II. Invited Presentations:

2005
• Wavelet Applications to Mass Spectrometry Data Processing in Cancer Research, International Conference on Applicable Harmonic Analysis, Center of Mathematical Sciences at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, May 23 -- 27, 2005.

• Spline and Wavelet Applications in Biostatistics and Actuarial Mathematics, International Conference on the Interactions between Wavelets and Splines, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, May 16--19, 2005.

• Recent Progress on Mass Spectrometry Data Processing, Annual Meeting of Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society, Austin, Texas, March 20-23, 2005.

• Mass Spectrometry Data Processing using wavelets, 2005 AMS Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting, Bowling Green, KY, 18-19 March, 2005.

• Actuarial mathematics and survival analysis, colloquium talk, Department of Mathematical Science, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, February 14, 2005.

• Recent Development of Computational Research in Quantitative Biomedical Science, A Software Package for MS MALDI-TOF Data Processing, EPSCoR Minisymposium, Murfreesboro, TN, 19-20 January, 2005.

• Mass Spectrometry MALDI-TOF Data Preprocessing using Wavelets and Splines, seminar talk, Biomathematics Study Group, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, January 26, 2005.

  2004

• Mass Spectrometry Data Processing Using Mathematical Tools and Statistical Techniques, Department of Biostatistics Seminar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, December 15, 2004.

• Lung Cancer Data Analysis Using Wavelet Methods, 2004 Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 9-12, 2004.

• Ruin Probability under Dependent Force of Interest, The Applied Actuarial Research Conference, University of Central Florida Orlando, FL, March 8-9, 2004.

  2003

• On Graduate Teaching and Research, colloquium talk at Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN, July 9, 2003.

• Introduction to Wavelets and Applications, Seminar talk at the Division of Biostatistics, Medical School, Vanderbilt University, June 5, 2003.

• Prewavelets and wavelets over triangulations, Colloquium talk at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, March 20, 2003.

  2002

• Surface Compression Using a Basis of $C^1$ Cubic Bivariate Spline Space, Colloquium talk at ETSU, Johnson City, TN on September 23, 2002.

• On Splines, Wavelets, and Applications to Mathematical Finance, Colloquium talk at University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN on March 5, 2002.

• Seminar talk at the Approximation Theory/Wavelets Seminar, Department of Mathematics, Nashville, TN, October 31, 2001.

  2001

• Seminar talk at the Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, October 31, 2001.

• Colloquium talk at the Department of Mathematics, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, March 9, 2001.

• Colloquium talk at the Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Feb. 21, 2001.

• Colloquium talk at the Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, Jan. 29, 2001.

  1999

• Series of lectures on splines, wavelets and applications at University of Petroleum, China, May 23 -- June 1, 1999.

• Colloquium talk at Beijing Polytech University, Beijing, China: Some recent progress on wavelets and multiwavelets , May, 1999.

• Colloquium talk at North China University of Technology, Beijing, China: Optimal triangulation for surface fitting using bivariate splines , June, 1999.

• ``On Construction of Prewavelets with Minimal Support over Triangulation'', AMS Special Session on Wavelets and Multiresolution Methods'', University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, March, 1999.

  1998

• Colloquium talk at Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA: Scattered data representation and surface fitting using splines , June, 1998.

• Workshop talk at University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI: An algorithm for optimal triangulations for optimal scattered data representation, Workshop on wavelets and approximation, May 28 -- June 6, 1998.

• Colloquium talk at Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS: Optimal triangulations for scattered data representation using bivariate splines, April, 1998.

  1997

• On-hour invited address on Recent Progress on Multivariate Splines, Sixth International Colloquium on Numerical Analysis and Computers with Applications, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, August 13-17, 1997.

  1996

• Colloquium talk at the University of Texas, El Paso, TX: A basic introduction to wavelets and multiwavelets , May, 1996.

• Seminar talk at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI: Wavelets and Bernstein multiwavelets , April, 1996.

• Colloquium talk at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN: Multiwavelets construction and applications , April, 1996.

• Colloquium talk at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI: Wavelets and Applications , March, 1996.

• Colloquium talk at University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL: Wavelets and Multiwavelets, February, 1996.

  1995

• A series of lectures on Wavelets and Splines with Applications, The University of Petroluem at Huadong of China, Shangdong, China, December, 1995.

  1994

• Colloquium talk at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL: Bivariate spline spaces over arbitrary triangulations, March, 1994.