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 |
|---|---|---|
| January 30, 2007 (Tuesday) 3:30 pm NH 276 |
Jason Bode Cornell University |
Self-avoiding walks, connective constants, and generatingfunctionology |
| February 1, 2007 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Jonathan Quiton University of South Carolina |
General Outlier Detection for the Recurrent Event Setting |
| February 6, 2007 (Tuesday) 4:00 pm NH 276 |
Amy Moore Alma College |
Diffusion Flame Stability |
| February 8, 2007 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Aaron Jaggard Tulane University |
Formalizing and analyzing (and even breaking part of) the Kerberos authentication protocol |
| February 12, 2007 (Monday) 3:30 pm NH 276 |
Todd Kapitula University of New Mexico |
Applying Spectral Theory to the Study of Bose-Einstein Condensates |
| February 21, 2007 3:30 pm NH 276 |
Marilyn Myers Queen's University |
Kummer's Conjecture |
| February 22, 2007 3:40 pm NH 276 |
William Dickinson Grand Valley State University |
Circle Packings and Tensegrity Frameworks |
| March 1, 2007 3:40 pm NH 276 |
John Stoughton Hope College |
An Examination of the 'Class Number Problem |
| March 8, 2007 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Dorette Pronk Dalhousie University |
Fractals and Self-Similarity |
| March 15, 2007 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Paul Goerss Northwestern University |
Unwinding the clock: the fundamental group and covering spaces |
| March 29, 2007 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Paul Fishback Grand Valley State University |
The Least-Squares Property of the Lanczos Derivative |
| April 5, 2007 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Nathan Tintle Hope College |
Reclassifying data to combat classification errors: a statistical method applied to genotyping with Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) |
| April 12, 2007 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Mike Stob Calvin College |
Six Degrees of Separation: It's a Small World After All |
| April 19, 2007 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Jim Bradley Calvin College |
My Journey Toward a Christian Perspective on Mathematics |
| April 26, 2007 3:40 pm NH 276 |
Robert Megginson University of Michigan |
Native American Mathematics |
| May 3, 2007 3:30 pm NH 276 |
Awards and Pizza |