# Colloquium in 2014

Friday, December 12
Robert Borgersen (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Progress Towards A Mathematics Placement Test At The University Of Manitoba - Part 2
Friday, December 5
Colin Desmarais (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Finite Geometries and Lower Bounds For $ex(n;K^{(3)}(2,2,t))$
Friday, November 28
Darja Kalajdzievska (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Learning About How Students Learn
Friday, November 7
Robert Borgersen (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Progress Towards A Mathematics Placement Test At The University Of Manitoba
Friday, October 31
Eric Harper (Department of Mathematics, McMaster University): Virtual Knots and Their Alexander Invariants
Friday, October 17
T. G. Kucera (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Kepler's Conjecture and The Flyspeck Project
Friday, October 3
Bela Bollobas (Mathematics, Cambridge, UK & Memphis, TN, USA): Phase transitions and local limit theorems
Friday, September 19
Norbert Heuer (Department of Mathematics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile): Discontinuous Approximations Of Hypersingular Integral Equations
Friday, June 6
Lajos Molnar (Mathematics, University of Debrecen, Hungary): An Operation On The Positive Definite Cone of a $C^*$-Algebra and Its Algebraic Properties
Friday, May 16
Colin Ingalls (Mathematics & Statistics, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton): Rationality Of The Brauer-Severi Varieties Of Sklyanin Algebras
Friday, May 2
Ievgen Bilokopytov (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): The Dilation In Different Settings
Friday, April 25
Kaitlin Alexander (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): A Simplified Model Of Ocean Circulation
Friday, March 21
Khodr Shamseddine (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Characterization Of Compact and Self-Adjoint Operators and Study Of Positive Operators On A Banach Space Over A Non-Archimedean Field
Friday, March 14
Michael Doob (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Some Tamales In Your Tikz
Friday, March 7
Adam Clay (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Knot Groups and Orderability
Friday, February 28
Derek Krepski (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Global Quotients Among Symplectic Toric Orbifolds
Friday, February 14
Shaun Lui (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Nonlinear PDEs Explained
Friday, January 31
Michael Doob (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Adding Some Pizzazz To Beamer
Friday, January 24
Varvara Shepelska (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Weak Amenability Of Certain Beurling Algebras
Friday, January 17
Andrii Arman (Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba): Combinatorial Nullstellensatz
Friday, January 10
Karen Gunderson (Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, University of Bristol): Random Markov Processes