The department colloquium series meets every Thursday at 3:40 pm for a 50-minute colloquium presentation, preceded by refreshments at 3:20. The speakers range from students and faculty to visitors from other institutions or industry. The department seeks a variety of speakers on a wide range of topics. This year, the colloquium committee consists of Professors Bolt and Kapitula.
Schedules for recent and upcoming semesters are also available.
| Date/Location | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 7, 2006 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Mike Stob and Tom Scofield Calvin College |
Organizational Meeting |
| September 14, 2006 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Ryan Higginbottom Kalamazoo College |
Most things change, but one remains the same: fixed point theorems and shapes in space |
| September 21, 2006 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Laura Feys Calvin College |
Modeling the Hyperbolic Plane |
| September 28, 2006 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Jack Snoeyink Dept. of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill |
Sorting Along Hilbert Curves in Higher Dimensions |
| October 5, 2006 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Joel Stob Calvin College |
Constructions in the Poincare Disk Model |
| October 12, 2006 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Matt Boelkins Grand Valley State University |
Student Research with Polynomial Functions: Calculus at Work |
| October 19, 2006 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Philip Boonstra and Justin Kenderes | Statistical Graphics Programming for Genetic Applications (P.Boonstra) Instability in Elections with Binary Issues: The Search for a Discrete Analogue to the Median Voter Theorem. (J.Kenderes) |
| October 26, 2006 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Dennis Gilliland Michigan State University |
Bombs, Elections, Seeds, Mathematics |
| November 2, 2006 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Allen J. Schwenk Western Michigan University |
A Plethora of Perplexingly Persistent Simpson Paradoxes |
| November 9, 2006 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Ed Aboufadel Grand Valley State University |
Where am I? Position coding, wavelets, and a computer in a pen. |
| November 16, 2006 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Douglas Vander Griend Calvin College |
No Data Left Behind: Modeling Colorful Compounds in Chemical Equilibria |
| November 23, 2006 |
None | Thanksgiving |
| November 30, 2006 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Julia Knight Notre Dame |
Comparing Classes of Structures |
| December 7, 2006 |
Craig Guilbault University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
Metric Geometry: Curvature without Derivatives |