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Colloquium Series

Fall 2007

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.


Fall 2007 Colloquium Schedule

Date/Location Speaker Title
September 6, 2007
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Mike Bolt and Todd Kapitula
Calvin College		 Organizational Meeting
September 13, 2007
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Flat World Productions Flatland (2007)
September 20, 2007
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Bob Messer
Albion College		 Antoine's Necklace and the Amazing Cantor Set
September 27, 2007
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Mike Bolt
Calvin College		 Paint by number: a visualization of complex functions
October 4, 2007
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Tim Ferdinands and Justin Kenderes
Calvin College		 Maximal Workspaces of Planar Linkages
October 11, 2007
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Jim Turner
Calvin College		 Come Meet The Sphere In 4 Dimensions
October 18, 2007
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Keith Promislow
Michigan State University		 The Renormalization Group and Self-Similar behavior in the Heat Equation
October 25, 2007
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Peiru Wu
Michigan State University		 Professional Science Master (PSM) in Industrial Mathematics at MSU
November 1, 2007
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Tim Pennings
Hope College		 Do Dogs Know Bifurcations?
November 8, 2007
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Terrell Hodge
Western Michigan University		 Varieties as the Spice of Molecular Life: Polynomials, Probability, and DNA
November 15, 2007
3:40 pm
NH 276		 David Austin
Grand Valley State University		 Circle packings and Penrose tilings
November 22, 2007
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Thanksgiving
(not meeting this week)
November 29, 2007
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Chris Moseley
Calvin College		 Quaternions and the Discovery of the Fourth Dimension
December 6, 2007
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Laura Kapitula
La Meta Project, University of New Mexico		 Using Value-Added Models to Rank School and Teacher Performance