Marcelo Aguiar
Algebra and combinatorics seminar, "Bimonoids in species," Texas A&M
University, January 18, 2008.
Michael Anshelevich
Invited talk, Free Probability, Extensions, and Applications, Banff
International Research Station, Canada, January 2008.
G. Donald Allen
Invited Presentation, Placement Examinations at Texas A&M University,
presented at the JEM, Joining Educational Mathematics, an EU-funded thematic
network for Mathematics Education, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística (FME) Carrer Pau Gargallo, 5,
Barcelona, Spain, January 31 - February 2, 2008.
Panelist, On e-content, at the JEM, Joining Educational Mathematics, an EU-funded thematic network for Mathematics Education, January 31 - February 2, 2008.
Harold Boas
Working geometry seminar, "Negative curvature and the
Hormander-Bombieri-Skoda technique," TAMU, January 22, 2008.
Working geometry seminar, "Negative curvature and the Hormander-Bombieri-Skoda technique II," TAMU, January 29, 2008.
Andrea Bonito
Conference participation, Adaptive Numerical Methods for PDE's, Wolfgang Pauli
Institute in Vienna, Austria, January 21-25, 2008.
Ken Dykema
Linear analysis seminar, "Horn's inequalities and Connes' embedding problem,"
TAMU, January 25, 2008.
Christopher Hillar
Algebra and combinatorics seminar, "A finiteness question of Sturmfels," TAMU,
January 25, 2008.
Maurice Rojas
Number theory seminar, "A number-theoretic approach to the P vs. NP problem: I,"
TAMU, January 23, 2008.
Number theory seminar, "A number-theoretic approach to the P vs. NP problem: II," TAMU, January 30, 2008.
Frank Sottile
Co-organizer (with I. Itenberg, V. Kharlamov, and B. Shapiro) of a semester on
Real and Tropical Geometry at the Centre Interfacultaire Bernoulli, EPFL,
Lausanne, Switzerland, January-June 2008.
Algebraic geometry seminar, "Galois groups of Schubert problems via homotopy computation," TAMU, January 14, 2008.
Algebraic geometry seminar, "Betti number bounds for fewnomial hypersurfaces via stratified Morse theory," TAMU, January 28, 2008.
Peter Stiller
Invited participant, ATR Center Kick-Off Meeting, Wright State University and
the Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton, OH, January 7, 2008.
Emil Straube
SCV seminar, "Plurisubharmonic defining functions (after Fornaess and Herbig)
II," TAMU, January 31, 2008.
Zoran Sunik
Groups and dynamics seminar, "Embeddings into simple groups," TAMU, January 30,
2008.
Michael Anshelevich
Free probability seminar, "Limits laws for geometric means of free positive
random variables," TAMU, February 27, 2008.
G. Donald Allen
Invited presentation, "Triadic measurements of pre-service teachers," presented
at the Southwest Educational Research Association annual meeting, February
6-8, 2008.
Keynote address, "e-learning in the 21st Century," presented to the South Texas Mathematics Consortium (STMC), Texas A&M Kingsville, February 9, 2008.
Wolfgang Bangerth
Invited talk, CT 2008 - Tomography Confluence, An International Conference on
the Applications of Computerized Tomography; Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur, India, February 15-17, 2008.
Ioan Bejenaru
PDE, MP and HA seminar, "Global well-posedness for the Maxwell-Schroedinger
system in the energy space," TAMU, February 1, 2008.
Gregory Berkolaiko
Workshop, Quantum Chaos: Routes to RMT and Beyond, Banff International Research
Station, Alberta, Canada, February 24-29, 2008.
Ronald DeVore
Colloquium, "Analog to digital conversion: A mathematician's view," TAMU,
February 5, 2008.
Rostislav Grigorchuk
Conference organizer, On Branch Groups, Lausanne, Switzerland, February 2008.
William Johnson
Linear analysis seminar, "Multiplication operators on B(Lp) and
lp strictly singular operators on Lp," TAMU, February 15,
2008.
David Kerr
Linear analysis seminar, "Dynamics, perforation, and classification of nuclear
C*-algebras," TAMU, February 29, 2008.
Joseph Landsberg
Working geometry seminar, "Jet bundles and differential equations," TAMU,
February 5, 2008.
Working geometry seminar, "Jet bundles and differential equations II," TAMU, February 12, 2008.
Working geometry seminar, "Jet bundles and differential equations III," TAMU, February 19, 2008.
Working geometry seminar, "Hyperbolicity and curvature, cont'd," TAMU, February 26, 2008.
Volodymyr Nekrashevych
Co-organizer of the Groups Generated by Automata Conference in Ascona,
Switzerland, February 9-15, 2008.
Groups and dynamics seminar, "The Julia set of a rational endomorphism of CP2," TAMU, February 6, 2008.
