2000-2001 Schedule Fall 2000 September 7 Jerry Shurman, Department of Mathematics, Reed College, Transfinite Chomp 14 Richard Crandall, Reed College, Are the digits of $\pi$ (or anything like it) random? 21 Richard Ladner, Department of Computer Science, University of Washington, Optimal Stream Merging for Media-on-Demand 28 Joe Buhler, Department of Mathematics, Reed College; MSRI, Remarks on the Small World Phenomenon October 5 No talk. Meeting with majors. 12 Tom Wieting, Department of Mathematics, Reed College, Kac' Theorem 19 No talk. Fall break. 26 Alix Gitelman, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University, Evolution of a Change-Point Model Solution November 2 Christine Guenther, Department of Mathematics, Pacific University Introduction to the Mathematics of Chaos 9 Stan Wagon, Department of Mathematics, Macalester College; MSRI Numbers Bizarre Behavior in the Prime Numbers 16 Gowri Meda, Department of Mathematics, Pacific University Dehn surgery presentations for sewn up link exteriors 23 No talk. Thanksgiving break. 30 Elizabeth Thompson, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington Probabilities on Pedigrees: What? How? and Why? Spring 2001 February 1 Henry Cohn, Microsoft Research Sphere Packing 8 Richard Crandall, Reed College On the Goldbach conjecture 15 Jon Brundan, Department of Mathematics, U. of Oregon Patterns in Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials 22 Allen Knutson, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley Puzzles, straightening honeycombs, and adding matrices March 1 Steven Lubin, Department of Music, Purchase College, State University of New York Pythagorean Dreams Non-standard time and location: Eliot Chapel, 4:30. 8 V. Rao Potluri, Department of Mathematics, Reed College Roots of Linear Operators 15 Michelle Hribar, Department of Computer Science, Pacific University Concepts and Challenges of Parallel Computing 22 No talk. Spring break. 29 Chris Hallstrom, Department of Applied Mathematics, Brown University Mathematics of Fluid Motion: A Priori Bounds with a Twist April 5 James Bernhard, Department of Mathematics, Reed College Geometry of Differential Forms 12 Fred Ramsey, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University Counting the Uncounted 19 Divisional Speaker Audrey Terras, Department of Mathematics, UCSD L204, 4:30: Zeta Functions of Graphs Psych. 105, 8PM: Finite Quantum Chaos 26 Leonard Shapiro, Department of Computer Science, Portland State University Dynamic Programming and Memoization in Database Query Optimizers Back to current schedule.