Spring 2008
Colloquium begins at 4:15 p.m. on Mondays with the exceptions coded "red."
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28 | Haverford |
Amy Myers Bryn Mawr College |
"The Outstanding Elements of Permutations and Words" |
| Feb 4 | Bryn Mawr |
John Flynn |
"An examination of the size of the image for polynomial maps over finite fields." |
Wed |
Haverford |
Laurie Rubel CUNY Brooklyn |
"Research in Mathematics Education: Battlefields and Beyond" |
| Feb 18 | Bryn Mawr | Ana Cannas da Silva Princeton University |
"From hermitian matrices to symplectic geometry and back again" |
| Feb 25 | Haverford |
Jayadev Athreya Princeton University |
"Billiards, ergodic theory, and number theory" |
| Mar 3 | NO COLLOQUIUM |
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| Mar 10 | Spring Break |
NO COLLOQUIUM |
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| Mar 17 | Haverford |
sarah-marie belcastro Smith College |
"Edge-Coloring Graphs on Surfaces: Recent Progress on Grünbaum's Conjecture" |
| Mar 19 | Bryn Mawr |
Freeman Hrabowski University of Maryland |
"Strategies that Support Student Success in the Sciences" |
| Mar 24 | Bryn Mawr | Dennis DeTurck University of Pennsylvania |
"Exploiting invariance, from freshman calculus to linking integrals" |
| Mar 31 |
Haverford |
Darren Glass Gettysburg College |
"Cyptography, Coding Theory, and Curve Interpolation" |
| Apr 7 | Bryn Mawr Park 243 |
Herbert S. Wilf University of Pennsylvania |
"Sister Celine, as I knew her" |
| Apr 14 | Haverford |
George Cobb Mount Holyoke |
"Markov Chain Monte Carlo: A Course for Math Majors" |
| Tue Apr 15 |
Haverford Sharpless Aud |
George Cobb Mount Holyoke |
"Two Statisticians and One Serial Murderer" |
| Apr 21 | Bryn Mawr | Janet Talvacchia Swarthmore College |
"Generalized Geometry" |
| Apr 28 | Haverford Final 07/08 Colloquium |
Rob Kusner Univ of Massachusetts Amherst University of Pennsylvania |
"Lengths and Crossing Numbers of Knotted Ropes and Strips" |
For more information, please contact Lynne Butler (HC) or Paul Melvin (BMC).