Events: Bi-College Math Colloquium
Spring 2008
| 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 Haverford College |
"An examination of the size of the image for polynomial maps over finite fields." |
| Feb 13 | 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 | ||
| Mar 10 | Spring Break | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| 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" |
| 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" |