Department of Mathematics
Departmental Colloquia
On Thursday, November 20, 2008, Dr. Anant Godbole, Professor of Mathematics at at East Tennessee State University and Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University, will give a colloquium entitled Omnibus Sequences.
Abstract: A sequence of n letters drawn from a finite alphabet of size q is said to be an omnibus sequence if each of the qk words of length k may be found as a substring of the sequence. In this research, joint with Greg Brockman (Harvard), Stephanie Sapp (JHU) and Sunil Abraham (Oxford), we ask when a random sequence is almost certainly likely (almost never likely) to be omnibus. We also study the distribution of the number of missing words, explore connections to the coupon collector problem, investigate limiting distributions, and study fits to data sets such as Tolstoy's War and Peace.
This colloquium will be held in 7800 York Road,
Room 320. The presentation will begin at 4:00 p.m., with light refreshments at 3:30 p.m.
Previous Colloquia given in the 2008–2009 Academic Year
On Thursday, October 30, 2008, Dr. David Bressoud, DeWitt Wallace Professor of Mathematics at Macalester College, presented a colloquium entitled Proofs and Confirmations: The Story of the Alternating Sign Matrix Conjecture.
The Department of Mathematics at Towson University also encourages your participation at other local area college and university mathematics colloquia and at the University of Maryland College Park. Links to these other colloquia are found below:
Department of Mathematics
7800 York Road, Room 316 (campus map)
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Phone: 410-704-3091
Fax: 410-704-4149
E-mail: math@towson.edu
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