Recent Presentations

In June 2007, Professor Alfred Noëlgave a talk entitled "The Atlas of Lie groups and representations: Character Table, Cohomology and representation theory for finite groups of Lie type," at the American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, CA.
In June 2007, Professor Alfred Noëlgave a talk entitled "The Atlas of Lie groups and representations: Scope and Successes," at the 13th Conference for African American Researchers in Mathematical Sciences, Northeastern University and University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
In March 2007, Professor Alfred Noëlgave two talks entitled "Software for Computing Standard Representations, Part I and Part II" at the Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations Winter Meeting, MIT Cambridge MA, March 19 - March 23.
In January 2007, Professor Alfred Noëlgave a talk entitled "Structure and Representations of Real Reductive Lie Groups: A Computational Approach" in the Interactive Parallel Computation in Support of Research in Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory Conference at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, CA
In November 2006, Professor Alfred Noëlgave a talk entitled "Bala-Carter Classification and Vinberg Prehomogeneous Spaces" at the University of Maryland at College Park
In November 2006, Professor Alfred Noëlgave a talk entitled "Classification of a large class of prehomogeneous spaces and description of their relative invariants" in the Department of Mathematics Colloquium at Morgan State University, MD.
In October 2006, Professor Catalin Zaragave a talk entitled "Strong Equivalence of Three Definitions of the Bruhat Order and Consequences for the Equivariant Cohomology of Flag Manifolds," in the Special Session on Combinatorial Methods in Equivariant Topology at the AMS 2006 Fall Eastern Section Meeting Storrs, CT.
In August 2006 Professor Alfred Noël is scheduled to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain. His talk is entitled "Prehomogeneous spaces associated to graded Lie algebras their relative invariants."
In June 2006, Professor Catalin Zara participated in the International Conference on Toric Topology organized at the Osaka City University (Japan), where he gave a talk entitled "Hamiltonian GKM spaces and their moment graphs."
In May 2006, Professor Steven Jackson participated in the Fourth International Workshop on Computer Algebra Systems and Applications organized at the University of Reading (UK), where he gave a talk entitled "Polarizable theta-stable parabolic subalgebras and $\Kc$-saturation in the non-compact real forms of $G_2$ and $F_4$."
In April 2006 Professor Steven Jackson attended the AMS Special Session on Algebraic Groups at the University of New Hampshire and gave a talk entitled "Prehomogeneous spaces associated with real nilpotent orbits and their relative invariants."
In January 2006 Professor Alfred Noël gave a talk entitled "Une application élémentaire d'un théorème de Tauvel," GEGAL Université de Poitiers, France.
In January 2006 Professor Karen Ricciardi attended the joint MAA/AMS meeting and presented her research on Optimal Collocation at the Young Mathematicians Network poster session.
In January 2006 Professor Alfred Noël gave a talk entitled "Espaces préhomogènes associés aux orbites nilpotentes des groupes de Lie réductifs," in the Séminaire Théorie de Lie et Applications at Université de Poitiers, France.
In January 2006 Professor Maura Mast gave a talk entitled "The Quantitative Reasoning Requirement at the University of Massachusetts Boston" in the Contributed Paper Session, "Achieving Quantitative Literacy," at the AMS-MAA Joint Math Meetings in San Antonio, TX.
In October 2005 Professors John Lutts and Mark Pawlak gave a presentation at Connecticut College in New London on how UMB assesses student achievement and faculty success in teaching our QR 114 course. It was part of an all day conference for the NEEAN/NEASC Fall Forum 2005 Assessment Conference.
In August 2005 Professor Karen Ricciardi attended the IASTED International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization where she presented the paper "The Impact of Regional Geologic Variation on Robust Groundwater Remediation Design."

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