Amy Lind is Mary Ellen Heintz Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati. She has a Ph.D. from Cornell University in city and regional planning. Her areas of scholarship include critical development studies, international political economy, transnational feminisms, global sexual rights, social movements, and studies of neoliberal governance. She is the author of Gendered Paradoxes: Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador (Penn State Press, 2005), editor of Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance (Routledge, 2010) and co-editor of Feminist (Im)mobilities in Fortress North America: Rights, Citizenships and Identities in Transnational Perspective (Ashgate Publishing, 2013). Currently she is working on a co-authored book, Decolonial Justice: Resignifying Nation, Economy and Family in Ecuador. Her work has appeared in journals such as World Development, Politics & Gender, Rethinking Marxism, and the International Feminist Journal of Politics, as well as in several edited volumes.



Co-sponsors: Geography Department University of Kentucky and Gender and Women Studies University of Kentucky

 I will present Beyond The Peak: a FTS spectral mapping survey of ionized, neutral and molecular gas of 22 nearby SINGS galaxies. These observations spatially resolve line emission from [NII], [CI] and 12CO from J(4-3) to J(13-12). A key project goal is to develop diagnostics and an understanding of molecular excitation. This can impact the relation between ground based observations of 12CO and mass density, driving deviations from established empirical relations, like KS, by up to an order of magnitude in different environments. These data provide observational diagnostics of how CO excitation varies inside and between galaxies, and how to use ancillary data needed to correctly interpret low-J observations without mid-J and high-J 12CO transitions.

Agenda:

1:30 PM-2:20 PM       Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee and NIMBioS:

“Research, Education and Outreach at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology”

2:30 PM-3:20 PM       Ryan Walker, Fluential, Inc.:

“Mathematicians in the Data and Analytics Industries”

3:30 PM-4:00 PM       Coffee

4:00 PM-4:50 PM       William Velez, University of Arizona

“Addressing Diversity in a Mathematics Department”

Title:  An Overview of the Vector Space Model for Text-based Information Retrieval

Abstract:  The vector space model (VSM) for information retrieval of a text-based document set is a way to convert text-based documents to real-valued vectors.  Under this model, we arrive at a weighted term-document matrix that contains word-based information from the set of documents.  Then, we use the singular value decomposition to factor the term-document matrix, obtaining key information from the matrix, such as its rank and an orthonormal basis for its columnspace.  We discuss VSM-based interpretations of these standard matrix components, and we provide a glimpse of VSM updating techniques.  Finally, we review examples, and we look at results generated from original code showing the VSM in action.

Title:  Galois theory over the p-adic numbers

Abstract:  The inverse Galois problem asks whether every finite group appears as the Galois group of some finite Galois extension of the rational numbers. One can ask the same question for other fields. In this talk, we will discuss Galois theory over the p-adic numbers. We will see that ramification groups provide a useful tool for analyzing the structure of these Galois groups. Using ramification groups, we will find limitations on the finite groups which can occur as Galois groups over the p-adic numbers.  A review of the necessary facts about the p-adic numbers will be included. This talk is meant to be accessible to anyone with a basic understanding of Galois theory over the rationals.

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Title:  DeBranges' Proof of the Bieberbach Conjecture

Abstract:  See Bulletin Board on 7th Floor- POT for abstract