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 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.
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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