Colloquium Schedule

Updated March 2, 2010

Colloquium talks are usually given in Room 401 of the Katharine Reed Cudahy building on the Marquette University campus. Unless otherwise stated, talks begin at 4:00 PM on Fridays, with pre-colloquium refreshments in Room 342 at 3:30 PM. Please address inquiries/suggestions to Dr. Paul Bankston.

Here is our list of colloquium dates and speakers for the academic year 2009-10. Please note that the speaker schedule is still under construction.

  • September 11 – Michael Slattery, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University: Classification of Finite p-Groups.

  • October 9 – Gary Thuerk: IT and Disruptive Technology. ( Note different location & time: Cudahy Hall 001, 1:00 pm).

  • October 23 – Agit Tamhane, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois: Testing a Primary and a Secondary Endpoint in a Group Sequential Design.

  • October 27 – (Tuesday) Robert M. Hazen, Carnegie Institute, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, D.C.: Mineral Evolution of Terrestrial Planets (Note different time: 2:30 pm) and Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origins (Note different time and location: Olin Engineering 202, 6:00 pm)

  • November 6 – J. Douglas Harris, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University: Top-Bottom Spaces.

  • November 13 – Joseph Bockhorst, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Wind Speed Forecasting for Wind Energy: A Dynamic Conditional Linear Gaussian Model Approach.

  • November 20 – Irina Seceleanu, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio: Zero-one Laws in Hypercylicity.

  • December 4 – Melody Ghahramani, University of Winnipeg: On the Combined Estimating Functions Method with Applications in Finance.

  • December 11 – Fei Liu, Statistics Department, University of Missouri: Bayesian Analysis of Functional Data in Computer Experiments.

  • January 29 – Xizhou Feng, Information Technology Services & Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University: Computational Approaches for Co-Evolving Technical Systems Modeling and Simulation.

  • February 12 – Paul Bankston, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University: Characterizing Topological Properties Using Continuous Functions.

  • February 26 – Yeuhua Cui, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University: Gene-based Genome-wide Association Studies with Entropy.

  • March 12 – Godmar Back, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Optimizing Sparse Matrix Operations.

  • March 26 – Suresh Choubey, Manager of the Informatics Group, Applied Science Lab, GE Healthcare, Milwaukee: Research Trends in Healthcare Informatics.

  • April 09 – Joseph S. Miller, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison: (title TBA).

  • April 16 – Hans Volkmer, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: (title TBA).

  • April 23 – Sarah Merz, Department of Mathematics, University of the Pacific: (title TBA).

  • April 30 – Rebecca Sanders, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, Marquette University: (title TBA).

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