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.
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 |