Reed Mathematics Colloquium
Most Thursday afternoons during the academic year, the Reed College Department of Mathematics hosts a math talk. The talks are directed to our mathematics majors but are usually accessible on a variety of levels.

Coordinates: The talks are 4:10-5:00 in E314, on the second floor of Eliot Hall (unless marked otherwise).

Directions to Reed.

Refreshments are served before the talks.

For more information, please email davidp at reed.edu.

2008-2009 Schedule
Fall 2008
September  
4 Meeting with majors. No talk this week.
11 An extension of D. J. Newman's coprime mapping conjecture with applications to prime trees
Leanne Robertson, Mathematics Department, Seattle University
18 The classical partition function from a modern perspective
Richard E. Crandall, Center for Advanced Computation, Reed College
25 Randomly State Space Tracking
Bart Massey, Computer Science Department, Portland State University
October  
2 The geometry of bar-and-joint machines
Tom Braden, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, U. Mass., Amherst
9 Can you cut a square into an odd number of triangles of equal area?
Aaron Abrams, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University
16 Mobius inversion and graph colorings
Nicholas Proudfoot, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon
23 Fall break
30 Tangents to Four Unit Spheres: An Introduction to Enumerative Algebraic Geometry
David Cox, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amherst College
November  
6 Jim Fix, Department of Mathematics, Reed College
13 From conic sections to quaternion algebras
Asher Auel, Department of Mathematics, UPenn
20 Philip B. Stark, Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley
27 Thanksgiving break
December  
4 Steven Seitz, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
Spring 2009
January  
29 Abdul Jarrah, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
February  
5  
12  
19  
26  
March  
5 Room: P123
12 Amelia Taylor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Colorado College
19 Spring break
26  
April  
2  
9  
16  
23  
30  
Past colloquia: 2007-2008 2006-2007 2005-2006 2004-2005 2003-2004 2002-2003 2001-2002 2000-2001