Spring 2006
Date	Speaker	Topic
January 24	Prof. Victor Reiner	Algebraic combinatorics: using algebra to help you count,             Slides of the talk
January 31	Nicholas R Kirchner	Overanalysis of a Notational Quirk; When does f^{-1}(x)=1/f(x)?
February 7	Dr. Suzanne M. Shontz	Optimization Techniques for Mesh Warping and the Geometry of Materials
February 14	Prof. Duane Nykamp	Peering into the brain through a math-shaped hole
February 21	Won't meet	---
February 28	Dr. Scott O. Wilson	Some Interesting Algebra Inspired by Topology
March 7	Chang Hyeong Lee	A mathematical analysis of biochemical reaction networks
March 14	Spring Break	Won't meet
March 21	Won't meet	---
March 28	Li Zhong	Intrinsic Proof, Universality and Adjunction ----- Why we need systematic generalization and abstraction
April 4	Prof. Craig Huneke (ordway lecturer)	What is tight closure?
April 11	Prof. Stefan Hildebrandt (ordway lecturer)	From the theorem of Pythagoras to variational principles in physics and geometry
April 18	Prof. Alexander Voronov	Morse Theory
April 25	Juraj Húska	Extension of principal eigenvalues of elliptic operators to nonautonomous parabolic equations via Harnack inequalities
May 2	Vishal Saraswat	The Pairings of Weil and Tate
May 9	Won't meet	--