Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M-Commerce

Speaker list, Fall 2006
Student/Faculty Colloquia

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Talks are typically scheduled for Thursdays at 2pm in Henderson 302, but some may be on Fridays at 12pm (noon) in Binnion 329; so examine the abstract for specifics. Details of meeting times and speakers will be posted when available for other groups (e.g. Math Club talks, the Mathematics Education seminar, etc.). Talks for Fall 2006 include those listed below. For a map of northeast Texas (showing the relation of Commerce to Dallas), go here. For a campus map, go here. 

Date      Speaker, affiliation		Title/Topic
 


9/15 	  Rick Kreminski, math dept 	How to compute pi to thousands of digits
  	  (A&M-Commerce) 		from Vieta's venerable formula Abstract?
 

9/21      Bunyamin Sari                 Ramsey techniques in Banach spaces
          UNT, math dept                Abstract?
 

9/28      Charles Dorsett, math dept    New characterizations of separation axioms
          (A&M-Commerce)		Abstract?
 

10/5      Dimitrije Kostic              Parking functions and their generalizations
          Texas A&M, math		Abstract?
 

10/12     Hasan Coskun, math dept	An infinite family of Euler's pentagonal
	  (A&M-Commerce)		number theorems associated to root systems
					Abstract?
 

10/19	  Laurene Fausett, math dept	The mathematics of October Madness
	  (A&M-Commerce)		Abstract?
 

10/26	  Yelin Ou, math dept		The Poincaré conjecture - a Millenium 
	  (A&M-Commerce)		Prize problem and a Fields medal of 2006
					Abstract?
 

11/2	  Hristo Kojouharov		Qualitatively stable nonstandard finite 
	  UT-Arlington, math dept	difference methods for dynamical systems
					in ecology Abstract?
 

11/9      Jeff Norris                   The Collatz conjecture
          Paris Junior College, math	Abstract?



Other possible campus speakers for the 2006-2007 academic year:
Nikolay Sirakov, computer science faculty, etc. In addition, we will have other speakers from off-campus in this academic year. Check back from time to time for the finalized fall 2006 schedule and the spring 2007 schedule.

Previous semesters' colloquia:

Fall 2005           |       Fall 2004       |       Fall 2003           |       Spring 2003
Fall 2002           |       Fall 2001       |       Spring 2001       |       Fall 2000       |       Spring 2000       |       Fall 1999
Spring 1999       |       Fall 1998       |       Spring 1998       |       Fall 1997       |       Spring 1997       |       Fall 1996

For more information about this semester's colloquia, contact Hasan Coskun. For more information about the math department, contact Rick Kreminski.