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 |
|---|---|---|
| February 6 2003 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Mark Johnson Pennsylvania State University, Altoona |
A mathematical framework for multi-agent protocols: Applications of category theory to computer science |
| February 13, 2003 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Mike Dekker Notre Dame University |
Manifold Mania |
| February 20, 2003 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Tom Clark, Eli Thomas, and Rachel VanderLugt Calvin College |
Calvin Undergraduate Research Experiences, Part 1 |
| February 27, 2003 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Michael Bloem Calvin College |
Calvin Undergraduate Research Experiences, Part 2 |
| March 6, 2003 3:40 pm North Hall 276 |
Chuck Hampton Department of Mathematics, College of Wooster |
Surgical Solutions in Differential Equations |
| March 13, 2003 3:40 pm North Hall 276 |
Ron Fintushel Mathematics Department, Michigan State University |
Time's arrows |
| March 27, 2003 3:40 pm North Hall 276 |
David Field General Motors Research and Development Center |
Manufacturing, Robatics, and Computational Geometry |
| April 3, 2003 3:40 pm North Hall 276 |
Tim Pennings Mathematics Department, Hope College |
Do Dogs Know Calculus? |
| April 10, 2003 3:40 pm North Hall 276 |
Arpana Higgins Mathematics Department, University of Dayton |
Demonic Graphs and Undergraduate Research |
| April 17, 2003 3:40 pm North Hall 276 |
Anthony Tongen Trinity International University |
Mathematical Modeling Applied to Materials Science |
| April 24, 2003 3:40 pm North Hall 276 |
Tom Jager Calvin College |
The Probability of Being Relatively Prime |
| May 1, 2003 3:40 pm North Hall 272 |
Maynard Thompson Mathematics Department, Indiana University |
Mathematical Models for Biological Populations |
| May 8, 2003 3:40 pm North Hall 276 |
TBA | |