Colleen Robles
Algebraic geometry seminar, "Rigidity of projective homogeneous varieties,"
TAMU, February 11, 2008.
Eric Rowell
Algebra and combinatorics seminar, "Unitarizability of pre-modular categories,"
TAMU, February 1, 2008.
PDE, MP and HA seminar, "An algebraic model for topological quantum computation ," TAMU, February 8, 2008.
Emil Straube
SCV seminar, "Plurisubharmonic defining functions (after Fornaess and Herbig)
III," TAMU, February 7, 2008.
Zachariah Teitler
SCV seminar, "Introduction to multiplier ideals: from analysis to algebraic
geometry," TAMU, February 14, 2008.
SCV seminar, "Introduction to multiplier ideals: from analysis to algebraic geometry II," TAMU, February 21, 2008.
Paula Tretkoff
Distinguished Women in Mathematics Colloquium, UT Austin, February 4, 2008.
G. Donald Allen
Invited presentation, "Technology in the schools - a survey," ICTCM annual
meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 6-8, 2008. Organizer of special session of
technology in the schools.
Invited presentation (special session), "Misconceptions in mathematics understanding," AMS Regional Meeting, Baton Rouge, LA, March 28-30, 2008.
Wolfgang Bangerth
Invited talk, SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing;
Atlanta, GA, March 12-14, 2008.
Gregory Berkolaiko
Algebra and combinatorics seminar, "The number of inequivalent minimal
factorizations of an n-cycle," TAMU, March 28, 2008.
Andrew Comech
PDE-MP-HA seminar, "Global attraction to solitary waves for models based on
Klein-Gordon equation," TAMU, March 28, 2008.
Ahmad El-Guindy
Conference organizer and gave 30 min. talk, "Rankin-Cohen brackets for
classical and Drinfeld modular forms,"
22nd Annual Workshop on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics, TAMU,
March 8-11, 2008.
Rostislav Grigorchuk
Conference organizer, Workshop on Group Theory and Dynamical Systems,
Diableret's, Switzerland, March 2008.
Joseph Landsberg
Working geometry seminar, "Hyperbolicity wrap up and Demailly's advice," TAMU,
March 4, 2008.
Aaron Lauve
Algebraic geometry seminar, "The geometry of the relations among principal
minors of symmetric matrices," TAMU, March 24, 2008.
Volodymyr Nekrashevych
Groups and dynamics seminar, "Combinatorial models of expanding self-coverings,"
TAMU, March 26, 2008.
Matthew Papanikolas
Co-organizer (with F. Rodriguez-Villegas, D. Savitt, W. Stein, and D. Thakur),
Arizona Winter School on "Special functions and transcendence," University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ, March 2008.
Zachariah Teitler
Algebraic geometry seminar, "Multiplier ideals of hyperplane arrangements,"
TAMU, March 3, 2008.
SCV seminar, "Properties and applications of multiplier ideals, II," TAMU, March 6, 2008.
Paula Tretkoff
Plenary talk, Southern California Number Theory Day, Caltech, March 8, 2008.
Arizona Winter School: Course of four lectures and project supervisor, March 15, 2008.
Talk, University of Texas at Austin, TX, March 29, 2007.
Margaret Upton
30 min. talk, "Galois representations attached to Picard curves,"
22nd Annual Workshop on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics, TAMU,
March 9, 2008.
Matthew Young
30 min. talk, "Mean values with cubic characters,"
22nd Annual Workshop on Automorphic Forms and Related Topics, TAMU, March 8, 2008.
Marcelo Aguiar
Plenary address, CombinaTexas, University of Texas at El Paso, April 19-20,
2008.
Gregory Berkolaiko
PDE-MP-HA seminar, "Relationship between scattering matrix and spectrum of
quantum graphs," TAMU, April 4, 2008.
Al Boggess
SCV seminar, "A global CR Approximation Theorem for hypersurface graphs in
Several Complex Variables," TAMU, April 24, 2008.
Tamas Erdelyi
Colloquium, Rice University, Houston, Texas, April 9, 2008.
Joseph Landsberg
Working geometry seminar, "The Bott-Borel-Weil theorem, I," TAMU, April 8,
2008.
Working geometry seminar, "The Bott-Borel-Weil theorem, III," TAMU, April 22, 2008.
David Larson
Invited by the orgainzer to serve on the Scientific Committee of the conference
"International Conference on Operator Algebras and Applications in Morocco",
to take place in Marrakech, Morocco, April 14-18, 2008, (organized by Rachid
El Harti). I've also been invited to be a plenary speaker in this conference.
Linear analysis seminar, "Fixed diagonal idempotents, dual pairs of frames, and operator theory," TAMU, April 4, 2008.
Colleen Robles
Working geometry seminar, "The Bott-Borel-Weil theorem, II," TAMU, April 15,
2008.
