2013 College of Science Student Awards
Posted: Thursday, April 4
The College of Science has named Katie Slavens as the recipient of the John P. George Award for 2013. The George Award is given to the outstanding graduating senior from the college, chosen from among students nominated from each of the college’s departments. Katie will receive a certificate and a 50 oz. engraved silver bar, to be presented at the college’s graduation reception in the ...
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Dissertation Defense: Jodi Frost
Friday, July 6 2012 at 2:30 PM
Doctoral candidate in Mathematics, Jodi Frost, will defend her dissertation entitled, "Pre-Service Teachers' Conceptions of Literal Symbols" on July 6, in TLC 141 at 2:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
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Mathematics Colloquium: Fernando Guevara Vasquez (University of Utah)
Thursday, May 3 2012 at 3:30 PM
Mathematics Colloquium, featuring Fernando Guevara Vasquez (University of Utah), titled, "Active exterior cloaking for the Helmholtz equation," will occur May 3 at 3:30 p.m. in TLC 032. ABSTRACT: We present a way of using active sources to hide objects from a known incident field. The active sources cancel out the incident field in a region while having a small far field. Since very little waves ...
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Mathematics Colloquium: Yulia Hristova (University of Minnesota)
Thursday, April 26 2012 at 3:30 PM
Mathematics Colloquium, presented by Yulia Hristova (University of Minnesota) tittled "New problems in emission tomography," will occur April 26 at 3:30 p.m. in TLC 032. ABSTRACT: Computerized tomography (CT) is the name of a class of non-invasive imaging techniques in which the interior structure of an object is computed from external measurements. In order to recover an image of the interior on...
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Mathematics Colloquium: Jodi Mead (Boise State University)
Thursday, April 19 2012 at 3:30 PM
Mathematics Colloquium, with Jodi Mead (Boise State University), titled "Inverse Problems and Uncertainty Quantification," will occur April 19 at 3:30 p.m. in TLC 032. ABSTRACT: Combining physical or mathematical models with observational data often results in an ill-posed inverse problem. Regularization is typically used to solve ill-posed problems, and it can be viewed as adding statistical or...
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Mathematics Colloquium: Bahman Shafii (University of Idaho)
Thursday, April 12 2012 at 3:30 PM
Mathematics Colloquium, with Bahman Shafii (University of Idaho), titled "Using Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Analysis to Develop Non-parametric Probability Distributions for the Mean and Variance," will occur April 12 at 3:30 p.m. in TLC 032. ABSTRACT: Estimation of moments such as the mean and variance of populations is generally carried out through sample estimates. Given normality of the paren...
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Mathematics Colloquium: Paul Hohenlohe
Thursday, April 5 2012 at 3:30 PM
Mathematics Colloquium, presented by Paul Hohenlohe, University of Idaho, titled "The Dimensionality of Evolution" will occur April 5 at 3:30 p.m.in TLC 032. ABSTRACT: The dynamic behavior of evolving biological systems involves a vast number of factors, including environmental variables, complex interactions among species and numerous organismal traits such as morphology, physiology and behavior...
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Mathematics Colloquium: Enrico Au-Yeung (University of British Columbia)
Thursday, March 29 2012 at 3:30 PM
Mathematics Colloquium, presented by Enrico Au-Yeung, University of British Columbia, titled, "Quasicrystals and Impossible Symmetry: three streams  of mathematics converging," will occur March 29 at 3:30 p.m. in TLC 032. ABSTRACT: The recent Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Dan Shechtman for his discovery of Quasicrystals in 1982. But long before 1982, mathematicians were playing a...
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Computer Science Colloquium
Tuesday, March 6 2012 at 3:30 PM
Computer Science Colloquium: "How Can Problem Structure Analysis from Evolutionary Computation be Applied to Biological Problems?" will occur March 6 at 3:30 p.m. in EP 122. In Biology, understanding the interaction of genes with other genes and their environment is critical to understanding how organisms function and evolve. In Computer Science, understanding the "structure" of a problem repres...
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Mathematics Colloquium: Hong Wang
Thursday, March 1 2012 at 3:30 PM
Mathematics Colloquium: Hong Wang (University of Idaho) titled "Turán Number, Ramsey Number and The Regularity Lemma" will occur March 1 at 3:30 p.m. in TLC 032. ABSTRACT: One of the powerful tools in combinatorics is the regularity lemma of Szemerédi. This talk is to introduce this powerful regularity lemma and its related blow-up methods. We will begin with some basic definitions and then intr...
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