Fall 2018
Date
Location
Speaker
Title
9/17
Bryn Mawr
Rebecca Everett
Haverford College
“Using Mathematical and Statistical Modeling to Understand Behavior Change in Problem Drinkers”
9/24
Haverford
John Bergdall
Bryn Mawr College
"Approximating roots: from Newton to the ghost conjecture”
10/1
Bryn Mawr
Jason Cantarella
University of Georgia
“Modeling the ‘Cambrian explosion’ of Topological Polymers”
10/8
Bryn Mawr
Tamar Friedmann
Haverford College
"From Lie Algebras to Catalan Numbers and Beyond"
10/15
Fall Break
No Talk
10/22
Haverford
Angela Hicks
Lehigh University
"Symmetric Functions and Beyond"
10/29
Bryn Mawr
David Futer
Temple University
“Can You Hear the Shape of a 3-Manifold?”
11/5
Haverford
Karola Meszaros
Cornell University & Institute for Advanced Study
"Grothendieck polynomials via flow polytopes"
11/12
Bryn Mawr
Will HeuettMarymount University
"Bayesian Model Selection: Removing Our Biases and Allowing the Data to Guide Us"
11/19
Haverford
Isaac Klapper
Temple University
"Linking Microbial Metabolism to Microbial Community Environment"
11/26
No Talk
12/3
Haverford
Kim Ruane
Tufts University
"A Geometric Proof of Parity of Permutations"