Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Talks for the week September 15-19, 2008 (previous week)
Student Research Seminar: "The Search for Large Proth Primes"  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Monday, September 15, 2008
Time 10:00 am - 10:50 am CDT
Where Room G-4, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Gordon Stangler, undergraduate mathematics student
Sponsored by Mathematics and Statistics Department
Contact Dr. Matt Insall
Description Proth primes are prime numbers of the form k*2^n+1, where k<n, and the number of digits is approximately n*ln(2), which is a problem for modern computer languages. Come learn about the (computer) science and mathematics behind one of the smallest searches for one of the largest prime numbers to date.
Graduate Student Seminar  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Monday, September 15, 2008
Time 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm CDT
Where Room G-5, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Student Research Seminar: "The Search for Large Proth Primes", continued"  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Time 10:00 am - 10:50 am CDT
Where Room G-5, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Gordon Stangler, mathematics undergraduate student
Sponsored by Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Contact Dr. Matt Insall
Description See Monday.
Time Scales Seminar: "The tracking problem on time scales (Part II)"  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Wednesday, September 17, 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
Topology/Algebra Seminar: "Ends of Topological Spaces (continued)"  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Thursday, September 18, 2008
Time 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDT
Where Room G-4, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Malgorzata Marciniak
Sponsored by Mathematics and Statistics
Contact Robert Roe
Description The ends of a connected topological space are defined as equivalence classes of nhoods of infinity. The presentation will include an intuitive way to approach ends as well as the formal definition.