Colloquia By Anne Gelb

The fall semester ASU math colloquium schedule consisted of seven speakers, five addressing general mathematical interests and two specifically focusing on technology in the classroom.  Details on all of the seminars and colloquia can be found on the new website, http://math.la.asu.edu/~lohr/deptact.html.  Those interested can also find more information about the speakers on their websites listed below.
1.  Bruce Berndt, University of Illinois, “The Problems Submitted by Ramanujan to the Journal of the Indian Mathematical Society.”
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~berndt

2.  Beverly West, Cornell University, “Interactive Differential Equations.”
http://math.cornell.edu

3.   Marek Kimmel, Statistics Department, Rice University, “Mathematical Models in Population Genetics, Lyapunov Differential Equation and Migrations of Early Modern Humans.”  http://www.stat.rice.edu/stat/FACULTY/M.KIMMEL.html

4.  Jerry Uhl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Interactive Differential Equations.”  http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~juhl

5.   Michael K. McBeath, Department of Psychology, ASU, “Navigational Principles used by Baseball Players.”
   http://www.asu.edu/clas/psych

6.   Edgar Knobloch, University of California at Berkeley,“Bursts.”
http://www.physics.berkeley.edu

7.  David Pask, University of Newcastle, Australia, “C*-Algebraic Models of Directed Graphs.”
http://frey.newcastle.edu.au/~davidp/davidp.html