Math/CS Colloquia Schedule
2011-2012
- Thursday, April 5, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
Using Kinetic Traps to Improve RNA Structure Prediction by Andy Lorenz, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Denison University
- Thursday, October 27, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
Summer Internships Part II by Samantha Justice '12 and Melissa Venecek '12
- Tuesday, October 25, 11:00 am, Severance Hall, Lean Lecture Room
American Ingenuity: Harnessing Randomness for Fun and Profit by Ivars Peterson
- Thursday, October 20, 3:00 pm, Taylor 110
Minimal surfaces: from soap films to image processing by Marie Snipes, Kenyon College
- Thursday, October 6, 3:00 pm, Taylor 111
Summer Internship Experiences by Evan Radkoff '12, Nancy Tinoza '12 and Rutendo Ruzvidzo '13
2010-2011
- Thursday, April 7, 11:00 am, Taylor 111
Newton's Clock: Chaos in the Solar System by Ivars Peterson
- Thursday, March 31, 11:00 am, Taylor 111
Regret-Minimizing
Representative Databases or How to Buy a Rocket Ship by Dr. Ashwin Lall, Assitant Professor of Computer Science, Denison University
- Thursday, March 3, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
Surgical Solutions in Differential Equations by Charles R. Hampton, Johnson Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, The College of Wooster
- Tuesday, January 18, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
On Writing Numbers by Tom Garrity, Professor of Mathematics, Williams College
- Tuesday, November 2, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
METAGENOMES: What they are and how to tell them apart by Imre Tuba, Department of Mathematics, San Diego State University
- Tuesday, October 26, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
Summer Research Internships by Bridget Kraynik, Itai Njanji, and Nancy Tinoza
- Wednesday, October 20, 4:00 pm, Taylor 110
Simpson's Paradox by Jeff Witmer, Professor of Mathematics, Oberlin College
- Tuesday, October 12, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
Careers, Start-ups, Silicon Valley: Create your opportunities, maximize your life experiences, plan your success by Mitch Haile, CTO and VP Product Management, Pancetera Software, (CoW Computer Science 2002)
2009-2010
- Thursday, April 15, 11:00 am, Taylor 111
GEOMETREKS by Ivars Peterson, Director of Publications and Communications, Mathematical Association of America
- Thursday, April 8, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
Mathematics and the Neptune Controversy: The Best Joke of the 19th Century? by Deborah Kent, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Hillsdale College
- Monday, March 29, 4:00 pm, Taylor 110
Matrices, Eigenvalues, and the Size of a Linear Transformation by Christopher Hammond, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Connecticut College
- Tuesday, March 2, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
Algorithmic Methods in Modular Representation Theory by Dr. Selin Kalaycioglu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Kenyon College
- Tuesday, January 26, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
Counting Curves: Tales from the Enumerative Crypt by Dr. Susan Colley, Professor of Mathematics, Oberlin College
- Thursday, November 12, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
What do your professors do? by Dr. Jennifer Roche, Dr. Sofia Visa, and Dr. Drew Pasteur, College of Wooster Department of Math and Computer Science
- Tuesday, October 13, 11:00 am, Taylor 302
CyberEthics: The good, the bad, and the electronic by Joan Krone, Professor of Computer Science, Denison University
- Thursday, September 24, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
Summer Internship/Research Experiences by Wenyuan Wu '11, Xiaorui Bao '11, Elena Fiocca '10
2008-2009
- Wednesday, April 8, 4:00 pm, Taylor 110
A Measure Theoretic Look at Derivatives and Geometry by Chris Camfield, Visiting Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Kenyon College
- Tuesday, November 11, 4:00 pm, Taylor 110
Streaks in Sports: Do Teams or Players Really Get "Hot"? by David Groggel, Associate Professor of Statistics, Miami University
- Thursday, October 23, 4:00 pm, Taylor 110
"Quantum Mechanics is What Happens When No One is Looking" by Mike Westmoreland, Professor of Mathematics, Denison University
- Thursday, October 2, 4:00 pm, Taylor 110
"Discovering Patterns in Social Networks, the World Wide Web and Other Large Graphs" by Adam Anthony, UMBC, College of Wooster '04
2007-2008
- Tuesday, April 15, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
"Price Optimization: A Fast Emerging Business Modeling Activity"
by Robin Harbage, CoW '75, Senior Actuarial Consultant, EMB America
- Wednesday, March 26, 4:00 pm, Taylor 110
"A Mathematician Looks at the Game of SET"
by Dr. Kathy Radloff, Ohio Wesleyan University, Department of Mathematics
- Wednesday, February 13, 4:00 pm, Taylor 110
"Codes on Vector Spaces: The Pleasures of Orthogonality"
by Dr. Chuck LaBerge, Senior Principal Engineer, Honeywell Aerospace
- Tuesday, November 27, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
"Pharmaceutical Powders in Experiment and Simulation: Towards a Fundamental Understanding"
by Dr. Reuben Domike, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Practice (MIT) and Director of Wooster's Center for Creativity and Innovation
- Tuesday, October 23, 4:00 pm, Taylor 110
"Zeroing in on the Implicit Function Theorem"
by Dr. Carol Schumacher, Professor of Mathematics, Kenyon College
- Thursday, October 4, 4:00 pm, Taylor 110
"Reed-Solomon Codes: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Galois Fields"
by Dr. Chuck LaBerge, Senior Principal Engineer, Honeywell Aerospace
2006-2007
- Thursday, April 26, 4:00 pm, Taylor 110
"How the Wooster Independent Study Experience Prepares You for a Career in Consulting"
by Mike Rulf, VP Advanced Engineering, USi, CoW '93
- Tuesday, April 3, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
"Abstract Algebra on Mars? An Introduction to Algebraic Coding Theory"
by Noah Aydin, Kenyon College
- Tuesday, March 27, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
"Self-Similar Tilings of Nilpotent LIe Groups"
by Jim Rohal, College of Wooster '07
- Tuesday, February 20, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
"Curves of Constant Width "
by Mark Schwartz, Ohio Wesleyan University
- Tuesday, January 30, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
"Pythagorus and His Triangles"
by President Stan Hales
- Monday, November 27, 4:00 pm, Taylor 110
"Are Actuaries Really Mathematicians?"
by Richard Foster, '71, Chief Actuary, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Monday, November 6, 4:00 pm, Taylor 110
Be Careful What You Write Down: It May Come Back to Haunt You!
by Paul Bellis, National Security Agency, Ph.D. Rice University 1996, CoW '90
- Tuesday, October 24, 11:00 am, Taylor 110
Introduction to Cellular Automata
by Emily Gamber, CoW '01, Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute
