Mathematics and Statistics Department

The following is a list of Lecture Series lectures scheduled for the Fall 2006 semester. Times, locations, and abstracts can be viewed by following the links.

August 25, 2006

• Prof. Heinz W. Engl
• J. Kepler University, Austrian Academy of Science, Linz, Austria
• "Regularization of Nonlinear Inverse Problems: Convergence Analysis, New Challenges"

September 8, 2006

• Prof. Shingyu Leung
• University of California, Irvine
• "A New Model for Variational PDE-Based Image Processing"

September 22, 2006

• Prof. Yu Yuan
• University of Washington, Seattle
• "Special Lagrangian Equations"

September 29, 2006

• Dr. John Robertson
• Wichita State University
• "Cohomology of Subsheaves (for Dynamical Systems)"

October 6, 2006

• Dr. Gregory Chaitin
• IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York
• "How serious is Godel's incompleteness theorem?"

October 13, 2006

• Dr. Christian Wolf
• Wichita State University
• "Entropy, Pressure and Periodic Orbits"

October 20, 2006

• Dr. Hari Mukerjee
• Wichita State University
• "Testing Equality of k Distribution Functions Against Ordered Alternatives"

October 27, 2006

• Dr. Kirk Lancaster
• Wichita State University
• "Blow ups of prescribed mean curvature surfaces at boundary points: convex corners"

CANCELLED--November 3, 2006

• Dr. Kirk Lancaster
• Wichita State University
• "A proof of the Concus-Finn Conjecture"

November 17, 2006

• Dr. Robert Burridge
• Earth Resources Lab., MIT
• "Some early earthquake source models"

December 1, 2006

• Prof. Darren Crowdy
• Imperial College London & MIT
• "Vortex motion in complex domains: new theoretical perspectives"