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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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| 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 |
Student talks II
Laura Florescu: Closure condition for a chain of null geodesics Nick Salter: Quadratic Forms and the Basis Problem for Modular Forms of Weight 3/2 Godwin Yung: Calibration of tandem mass spectrometry signals to increase peptide identification |
| Spring 2010 | |
| January | |
| 28 | |
| February | |
| 4 | |
| 11 |
On the occasion of Nick Wheeler's retirement.
Gleason's Theorem Tom Wieting, Department of Mathematics, Reed College |
| 18 | Talk rescheduled. Please see March 11. |
| 25 |
Spherical rank and the Blaschke
conjecture for Riemannian manifolds
Ravi Shankar, Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma |
| March | |
| 4 |
Runs in Bernoulli trials: coin
tossing, genome sequences, and NBA records
Robert Smythe, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University Room: P123 |
| 11 |
Lattice chains and Delannoy paths: A triumph of paper
and pencil
John Caughman, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Portland State University |
| 18 | Spring break |
| 25 |
Categorical information theory
David Spivak, Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon |
| April | |
| 1 |
Cryptographic Hash
Functions: Basics, Blockciphers and Beyond.
Tom Shrimpton, Department of Computer Science, Portland State University |
| 8 |
Computability and
Definability
Rachel Epstein, Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago |
| 15 |
Geometrical Aspects of General
Relativity
Iva Stavrov, Department of Mathematical Sciences of Lewis and Clark College |
| 22 |
Singular differential equations
and poly-log expansions in general relativity.
Paul Allen, Department of Mathematical Sciences of Lewis and Clark College |
| 29 |
Arbitrage-Free Linear Price
Function Models for the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Andrew F. Siegel, University of Washington Business School and Statistics Department |
| Past colloquia: | 2008-2009 • 2007-2008 • 2006-2007 • 2005-2006 • 2004-2005 • 2003-2004 • 2002-2003 • 2001-2002 • 2000-2001 |