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.

2009-2010 Schedule
Fall 2009
September  
3 Meeting with majors. No talk this week.
10 Sage and Undergraduate Mathematics
Mike Hansen, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington
17 The Number of Vertices in a Cubical Complex
Steve Klee, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington
24 Gaussian elimination and juggling patterns
Allen Knutson, Department of Mathematics, Cornell University
October  
1 Introduction to Algebraic Graph Theory
Robert Beezer, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Puget Sound.
Room: P123
8 Geometry and Number Theory on Clovers
Jerry Shurman, Department of Mathematics, Reed College
15 Computing and Global Health
Richard Anderson, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UW
22 Fall break
29 What is a closed form?
Richard E. Crandall, Director, Center for Advanced Computation, Reed College
November  
5 The polyhedral geometry of polynomial systems
Marshall Hampton, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Minnesota Duluth
12 Calculus is Chaotic
Joel H. Shapiro, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Portland State University
19 Student talks
Gavin Brown and Homer Strong: Micro-arrays and behavior genes
Erica Shannon: Odd wins—a Variation on the Combinatorial Game of Nim
John Wilmes: New invariants for graphs
26 Thanksgiving break
December  
3  
Spring 2010
January  
28  
February  
4  
11  
18  
25 Ravi Shankar, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma
March  
4  
Room: P123
11  
18 Spring break
25  
April  
1  
8 Rachel Epstein, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago
15  
22  
29  
Past colloquia: 2008-2009 2007-2008 2006-2007 2005-2006 2004-2005 2003-2004 2002-2003 2001-2002 2000-2001