Fall 2007
Colloquium begins at 4:15 p.m.
All colloquia at Haverford will be held in KINSC H109. Tea will be in the Math
Lounge, KINSC H208 at 4:00 p.m.
All colloquia at Bryn Mawr will be held in Park Science Building 328. Tea will
be in the Math Lounge, Park 355 at 3:45 p.m.
| Date | Location | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10 | Haverford |
Ethan Alguire '09 Haverford College |
"The Flask on the Hard Drive: How to Be a Chemist and Not Get Your Hands Dirty" |
| Sep 17 | Bryn Mawr |
Jane Holsapple Long (BMC '02) |
"Group
Cohomology and Free Actions on Products of Spheres" |
| Sep 24 | Bryn Mawr |
Elisenda Grigsby Columbia University |
"Combinatorial Knot Floer Homology for Knots in Lens Spaces" |
| Oct 1 | Haverford |
Peter Storm University of Pennsylvania |
"Imagining Hyperbolic Space from the Inside" |
| Oct 8 | Haverford |
Davide Cervone |
"The Hypercube and Hypersphere: Breaking them Down and Building the Up" |
| Oct 15 | Fall Break |
NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Oct 22 | Bryn Mawr |
Daniel Krashen University of Pennsylvania |
"Division Algebras and Geometry" |
| Nov 5 | Bryn Mawr |
Puneet Batra Columbia University |
"Anomalies in Gauge Theories" |
| Friday Nov 16 4:15 pm |
Haverford Sharpless Auditorium |
Eric Maskin* Institute for Advanced Study |
"How Should Presidents Be Elected" |
| Nov 19 | Bryn Mawr |
Keith Burns Northwestern University |
"A Simple Proof of Sharkovsky's Theorem" |
| Nov 26 | Haverford |
Bruce Char Drexel University |
"Explorations in the Characterization of Mathematical Handwriting" |
| Thursday Nov 29 3:30 pm H110 |
Haverford |
Austin Parker '02 Ph.D. Candidate, University of Maryland, College Park |
"How Computers Play Poker: Algorithms for Imperfect Information Games" |
| Dec 3 | Bryn Mawr |
Juliana Belding | "Curves, Cryptography and Calculus: A Weil Pairing on Elliptic Curves over the Dual Numbers" |
| Dec 4 | Haverford |
Aaron Block '02 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
TBA |
* Please note change in date/time/location for Eric Maskin talk. Tea will be at 4:15 p.m., Talk at 4:30 p.m., Sharpless Auditorium.
For more information, please contact Josh Sabloff (HC) or Paul Melvin (BMC).