Bi-College Math Colloquium

Fall 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. with the exception of "red" highlighted event.
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 8
Haverford

Jennifer Boyko '09
and
Taylor Burmeister '09
Haverford College

Boyko, "The Effect of Missingness on the Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease Modifying Drug Clinical Trails"
Burmeister, " Local Edge Detection with Wavelets"

Sep 15  
NO COLLOQUIUM
 

Sep 22

Bryn Mawr
Stephan Wehrli
Columbia University
"New invariants for sutured 3-manifolds"
Sep 29
Bryn Mawr
Linda Chen
Swarthmore
"Enumerative Geometry, Combinatorics, and Algebra"
Oct 6
Haverford
Michael Lavine
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"What is Bayesian Statistics and Why Everything Else is Wrong"
Oct 7
Lunch/Tea
11:00 a.m.
Talk 11:30

Haverford

Sharpless Auditorium

Michael Lavine
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Spike Trains and Human Brains"
Oct 13
Fall Break

NO COLLOQUIUM

 
Oct 20
Haverford
Rob Ghrist
University of Pennsylvania
"Euler Calculus and Sensor Networks"
Oct 27
Bryn Mawr
Helen Wong
Bowdoin College
"Distinguishing 3-dimensional manifolds"
Nov 3
Haverford
Dave Futer
Temple University
"The Space Around a Knot"
Nov 10
Bryn Mawr
Sarah Mason
Davidson College
"Permutations, partitions, and 'fue de taquin'"
Nov 17
Bryn Mawr
David Lippel
Haverford College
"O-minimal structures: tame fragments of analysis"
Nov 24
Haverford
Laura Hall-Seelig
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Finite Fields, Curves, Points, and Genera"
Dec 1
Haverford
Patrick Clarke
University of Pennsylvania
"Morse Theory, Topology, and Physics"

 

For more information, please contact Joshua Sabloff (HC) or Paul Melvin (BMC).

Past Colloquia