2013 - 2014 April 23, 2014 Steven Clontz is going to give an introduction to LaTex. He will be using ShareLaTex so please bring your laptop to the seminar. April 2, 2014 Speaker: Seth Kermausuor Title: A generalization of the Lipschitz space Abstract: click here March 26, 2014 Speaker: Dr. Geraldo DeSouza Title: From Riemann Integral to Lebesgue Integral Abstract: In this talk, we discuss the origin and details of Riemann Integral and show a severe weakness in this concept; we motivate the need of a wider concept of integral leading to Lebesgue Integral. The Lebesgue concept will be introduced by modifying that one of Riemann, motivated by its weakness. In fact, in this presentation we will discuss the following: One important property of any Integral concept must deal efficiently with the exchange of limit of sequence with the integral; in the Riemann integral if the sequence of Riemann integrable functions converges uniformly then we can exchange the limit with the integral. However, if the convergence is not uniform this exchange may fail. In analyzing this weakness closely, we are led to a wider concept of integrability. March 19, 2014 Speaker: Dr. Junshan Lin Title: Introduction to Direct and Inverse Problems in Electromagnetic Wave Scattering February 26, 2014 Speaker: Dr. H. P. Goeters Title: TBA February 19, 2014 Speaker: Dr. T.Y. Tam Title: How to Be a Successful Graduate Student February 12, 2014 Speaker: Dr. Krystyna Kuperberg Topic: Simplicial Holomology   February 5, 2014 Speaker: Dr. Olav Kallenberg Title: Brownian motion, diffusions, and SDEs Abstract: Brownian motion may be the most important single object studied in probability theory (= the theory of stochastic processes), taught routinely in basic graduate courses in the area. Dropping the space homogeneity leads to more general diffusion processes, described most conveniently as solutions to stochastic differential equations (SDEs). In this talk, I will give an elementary account of some basic ideas, and comment briefly on the history of the subject.  January 22, 2014 Speaker: Jerzy Szulga Title: Brownian Motion and its companions January 15, 2014 Speaker: Ulrich Albrecht Topic: Mixed Modules December 4, 2013 LAST SEMINAR THIS SEMESTER Speaker: Randall Gay Title: On Numbers...An Introduction to Surreal Number Theory November 13, 2013 Speaker: Dr. Ziqin Feng Title: Hilbert’s 13th Problems: Results, Problems and Approaches November 6, 2013 Speaker: Dr. Narendra Govil Topic: TBA October 16, 2013 Speaker: Dr. Luke Oeding Topic: TBA October 9, 2013 NO formal seminar; meet at the library at 2:50. October 2, 2013 Speaker: Steven Clontz Topic: TBA September 25, 2013 Speaker: Xiaoxia Xie Topic: TBA September 18, 2013 Speaker: Dr. Pete Johnson Topic: TBA September 11, 2013 Speaker: Nar Rawal Topic: TBA September 4, 2013 Speaker: Ulrich Albrecht Topic: TBA August 28, 2013 Title: (Non-academic) Careers in Mathematics: More about having a mathematical mind than knowing mathematics Speaker: Allen Flick Flick is a former Auburn student who graduated in 2009 with an M.S. in Mathematics. Currently, he is a Senior Research Analyst at Metron, Inc. in Reston, VA, who designs and tests software and hardware for unmanned underwater vehicles. In the past he has also carried out performance analysis on different systems, designed software simulations, and designed software tools for testing / evaluating systems and their performance. Title: Work for the Categorical Mathematician Speaker: James Dabbs Dabbs graduated in 2011 with an M.S. in Mathematics from Auburn. Currently, he is a senior engineer at Emcien, a late-stage Atlanta start-up working in Automated Pattern Detection. His job details include reading white papers, trying to implement these ideas using shiny new technologies, and playing a fair amount of bumper pool.