Recent Department Activities - 2010-2011

January

26
Dr. Suzanne Robertson
A talk entitled Modeling the Spread of Waterborne Disease: Incorporating Heterogeneity in Multiple Transmission Pathways.

20
Dr. Jintao Cui
A talk entitled DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS FOR ELLIPTIC PROBLEMS.

18
Mr. Dong Ye
A talk entitled Fullerenes: Resonance, Kekule Count and Stability.

17
Dr. Linda Gilbert from Director, Murfreesbor City Schools
Mathematics and Science Education Seminar Series entitled Gown and Town, Research and Practice: Collaboration and Understanding make the best Partnerships

11
Dr. Hehui Wu from McGill University
Department Mathematics Colloquium entitled Longest Cycles in Graphs with Given Independence Number and Connectivity. A joint work with Dr. Suil O and Dr. Douglas B. West.

December

2
Dr. Sinkala
COMS Seminar entitled Mathematical Modeling of Competition Between the Immune System and Cancer

November

18
Mr. Lu Xiong
COMS Seminar entitled Multiresolution Analysis Method for IMS Data Biomarker selection and Classification

Dr. Michaele Chappell (Mathematical Sciences)
Dr. Chappell recently participated in a Math Education Delegation to Brazil. While there, Chappell and 14 other delegates from around the U.S. made several professional visits to universities and schools in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. She presented a talk on, Films: Cultural Media for Exploring Mathematics to a group of Brazilian faculty and students at Projeto Fundão of the (Federal) University of Rio de Janeiro.

11
Cori Hendon
COMS Seminar entitled Verification of Los Alamos National Lab Production Hydrodynamics Code xRAGE.

9
Professor Henri Shurtz from the Department of Mathematics at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Gave a colloquium talk. Dr. Shurtz is a leading mathematician in the field of Stochastic Differential Equations. The title of the talk is Basic Concepts of Numerical Analysis Explained by Simplest Class of Stochastic Runge-Kutta Methods for SDEs.

3
Dr. John Wallin
COMS Seminar entitled: Galactic Mergers � Observations, Numerical Models, and Dynamical Parameters using Galaxy Zoo

October

PhD student, Volodymyr Borodin
Presented at the Regional AMS Meeting held in Lincoln, Nebraska.

22
Expanding Your Horizons (EYH)
The EYH in Science and Mathematics Conference.
Check the website for more information.

21
Dr. Hyrum Carroll
COMS Seminar entitled: PSI-GLOBAL: Domain-aware Genetic Sequence Alignment

19
Dr. Glenn Webb from Vanderbilt University
Gave a Distiguished Lecture entitled Mathematical Models of Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Epidemics in Hospitals .
View the flyer.

7
Dr. Shawn Garbett from Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
COMS Seminar entitled: Beyond Persistence: New Models of Cell Motility

1 - 10
Dr. Michaele Chappell
Dr. Chappell was invited to accompany the People to People Citizen Ambassador Program's Mathematics Education Delegation to Brazil. Each delegate prepared a brief presentation (approx 20 min.) regarding their research and/or scholarly activity that was conducted at different times during the scheduled site visits and/or meetings.

September

Dr. Yuri Melnikov
New book, Green's Functions and Infinite Products , becamme available in late September.

30
Dr. Greg Fasshauer of the Department of Applied Mathematics from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
COMS seminar entitled Positive Definite Kernels .

28
Mr. Jeffrey Pair, Graduate Teaching Assistant, MTSU Department of Mathematical Sciences
Gave a Discrete Math Seminar entitled The Minimum Randic Index of Bicyclic Graphs with K Pendant Vertices .

22
Dr. Jwa K. Kim, MTSU, Department of Psychology
Spoke in the Math and Science Education Seminar Series with a speech entitled Item Response Theory (IRT): Its Theories & Applications .

August

22-24
Dr. Don Hong
Dr. Hong was invited to give a one-hour talk at the Canada-China-USA Conference on Modern Techniques in Computational Mathematics held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada from August 22-14, 2011.