Working geometry seminar, "The Bott-Borel-Weil theorem, IV," TAMU, April 29, 2008.
Eric Rowell
Algebra and combinatorics seminar, "Wild conjectures in topological quantum
computation ," TAMU, April 25, 2008.
Frank Sottile
Co-organizer (with B. Shapiro), Workshop on Bounds and Enumeration in Real
Algebraic Geometry, April 21-25, 2008.
Zoran Sunik
Public lecture, "Mathematics and voting," TAMU, April 28, 2008.
Mariya Vorobets
Groups and dynamics seminar, "Polygonal billiards and Dynkin diagrams," TAMU,
April 23, 2008.
Clarence Wilkerson
Algebraic geometry seminar, "Equivariant cohomology, localization, and fixed
points," TAMU, April 28, 2008.
Marcelo Aguiar
Invited to spend one month at Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France,
working in collaboration with Frédéric Patras, May 2008.
Michael Anshelevich
Invited talk, AMS Special Session on C*-algebras, Subfactors and Free
Probability, Claremont McKenna College, May 2008.
Gregory Berkolaiko
PDE-MP-HA seminar, "Geometric and topological properties of the set of wavelet
frames," TAMU, May 2, 2008.
Andrea Bonito
Conference participation, Joint Research Symposium on Fluid Dynamics,
University of Maryland, May 2, 2008.
Tamas Erdelyi
Talk, P. Borwein Birthday Conference, Vancouver, Canada, May 12, 2008.
Raytcho Lazarov
20 min. talk, "Hybridization of discontinuous Galerkin finite element
approximations," A Conference Honoring James H. Bramble: 50 Years of Scientific Research,
TAMU, May 2-3, 2008.
Joseph Pasciak
20 min. talk, "The computation of elastic waves via the perfectly matched
layer," A Conference Honoring James H. Bramble: 50 Years of Scientific Research,
TAMU, May 2-3, 2008.
Bojan Popov
Organizing (with Jean-Luc Guermond and Ronald DeVore), Nonlinear approximation
techniques using L1, Texas A&M, May 16-18, 2008.
Steven Taliaferro
45 minute invited talk, Seventh AIMS International Conference on Dynamical
Systems and Differential Equations , University of Texas at Arlington, May 2008.
Panayot Vassilevski
20 min. talk, "Finite volume/DG schemes based on constrained minimization
function recovery," A Conference Honoring James H. Bramble: 50 Years of
Scientific Research, TAMU, May 2-3, 2008.
Marcelo Aguiar
Plenary address, 20th FPSAC, Valparaíso, Chile, June 23-27, 2008.
Michael Anshelevich
Invited talk, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, Workshop on Special
Functions and Orthogonal Polynomials, City University of Hong Kong, China, June
2008.
NSF Panelist for Cyberenabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) Type II proposals, Arlington, VA, June 5-6, 2008.
Yalchin Efendiev
Invited speaker, "Modeling, analysis and computation,"
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 1-5, 2008.
Rostislav Grigorchuk
Conference organizer, AMS Special Session on Group Theory, First Joint
International AMS Meeting with the Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, June 2008.
Conference organizer, Differential Equations and Topology, international conference dedicated to the 100th Anniversary of L. Pontryagin, Moscow, Russia, June 2008.
Volodymyr Nekrashevych
Co-organizer of a special session "Group Theory" at AMS-SBM Joint International
Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 4-7, 2008.
Matthew Papanikolas
Invited 50 min. talk, Rencontres Arithmetiques de Caen,
University of Caen,
Caen, France, June 2008.
Goong Chen
Invited Professor, Taida Institute of Mathematical
Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-August 22, 2008.
Guido Kanschat
Organization of the International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and
Optimization of Complex Processes, Heidelberg, Germany, July 21-25, 2008.
David Kerr
REU/MCTP Seminar, Is there a limit to what we can classify?, TAMU, July 16, 2008.
Peter Kuchment
REU/MCTP Seminar, Seeing invisible: mathematics of computed tomography, TAMU,
July 9, 2008.
Michael Anshelevich
Invited talk, Workshop on Non-commutative Harmonic Analysis with Applications
to Probability, Banach Center, Bedlewo, Poland, August 2008.
Grigoris Paouris
Talk, Informal Regional Functional Analysis Seminar, Texas A&M University,
College Station, Texas, U.S.A., August 2008.
Wolfgang Bangerth
Workshop organizer/invited presentation, Mathematical and Computational
Issues in the Solid Earth Geosciences, Santa Fe, NM, September 15-17, 2008.
Rostislav Grigorchuk
Conference organizer, Self-Similarity and Branching in Group Theory, Banff,
Canada, October 2008.
William Johnson
Invited hour talk, Kent State Informal Analysis Seminar, October 2008.