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 '06
October 05	Dr. Alfonso Castro, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA, "From College Algebra to Open Questions in Boundary Value Problems"
October 19	Dr. Michael Krebs, Cal State University-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, "Symmetric Groups and Ramanujan Graphs"
November 02	Ms. Lisa Morales, Mr. Nathan M. Olson, & Mr. Jason Pham, Cal Poly Pomona Student Talks, "Properties of Segments in the Hausdorff Metric Geometry", "Holonomizing and Deholonomizing: Communicators in Actions", & "Matrix Norm, Sup Norm, Commuting Matrices, and the Von Newmann's Inequality"
November 16	Dr. Katherine Bhan, University of California, Irvine, CA, "Monte Carlo Method in Biomedical Optics"
November 30	Ms. Johanna Tam, Mr. Michael E. Grigsby, & Mr. Hernan Oscco, Cal Poly Pomona Student Talks, "The Minimum Distance Energy for Polygonal Unknots" and "On Solutions to a Nonlinear Elliptic Equation"
Winter Quarter '07
January 16	Ms. Christine L. Latulippe, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, "Environments that Encourage Math Graduate Teaching Assistants: The Effect of Institution Type and Availability of Training"
January 17	Dr. Gwen L. Fisher, Cal Poly SLO, San Luis Obispo, CA, "Visualizing Symmetry: The Art and Mathematics of Symmetry Groups"
January 18	Ms. Michelle A. Manes, Brown University, Providence, RI, "Habits of Mind: An Organizing Principle for Math Curriculum and Instruction"
January 23	Dr. Kellie M. Evans, Cal State Northridge, Northridge, CA, "A Four-Parameter Family of Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata: Results, Conjectures, Open Questions, and Math Education"
January 25	Dr. Thomas W. Judson, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, "High School Calculus in Japan and the United States"
January 30	Dr. Zhonghong Jiang, New York University, New York, NY, "Teaching and Learning Mathematics with Technology"
February 16	Mr. Adam Molnar, University of Chicago, IL, "Bayesian Trees and Neural Networks"
February 19	Dr. Jungwon Chris Mun, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, "Non-Deletion Approach to Detect Discordant Subjects in Repeated Measurements"
February 22	Dr. Philip A. Yates, ACNielsen, Glenview, IL, "Methods for the Analysis of Flood Frequency Distributions"
February 27	Mr. Joe Latulippe, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, "A Phenomenological Model for the Responses of Neurons"
March 01	Mr. Arthur S. Berg, University of California, San Diego, CA, " Density Estimation of IID, Dependent and Censored Data"
Spring Quarter '07
April 06	Dr. Jorge Garcia, Cal State Channel Islands, Channel Islands, CA, "How Many Tops and Bottoms of Mountains Can There Be?"
April 19	Dr. Greisy Winicki-Landman, Cal Poly Pomona, "Math Made Visual"
May 03	Dr. Kevin Iga, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, "Adinkras: Supersymmetry Using Graphs and Codes"
May 17	Dr. Kendra Killpatrick, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, "Posets, Dominos and the Search for a Hook Formula" in room 8-149
May 29	Mr. Loc Tuong Le, Cal Poly Pomona (M.S. Thesis Defense), "A Bayesian Dynamic Space-Age-Time Model: An Application to Prostate Cancer Mortality Rate" in room 8-248 (1:00pm-2:00pm)
May 31	Dr. Alfonso Limon, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, "Gridless Gridded Techniques and Their Applications to Discrete PDEs"