Updated December 21, 2009
Colloquium talks are usually given in Room 401 of the Katharine Reed Cudahy building. 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 Fall 2009. 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 Lifes 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.
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