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. Hubertus von Bremen or Dr. Ioana Mihaila). Please click on the titles to read an abstract of the presentation.
| Fall Quarter '04 | |
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October
28 |
Dr. Christopher P. Silva, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, "The Polyspectral Method - A New Approach to Nonlinear System-Level Modeling and Distortion Compensation" |
| November 04 | Dr. Marc Chamberland, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, "The Many Faces of Pi" |
| November 18 | Dr. Erica Flapan, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, "When Topology Meets Chemistry" |
| December 02 | Dr. Alexander E. Koone, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, "When Mathematics Goes to the Birds" |
| Winter Quarter '05 | |
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January 20 |
Dr. Stan Yoshinobu, California State University, Dominguez Hills, "Dennis Eckersley vs. Kirk Gibson: The 1988 World Series Game 1 and Basic Game Theory" |
| February 10 | Mr. Ernest Shen and Mr. Brian Chen, Cal Poly Pomona, "College Prep: Fact or Fiction?" and "Some Undergraute Number Theory Research" |
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March 10 |
Dr. Hubertus F. von Bremen, Cal Poly Pomona, "Asymptotic Stability in a Model for Genetically Altered Mosquitoes" |
| Spring Quarter '05 | |
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April 07 |
Dr. Andrew Nestler and Dr. Sarah Greenwald, Santa Monica College, CA, and Appalachian State University, NC, "The Simpsons Rule: Mathematical Morsels from The Simpsons" |
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April 21 |
Dr. Michael J. O'Brien, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA, "A Novel Test Method to Measure the Fracture Toughness of Ceramic Balls Used in Modern Hybrid Bearings" |
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May 5 |
Dr. Vladimir S. Sokolinsky, Alpha STAR Corporation, Long Beach, CA, "Nonlinear Behavior of Sandwich Beams with Transversely Flexible Core" |
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May 19 |
Dr. Naiomi T. Cameron, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, "Pseudo Involutions in the Riordan Group" |
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June 02 |
Dr. Erika T. Camacho, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, "A Mathematical Model of Retinal Dynamics" |
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