VIGRE Liftoff Seminar, Fall 2000

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Burgess Davis
Random Walks and Heat Conduction

Joseph Lipman
Arithmetic and Geometry: From Pythagoras to Elliptic Curves

Frederi Viens
Applications of Numerical Methods for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

David Drasin
What is Special and Not Special About Two Dimensions?

Clarence Wilkerson
Games and Groups

Rebecca Doerge
Statistical Genetics

Zhilan Feng
Mathematical Models of Infectious Diseases

Jean Rubin
Non-Constructive Principles

Daniel Phillips
Partial Differential Equations Modeling Phase Transitions

Bruce Craig
Estimating Disease Prevalence in the Absence of a Gold Standard

Katy Simonsen
Probability Models for Genetic Factors Underlying a Binary Phenotype

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VIGRE Liftoff Seminar, FALL 2001

Mary Ellen Bock
ntroduction to the Daubechies D4 Wavelet

George McCabe
Some Statistical Problems Related to Vitamin A Deficiency and Anemia in Developing Countries

Richard Penney
What is a Representation of a Group and Why Would Someone Who Studies Differential Equations Care?

Rodrigo Bañuelos
Queen Dido's Property for Eigenvalues and Brownian Motion

Steve Bell
Mistakes Can Be Breakthroughs

Donu Arapura
From Pythagorean Triples to Diophantine Equations

Patricia Bauman
Mathematics and Materials

Larry Brown
The Angle Between Two Subspaces of Hilbert Space

Tom Sellke
A Card Trick Involving Probability

Alex Eremenko
Using Topology to Study Equations

Marius Dadarlat
On the Geometry of Groups

Brooke Shipley
Knot theory and DNA

Jin Ma
Brownian Motion vs. Stochastic Finance: Chicken vs. Egg?

Freydoon Shahidi
Number Theory: Simple Problems with Complicated Solutions