2009 - 2010 Academic Year News & Events

The University of New Orleans Department of Mathematics offers seminars and colloquia concerning various areas of mathematics and statistics, as well as undegraduate level talks in the math club.

• Mathematics Department Colloquium: Jiu Ding (University of Southern Mississippi) talks about "Chaos from the Statistical Point of View - the Frobenius-Perron Operator and Its Approximations" on Tuesday, February 9, from 12:30 pm - 1:20 pm in Math building 112. (Coffee and cookies in the math mailroom precede the talk.)

  The ergodic theory of chaotic dynamical systems plays an important role in modern science and technology, such as computational molecular dynamics and wireless communications. In this talk we look at chaos from the statistical point of view and introduce the concept of Frobenius- Perron operators associated with chaotic transformations. The classic Ulam's method and its modern extensions will be presented too.

• Delta-Epsilon Math Club: William Martin (UNO) talks about "Russell, Gödel, and the uncertainty of mathematics" on Thursday, February 4, from 12:30 pm - 1:20 pm in Math building 100.

  This talk will discuss the foundation of mathematics including Russell’s great work Principia Mathematica, the philosophical views of Russell as well as that of the Intuitionists, and the Gödel Incompleteness results. I shall attempt to make intelligible the Gödel Incompleteness Proof which established the any system of mathematics rich enough to include arithmetic is either inconsistent or incomplete. This theorem has far reaching consequences for one attempting a comprehensive understanding of mathematics and its place in the epistemology of ideas. (Free pizza and drinks.)

• Here is the math instructor schedule in the tutor center for Fall 2009.

• Here is a list of recent Freshman math education initiatives by the Mathematics Department in Fall 2009.

• Mathematics Department Colloquium: David Mobley (Dept. of Chemistry, UNO) talks about "Insights from calculation of hydration and binding free energies" on Wednesday, September 9, from 1:00 pm - 1:50 pm in Math building 100. (Coffee and cookies in the math mailroom precede the talk at 12:30 pm.)