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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 held 4:10-5:00 in the Physics building, room P123, unless otherwise noted below. Directions to Reed. Refreshments are usually served before the talks. For more information, please email davidp@reed.edu. |
| 2004-2005 Schedule | |
| Fall 2004 | |
| September | |
| 9 |
Mathematics & physics of of bioterror
Richard E. Crandall, Vollum Adjunct Professor of Science, Reed College |
| 16 |
Meeting with majors. No talk this week.
Room: TBA |
| 23 |
Have a ball with Young tableaux
Allen Knutson, Department of Mathematics, UC Berkeley |
| 30 |
When topology meets group representations
Mike Krebs (Quimby), Department of Mathematics, Johns Hopkins University |
| October | |
| 7 |
Algebraic geometry for the jet set
Zack Treisman, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington |
| 14 |
When topology meets chemistry
Erica Flapan, Department of Mathematics, Pomona College |
| 21 | Fall Break. |
| 28 | No talk this week. |
| November | |
| 4 |
The Ergodic Theorem
Tom Wieting, Department of Mathematics, Reed College |
| 11 |
To Form a More Perfect Union of Cones
David Yuen, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Lake Forest College |
| 18 |
Computational aspects of ideals
Irena Swanson, Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Mexico State University |
| 25 | Thanksgiving break. |
| December | |
| 2 |
Computing the continuous discretely: the magic quest for a volume
Matthias Beck, Department of Mathematics, San Francisco State University |
| Spring 2005 | |
| January | |
| 27 | No talk scheduled. |
| February | |
| 3 | No talk scheduled. Physics job candidate. |
| 10 |
SPECIAL EVENT
Mathematics and Natural Sciences Division Speaker Bernd Sturmfels, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley. Technical talk: Tropical Geometry, 4:00-5:00, P123. Public lecture: Algebraic Statistics for Computational Biology, 7:30-8:30, Psychology Auditorium |
| 17 | Job candidate talk |
| 24 | Job candidate talk |
| March | |
| 3 | No talk scheduled. |
| 10 | No talk scheduled. |
| 17 | Spring break. |
| 24 | No talk scheduled. |
| 31 |
Permutation Polytopes
David Perkinson, Department of Mathematics, Reed College |
| April | |
| 7 |
Harmonic Analysis and Combinatorics: Continuing to Contribute
To Each Other
Izabella Laba, Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia |
| 14 |
Math Movie Madness
Two math videos (50 minutes total), both with Reed connections. |
| 21 |
Mathematical Maps
Tom Wieting, Department of Mathematics, Reed College |
| 28 |
Single-Agent and Adversary Search In
Combinatorial Spaces: Fun With Puzzles and Games
Bart Massey ('87 Physics), Department of Computer Science, Portland State University |
| 2003-2004 colloquium |
| 2002-2003 colloquium |
| 2001-2002 colloquium |
| 2000-2001 colloquium |