Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Talks for the week September 8-12, 2008 (previous week)
Student Research Seminar Organizational Meeting  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Monday, September 08, 2008
Time 10:00 am  - 10:50 am CDT
Where Room G-4, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Dr. Insall
Sponsored by Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Contact Dr. Matt Insall
Description An informal discussion about plans for this semester's student research seminar.
Graduate Student Seminar  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Monday, September 08, 2008
Time 4:00 pm  - 5:00 pm CDT
Where Room G-5, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Student Research Seminar Thesis Examples  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Time 10:00 am  - 10:50 am CDT
Where Room G-4, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Dr. Matt Insall
Sponsored by Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Contact Dr. Matt Insall
Description The second meeting to discuss the fall 2008 student research seminar will include thesis examples for review.
Time Scales Seminar: "The tracking problem on time scales"  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Time 4:00 pm  - 4:50 pm CDT
Where Room G5, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Nick Wintz
Sponsored by Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Contact Martin Bohner
More http://web.mst.edu/~bohner/seminar/ts.html
Colloquium: "On the global asymptotic stability of planar dissipative maps"   Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Friday, September 12, 2008
Time 4:00 pm  - 5:15 pm CDT
Where Room G5 of the Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Dr. Hristo Voulov from University of Missouri-Kansas City
Description We consider area-contracting maps in the plane, which are often called dissipative maps. If a smooth map has an asymptotically stable equilibrium point P, the area-contracting property seems necessary at least locally around P. Here we find sufficient conditions for global asymptotic stability of planar dissipative maps. Then, we apply this result to a 15 year old open problem about a second-order rational difference equation, posed by G. Ladas.