All department colloquium will be held in room 156 (building 8) from 12:05pm-12:50pm,
unless announced otherwise. Refreshments will be served at 12:00 noon.
Please address any colloquium-related questions to the department colloquium
committee (Dr. Switkes or
Dr. Mihaila). Please click
on the titles to read an abstract of the presentation.
| Fall
Quarter '03 |
|
October
2 |
Dr. Art Benjamin, Harvey Mudd College, "
The Best Way to Knock'em Down " |
October
16 |
Dr. Olga Korosteleva, CSU Long Beach,
" The Spread of Branching Diffusion Under Stabilizing Drift " |
October
23 |
Dr. John de Pillis, UC Riverside,
" How Graphics Illuminate Deep Ideas of Mathematics " |
October
30 |
Dr. Mario Martelli, Claremont McKenna College, "
La Cupola di Santa Maria del Fiore " |
November
13 |
Dr. Alan Krinik and Carrie Mortensen, Cal Poly Pomona,
" Transient
Probability Functions of Birth-Death Processes " |
| Winter
Quarter '04 |
February
2 |
Dr. Amy H. Lin, San Francisco State University, "
A Model of Tumor and Lymphocyte Interactions " |
February
5 |
Dr. Hubertus von Bremen, USC, "
Efficient and Accurate Methods for Computing Lyapunov Characteristic Exponents
" |
February
12 |
Mr. James P. Peirce, UC Davis, "
An 'Average' Approach to Fluid Dynamics " |
February
16 |
Ms. Borislava Gutarts, UCLA, "
The Inverse Scattering Problem in Anisotrophic Media " |
| February
19 |
Dr. Don Saari, UC Irvine "
Election Time! - Will We Elect Whom We Really Want?" |
| Spring
Quarter '04 |
April
8 |
Dr. Bogdan Suceava, CSU Fullerton, "Chen's
Fundamental Inequalities in Submanifold Geometry" |
| April
15 |
Dr. Greisy Winicki-Landman, Cal Poly Pomona, "Proof
and Problem Posing about Periodic Functions" |
| April
22 |
Dr. William Murray, CSU Long Beach, "The
Mathematics of Juggling" |
| April
29 |
Dr. Janet Beery,
" Thomas Harriot's Treatise on Figurate Numbers, Finite Differences,
and Interpolation Formulas" |
| May 6 |
Dr. Darryl Yong, Harvey Mudd College, "Solitary
waves in heterogeneous elastic materials" |
| May 13 |
Dr. Cindy Wyels, Cal Lutheran, "Accessible
Questions in Pebbling and Pegging" |
| May 20 |
Dr. Serban Raianu, CSU Dominguez Hills, "Calculus
and Planimeters" |
| May 27 |
Dr. Amber Rosin, Cal Poly Pomona, "The
Mathematics of Peg Solitaire" |
| June 3 |
Dr. Mason Porter, George Institute of Technology, "How
Well Can Random Walkers Rank College Football Teams?" |