Spring 2018 Department Colloquium

The NAU Department of Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium takes place on Tuesdays at 4:00-5:00 pm in Room 164 of the Adel Mathematics Building. Refreshments are available from 3:45pm in the same room.

Titles and abstracts uploaded as available. Schedule subject to change.

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Title  (click title to see abstract)
January 16	Marco Lopez	University of North Texas	Hausdorff dimension of shrinking-target sets: Fractal geometry and dynamical systems.
January 23	Sudipta Mallik	NAU	The Matrix tree Theorem and beyond
January 30	Michael Falk	NAU	The topology of complex hyperplane arrangements
February 6	Matthew Reyna	Princeton University	From differential equations to computational biology: mathematical models and methods
February 13	Nandor Sieben	NAU	Impartial Avoidance and Achievement Games in Closure Systems
February 20	Steve Wilson	NAU	Walecki tournaments
February 27	Bahattin Yildiz	NAU	A new approach to codes: centralizer, twisted centralizer and general linear transformation codes
March 6	Charles Katerba	University of Montana	Searching for closed surfaces in knot complements
March 13	Noah Aydin	NAU	The legacy of Islamic science and math: Why does it matter in the 21st century?
March 15+	Zachary Parker	University of Vermont	On the maximum cardinality of braid classes
March 20	Spring Break
March 27	no meeting
April 3	Ye Chen	Northern Arizona University	On r-hued colorings of graphs
April 10	Michael Falk	Northern Arizona University	Higher resonance in the braid arrangement
April 17	TBD
April 24	Evelyn Lamb (Honors Day Lecture)	University of Utah	Visualizing hyperbolic geometry
April 26	Emanuele Delucchi+	University of Fribourg

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special Thursday colloquium, 4:00-5:00 in Room 164.

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3:00 - 4:00 pm, Room TBA