SJSU Math/Stats Colloquium, Spring 2015-2016 Department of Mathematics and Statistics San José State University

Unless otherwise indicated, on colloquium days (Wednesdays unless otherwise noted):

• Tea will be held at 2:30pm in MacQuarrie Hall 331B.
• Colloquium will be held from 3-4pm in MacQuarrie Hall 320.

Date	Speaker	Title (click links for abstracts)
Thu Jan 28	Job candidate talk, 3:00pm, MH320	Topic: Numerical analysis (Mathematical electrodynamics)
Fri Jan 29	Job candidate talk, 10:30am, MH320	Topic: Applied discrete math (Graph theory)
Mon Feb 01	Job candidate talk, 3:00pm, MH320	Topic: Statistics (Stochastic processes)
Tue Feb 02	Job candidate talk, 3:00pm, MH320	Topic: Applied discrete math (Mathematical algorithms)
Wed Feb 03	Job candidate talk, 3:00pm, MH320	Topic: Numerical analysis (Partial differential equations)
Thu Feb 04	Job candidate talk, 3:00pm, MH320	Topic: Applied discrete math (Combinatorics)
Fri Feb 05	TALK CANCELLED
Mon Feb 08	Job candidate talk	Topic: Applied discrete math (Combinatorics)
Tue Feb 09	Job candidate talk	Topic: Statistics (Machine learning)
Mon Feb 15	Job candidate talk	Topic: Mathematics (Homological algebra)
Wed Feb 17	Job candidate talk	Topic: Statistics (Cluster analysis)
Thu Feb 18	Job candidate talk	Topic: Math education (Teaching calculus)
Wed Feb 24	NO COLLOQUIUM
MON FEB 29	DEPARTMENT MEETING	3-4:15pm, MH320
Wed Mar 02	NO COLLOQUIUM
Wed Mar 09	Carolyn Gordon, Dartmouth Coll.	You can't hear the shape of a drum
Wed Mar 16	Dashiell Fryer, SJSU	Instability in Simple Decision Schemes
Wed Mar 23	NO COLLOQUIUM
Wed Mar 30	NO COLLOQUIUM	SPRING BREAK
Wed Apr 06	DEPARTMENT MEETING	3-4:15pm, MH320
Mon Mar 11	SPECIAL EVENT	Math/Stats Career Day: Business and Industry
Wed Apr 13	Hidefumi Katsuura, SJSU	Cosmic Transition from the Earth to the Sun-Centered Universe
Mon Apr 18	DEPARTMENT MEETING	3-4:15pm, MH320
Wed Apr 20	Nicolette Meshkat, Santa Clara Univ.	Algebraic Approaches to Solving the Structural Identifiability Problem in Systems Biology
Mon Apr 25	SPECIAL EVENT	Math/Stats Career Day: Careers in teaching
Wed Apr 27	Ellen Veomett, St. Mary's Coll. of California	Coloring Geometrically Defined Graphs
Mon May 02	DEPARTMENT MEETING	3-4:15pm, MH320
Wed May 04	Nida Kazi Obatake, SJSU	Rat GPS: Drawing Place Field Diagrams of Neural Codes
Wed May 11	Slobodan Simic, SJSU	Topology and Physics (and SQUIDs)

See here for more about the SJSU Math/Stats Colloquium.

Useful links:

• Directions to SJSU. For transit directions, use the Google maps link there, or contact the colloquium organizer.
• SJSU campus map. Math/Stats Dept is in MacQuarrie Hall (MQH), SW quadrant of campus.
• Interactive SJSU campus map. Click the Parking button to see parking garages; recommended parking garage is 7th St @ San Salvador. Select the building "MacQuarrie Hall" to see Math/Stats Dept.
• Guide to parking at SJSU
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