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 3, 2005 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Prof. Gary Talsma Calvin College |
What is "Teachers' Mathematics"? |
| February 10, 2005 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Prof. Mike Bolt Calvin College |
The mathematics of Escher's "Print Gallery" |
| February 17, 2005 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Prof. Daniel Isaksen Wayne State University |
Sums-of-squares formulas |
| February 25, 2005 Note the Friday date 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Prof. Satyan Devadoss Williams College |
Robot motions and collisions |
| March 3, 2005 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Prof. David Hervas Kalamazoo College |
A brief introduction to inverse problems |
| March 10, 2005 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Prof. Earl Fife Calvin College |
Euler's Discovery of 1 + 1/4 +1/9 + ... + 1/n2 + ... |
| March 17, 2005 3:40 pm NH 276 |
No Colloquium | Spring Break |
| March 24, 2005 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Luke Maring Calvin College |
Modeling Forest Dynamics |
| March 31, 2005 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Jon Dent Calvin College |
An Introduction to Kirby Diagrams |
| April 7, 2005 3:40 pm |
Prof. Mark Pearson Hope College |
Windmills and Wreaths |
| April 14, 2005 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Prof. Gerard Venema Calvin College |
The geometry and topology of 3-manifolds: Perelman's solution to the Poincaré conjecture |
| April 21, 2005 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Prof. Roger Verhey UM – Dearborn |
From Then (Calvin 1960) to Now: My Becoming and My Being a Mathematics Educator |
| April 28, 2005 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Prof. Paul Zwier Calvin College |
The Pascal Triangle Modulo p: A study of the rows and columns of these triangles using words in the alphabet { 0, 1, 2,...(p-1)} |
| May 5, 2005 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Awards and Pizza | |