# Seminars in 2012

Friday, December 7
David Gunderson (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Applications of the probabilistic method
Tuesday, December 4
R. Padmanabhan (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Tarski spectrum for group-like varieties and lattice-like varieties
Friday, November 30
Sasho Kalajdzievski (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Mathematicians, Mystics, Miracles
Friday, November 23
Anthony To-Ming Lau (Department of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta): Fixed Point set of measures and positive definite functions on a locally compact group
Tuesday, November 20
Julian Salamanca Tellez (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Implicitly defined operations in equational theories
Friday, November 16
Jaydeep Chipalkatti (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Cancelled
Tuesday, November 13
Max Bennett (Department of Mathematics, University of Winnipeg): Young tableaux and jeu-de-taquin promotion
Tuesday, November 6
R. Padmanabhan (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Tarski spectrum for group-like varieties
Friday, November 2
Anna Stokke (Mathematics & Statistics, University of Winnipeg): Young tableaux and the cyclic sieving phenomenon
Tuesday, October 30
Davood Malekzadeh (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Derivations and multipliers from certain Banach algebras related to locally compact groups
Tuesday, October 30
R. Quackenbush (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Ideals in commutatitve rings and distributive lattices (Part 2)
Friday, October 26
Julien Arino (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Some mathematical problems arising in models for the spatio-temporal spread of infectious pathogens
Tuesday, October 23
R. Quackenbush (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Ideals in commutatitve rings and distributive lattices
Friday, October 19
Eric Schippers (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): A correspondence between Teichmuller theory and conformal field theory
Tuesday, October 16
Nicolas Bouffard (University of St. Boniface, University of Manitoba): A Common fixed point theorem in reflexive locally uniformly convex Banach space
Tuesday, October 16
Xiangui Zhao (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Groebner bases and Gelfand-Kirillov dimensions of differential difference algebras
Friday, October 12
Nick Harland (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): The Iterated Carmichael Lambda Function
Tuesday, October 9
Safoura Jafar-Zadeh (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): On isometric isomorphism of $LUC(G)^*$
Friday, September 28
John van Rees (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Friendship Graphs and Friendship Hypergraphs
Tuesday, September 25
Yang Zhang (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Computing the Hermite Forms of Quaternion Polynomial Matrices
Friday, September 21
Hanno Lefmann (Computer Science, TU Chemnitz, Germany): Edge Colorings of Graphs Avoiding a Fixed Monochromatic Subgraph
Tuesday, September 18
T. Kucera (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Harold Simmons on Idioms, nuclei, and ranks
Thursday, July 5
Toban Wiebe (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Game Theory and Evolution
Thursday, July 5
Jason Klusowski (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Flows, Branching Numbers and Percolation on Trees
Wednesday, April 25
Karen Rosemarie Johannson (Mathematics, University of Memphis): Bootstrap percolation
Thursday, April 5
Dr. R. Padmanabhan (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): One Equation, Many Avatars
Tuesday, April 3
Yang Zhang (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): The resultants for skew polynomials
Thursday, March 29
Rob Craigen (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Manitoba Math War
Tuesday, March 27
R. Padmanabhan (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Group Law on Pell's Conics
Thursday, March 22
Stephanie Portet (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Modelling intermediate filaments: what problems, what tools?
Wednesday, March 21
Yong Zhang (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): A fixed point property for semigroups and 2m-eak amenability of group algebras
Tuesday, March 20
R. Padmanabhan (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Group Laws Induced by Conics
Thursday, March 15
Tommy Kucera (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): The First Calculus Textbook: The Marquis de l'Hospital and the
Tuesday, March 13
Yang Zhang (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): The square-free problem in skew polynomials
Thursday, March 8
Yang Zhang (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): An Introduction to Computer Algebra Methods
Thursday, March 1
Pappur Shivakumar (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba):  Mathematical Modelling of Some Human Diseases
Tuesday, February 28
R. Quackenbush (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): A proof of the Hahn Embedding Theorem
Tuesday, February 14
R. Padmanabhan (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Congruent Number Problem
Tuesday, February 7
T. Kucera (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Zil'ber's exponential fields (etc) (Part 3)
Tuesday, January 31
T. Kucera (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Tarski's exponential problem, Schanuel's Conjecture, Zil'ber's pseudo-exponential fields...(Part 2)
Tuesday, January 24
T. Kucera (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Tarski's exponential problem, Schanuel's Conjecture, Zil'ber's pseudo-exponential fields...