Lehigh Math Colloquium Schedule, Fall 1999 - Spring 1999


      For Further information, contact the department secretaries.

     Professor Vadimir Dobric
          Lehigh University
          September 8, 1999 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          Dilation Equations and Multidimensional Wavelet Design.
     Professor Lisa Tranor
          Bryn Mawr College
          September 15, 1999 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          Lengendrian Knot Theory
     Professor Mary Pugh
          The University of Pennsylvania
          September 22, 1999 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          Long-Wave unstable equations modeling thin films of vicous liquid: finte-time blow-up and properties of steady
          states.
     Professor Ethan Berkove
          Lafayette College
          September 29, 1999 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          Calculating Lower Algebraic K-Groups
     Professor Gilbert Stengle
          Lehigh University
          October 3, 1999 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          Alternative Conditions for Nonnegativity
     Professor Victor De la Pena
          Columbia University
          October 13, 1999 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          Decoupling Inequalities with Application
     Professor Yongzhao Shao
          Columbia University
          October 20, 1999 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          Statistical interference about finite mixture models
     Professor Eric Varley
          Lehigh University
          October 27, 1999 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          A Simple Derivation of the N-Soliton Solutions to the Kortweg-Devries Equations.
     Professor Fazil Erdogan
          Lehigh University
          November 3, 1999 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          Mixed B.V. Problems In Nonhomogeneous Elastic Solids
     The REv. W. Nicholas Knisely
          Rector, First Episcopal Church Bethlehem
          November 10, 1999 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          Can the Marriage of the King and Queen of Science be saved?
     Professor Charles Epstein
          University of Pennsylvania
          November 17, 1999 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          Filling pseudoconcave holes
     Dr. Murat Ozturk
          Lehigh University
          December 8, 1999 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          The Influence of Material Inhomogeneity on Isochromatics in a Graded Cracked Medium.
     Professor Susan Szczepanski
          Lehigh University
          February 2, 2000 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          New Knot Theory: An introduction and an invitation
     Professor Bennett Eisenberg
          Lehigh University
          February 9, 2000 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          Crofton's Differential Equation
     Professor Darinka Dentcheva
          Lehigh University
          February 16, 2000 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          Concavity and Efficien Points of Diccrete Distribution in Probabilistic Programing.
     Professor Iaonnis Karatzas
          Columbia University
          March 1, 2000 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          How To Reach A Goal In Finite Time: Neyman-Pearson Lemma, And A Parabolic Monge-Ampere-Type
          Equation.
     Professor Dragan Radulovic
          Princeton University
          March 8, 2000 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Weak Covergence of Smoothed Empirial Processes.
     Professor Vadimir Dobric
          Lehigh University
          April 5, 2000 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          Wavlet Design and Number Theory
     Professor Wieslaw Marszalek
          DeVry Institute
          April 12, 2000 Packard Laboratory 324- Coffee at 3:30.
          On Singular Equilibria of index-1 Algebraic Differential Equations.
     Professor Derek Smith
          Lafeyette College
          May 3, 2000 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          The Geometry and Arithmetic of the Composition Algebras.
     Mr. Fred Chapman
          University of Waterloo
          August 31, 2000 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          An Adaptive Algorithm for Uniform Approximation by Tensor Products.
     Professor Elaine Chew
          Lehigh University
          September 7, 2000 in Christmas-Saucon Hall room 201 at 4:10 PM.
          A Computational Geometric Model Of Tonality