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. Joe Latulippe or Dr. Hubertus von Bremen). Please click on the titles to read an abstract of the presentation.

Fall Quarter '07
October 04	Dr. Jim Hoste, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, "Lissajous and Fourier Knots"
November 01	Dr. Yousef Daneshbod, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, "The Fascinating World of Microfluidics"
November 15	Dr. Angel R. Pineda, Cal State University, Fullerton, CA, "To Bin or Not to Bin? Using Mathematics to Improve Cat Scans"
November 29	Dr. Herbert Medina, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, "Approximating arctangent & some new rational approximations to Pi"
Winter Quarter '08
February 07	Dr. Greisy Winicki-Landman, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, "Noon Games"
February 21	Dr. Robin Wilson, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, "Knots, Surfaces, and 3-Manifolds"
March 06	Dr. Philip Yates, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA, "Methods for the Analysis of Flood Frequency Distributions"
March 11	Dr. Carla D. Cotwright, Wake Forest University, NC, "Shades of American Mathematics: The History of American Mathematics through Rainbow-Colored Glasses"
March 14	Dr. Daryl J. Daley, Center for Mathematics and Applications, Australian National University, "Epidemic Modelling and Dengue Fever, with Singapore Data" *(This is a special talk scheduled on Friday, from 3:30pm to 4:30pm in 8-156)*
Spring Quarter '08
April 10	Dr. Rachel Levy, Harvey Mudd, Claremont, CA, "A Shocking Discovery: nonclassical waves in thin liquid films"
April 24	Dr. Ilesanmi Adeboye, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, "An Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry"
May 8	Dr. Gizem Karaali, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, "Yang-Baxter equations and quantum groups"
May 22	Dr. Emille K. Davie, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Right-Veering Pseudo-Anosov Mapping Classes"