The talks will be held in 372 SEB (unless indicated otherwise) on Thursdays from 2:30-3:30 p.m., with refreshments and conversation from 2:00-2:30 p.m.

September 30	B. McCartin	Kettering U.	Mysteries of the Equilateral Triangle
October 7	A.N.K. Yip	Purdue U.	A Model of Crystal Growth with Comer Regularization
October 14	L. Rong	Oakland U.	Model Hepatitis C Virus Drug Resistance
October 28	E. Cheng	Oakland U.	Structural Properties of Some Interconnection Networks
November 4	J.  Albert	BGSU	Looking at Spacings to Assess Streakiness
November 11	D. Kononen	General Motors	Applied Statistics and Traffic Safety
November 18	P. S. Kim	U. of Utah	Modeling Cancer Stem Cell Differentiation: Reducing the Complexity of Agent-based Models
December 2	G. Huynh	Oakland U.	Alternating host cell tropism shapes the persistence, evolution and coexistence of Epstein-Barr virus infection in humans
January 6	M. Fortier	General Motors	Statistics & Computer Aided Engineering for Automotive Applications
January 13	J. Zhu	U. of Michigan	Extracting Communities from Networks
January 27*	D. Black	Comerica Bank	Applied Statistics at the Quantitative Solutions (QS)
February  7	Suil O	U. of Illinois	Longest Cycles in $k$-connected Graphs with Given Independence Number
February 9	S. Dziobiak	LSU	Kuratowski-type characterizations of certain classes of graphs
February 11	D. Steffy	Zuse Institute Berlin	Advances in Exact Precision Mathematical Programming
March 3	P. De Leenheer	U. of Florida	Mathematical models of Marine protected areas
March 11*	D. Gonsalvez	Zaragoza Logistics Center	CANCELED
March 24	S. Wright	Oakland U.	CANCELED
March 31	L. Li	Oakland U.	Singularities of Schubert Varieties
April 7	F. Celiker	WSU	Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic problems
April 14	P. Dowling	Miami U.	Weak Grothendieck Compactness Principles

* Alternative time for both talk and refreshments.

2009-2010 Series
The talks will be held in 372 SEB (unless indicated otherwise) on Thursdays from 3:00-4:00 p.m., with refreshments and conversation from 2:30-3:00 p.m.

October 22	H. Qu	Oakland	Optimal Plate Designs in High Throughput Screening
October 29	B.K. Sinha	Maryland	Statistical Meta-Analysis: An overview and some applications
November 5	D. Drignei	Oakland	Multidimensional Kriging Methods in Statistical Analysis of Computer Experiments
November 12	R. Smith	NSF	Infinite Horizon Optimization
November 19	X. Gao	Oakland	The LAD Adaptive Lasso in a High-Dimensional Sparse Model
January 14	L. Burns		The Essential Role of Mathematics and Statistics in Business Decision-Making
January 21	K. Kuttler	BYU	A Few Topics on Stochastic Processes
January 28	P.Shi	Oakland	Introduction to a Market Timing Software
February 4	T. Shaska	Oakland	Modular polynomials of genus 2
February 18	X. Wang	DME	Proton Exchange PEM Fuel-Cells Modeling and Applications
March 4	G. Yin	Wayne	Hybrid Switching Diffusions with Applications to Stochastic Controls
March 18	S. Peddada	NIH/NIEH	Constrained Inference in Gene Expression Analysis
March 25	L. Allen	Texas Tech	Stochastic Models in Epidemiology and Immunology
March 30	L.Li	Illinois	Hilbert Schemes of Points
April 1	L. Rong	Oakland	Modeling HIV Persistence, the Latent Reservoir, and Viral Blips
April 2	R. Du	Illinois	Numerical Invariants of Singularities and Complex Plateau Problem
April 6	N.H. Nguyen	MSU	Permutation Modules of the Finite Classical Groups
April 8	J. Shin	Minnesota	Well-posedness for the FENE model with Dirichlet type boundary condition
April 15	E. Braverman	Calgary