Math Department

Colloquium SPRING 2008

Bryn Mawr College and Haverford College run a weekly joint colloquium that alternates in location between the Bryn Mawr and Haverford mathematics departments. All are welcome to attend! Talks are usually on Monday afternoons from 4:15-5:15. A tea precedes the talk at 3:45.

Talks: 4:15 PM in PSB 328 (Bryn Mawr) and HILLES 109 (Haverford)

Directions to Bryn Mawr College
Directions to Haverford College

 

List of Talks

Date
Speaker Title Location
Jan 28, 2008

Amy N. Myers

Bryn Mawr College

"The Outstanding Elements of Permutations and Words"

Haverford

Feb 4, 2008

John Flynn, Haverford College

"An examination of the size of the image for polynomial maps over finite fields" Bryn Mawr
WEDNESDAY Feb 13, 2008
Laurie Rubel, CUNY Brooklyn "Research in Mathematics Education: Battlefields and Beyond"

Haverford

 

Feb 18, 2008 Ana Cannas da Silva Princeton University "From hermitian matrices to symplectic geometry and back again" Bryn Mawr
Feb 25, 2008 Jayadev Athreya Princeton University "Billards, ergodic theory, and number theory" Haverford
Mar 3, 2008
  NO COLLOQUIUM  
Mar 10, 2008

SPRING BREAK

NO COLLOQUIUM  
Mar 17, 2008
Sarah-Marie Belcastro Smith College "Edge-coloring graphs on surfaces: recent progress on Grunbaum's conjecture" Haverford
Mar 24, 2008

Dennis DeTurck University of Pennsylvania

"Exploiting invariance, from freshman calculus to linking integrals" Bryn Mawr
Mar 31, 2008
Darren Glass, Gettysburg College "Cryptography, Coding Theory, and Curve Interpolation" Haverford
April 7, 2008

Herb Wilf, University of Pennsylvania - MATH AWARENESS WEEK @ BMC

"Sister Celine, as I knew her" Bryn Mawr
April 14, 2008 George Cobb, Mt. Holyoke College "Markov Chain Monte Carlo: A Course for Math Majors" Haverford
April 15, 2008 George Cobb, Mt. Holyoke College "Two Statisticians and One Serial Murderer" Haverford
April 21, 2008 Janet Talvacchia Swarthmore College "Generalized Geometry" Bryn Mawr
April 28, 2008 Rob Kusner, University of Massachusetts Amherst & University of Pennsylvania "Lengths and Crossing Numbers of Knotted Ropes and Strips" Haverford

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