Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Talks for the week September 29 - October 3, 2008 (previous week)
Student Research Seminar: ``The No-Clone Theorem of Quantum Mechanics''  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Monday, September 29, 2008
Time 10:00 am  - 10:50 am CDT
Where G4 of the Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Gordon Stangler
Sponsored by Mathematics and Statistics Department
Contact Dr. Matt Insall
Description A proof of the No-Clone Theorem from quantum mechanics will be presented and what it means for quantum entanglement, and black hole physics.
Graduate Student Seminar  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Monday, September 29, 2008
Time 4:00 pm  - 5:00 pm CDT
Where Room G-5, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Student Research Seminar: ``Sierpinski's Proof of Proth's Theorem''  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Time 10:00 am  - 10:50 am CDT
Where Rolla G4
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Gordon Stangler
Sponsored by Mathematics and Statistics Department
Contact Dr. Matt Insall
Description Sierpinski's original proof of Proth's Theorem will be examined and presented.
Time Scales Seminar: "Harvesting with variable effort on time scales"  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Time 4:00 pm  - 4:50 pm CDT
Where Room G5, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Howard Warth
Sponsored by Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Contact Martin Bohner
More http://web.mst.edu/~bohner/seminar/ts.html
Topology/Algebra Seminar: "Intro to Homotopy (Continued)"  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Thursday, October 02, 2008
Time 2:00 pm  - 3:00 pm CDT
Where Room G-4 Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Christopher Jacobsen
Sponsored by Mathematics and Statistics
Contact Robert Roe
Description Seminar discusses homotopies and how they can be used to determine when some topological spaces are non-homeomorphic.
Analysis Seminar  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Friday, October 03, 2008
Time 3:00 pm  - 4:00 pm CDT
Where G5, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Malgorzata Marciniak
Contact Roman Dwilewicz
Description "Hartogs Phenomena in Toric Varieties"
Colloquium: "Dimension reduction paradigms for regression"  Click to add this event to your calendar
Date Friday, October 03, 2008
Time 4:00 pm  - 5:15 pm CDT
Where Room G5, Rolla Building
Event Type Lectures & Seminars
Presenter Dr. Dennis Cook, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Sponsored by Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Contact Colloquium Chair: Martin Bohner / Faculty Host: Meggie Wen
Description Dimension reduction for regression, represented primarily by principal components, is ubiquitous in the applied sciences. This is an old idea that has moved to a position of prominence in recent years because technological advances now allow scientists to routinely formulate regressions in which the number p of predictors is considerably larger than in the past. Although "large" p regressions are perhaps mainly responsible for renewed interest, dimension reduction methodology can be useful regardless of the size of p. Starting with a little history and a definition of "sufficient reductions", we will consider a variety of models for dimension reduction in regression. The models start from one in which maximum likelihood estimation produces principal components, step along a few incremental expansions, and end with forms that have the potential to improve on some standard methodology. This development provides remedies for two concerns that have dogged principal components in regression: principal components are typically computed from the predictors alone and then do not make apparent use of the response, and they are not equivariant under full rank linear transformation of the predictors.
More http://web.mst.edu/~bohner/seminar/Fall2008/Colloquia.html