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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. |
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| 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 |