Refreshments will be served five minutes prior to the talk. Please address any colloquium-related questions to the department colloquium committee (Dr. Caine, Dr. Kobayashi, Dr. Rock or Dr. von Bremen).  Â
| Fall Quarter 2012 | |
| Sept. 26, Wed, 1:05-1:50pm, Room 3-2643 | Dr. Ben Newton,
Beloit College "Maximal Subgroups of Symmetric Groups" |
| Oct 3, Wed, 1:05-1:50pm, Room 3-2643 | Student Talks: Eric Kawaguchi and Keenan Breik,
Cal Poly Pomona "Survival Function Estimation with Recurrent Events: Case of Retinal Neural Firing and The Elusive Shape of Big Data" |
| Oct 11, Thu, 12:05-12:50pm, Room 3-1616 | Dr.
Nishu Lal,
Scripps College "The Decimation Method for Laplacians on Fractals" |
| Oct 17, Wed, 1:05-1:50pm, Room 3-2643 | Graduate Student Talk: Rolando de Santiago,
Cal Poly Pomona "Linear Recurrence Relations and Lattice Strings" |
| Oct 24, Wed, 1:05-1:50pm, Room 3-2643 | Dr. Stacy Brown,
Cal Poly Pomona "Fostering Teacher Knowledge Growth Through Practice-Embedded Mathematical Tasks" |
| Nov 7, Wed, 12:30-1:50pm, Room 3-2870, (Reception 12:30-1:00) | Dr. Randall Swift, Cal Poly Pomona; Ames Award Research Award Seminar:
"Random Paths" |
| Nov 8, Thurs, 12:05-12:50pm, Room 3-1616 | Iva A. Yuan, FCAS, MAAA; Cal Poly Alum and Consulting Actuary with Milliman "Rising in the Actuarial Profession through the CAS" |
| Nov 15, Thurs, 2:00pm-3:00pm, Room 4-2-314 | John Jay Flaig, Ph.D., FASQ; Cal Poly Alum and Managing Director of Applied Technology, Inc. "A Unifying Process Capability Metric" |
| Nov 28, Wed, 1:05-1:50pm, Room 3-2643 | Dr. Abhi Jain; Senior Research Scientist,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory "Structure Based Analysis and Algorithms for Robot Dynamics" |
| Winter Quarter 2013 | |
| Feb. 13, Wed, 1:05-1:50pm, Room 2643 | Dr. Gail Tang,
University of La Verne "Understanding Functions using Cryptography" |
| Mar. 6, Wed, 1:05-1:50pm, Room 2643 | Dr. Andrew Gillette,
UC San Diego "An Introduction to Hermite Serendipity Finite Element Methods" |
| Mar. 13, Wed, 1:05-1:50pm, Room 2643 | Dr. Alex Hoffnung, Temple University
"Beauty in Strings: Computing Antigravity" |
| Spring Quarter 2013 | |
| Apr. 3, Wed, 1:05-1:50pm, Room 3-2643 | Bogdan Suceava,
CSU Fullerton "Geometries Induced by Logarithmic Oscillations" |
| Apr. 17, Wed, 1:05-1:50pm, Room 3-2643 | David Bachman,
Pitzer College "From soap films to the shape of space" |
| April 30, Tuesday, 12:05-12:50pm, Room 3-1616 | Dr. Mark Kozek,
Whittier College "Mathematics in Literature and Cinema: Reflections on Teaching the Interdisciplinary Course Numb3rs in Lett3rs & Fi1ms" |
| May 14, Tuesday, 12:05-12:50pm, Room 3-1616 | Dr. Marc Bezem,
University of Bergen, Norway ""Elements of Mathematics" in the Digital Age "(slides) |
| May 15, Wednesday, 1:05-1:50pm, Room 3-2643 | Dr. Marc Bezem,
University of Bergen, Norway "pplex - A Tool for Teaching the Simplex Method"(slides) |
| May 24, Friday, 4:30-6:00pm, Room 3-2870 | Distinguished Lecture: Prof. Michel Lapidus,
UC Riverside Directions to campus, Interactive campus maps, (Refreshments and a short reception courtesy of the College of Science from 4:30 to 4:45.) |
