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Colloquium Series

Spring 2008

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.


Spring 2008 Colloquium Schedule

Date/Location Speaker Title
January 31, 2008
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Christopher Mooney
UW-Milwaukee		 On Boundaries of CAT(0) Groups
February 7, 2008
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Anna Mummert
Alfred University		 Fractals and Hausdorff Dimension
February 11, 2008
(Monday)
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Charles Hampton
College of Wooster		 Bach (to the Calculus of) Variations
February 14, 2008
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Raymond Jensen
University of Notre Dame		 Conformal compactness and the Einstein and Harmonic equations
February 21, 2008
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Ashley Ahlin
East Lansing, MI		 M.C. Escher, Wallpaper Patterns, and the Alhambra
February 28, 2008
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Roger Konyndyk
Steelcase		 A Quick Overview of Data Mining
March 6, 2008
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Airat Bekmetjev
Hope College		 Graph Pebbling
March 13, 2008

 Spring Break
(not meeting this week)
March 20, 2008
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Mel Nyman
Alma College		 Concept Acquisition in Linear Algebra
or
"Why does the fog roll in?"
March 27, 2008
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Gwendolyn Einfeld
Calvin College		 Field Operations over GF(2^m) for Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems on FPGAs
April 3, 2008
3:40 pm
NH 276		 John Ferdinands
Calvin College		 Some interesting results in Infinite Series
April 10, 2008
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Mark Pearson
Hope College		 Euler's Solution to the Basel Problem
April 17, 2008
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Michael Nakamaye
U. New Mexico		 When is a 0/100 a better score on an exam than a 99/100?
April 24, 2008
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Brian Crane
Grand Valley State University		 Graph Theory, Hamiltonicity, and Forbidden Things
May 1, 2008
3:40 pm
NH 276		 Awards and Pizza