Bi-College Math Colloquium

Spring 2009

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 4:00 p.m.

Date Location Speaker Title
Wednesday
Jan 21
Bryn Mawr

Rebecca Vandiver
University of Arizona

"Differential Growth and Residual Stress in Cylindrical Elastic Structures"

Tuesday
Jan 27
Bryn Mawr
Nessy Tania
University of Utah
"Mathematical Models of Calcium Regulation"

Thursday
Jan 29

Bryn Mawr
Dylan Shepardson
Georgia Institute of Technology
"Modeling Adaptable Behavior in Neurons" (How Mathematics can get on your Nerves)
Monday
Feb 2
3:30 p.m.
Bryn Mawr
Fang Chen
Oxford College of Emory Univ.
"Dividing a system of weights into two groups of equal mass"
Monday
Feb 2
Haverford
Siggy Moore '09
Haverford College
"An injective proof of strong q-log-convexity for Bell polynomials"
Thursday
Feb 5
Bryn Mawr
Amy N. Myers
Bryn Mawr College
"Coke and Pepsi and the Binomial Distribution"
Monday
Feb 9

Bryn Mawr

Kristen Sellke
University of Connecticut
"A Journey through Mathematics with the Fibonacci Sequence"
Monday
Feb 16
Bryn Mawr

Maya Kiehl
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

"Abstract Sets and DeMorgan's Laws"
Monday
Feb 23
Haverford
No Colloquium
 
Rescheduled to Mon Apr 13
Monday
Mar 2

Bryn Mawr

Clay Shonkwiler
University of Pennsylvania
"Linking Integrals in Hyperspheres"
Monday
Mar 16
Haverford
Nick Horton
Smith College
"Much ado about nothing: methods and software implementations to estimate incomplete data regression models"
Monday
Mar 23
Bryn Mawr

Charles Buehrle and
Mark Skandera
Lehigh University

"Clausen's construction of irreducible representations of the symmetric group"
Monday
Mar 30
Haverford
David Shea Vela-Vick
University of Pennsylvania
"Triple linking numbers, ambiguous Hopf invariants and integral formulas for three-component links"
Monday
Apr 6
Bryn Mawr
John Baldwin
Princeton University
"On the spectral sequence from Khovanov homology to Heegaard Floer homology"
Monday
Apr 13
Bryn Mawr
Clay Shonkwiler
University of Pennsylvania
"Linking Integrals in Hyperspheres"
Monday
Apr 20
Haverford
KINSC H108*
Ayako Fukui
Bryn Mawr College
"Lp Boundedness of Oscillatory Singular Inegral Operators"
Monday
Apr 27
Haverford
Richard Ball
and Bill Huber
Haverford College
"Campaign Strategies and the Electoral College System"
 

 

* Change of Venue

For more information, please contact Robert Manning (HC) or Paul Melvin (BMC).

Past Colloquia