations 

November 21, 2000
Dr. Linghai Zhang
What is traveling wave solution and how to study its asymptotic stability? 

December 1, 2000
Paul T. Macklin
Modeling optical fibers and fiber bragg gratings, a.k.a., Applied Orthogonality 

December 5, 2000
Vladimir Itskov
Orbit reduction of PDEs and characteristic cohomology 

March 22, 2001
Dan Drake
Abelian sandpiles

October 9, 2001
Dr. Donald Kahn 
Phantom maps and other ghosts 

October 16, 2001
James Swenson 
The first interesting theorem in category theory, and an application to something you already knew 

October 23, 2001
Radek Erban 
The existence of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations for compressible fluid in Orlicz spaces 

October 30, 2001
Blake Boursaw 
Decisions! Decisions! Dehn presentations, isoperimetric inequalities, and "hyperbolic" groups 

November 6, 2001
Junseok Kim 
Drop/drop collisions using a ternary fluid flow model

November 13, 2001
Kuerak Chung 
The rational homology of the n-loop space of a bouquet of spheres 

November 20, 2001
Jens Rademacher 
Platonic Island -- the platonic solids revisited 

November 27, 2001
Dan Drake 
Public Key Cryptography and the RSA Algorithm 

December 4, 2001
Dr. Arnd Scheel 
Dynamics and Bifurcations of Patterns 

January 29, 2002
Dr. Vic Reiner
The glorious q-binomial coefficient

February 5, 2002
Nathan Reading
The order dimension of finite distributive lattices

February 12, 2002
Dr. Peter Webb
Understanding groups by their actions on spaces

February 19, 2002
Radek Erban
Big numbers (problems in olympiad number theory)

February 26, 2002
Miriam Freedman
Introduction to statistical mechanics

March 5, 2002
Dr. Ionut Ciocan-Fontanine
Classical and quantum Schubert calculus

March 12, 2002
Jonathan Rogness
Cellular homology and applications

March 26, 2002
Dr. Alexander Voronov
Graph homology

April 2, 2002
Dan Drake
What juggling taught me about number theory and combinatorics

April 9, 2002
Ryan Berndt
The Hilbert transform and singular integrals

April 16, 2002
Fei Xu
Inverse limits and connections to representations of quivers

April 30, 2002
Dr. Naichung Conan Leung
Morse theory

May 7, 2002
Dr. Paul Garrett
Summing series: special values of L-functions

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