Faculty 2011 Travel and Talks

January 2011

• Goong Chen
  Invited one-hour plenary talk, "The dimensional scaling method in chemical physics," Int. Conference on Mathematics of Date, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India, Jan. 1, 2011.
  Session Chair, Int. Conference on Mathematics of Date, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India, Jan. 1, 2011.
  Panel member, panel discussion on "Fluid Mechanics," Int. Conference on Mathematics of Date, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India, Jan. 1, 2011.

• David Larson
  Co-organized a Satellite Workshop, AMS National Meeting, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, January 4-5, 2011.
  Co-organized a Special Session, 2011 AMS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA January 6-9, 2011.

• Matthew Papanikolas
  Research seminar talk, "Special values of Goss L-functions in characteristic p," Stanford University, Number Theory and Representation Theory Seminar, Palo Alto, CA, January 2011.

• Eric Rowell
  50 min. invited talk, Ohio State U. Quantum Topology Seminar, January 2011.

February 2011

• Marcelo Aguiar
  Organizer: Erwin-Schrödinger Institute Program, "Bialgebras in Free Probability" (with Franz Lehner, Roland Speicher and Dan Voiculescu), will also present three one-hour lectures, Vienna, February 2011.

• Yalchin Efendiev
  Plenary talk, "Analytical and Numerical Methods for Multiscale Systems," Heidelberg, Germany, February 2011.
  Conference organized, Large-scale Inverse Problems and Uncertainty Quantification (jointly with W. Bangerth, A. Datta-Gupta, and B. Mallick), TAMU, February 2011.

• Sue Geller
  Colloquium talk, "Microarrays: What are they? How do they work? What are they good for? And what do you do with all the data?" Trinity University, San Antonio, TX, February 11, 2010.

March 2011

• David Larson
  On the organizing committee for an Oberwolfach Workshop, March 27-April 3, 2011.

• Riad Masri
  Conference talk, "Modular forms and mock modular forms and their applications in arithmetic, geometry, and physics, International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy, March 2011.

• Paula Tretkoff
  Conference talk and workshop participation, "Unlikely intersections in algebraic groups and Shimura varieties", Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, Pisa, Italy, March 28-April 1, 2011.

• Catherine Huafei Yan
  20 min. Special Session, AMS Spring Southeastern Section meeting, Special Session on Applied Combinatorics, Georgia, March 12-13, 2011.

April 2011

• Don Allen
  Invited Presentation, "Pre-service mathematics teachers' knowledge for teaching algebra in China and the U.S. (paper)," (R. Huang, Y. Li, G. Kulm, and D. Allen), Annual meeting of American Education Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, LA, April 8-12, 2011.

• Catherine Huafei Yan
  Invited one-hour talk, CombinaTexas 2011, Sam Houston State Universtiy, April 15-16, 2011.

May 2011

• Catherine Huafei Yan
  Invited one-hour talk, International Conference on Designs, Matrices, and Enumerative Combinatorics, Institute of Mathematics, Academic Sinica, Taiwan, May 19-22, 2011.

June 2011

• Matthew Papanikolas
  Invited 50 min. talk, International Conference on Galois Representations, Automorphic Forms and Shimura Varieties, National Center for Theoretical Sciences, Hsinchu, Taiwan, June 2011.
  Invited 50 min. talk, Workshop on the Arithmetic of Function Fields, Imperial College, London, June 2011.

September 2011

• Marcelo Aguiar
  Organizer: AMS Special Session on "Species and Hopf Algebraic Combinatorics" (with Sam Hsiao) Ithaca, NY, September 10-11, 2011.